skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Germans don't care much about those things, because there is so much history everywhere. A small invention like a computer has not much relevance in that environment.

Additionally, Zuse was colaborating and supported from the Nazi-Regime, even though he himself was not a Nazi, nor did he directly supported their crimes. But this stain dimished education about his work for a long time.
I think having one kid is a lot harder than going to work, when you work in IT.
That's a pretty interesting post. I'd never heard of the Pulfrich Effect.

For myself, I prefer an "off-white" theme, with a light parchment background. The old Xcode "Sunset" theme used to be my go-to. They have removed that, now, so I modified the Classic (Light) theme to have a parchment background, and that does me fine.

I find it kind of amusing how much some folks use choices of editor/theme as a "value judgment" on our skillset.

People do what's comfortable, and what helps them to work more efficiently. In some cases, it's all CLI, in a spartan black and white screen, for others, it's Romper Room GUI. Whatever helps us to work more effectively. Even if it's a "placebo effect," if it helps me to be more productive, it helps me to be more productive.

There's a number of singers that perform barefoot, and are highly skilled (Google "Rhiannon Giddens" I saw a video where she sang at the White House, and wore a really long dress). Basquiat would often paint in Armani suits (and barefoot).

Every now and then, I'll try something new. I'll usually give it several days, before making a decision. Sometimes, I adopt it.

It took me months to become effective at a standing desk. It was an issue of health, for me, so I powered through all the awkwardness.
> DeepL is doing a better job of generating text that seems to make sense, but this just helps to more effectively communicate the wrong meaning, and in a manner less detectable to people who would use it. This is a much more insidious failure mode.

This is something I don't understand about the use of autocorrect. Autocorrect takes misspelled words, which are essentially always easy to understand, and replaces them with random other words. It's frequently impossible to guess what original word got mangled by autocorrect into appearing in a suddenly unintelligible sentence. This is a problem that misspellings just don't have.

Autocorrect is actively making communication worse. What's it supposed to be doing? Why is it there at all?
I first wanted to make a raycaster for fun and to learn more about it, and now I'm making a game enhancing the Rise of the Trian engine (itself an enhancement over the Wolfenstein 3D engine) while still meeting original system requirements (386, 4MB RAM free). Fabien's site and flipcode have both been essential in my journey, I appreciate them both immensely.
Yeah but this is like comparing sausages to coconuts.

Can you open a coconut with your bare hands? Now go and tell vegetarians that sausages grow on trees, because they do https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage_Tree
Precisely.

It’s incredibly alarming what one can do with very little resources.

It’s downright horrifying or exciting when realizing what one can do with more than average resources.

In a way, that’s why I think the battleground is more “weird” than ever. It’s not just state actors, it’s factions of organized and convergent groups using memetic warfare. Some groups naturally converge towards each other. Take the anon’s, and various sects then overlay it with state actor and your smaller groups. Weird nameless stuff of massive influence and self organization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perception_management
Yes, in the sense that rich Western countries can afford things like that. And many do, whether they’re ”petrostates” or not. But what about the richest country of them all? Tell me that the US couldn’t afford it if they really wanted!
I truly hope they shy away from paying for 'engagement' and at the very least make it a conscious decision for the user to pay for 'access'.

We already have a lot of people and bad techniques dedicated to driving 'engagement' on platforms like facebook and youtube. These are not good for the users. Having many more providers strive to keep our attention for as long as possible is very much not what I want.

Besides, the value I get from an article is quite unrelated to my 'enagement' with the article. At least with facebook / youtube. It makes _sense_ because every second I engage is another possibility to show me an add / pump up their stats. But if I am going to be paying for an article, I kind of want maximum oomph per minute spend reading the article.

Please don't let the newspapers growth-hack their way into getting more monetization payments. Please just let me pay per article or subscribe if that is what I want.

And whatever happens, don't let my browser start spending my money without my explicit consent. If every second my browser is on is gonna cost me money that will give me shittons of anxiety
Can a self-help book cure depression?
I'm only familiar with policies in Germany and France, but there the externalities are in no way "covered up front".
Another problem with online ads vs traditional media is the lack of human review.

I know I can trust ads that are shown on public transport or in a major printed magazine/newspaper to not be a fly-by-night scam, malware or bullshit dropshipping operation.

On the web, I know I can not trust anything because none of it is reviewed, the ads change depending on the time of day and who looks at them (targeting) and stuff like Taboola/Outbrain are running their entire business on churning out obnoxious content.
That would provide a tremendous incentive for newspapers to Find Something, and Find Something Big.
I'd really like to revive https://github.com/nathell/lithium sometime. It can't bootstrap itself yet, but "no dependencies, runnable on bare metal" was a goal from the start.
This is something companies would pay huge amounts of money for.

Any idea why Facebook never marketed these?
> Let a website stay a website.

So you still need Chrome/Firefox, and Gnome/KDE/Mate/whatever to run them in.

I think the OP's underlying unhappiness is more that "the people who want to use unix now are fundamentally different people who want different things that the people who wanted to 'learn unix' 35 years ago.

(Though I'll bet 80+% of the people they taught to pipe ls to wc were within weeks using irc and mutt whenever they were looking the other way in class, because for most of us people are more fun than machines, and back then we used irc/usenet instead of Twitter/Facebook, but to fill the same sort of niche.)
Could fix high prices for real estate. The primary candidate for waste disposal sites has the lowest prices across the country.
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Not that recently... The patent expired in 2008. Schnorr signatures were implemented in the Bitcoin Cash chain in May 2019, and Schnorr multisignatures in November 2019.
Yeah but I’m 5c cheaper so that makes you the bad guy!

/jk
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Until recently, batteries have been very expensive. However, like wind and solar, as we build the industry they are dropping exponentially in cost, at about 20% per year over the past decade [1], and we are hitting a non-linear inflection point when it's more profitable to include batteries in a new build than to omit them.

One set of estimated from Lazard: advanced nuclear at $118-$192/MWh, and lithium-ion charged from directly attached solar at $102-$139/MWh [2].

Lazard have analyses for energy generation costs by technology, and storage costs based on use case and scenario. (Note that the storage use cases include the cost of charging the storage system.)

These cost estimates work hard to simplify a hugely complex subject, by estimating a levelized cost of energy, which is then of course an oversimplification. It doesn't consider the value of when energy is delivered, or the price of when the storage is charged. EIA, filled with a lot of hard energy guys that are dismayed to see renewables outperforming in cost, puts out ridiculous numbers, but has also embraced something called the LACE to try to compensate. However they have been so wrong on hard numbers that they can't be trusted when it comes to renewables.

The design of energy markets has absolutely huge impacts on the profitability of storage as well, and it can still be very hard to get compensated for the value provided to the grid. There probably would already have been GW of batteries on Texas' ERCOT grid if they buy/sell dual nature had been legal earlier.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/09/the-story-of-che...

[2] https://www.lazard.com/perspective/lcoe2019/
I always thought that this was not really a coincidence, but a clever pun on Zuse's name.
This nuclear reactor is. There are a lot of different reactors and types.

France in the past very succesfully and quickly built a lot of reactors. They massively reduced their CO2 footprint. So it can be done.
Depression should be treated as a medical illness by a professional medical provider.
Try Cornwall to Newcastle by train, more like 9-10 hours :) If I still have to pick remote jobs by which ones are close to my physical location, or pick my living area based on where jobs are, I don’t feel like the promise of remote work is really being fulfilled.
>> more distant languages,

> low resource translation is definitely still bad, you're right.

No, you've misunderstood. Languages that are closely related to each other are fairly easy to translate between. Languages that aren't related are not, regardless of whether you have a large corpus to work with. English - Mandarin is not an example of "low resource translation".
No, it's more a matter of culture. Any wealthy industrialised country can easily afford this. The difference is in how much value they attach to family, child care and parenthood.

For all its talk about "family values", the US doesn't seem to care much about families; it's one of the few countries in the world without paid maternity leave (the others are Papua New Guinea, Lesotho and Swaziland), and it has the highest maternity death rate in the developed world.

And the US is not a poor country by any means; this is really a matter of culture and values.
Me learning JavaScript (DHTML) circa 2004: "why does this document.write(i) override the whole thing? There is no point using loops or JavaScript if the only thing I can see is the last iteration". Then I didn’t touch that language for more than a decade, even after have learned programming.
A simple knock usually suffices in my experience. Only a couple of times have people not heeded a knock, and there were extenuating circumstances.
There's nothing biological about working a job. Why are women forced to stop working when they have a baby? Stop pretending our social problems are science based.

And yes, there are options for them to carry on but society pretty much forces most women to stop working, due to aforementioned social pressures, structural sexist policies and expectations we put on women.

If all men and women were forced to take 6 months off, we would see far more women succeeding in the workplace over the long term, as they would not be disadvantaged by choosing to have a baby.

This means we as a society get more people working overall in more jobs, being more productive, solving more problems and building a better future for us all. Capitalism is not zero sum- men do not lose when women succeed, quite the opposite. Limiting our workforce to 50% of our population is bad policy, even if you're sexist and in favour of men over women, you must understand the economic benefits of increased paternity leave.
Your arguments are the most compelling I've seen so far for more nuclear as opposed to renewables.

I'm still leaning towards renewables for various reasons, but could be swayed - could you share any more details about where the 12 hour capacity requirement and costs mentioned come from?
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I've read an interview with a guy who owns dupa@wp.pl. Dupa is a polish swear word, often used instead of foobar by polish programmers, causing lots of embarassing mistakes when it shows up on production. He apparently got a lot of stuff too.
Disagreed.

Developers may cost more, but you only need a handful of them for a set period of time and you can build a very simple platform if you don't chase fads (no SPA, no Kubernetes/microservices, no overpriced cloud providers). That is a one-time cost vs ongoing cost of delivery for a physical paper.

There was a submission on here recently about how Remoteok.io runs on a PHP and jQuery (and a very small server behind it according to the comments) and manages to bring around 40k/month.
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Basically, that is 100% what they are known for. Foone has a lot of incredibly interesting posts on twitter around taking things apart and explaining the function.
“ Sacred mechanical statues built in Egypt and Greece were believed to be capable of wisdom and emotion. Hermes Trismegistus would write "they have sensus and spiritus ... by discovering the true nature of the gods, man has been able to reproduce it." Mosaic law prohibits the use of automatons in religion.”

Puzzling. This is quite interesting to learn about. I wish I could truly know what that references.
Many people are searching for it as we speak. Please update if you do happen to find a copy.
> So then what exactly do you return to

You can't know. It's supposed to be whatever I did before, or equivalent. Basically if they replace me I can make a fuss about wanting my position back or an equivalent position. In any case, you can't e.g. be at a worse pay grade even if you have a lower "position" than before.
I have never seen it be a problem.

> even thirty days absence should disrupt things, if an alternative isn't found..

We do 5 or 6 weeks holiday every year without problem, not sure why that would be such a big issue. Actually since I had kids I distribute out my remaining parental leave days to a couple of weeks per summer, so from ages 0-8 my summer holidays have been 7 or 8 weeks every year. No manager would even ask a question about this.

> So its more like a vague promise

Well it's the law...

But most importantly so long as people want to take paternal leave, I think even the promise of being rehired is good enough. The key to the system working is that everyone does it. I wouldn't want to work for a manager that hadn't.
That might well be true here. I actually think it's probably not simply because if it were, the US would have provided at least some evidence to try and get public opinion on side or further muddy the waters. But it also wouldn't surprise me, the Russians love useful idiots (who doesn't?).

That said, Its irrelevant. We've been through this many times in world history. The answer to people publishing things that undermine a government position is to rethink the position. Not punish the person.

Punish the person leaves the government unquestionable. And we know that is much much worse than any damage the truth can do because we're not trying to win some pissing context with Russia over who looks good. We're trying to maintain good policy.
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You probably did this already, but make sure to double check that your wife really did not work enough under any possible requirements.

I know someone who had only substitute positions for shorter periods in the ten months before birth. But after several rounds of back and forth with NAV (even after birth), she got her benefits. She had to argue that staying at home would cause her to loose income (showed that she had to say no to some substitute work because of birth), and give them detailed lists of all hours she worked. Somehow it amounted to "enough".
this year, the veil fell and the usa nuclear fuel working group showed the industry for what it is:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/memorandum-e...

The nexus with weapons is undeniable.
I stand with hibakusha in opposition to nuclearism.

https://www.icanw.org/
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The question moves to whether such crudities win or lose elections.

A substantial chunk of voters appear disdainful of meticulously courteous but otherwise objectionable leaders.

I didn't care for Bush43's speeches, but Trump makes W seem a rhetorical genius.
They're both subsidiaries of American companies though.
That is about another judge, Arbuthnot, not Baraitser.
> Then what was the whole point of going online (broadly speaking), if not to decrease delivery cost of articles?

To chase the audience that had gone online. The newspapers were loosing customers to other sites that could produce articles cheaply themselves or republish newswire stories or rely on content from users and didn't have the overhead of a traditional newspaper
Nationalize Facebook, Google and Amazon. All are too big to ban outright, but too evil to be allowed to continue existing.
So they're essentially Facebook's internal raspberry pi with a ton of accessories + focus on not becoming security nightmares?
> Nowadays we expected programs like: `Twitter`. A program that cannot be developed by one person but hundreds (don't ask me why, I don't get it either),

I'd say this is wrong. Creating a twitter-clone is simple, and can be done by one person. The hundreds are neccessary for making it scale and managable. And many of those hundred are even there for the content, not the tool. They filter out fakenews and nasty behaviour, monetize the platform and do all kind of other things which are not in the realm of Unix-tools itself.
Is that the pi edition or full version? I have a 4 waiting for me to use. Once my daughter saw a video of someone playing with dragons in minecraft, she started asking why ours didn't have them... so now we have mods for unicorns, dragons, dinosaurs, and rocket ships. We just went to space yesterday for the first time, and she started building a house on a moon.
Although they belong to historically disparate language families, modern Vietnamese and Japanese vocabulary both have significant influence from Chinese languages. I know little about Korean but I imagine it's the case there too.

Your comment about Chinese feeling like English written in Kanji is really interesting to me, perhaps it's a case of different perspectives - I tend to focus on grammar when learning a language, and so Chinese feels very different to English from my perspective.
> and it "just worked"

For me, it frequently didn't. Sure, nginx will work out of the box, but I've had some difficult Apache installs, and less mature software? Often a dependency/configuration nightmare, and then, sometimes, it still would die with an opaque error message. And then something breaks and getting to a clean slate can be challenging.

That's one of the huge upsides of Docker for me: Stuff finally "just works" on my machines, too! And it actually "just works" on others' machines as well, which it has all along as they tell me, but it even does so when I'm watching. Amazing, really.

I think the config situation has improved as well – the most frequently used configuration options usually can be passed in as environment variables, so I don't have to pin things to non-default values just because the config file I copied and edited had that default value in its config at that particular version, only to break five versions later – neat. If I do need a config file, I keep it in git and bind-mount it in – the location is usually easy to find (e.g. in the docker run one-liner on the DockerHub page).

Image sizes can be crazy, that part needs work, many people don't write space-efficient Dockerfiles. I try to use alpine or scratch images where possible, that makes the problem quite manageable; and, frankly, the amounts of network, storage and ram needed for the overhead of an alpine image are a very fair bargain for the time and headspace I gain by being able to treat applications as a way darker-gray box than otherwise.
There are 2 scenarios:

1. We drastically reduce fossils using regulation / legislation, in which case they become harder to get (eg more expensive) than the alternatives for most users.

2. We don't reduce fossils, in which case we're left with just trying to outcompete energy supply so nobody wants to pump the cheap oil and gas from the ground anymore.

Option 2 is never going to work and is equivalent to just giving up on fighting climate change.
That can go ugly as well. What happens if nobody is putting in money for real issues (some accident somewhere) and everyone is putting in money for vain news (celeb news?).
My college's online system for everything is called edukacja.cl. A lot of people type that into the address bar, expecting to be redirected to the login page. Fortunately, the person who bought that domain didn't misuse it. I can imagine someone putting a fake login page there, and getting access to a lot of sensitive student details.
Ah, thank you (and the sibling) for a concise explanation!
Awesome! I just got into game programming, and I've been looking far and wide for a resource like that one. Google has only provided a ton of blogspam, but I knew there was some old 90s looking website somewhere filled with code and handcrafted images about vector math and other game engine tricks.
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Why would I read online news when I can just have information streamed directly into my consciousness with a brain implant?

Why would I read the newspaper that comes in a few weeks when I can get instant information online?

Why would I wait for the town crier to come through in a few days when I can get instant information from this "news-paper"

Why would I wait until Sunday afternoon at the cathedral to get the town news when we're all assembled together in the middle ages when the town crier is coming past later this week?
Buy somewhere else ? They continue because people tolerate their abuse, because convenience.
Japanese and Chinese languages are not related by descent. They differ in many very basic ways.

But Asian languages are nevertheless related in more mysterious ways. Compare the intro to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainland_Southeast_Asia_lingui... :

> The Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area is a sprachbund including languages of the Sino-Tibetan, Hmong–Mien (or Miao–Yao), Kra–Dai, Austronesian and Austroasiatic families spoken in an area stretching from Thailand to China. Neighbouring languages across these families, though presumed unrelated, often have similar typological features, which are believed to have spread by diffusion.

In a European context, this is similar to the unusual closeness between the "unrelated" English and French, known to be due to intensive contact between the languages post-William-the-Conqueror. (In a world context, English and French are closely related regardless.)
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I really wish we could have blocked all the social media apps.
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Any nation with a mandatory retirement age/state pension that normal people live long enough to revive for at least one year, necessarily has enough money to let typical parents look after their kids for at least six months per parent per child.
Both acronyms are equal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party