skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Human history during the ice age mostly remain to be explored, because all the coastal settlements and cities are now under water.

I expect a lot is still there and fantastic discoveries await once we figure out how to get to it.
Video games in the evenings with friends, with voice chat.
I think in the US it is a better risk to break into cars and steal their contents since most people have cars and treat them as an extension of their home.
Because I'm used to it. I've been working from home and socially isolated for years, lol.
Hard disagree. Most of the talented Indian engineers in top N tech companies in the US came from the Indian education system. They all migrated here in search of better opportunities.

Things are however changing in India due to the rapidly growing startup ecosystem which eventually lead to good careers and high salaries for software engineers back home. This is giving people less of a reason to move.
> are a lot more specialized than GPUs.

What do you mean by "more specialized" ? FPGA's can implement any logic circuit whereas GPU's are optimized for highly parallel arithmetic computations. I don't understand how that makes FPGA's "more specialized". It seems like they are in fact more general.
I understand what you are doing. It makes sense in the sense that it's easy. And it makes sense in the sense that there are a myriad of webscraping "middleman" services so there's probably a business there.

However, to me, it's not curation in a meaningful sense because big box stores sell the same white label oven mitts from the same factories as Amazon. And for oven mitts and filling drawers fakes aren't a problem when purchasing from Amazon.

It's not clear to me, what problem it would solve. But I wish you all success.
Even per capita is misleading. Go to get stitches in the eu vs america. Buy a regular pizza in the eu, get quality, buy it in the usa get synthetic yuk.
You can't charge your hydrogen car at home, not to mention without any special and expensive equipment.
PG&E Pleads Guilty to 84 Counts of Manslaughter in Camp Fire Case
I'm not sure that really changes the overall picture. https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/othe... gives 39% of people who would either go into debt, sell something, or couldn't cover an emergency $400. Even if the number is skewed a lot (say it's 20%), it's still a massive amount of people.
Indeed. Don't be fooled by North Dakota as the top GDP per capita state in the US. There are a relatively small number of landowners in the western half of the state making crazy passive income from oil rights their great-grandfathers lucked into when they immigrated a hundred years ago. The state is very working-class. It maybe doesn't have the same amount of abject poverty that you see in other places, but people here work hard for a living.

Also, the numbers in the article are from 2014 when the oil boom was in still full swing. That's what provided a lot of the highest paying jobs in the state. Drilling levels today are less than 10% of what they were at the peak, and consequently many of those jobs have gone with it.
The argument in this article is double stupid. The obvious reason why it's stupid (economic metrics vs quality of life metrics) is already pointed out by other comments. The not so obvious one is that the article compares current metrics but to really compare effect of the policies on the economics you need a long term measures of change because European countries and USA obviously had a very different starting places cos WW2 and USSR collapse.
> It makes sense to produce hydrogen during those spikes.

I'm not sure that it necessarily does. If you're only producing during those peak periods of electrical output then your you're going to have a lot of hydrogen producing equipment sitting idle at other times.
> India has an excellent education system and highly skilled engineers

This year old article disagrees.

https://www.businesstoday.in/current/corporate/indian-engine...
And if you read the comments here, you'd think the subjective quality of life in the US is lower than in Europe.
Hydrogen has the nasty property of leaking through many materials, including metals. It also needs to be kept extremely cold. Both properties make it much harder to transport and store. It’s not clear that technology must exist that makes transporting and storing hydrogen as safe and economically viable as gasoline.
This looks like a heavily opinionated article with a questionable use of data.

Others have mentioned the lacking focus on inequality already, so I want to add some other points:

While European countries have lower GDPs, their citizens work less hours than Americans[1] and spend less on health care[2] while having similar or longer life expectancies. Privatized education might similarly inflate GDP numbers without improving the actual quality of life.

The author - funnily enough a specialist for tax competition and board member of the Cayman Financial Review - is way too eager to draw political council from this apples to oranges comparison.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_time
[2] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.CHEX.GD.ZS
> The excess profits of the health-care firms are equivalent to $200 per American per year, compared with $69 for the telecoms and cable TV industry and $25 captured by the airline oligopoly. Only the five big tech “platform” firms, with a figure of $250, are more brazen gougers.

wow!
The difference b/w salaries in EU/E.Asia and India are not that large for FAANG-like companies IMO. It's likely the case that Uber will allow its Indian employees to relocate back to India, in light of both Covid and the new visa restrictions.
OpenNebula Cripples Major Upgrades
Maybe, instead of the spec allowing/banning javascript, it would only allow usage of curated list of "apps" to be part of the page ?

For example, i'm thinking of a roam research like content platform, without tracking and ads. It would be interesting to see shared content around that.
To add to this when I worked remotely for two years I was always worried that if I move to a low cost of living city and I lost my job I will be screwed. No one would hire me at the rate I was paid with the SF company.
Think I misunderstood the description. Correct me if I'm wrong, with this we can add nice looking browser toolbar on top of the screenshot, right?

I was under the impression that once the screenshot is uploaded, the elements in the page are extracted and can be moved around i.e. we can play with the buttons, form fields, texts or any identifiable element that can be separated by its boundary.
As mentioned elsewhere, the US still does quite well in median income rankings (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income).
> And part of that restricted spec would allow linking only to such links, to stay within the network ?

Doesn't work over time. You link somewhere, the other site owner a month later decides they want to use Google Analytics, now you're linking your readers back to the web they're trying to avoid.

> And the biggest challenge with Gemini is creating a great search engine.

Not really, it's discovery in general, which can be solved in many ways that don't involve search engines; Wikipedia's references are often a good discovery tool, for example. I use aggregators to find Gemini content and follow discussions which are happening across the space.
No, it's cheaper because of huge difference in cost of living.

$10,000/month may not go far in SV, but in parts of India, you can live like a king, literally, with servants and such.

Rent for a studio apartment in India will cost less than $200. I'm not kidding. But a similar space in SV can cost 10 times more of that.
Developing new drugs takes over a decade and costs billions. European countries are free loading of US drug research.

https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/how-other-countries-freeloa...
Doesn't focusing on consumption completely obscure to bulk of inequality, which takes the form of endless billions constantly accumulating among a minuscule portion of the population?
They already do what you're saying, by some extent (maybe not Canada right now, and of course, finding English-speaking developers in Quebec is a non-issue)
For current circumstances this makes sense, Natural gas is not carbon neutral.

For electricity, as the renewable energy generation capacity will increase, Storage of excess will be essentially required. when in near future we develop viable tech to generate hydrogen from electricity with low or no carbon impact at reasonable efficiency,we can save them in underground reserves(Safest way in my view) and use existing piping infrastructure of natural gas for its transportation.
we need to do research and wait for appropriate tech to be available.
Nobody else here seems to have any children. Sometimes I would like to have more social isolation, because, believe it or not, two teenage boys at home can be rather annoying from time to time.
HBO does not have your best interests in mind.

They only have their own profit interests. They believe they can better profit this way than before.

The only signal you actually have to send to them is cancellation of your subscription (thereby reducing their profits).

If you are unhappy with their new arrangement, you should cancel your subscription. Because continuing to pay them signals that you are ok with this change.
In Pelevin's Generation «П», published in 1999, all the politicians and other celebrities are not real people, but rendered for TV on SGI computers, complete with some comments on events that require more computing power to render and thus "happen" rarely or only in richer countries. No other brand (even an entirely made-up one) would look as natural in this myth.
This is just my experience, but I had observed a wild temperature difference at idle and load on two identical MacBook Pros.

I’d already recently (within days) replaced the thermal paste with the same paste but still one of them was getting 10-15 deg C hotter.

The one that was cooler had been through AppleCare and it appears the copper surface had been scratched up intentionally as well as some dents on the fins.

The worse performing heat sink looked immaculate aside from some dust over the years. The copper surface was polished smooth.

Just for the heck of it I swapped the heat sinks and now the temps were reversed.

In the end I figured maybe the heat pipes were damaged or there was some performance differences of the heat pipes during manufacturing.
A significant portion of the current SV crowd on H1b, is a product of the indian education system.
It pays off to read the comment fully before replying to it.
Have you never read any Martin Gardner books ?

The wikipedia page [1] on the things is a good introduction too.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexagon
> <URL> is a UTF-8 encoded absolute URL, of maximum length 1024 bytes.

This is never a good idea.
If a post processing filter takes 18ms to complete, uncontested, you can't "pipeline the shit" out of it. You can get a frame at least every 18ms. Adding more load won't magically transform throughput into latency, it will just make your throughput worse.
I wonder if everyone in this thread is willfully missing the point, or else if we're just so deep into the brainwashing of the modern web that they can no longer see the surface.
I'd argue it's unfixable for low income workers. Excessive sugar in all the cheap food is a trap they can't avoid. They don't have money to buy better food and don't have time to shop and cook for themselves. That's assuming they recognize this problem at all.
If thou takest thy authority from a 1375 education, methinks the chasm betwixt us doth yawn overbroadly for debate.
Relative to what? India has 1.34 billion people. If other countries put a million self selected students to compete with each other in a dog fight, I am sure the resulting 50k might have good chance of being similar.

Startup ecosystem is booming on foreign investment especially from china. Local investment is still dire.
There is so much wrong with this article.

First of all, a lot of the "yellow" areas in the post-soviet block, that were catching up in the past 30 years. The standards of living are increasing there every year.

Secondly - GDP is the weirdest metric possible to measure the quality of life. Even purchasing power index is not as good, because it ignores the things that the government gives for semi-free.
Growing in one of the poorest Polish regions, me and my friends' families could buy fewer iPhones, and cars were a distant dream, but we had free public education, free healthcare, cheap but decent housing, and the public transit.

I wonder if the post's author has actually been to any of the poor European regions - even comparing them with rich US, they look seriously decent.
Well, this tool is extremely useful when you want, for example, to test your monitoring system or other observability tools to understand how "bad" cases will be really visible in them.

Of course, it should not be used in production.

Also, it's a good idea to use it for training of DBA / DBRE / SRE engineers to practice various cases and improve their diagnostics skills.

Regular benchmarks could have something like this embedded, I think. Postgres standard tool, pgbench, doesn't have it now. But I doubt "harmful workload" would be really useful when we test systems to see their max throughput / lowest latencies for particular workload.
This is a highly opinionated piece that selectively uses a tiny bit of data while ignoring a ton of inconvenient data to make a persuasive argument that does not stand up even to mild scrutiny. It is cleverly disguised as objective research.

In other words, this is political propaganda of the highest quality. I mean that as a compliment.

It doesn't belong on HN. I flagged it.
Shouldn't be too hard. For example you could use: https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxPY.

Then your central state is assigned to a Subject and all widgets have an reference to an observer. As soon as the central state value changes, the callback in the observer is triggered and you can fire the update method for the widget using the central state value.
The curious pirate Hamilton video
You pay peanuts and you get monkeys (and 4chan-esque racist memes, for the rest of us).
Can we make it there before November?
Literally any discussion about EU vs US:
„But what about healthcare??“

Disclaimer: I’m European.
I figured there must be some tool for creating Minecraft Mods that was better than notepad.

and it seems like I found one: https://mcreator.net/

with that you can create mods/adons for java or bedrock editions.
So what's the plural third person pronoun?
[1] puts medical issues as the top contributing factor for bankruptcies in the US at 67%.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/11/this-is-the-real-reason-most...
Can't gas up at home either. By my reckoning, if there was a huge network of hydrogen stations that should do the trick.
After spending inordinate amounts of time debugging obscure side effect caused by "import as" and "from import". I'd reject that "from import as" on sight in code review.
I actually have two SGI machines kicking around (an Indigo2 and an Octane2), and I really wish I had a better idea of what to do with them beyond poking around at the desktop for 10 minutes.

One big problem with all these old "workstation" computers, is that while us hobbyists still have our ways of getting the OS installed... The actual applications people ran on them almost seem lost to time. When software is so unbelievably expensive during its heyday, it tends to not make the jump over to "abandonware" repositories once its time has passed. This unfortunately makes demos of these old machines far more boring than demos of old PCs.
A theory like that ignores most of known basic physics.

What would the energy source be? It does not matter what chemical or electrochemical reactions are possible in general, what matters is where does the energy come from. Water does not contain any energy. (Not any chemical energy that can easily be extracted. Of course it contains energy in the sense that E=MC^2, but in that sense we have about the same chance to run a car on sand, or rocks or oreos.)

On the other hand, if you do have an energy source, then why would you need water at all?? You would just use the energy to drive the car (like EVs do), you wouldn't waste half of it to hydrolysis of water into hydrogen first to use that hydrogen...

A theory about a "car running on water" (which, at least in my experience is often followed by conversations about how Nicola Tesla could transfer energy through the air, or about how government has all the technology for infinite energy, but they block it from being used because they are evil) - is a pipe dream which is heavily based on ignorance about physics and gross underestimation of the difficulty of real engineering problems.
> A significant portion of the current SV crowd on H1b, is a product of the indian education system.

Could you be more elaborate?

I can see that statement meaning wildly different things on HN and it doesn't answer my question.
My dream is that one day, everyone will see the imaginary lines down the sidewalk that I do. Keep to the right, just like you're driving, and even someone texting while walking won't run into. Sadly, these lines are imaginary and while people tend to keep right, don't take it very seriously.

A deeper issue is how much of the space between buildings is dedicated to private vehicles. When the sidewalk is 6 feet wide and you're required to social distance by 6 feet past sidewalk cafes and garbage waiting to be picked up, there is no room for pedestrians -- texting or otherwise. Perhaps we should turn the two 8-foot free parking lanes into pedestrian lanes. Then you'd never even notice people walking while texting. Or running 2-abroad. Or kids playing with balls.

It will never happen, though. We need our cars, and more importantly, we need to park them near our high-density housing ;)
One thing that comes to mind is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_isotope_effect , although this seems to mostly affect elements that only have a few protons, like hydrogen or oxygen. Still, it adds up enough so that replacing most of the water in your body with heavy water (D₂O) would be fatal.. But, you'd have to drink exclusively heavy water for a long time to actually reach a toxic dose.
If so, that would only apply to data kept within the EU, IIRC.
Low does aspirin increases cricket life spans by 50% (2015)
A) don’t subsidise sugar
B) tax sugar
Is there any particular point you're trying to make?

You keep responding to people with at best tangentially related data that is not relevant to the discussion.

Now suddenly we're looking at median gross income.
And this time I don't know at all how to respond to that in a manner that will somehow make it relevant to the discussion again.
I know someone who spent about three months on a 10-line fix, which was primarily a configuration tweak. As part of that process, they had to discover and describe emergent properties of an architecture that formed organically over several years from multiple teams building components that interacted with one another in non-trivial ways. They ended up getting a promotion due to that code’s incredible impact.
Having your organization investigate everything you've "liked" over the past 10 years seems horrible.
Ask HN: Are there good virtual book browsing websites?
I find it is easy, too easy, to choose books to buy while browsing shelves at a good bookstore. But I find it almost impossible to find books I want to buy on the major book-sellers websites. Are there any sites that provide a good virtual book browsing experience?
I've lived and worked in Canada, USA, UK, Japan, and Germany. I've also done a fair bit of traveling.

Yes, on a per-capita GDP basis, the USA is technically "ahead", but when it comes to daily living, it's FAR behind. During my 6 years in the USA, I saw roads falling apart, terrible infrastructure, litter everywhere, crime and poverty the likes I've never seen outside of third world countries. The only thing even close to the USA was urban UK, which (other than parts of Southern Europe and Paris) is probably the dirtiest of the Western European countries. But even they weren't as bad as the USA. (Bear in mind I lived in the UK in the late 90s. Things may have changed since then)

Put simply, the quality of life in America was FAR worse than any other country I've lived in.

The consumption index is also not the greatest measure, since it has a lot to do with consumer attitudes & materialism, which are different in most of the world compared to America and Japan (I've never seen materialistic attitudes as strong as there).

After moving to Germany, I have no desire to live elsewhere.
I personally think it is influenced by differences in the types of organized crime we have. In the US, gangs and similar organizations generally don't bother with organizing petty crime like swiping electronics. They're more focused on drugs, prostitution, etc. In Europe, though, that's not the case [1].

[1] https://www.europol.europa.eu/crime-areas-and-trends/crime-a...
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23721772
I have my doubts about some of the statistics in this article (Groningen the number 6 wealthiest place in Europe? I'm not so sure about that) but I can't deny that wages and freely expendable income in the US are much higher than most of Europe.

However, with the work ethic and the hours many US workers pull to maintain those standards, I'm not so sure if I'd want Europe to move towards the rich American standard.

From a rich man's perspective, which many of HN's readers are very likely to know because this crowd is seemingly highly educated or intelligent through their own pursuit, the US does allow for a better standard of living than most of Europe. The wages are higher, the taxes are often loert and there's better access to luxury items.

However, in pursuit of happiness, I'd prefer less work and more free time to enjoy the fruits of my labour over amassing wealth. Having access to expensive laptops instead of needing to cheap out is nice, but what's the point if you barely have time to enjoy your purchase?

There's also the perspective of poor, uneducated people. In a lot of cases I'd much rather be jobless or stuck in uneducated labour in Europe than in the US with the Labour rights situation in a lot of states. The right to work system means you have a lot more power if your boss depends on your skill, but if you don't have any unique skills or can't sell them, the same power can be turned against you to limit your options. The employee-oriented labour protection a large part of Europe enjoys is worth more to me than he ability to get a raise or leave for another employee tomorrow.

I wonder what this article would look like if it weren't written by an economist, but rather by someone researching general happiness. I'll take poor and happy over being rich and unhappy any time, and wealth can only add so much to your hapiness.
If I offer you the opportunity of not having your kneecaps broken in exchange for only $100/month, is this potentially completely fine because I could spend the money on "stimulating demand"?
> But I mean, that has to be a limitation of current technology, right?

Not much. Hydrogen has a tendency of assuming a form that no material can hold.

People have been working on chemical storage, but the efficiency always suffer.
Why does it need to be instantaneous? Who is even asking for instantaneous?
Except that the Israeli “settlements” are on previously annexed land from 1967. It is more like an eminent domain seizure. And it is quite reasonable in theory to exercise sovereign power for such purposes to improve the land’s cultivation, so long as compensation is awarded (not sure if Israel gives it to the Palestinians)
An object’s user experience will win the heart of its consumers