skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now that you mention it, you're right: the title is anthropomorphizing in a baity way. That means it should be changed (from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "*Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait").

I've changed it to use what appears to be representative language from the article body. If anyone can suggest a better title (i.e. more accurate and neutral, preferably using representative language from the article), we can change it again.
> While the biggest movies aren't being made by streaming companies

What major movie studio isn't connected to a streaming company? Sony owns or co-owns several. Universal has common ownership with Peacock. Disney obviously has Disney+, also Hulu. Warner is part of AT&T, so is tied to HBO Max by ownership. Paramount is tied to CBS All Access (soon to be rebranded as Paramount+). 20th Century is now a Disney brand. Lionsgate has Starz streaming. etc., etc., etc.
If one of the best use cases for blockchain is "data about name owners" and "DNS information", the future of blockchain is bleaker than I'd imagined.

Handshake isn't a super-persuasive example to cite, since it's backed by a minor altcoin that's primary use case (according to CoinDesk) is crypto day-trading.[1][2]

[1] "Update (May 28, 20:11 UTC): The headline and body of this article have been edited to clarify there were reportedly $10 million worth of HNS trades on Namebase since the token launched, but* only a fraction of those users bought domain names." https://www.coindesk.com/handshake-domains-bring-in-10m-as-r... [2] https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2020/05/31/news-not-cra...
I basically used YouTube videos, forums (https://www.3dhubs.com/knowledge-base/how-design-snap-fit-jo...), and the instructions from the 3D printer's company. I have this one in my lab: https://www.flashforge.com/product-detail/4. I started with something very simple and only one filament. Then, did something more complex with two filaments. I have some videos here: https://randyfespinal.wixsite.com/randyespinalcabrera/3d-pri... If you are familiar with Fusion 360 or any CAD software, that helps a lot. I love fusion 360.
The comment about papers not being read resonated with me. At one point I published a paper at a large IEEE conference where the only audience in the session were the other paper presenters. And it was clear nobody wanted to be there. I didn't last long in that line of work after that :-)
>in my personal experience, a patch that actually saves me time in the long run is very rare

Can you say for certain that this is not directly caused by a policy of having a contributor license agreement? Have you experienced this on other projects that don't have one? It seems by having a CLA you're limiting your contributors to a subset of developers who are willing to sign one.

(Disclaimer: I personally would discourage developers from signing a CLA unless upstream is paying them to do so, since upstream is going to directly derive profit from it)
Isn't it ironic that people constantly charge corporations with short-term thinking as some failure of capitalism, when the real disaster is the local government?

Here's another one. In Seattle, the city has seen enormous growth in tax revenue, far outpacing population growth. But the money just seems to disappear. Where it's going are public employee pensions, which were enacted long ago by politicians to garner the support of the unions. But the math on these is unsustainable and a looming crisis, but the politicians couldn't care less as the bill was far into the future and the election was just around the corner.
>I’m ADD and I don’t think it’s a disorder

It is in the context of this society as we're fairly maladapted to it and struggle with a lot basic things that cause big problems in our lives.
Sometimes really bizzare elements get carried over to movies.

Like Black Manta suit in Aquaman movie. It felt like something from power rangers.
> That you are writing this insightful commentary on a computing device that will end up in a landfill within the next 2 to 5 years

Not the parent, but I am writing this comment on Pinephone, which definitely will not end up in a landfill within the next 2 to 5 years, because it's openness enables unlimited support. See also: Librem 5 with lifetime support.
I prefer sonos for my own reasons. Bluetooth sucks power from my phone. Sonos connects over wifi and the phone isn’t involved in the streaming. I can remote control sonos from the spotify windows app or webapp on my laptop. Also the multi-speaker functionality is great. I don’t use it often, but if doing work around the house it’s nice to hear the audio stream just continue. Not a gamechanger itself though.
Outlook down over 12 hours
Most large companies have research divisions that do a variety of tasks which are not directly tied to short term money. The work varies from almost-pure to almost-applied but generally has different KPIs than product teams (patents for example). They're usually run closer to an academic institution in terms of structure and management. Granted there's generally some incentive to get other teams in the company to actually implement whatever you came up with.
Brahmins were the richest people. They are the ones who gain most out of the caste system by upholding the brahmin supremacy based on the privilege by birth. This is the reason brahmins are so sensitive about upholding so called values of caste system.

To contrast how brahmins are different from Jews, jews worked harder than normal to maintain wealth, in contrast brahmins denied access to education and that is the reason india is far behind in terms of innovation and science.
No, but it is obvious that Musk could mobilize a lot of talent that might have been spent on less innovative work elsewhere.

It is my suspicion that there is actually a lot more talented people than we tend to think and the real problem is educating and managing them well.

There is an interesting case of Florence, Italy, which in the 14th and 15th century produced an incredible set of world class painters. That school is unmatched until today. We think that world class painters must be principially very rare, but maybe not so much. In a relatively short span of time, recruiting mostly students from Northern Italy only, the Florence school could produce quite a significant percentage of artistic heritage of the whole humanity.
I remember reading about what it’s actually like inside a cell - that it’s not the smooth and organised world you see in biology animations. It’s a mess of molecules moving around at hundreds of miles an hour.

That’s what life is inside all our cells. Just a bunch of molecules bashing around randomly but because it’s all the right ingredients in there, the right things find each other and fit together and somehow it still works.
You could easily make a movie out of this.
> Maybe 3-8 drinks in it is definitely closer to "the true self".

3-8? 8 drinks in and I'd be passed out on the floor.
Have you ever taken an economy class not given by Ron Paul?
> Magsafe was introduced in 2006 and the last products with it were replaced in 2017

There were 2 physically incompatible magsafes.

Magsafe 2 was made more slender because Apple somehow couldn't imagine that they'd be making an even thinner laptop in the future.

And then the fact that the cable was hard-wired into the wall wart...
So now it makes me wonder - how much slower is it to use the keyword red than to use a hex value, and how much slower is it to use chucknorris than red.

Is there an unexpected text string (or strings) that will produce a color that takes the largest amount of steps for the browser to produce out of the string, thus, I assume, using more computing power.
>The pavement conditions of 53% of the roads are described as 'poor' and an additional 19% as 'mediocre'.

The problem with this report is that they define "poor" as less than 25% usable life left. Which may be useful for budgeting but it doesn't paint an accurate picture of road quality. I've spent five minutes or so clicking around Google Street and I didn't come across a problematic road in Lafayette. Lots that had patches and are probably due for a total resurfacing but no potholes and nothing that I would have concerns driving down.

As noted in my other reply, even if we ignore the above objections the backlog is ~15% of the annual budget. It's not going to bankrupt the city.

>Okay. The story surrounding the 2016 floods is more complex then simply "needs more maintenance". You're looking at a flooding prone area where housing development ballooned in a few short years. So, what happened? As always, a combination of factors and the dilution of responsibility across many actors. This ranges from the population not having flooding insurance, over private contractors cutting corners, to building permits being issued based on outdated information and so on and so on.

You can't drop 30 inches of water anywhere without seeing localized flooding. It's not physically possible to move that much water no matter how good your infrastructure is.
I do care whether I'm subjected to cultural pressures or to genetic pressures and I would rather not muddle my worldview by conflating them to a single category. Calling them collectively "evolution" is not a subtle mistake to make.

In fact placing together memetics and genetics in a single sentence doesn't even compile for me. It's like stamp-collecting and murder. Yes, my whole point is that we are operating on memetic engine and it works wonders.

I'll point out one thing "that just edits our patterns out of the population as it always has", just like not eating or not having sex: being infected by tuberculosis bacteria. By your reasoning developing a vaccine is just silly. Do we even want to rescue any Chopins or Orwells or Kafkas. Vaccine (which is effectively a meme) "just changes evolutionary pressures rather than eliminating them". If it happens, good, if it doesn't happen, no worries? That's the message?

Iguanas surely don't give a fuck about their Chopins.
seems to be missing Clojure at the moment https://hopl.info/SearchResults.prx?language=Clojure&which=b...
Bloodletting in Mongolia
"Cloud Native" with tools like K8s is just sooo much more work.

I mean, even with services like EKS and Fargate.

I was a bit disappointed, when I looked into serverless technology. It was sold to me as the savior, but it still requires much stuff I have to do myself.

But Kubernetes? That's a whole nother level!

I had to try K8s first to really appreciate what serverless technology gave me.
It is somewhat striking how high level the 360 assembler is. It's not that difficult to read the code snippet below.

So there are assembler instructions (not macros I believe) that are equivalent to "strcmp", "strcpy". Well I guess they're more sub routine calls for micro code.

Equivalent C code probably wouldn't be that much shorter, while modern assembler languages would expand to much more and harder to read code. Even x86 which has strcmp/strcpy instructions requires much more boilerplate, and also they're generally not used anymore because they're too slow.

Now of course with all the gotos (jumps) it is still quite spaghetti code. But if the assembler had some structured programming features (and maybe types) it probably wouldn't be that bad.

Of course it helps that everything was much simpler then.

(sorry for the screwy formatting)

SEARCH LA R9,LENGTH LIMIT FOR BXLE

LA R8,12 INCREMENT FOR BXLE

LA R1,SMLIST POINT TO STATE PLIST

MVC 8(8,R1),8(R7) MOVE IN FILENAME

MVI 24(R1),C'P' SEARCH PERMANENT DISK FIRST

LOOP2 LA R2,TYPES SET BXLE INDEX AT 1ST FILETYPE

LOOP MVC 16(8,R1),0(R2) CHECK FOR VARIOUS FILE TYPES

SVC X'CA' CALL STATE

DC AL4(ERH) GO CHECK R15 ERROR CODES

BC 15,8(0,R2) RETURN CODE WAS 0. FILE FOUND, SO BRANCHERH
C R15,AONE WAS RETURNED ERROR CODE A 1?

BE BIX IF SO, FILE NOT FOUND. TRY AG

LA R9,4 STATE ERROR CODE OF 4

BC 15,CLOSUP
I mean, the point of writing a paper is to educate - and if you're using obscure words, you are also probably succeeding in obscuring your message.

Take this example:

> Chemical and/or biological therapeutic strategies to ameliorate protein misfolding diseases.

Why not just "to target protein misfolding diseases"?
I don't get ASMR... like, I've tried to give it the benefit of the doubt, it's not relaxing. it makes my hair stand up and makes me want to punch someone. My wife feels the same way.
Ah I thought you meant “incorrect features of the English language” itself.
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Uh, just look at the Arab world.

Is the Lebanese government "in business" or no? That is a question with fuzzy answer, but if no government is 0 and competent government is 1, Lebanese government right now may be 0.02 or so.

Czechoslovakia, where I was born, disintegrated in 1992. The transition was peaceful, but the federal government simply is no more.
The Special Counsel investigation publicizing a Russian connection to Wikileaks' release of Hillary Clinton's damaging emails was far more recent than 2016 [0]. For myself, and I presume much of the general public, that would be the point in time where awareness of Assange's role in an alleged Russia-involved conspiracy manifest.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Counsel_investigation_...
It will still not let you uninstall "system" apps
The problem is usually with the definition of 'people'. Slaves, for example, did not qualify for a long time. 'People' living outside the country are not generally considered to be covered (see the routine open assassination of people accused of 'terrorism').
LOL. Most cities aren't New York and Los Angeles. Lafayette is a town that grew into a city. You will NEEEEEVER EVER get that particular populace into the idea that they should all huddle in miserable, adjacent caves around the city center.
All good points, and worth keeping in mind. I didn't live in the 'states until I was a teen, so I know how lucky I am to be here, too. It's also OK to feel grief over loss at the same time. Like I said, it's a relatively new diagnosis for me, so it's going to take me a while to process things. Overall, I am grateful, though, and that is important to emphasize.
Why and How We Should Become an Interplanetary Species
This is the source of the problem. People don't understand the DNS terminology. Very few people indeed get "resolver" right, for example, and they only then end up confusing the rather larger number of people who get it quite wrong. Similarly, "authoritative" confuses people when they have to try to understand why it isn't actually the same as an "authoritative answer". Whereas they do understand the idea of DNS records being content, that is published by content servers.

Hence why many years ago I took to explaining DNS using HTTP terminology. It works quite well.
Placing the currency symbol after the amount is indeed the most common usage in Italy. I have no idea why, but if I had to guess, I think it might be because back when Italy had Liras the same pattern was used (i.e. 1000L instead of L1000).
Obviously there is a balance to be struck. I don't have enough data to know what the correct answer is, but I do think it's not such a simple matter that can be decided by only looking at it from a single perspective.
Thanks. >> "QRM stands for human-made noise, as opposed to QRN, which indicates noise from natural sources."
They had to shut down some nuclear reactors in 2019 in Norway because the ocean water was too warm. Nuclear requires a highly organized society to function. Nuclear is a huge risk since it's getting more probable our societies will collapse in the future. Who will maintain these nuclear power plants when people struggle to feed themselves? We need to start winding down our consumption, not replace it with nuclear power.
The Gernsback Machine (2004)
https://hoodline.com/2016/12/why-sf-oakland-have-america-s-w...

Why SF and Oakland have bad streets (2016)

Edit: remove that AMP bullshit
But wait, doesn't that depend on whether you view the money not made during the shutdown of the bridge as "lost" or as "not made"?
The reviewer is saying your paper isn't a "proper" study?

I'm wondering about the nature of your shop. You said it's heavy on research, but it also doesn't sound like you're in academia.
now that the title has been changed from being about Ants decorating their nests with the heads of their enemies the above doesn't make much sense, and the edit window has changed.

At any rate I don't think human societies go after enemies bigger than themselves, that is a thing for individual humans to do.
> It’s hard to measure the value of knowing the fundamentals... especially 10 years out when it seems like you’re reusing the same tiny subset of your toolset over and over again. The fundamentals though exist as a little voice in the back of your head reminding you not to do something that won’t work.

I think this is why the US govt has been pushing STEM majors because there is a serious lack of people that understand 'advanced' math. I'm learning some fundamentals as we speak and it means nothing if you can't connect the dots. Understanding these concepts is the start but using them and experiencing them is where the real 'magic' happens. Except not many get that far.

Keep up the great work gaze!
> To refrain from doing something | To hop over | Used in Nordic European countries

Including this is a bit intellectually dishonest IMO. c.f. "To skip", one dictionary meaning of which is "to omit or disregard intermediate items or stages", which mirrors the original Nordic meaning exactly. I feel using the "refrain from doing" wording here is an attempt to exaggerate the difference.
this application is for real-time communication more so than live streaming.
Thank you for your kind words. I am sorry for your loss as well. And yeah, it was rough.
Ask HN: When Dark Mode for HN?
I most often read HN at night, in my phone, and it does really hurt my eyes. A dark mode would be my goto mode by default (like I always use dark modes whenever possible, even during the day).
Also it seems weird that a site promoting innovation doesn’t bring new comfortable solutions for its readers.
The answer is unfortunately a bit boring :'( I was hoping for some cool story with some deep easter egg.. But no.

<spoiler>It's just that non-existing hex chars are replaced by 0's :P</spoiler>
Pick a few towns at random, look at their budgets, look at their road quality in Google Streetview, and see for yourself. I would love to hear of any examples of infrastructure costs killing cities, but I simply couldn't find any.
There is no website. What you see is a warning in the game. If someone is up to the task there's room to render more information for mobile users here: https://github.com/tobspr/shapez.io/blob/5a3807883e44640bb8a...
And yet somehow there is still enough algae in the Galapagos for the iguanas to survive. Gee, I wonder how that could be possible.
Trying to build something like this with Intel PT, and it's great. I used to do it with a patched libgcov, but now it's even better. Getting counters for every code branch, notifications after a new path has been taken once N% coverage is reached, liveness info about periodic tasks, I/O threads, execution times too.
> I’ve sometimes wondered if the dreams would stop if I sat down and successfully learned the material.

I strongly encourage you to relearn these concept with OCW MIT with Strang and Moler [1].

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvL88xqYSak&list=PLUl4u3cNGP...
> it wasn't cost effective maintaining backwards compatibility

Open-source the last compatible version of the client and let the community maintain it? Or at the very least publish the API specification and let the community build a new one from scratch?
This is a totally lame response, compared to reposting the suggested title, and providing a link to the new post.
Natural language, for example, is inefficient

In many ways, yes, but it is often more efficient then people give credit. People in general do try to use fewer words when possible, and to understand the meaning of a sentence, you have to not just consider what was said, but what was not said.

An example is the sentence 'Yesterday, I tried to fix my bike'. Did the speaker manage to fix their bike? A naive parsing of the sentence would say it's unclear. However, if you heard a friend tell you this, you'd probably assume that they didn't fix their bike. Why? Because, if they had fixed it, surely they would have said 'Yesterday, I fixed my bike' instead: it's shorter and simpler.
What if it's 'bring your own entertainment', and you're just renting the room and equipment? They login to their own netflix account and play whatever???
2. Friday at 4pm is beer o’clock - using jit.si, teams,zoom or whatever else is flavour of the week. Not everyone has a beer, and we talk about work and non work stuff without any agenda.
Scandinavia as a whole is not a big mountain. Did you mean Norway? B/C Sweden only has some mountains in the sparsely uninhabited borderlands and Denmark + Finland are basically flat.
> Your first “scenario” completely ignored what happens after a resold device’s life ends.

Why would anything different happen to a "resold" than a "sold" device? Is there any market that Apple doesn't sell to because their consumers don't recycle enough? No, there is not, and I am beyond tired of dealing with the pretzel-like contortions of reasoning you twist yourself into to believe continued use of a device is somehow more harmful than stripping it for parts, for the sole reason that money changed hands without Apple getting their cut.

And whether Apple on the whole is better for the environment than other companies is a different question than whether this practice is bad. But with introducing wasteful technologies like AirPods, soldering SSDs and RAM to motherboards, and fight against right to repair, I'll take their environmentalism with a massive grain of salt.
If curious see also

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14122612

2013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6662342

Of the 26 submissions (https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Why%20does%20HTML%20think%20%E...), these are the two with comments that aren't just chuck norris jokes or complaints about how often this has been posted.
> Oh come on. Apple does not deserve the benefit of the doubt here.

Why not? If it’s because they’re a trillion-dollar company, then it’s a matter of scale, and every business from Apple down to the corner lemonade stand needs to be held to the same standard.
College being free in the US would help a lot with this. Again, I blame capitalism.
What would be really cool (to me) is if the speakers were exposed as Bluetooth audio devices. I don't want to have to think about how to setup DLNA or what's compatible with it.
Panel 11 is one of my favorite interview question.
That's true, but I think on one hand these are fairly rare cases compared to the whole industry while on the other there is also the point that these divisions might not be as stable and long-lasting as one might expect.

Related, discussed on HN a while ago: https://blog.dshr.org/2020/05/the-death-of-corporate-researc...
Previous discussions https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24200764 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23246672
-> "Friday drinks" calls, but attendance was so low that we just cancelled them.

We have a 15 minute mandatory weekly review to start - it’s quite common for the session to last three hours.
There was an exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center that was just giant satellite photos of the oil sands region. It looked downright apocalyptic.
I am also one of those techy types and beginning to realize this. It was hard for me to understand why so many of my peer academics /want/ to get promoted into administrative positions. But maybe they just realized they were already doing a full-time administrative job, just with a teaching load on top of it.

If you do stay involved in research, you spend more time hassling over a grant proposal that's a 1-in-10 shot than you would actually doing the technical work if you won the grant.