skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are famous and it comes up regularly, but younger people won't know about "the Usenet" or Bully Boards (BBS). They were awesome for their time: They had awesome, engaging features, maybe on a "nerd" level O:-), back then not accessible for everyone. Today we have much better ways to interact online, kind of with the whole world and somehow everyone is online, today. Locality has lost on importance, since ways to interact remotely/online became more powerful and also accessible for all. It's really interesting where this leads to in the future. E.g. WFH (work from home, especially emphasized by "Covid"): Companies might outsource development to the lowest COL (cost of living) area in that vein. Also: Everyone is globally connected, better and better, yet somehow more and more "home alone". So interesting, somehow unavoidable and it's open to see where this develops and if we manage to make these developments positive and get the negatives under control for all/most involved.
Why shouldn't it be compared? Is there something intrinsically different other than accessibility and quantity?
Thanks for this, I've been learning D on and off for ages never found any decent YouTube channels course I have not looked for a while.
FWIW the official world record is 382 days as far as I can see.

From Wikipedia:

Angus Barbieri's fast. Starting in June 1965, Scottish man Angus Barbieri (1939 – 7 September 1990) fasted for 382 days. He lived on tea, coffee, soda water and vitamins, living at home in Tayport, Scotland, and frequently visiting Maryfield Hospital for medical evaluation.
Hi there! If you pay attention to the ratio of pro vs against meritocracy rants in this page you will find some interesting (anec)data. Make your own conclusions!
> I find BDSM quite repellent [...] orgasm-noises in porn [...] upsetting

I'm not denying that some people feel that way, but it's extremely easy to avoid coming into contact with depictions of BDSM or pornographic orgasm noises – unless you deliberately browse adult content.
Wow if that is correct then we really are blind to incoming end the world meteors
Get incorporated into one or more vertical chains and become a “fab” or have a massive architectural breakthrough that maintains the status quo.
I’m playing it on PC (3900x and 1080ti) and it’s really detailed and beautiful. The plot is a bit confusing and the NPC stuff pretty rigid. This game would be amazing as an online multiplayer game, and possibly with VR support for full immersion. It’s really beautiful
Airline fares are easy to compare because the DOT compels them to make it so. https://www.transportation.gov/policy/aviation-policy/airlin...

This is one area where regulation is probably the only real solution.
ER doctor breaks down why more lockdowns aren't the answer – Toronto Sun
The web of today is a siloed fragmentary space, a media outlet and an amplifier of mass culture. For a minority of people it still is the “repository of knowledge” that was originally envisioned, but for the majority it is a continuation of their lowly existence in digital form.

The spirit of the early web was around building hierarchical multi-level directories of stuff, around search and categorization. The Web 2.0 ideology changed all that to transform it into a user-centric “social” experience that required you to use an online identity, build your own profile and be passively bombarded with stuff on your personalized feed.
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No passive income source (dividends from stock, real estate rents) is risk-free. Nearly zero jobs are risk-free either (you could get fired, laid off, etc).

There is no risk-free source of income.
Always prefer to use my own router from security & privacy reasons. openWrt support is must have.
It would be great if a big band of Doctorates got together and committed to renouncing their PhDs if copyright (at the very least in the scientific domain) is not abolished.

They have the power to do that.

30 years after the great gift of the web we are still waiting, and Alexandra Elbakyan has shown us how amazing it is to have all scientific papers be available to everyone.
That site is fast. Even on a mobile connection.
I'd be inclined to get a POE hub/switch cheap (30$ branded, unbranded and talking sub $10) and the adapter for the Rpi and run them both over that.

Not sure how the cost balances for this and maybe a bit more going that option, but if you add a single other POE device, it would definitely pay off cheaper and certainly more flexible cable wise on Ethernet and as such power.
>This system has been corrupted on websites like reddit to become a "like" system, but outside of very divisive political topics it still works mostly as intended on HN: they moderate bad contributions, not stuff people disagree with. //

Disagree, a lot.

I've railed against it, but pg (the site owner) noted that voting as a proxy for like/dislike was not improper use on HN, much to my chagrin. In the early days (of my use, back on my first HN account) voting seemed mostly to be done to move a comment to it's "proper place".

Nowadays very good comments get greyed to non-readability. I find myself so often vouching for things I disagree with because comments that add well structured, logical, or interesting thoughts get voted out of view because they go against the group norms.
Yeah, that makes sense. My point is just that, the web is all business now, and people use that to justify their decisions. It didn't use to be that way, but because of the commercialisation of the internet, we're now here, which means tons of people no longer has access to information they would if the web was still focusing on being open.
The game is incredibly good. It must have some serious issues on consoles to get this bad press.
We are getting further from my expertise. My inclination is on the public internet it’s ok to make an ad blocker and ok to make something that thwarts the ad blocker. Different on a private network.
comcast did the exact thing to me. I had to sign up for a new plan. But they also wouldn't let me use the new plan promos. Oh, and a month later when I got my first bill at the new rate it still had rental fees. Took about 8 months of calling each month to have the rental fee go away. And then when I finally cancelled because I was moving they charged me for not returning the modem/router I returned over a year ago. Fun times.
In general, I agree, though I think I'd also include some consideration of size or barriers to entry. As an example, photomultiplier tubes are used to detect very small amounts of light, down to a few photons. They are primarily produced by Hamamatsu, which has about 90% market share for PMTs. And they are ridiculously reliable, used in detectors that last for decades. Even without competition in PMTs, they make good products. It's a very small market, and doesn't have room for much competition, so I don't think that market share alone can be the sole determinant.

That said, if the quality were to drop, if they were to engage in anticompetitive behavior, if they were to provide tools to subvert an election, if they were to repeatedly buy out competitors, or any combination of the above, I would drop them in a heartbeat.
I'm saying you're taking as if it were some sort of ontological model or normative rule of discourse, when really it's a verbalisation of a heuristic you've already admitted to using. You're using something like 'burden of proof' as an algorithm, even if you consciously reject it as a verbal tool.
When I set up my first website, you had to email CERN to be put on a list of websites around the world, that was published on their website...

I think it was about the 60th (I forget the exact number, it was a long time ago :) website in the UK, serving the “needs” of (ok, playing with tech for) the image processing group in Kings College London’s physics dept while doing my PhD.

The server ran on my desktop DECstation 3100, a 16MHz R2000 with a 1024x864 1-bit display named asterix.ph.kcl.ac.uk - Yeah, 1-bit. In the image-processing dept... still, it was more than 10x faster than the microvax that served the rest of the dept!

It’s kind of amazing to me, having lived through all the change, that a modern Arm SOC like the $5 Pi-0 would blow away that at-the-time (1989) high-end workstation, in every respect. In the dust.

In comparison, the first computer I ever got was the ZX81 (in 1981, so about 8 years earlier) and it had 1K of RAM, came as components that I soldered to the motherboard (I was 11 at the time, soldering was old-hat) and I was more interested in the black-and-white, dial-tuned, portable TV that I could have in my bedroom that came with it :) But to go from that to the DEC 3100 in such a short time was also massive progress.
Good question. It's an IOT project with nodes that need to work in an offline situation. The decision was made before I joined the team and there was nothing I could do about it.
In the end, it doesn't really matter. Both approaches are legit, if done right. The real problem is that we produced a distributed monolith due to our inexperience. That's what we are trying to fix now.
Where else is it a problem? I don't know if it's actually illegal/regulated against in the UK, but it's never happened to me.
Could you elaborate on why you think RISC-V is a mediocre instruction-set architecture?

I would rather say it is genius: https://erik-engheim.medium.com/the-genius-of-risc-v-micropr...

RISC-V has learned a lot from the mistakes of previous ISAs and made sure the instruction-set fits both low power consumption solution as well as high performance solutions.

All sorts of benchmark tests show that RISC-V from a theoretical standpoint would execute programs faster. You can tell this by analysis how how many instructions are needed for different programs for different architectures.

And how many clock cycles are needed per instruction etc.
I have long had the hunch that depression (and especially SAD) make sense from an evolutionary perspective as a sort of hibernation strategy. Common symptoms like lowered appetite and psychomotor retardation, coupled with the episodic nature of most depressive disorders, seems like a good fit for hibernating behaviour.

Fascinating research. Would be very interesting if the conclusions could be supported by other dig sites.
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When dealing with advice for open source projects my steps are:

- Google and go to first SO answers (I totally gave up on asking for advice there, is an old discussion but with low karma forget to ask, it will get closed immediately so you have to be lucky that someone with good reputation made a similar question)

- HN search engine and go to the comments of some post related to what I need. It might take some more time but some of the comments have been gold to me

- Project mail list. I have found people willing to help there

- Finally my last discovery, as others, Github issues. And I am talking about searching and asking. I have lately been susprised how the main maintainer of a big project from one of the FAANG answered doubts, and to me personally helped me with a question such as "I don't know how to start with this", literally.

I guess there will be lots of different experiences here, but to me it would be something like stay away of SO and try to find more specific forums for your need.
In an ideal world that'd mean we become architecture agnostic and solutions should work on any CPU entering the market while ARM has still not achieved majority support on desktop solutions.
Sadly I am certain there will be an extremely painful phase in which some software runs a lot better (more than the instruction set would explain) on some hardware and not on others. Driver support is going to be really poor and tech support will be a very secure job for the coming decade.. hah :)
> "displays that have a pixel density that is appropriate to the year 2020"

As opposed to what other year? Color me naive, but I thought it was supposed to be the function rather than the form that we were supposed to make those kinds of comparisons about. What about a low pixel density is /not/ appropriate to the year 2020?
My favourite Christmas activity is a 7-day digital detox. A weeklong solo offline retreat in a cabin. I do it during the holidays because it is the easiest to block off the calendar.

The retreat it self is not very "exciting", but the effect on mental clarity around the 4th day is profound.
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Intermittent fasting is my go to regime to keep my weight stable, do it also because its just easy for me. I don't have to spend time or money to prepare or buy lunch or breakfast.
This entire discussion is about privately held organizations systematically charging customers for services they did not receive with no oversight to prevent it. Your argument doesn't even make sense in this context.
> when one of these SBCs finally comes with 8GB and GPU acceleration for < 100$ (...)

It might have GPU acceleration but the RPi already comes with 8GB of RAM for about 80$.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/8gb-raspberry-pi-4-on-sale-...
Sure, that does solve the problem for me as an individual but what about the rest of the people who don't understand proxies and wouldn't even be able to install one with the instructions?
This is true. However, it is also a hard fact that defectors often lie and exaggerate.
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> capital flight

Move somewhere with even higher taxes or move somewhere with no infrastructure?
The 2 best resources I've found are the free lessons and (not free) books on aypsite.org, and taking KAP level 1 on kundaliniawakeningprocess.com
Not obscure, but an unlikely originator of a globally-significant processor architecture.
And that hasn't stopped spying. Which shows enacting new laws will not stop hacking either. We can't just create new laws and pretend we have solved the problem. The tech industry created the problem; the tech industry should be held accountable to find a durable solution.
Well, it's entirely possible that I'm underestimating how prude America is, as I haven't lived there.

In some ways it seems America is quite hyperfixated on sex, but in very specific ways with specific taboos. Like nipples are the end of the world, but selling anything from cars to hamburgers with sexy women is A-OK. Just paste a sticker on the nipples at least, then it's fine. Cheerleaders, boxing ring sign holding girls etc. etc.

In contrast, the European things you mention, like bathing and saunas and beaches are not about drooling over bodies, but just being normally without clothes, often among family. Not sexually.

I think these need to be distinguished. Sexuality isn't equal to nudity.
Instead of such an overreach, we should go the other direction towards a freer market. We should get rid of the red tape that lets these cable companies hold a monopoly so that companies like Google can come in and lay fiber at their own expense if they so desire.
I've got about 65 hours in. I've had one crash. One side quest is bugged and I can't finish it, which does suck, but it isn't a critical quest at least. I've had similar issues with quests being bugged in basically every other open world game I've ever played.

Had a similar save file being too large issue with Skyrim that was fixed months after release.
People happily pay $20 to go to the movies. Why are nude photos, which might have same ratio of $/hour of entertainment or better, so much worse?
There have been isolated cases of modern humans surviving by hibernation, but almost always in association with some kind of serious injury that seems to trigger some deeply buried metabolic mechanisms. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/dec/21/japan.topstori...

There was some work around a decade ago into using precise concentrations of hydrogen sulfide to induce it deliberately.
This article's main point left me deeply confused. Isn't mostly men behind OnlyFans? And also aren't male performers in general paid significantly less than female performers in porn? I feel like things like that were deliberately left out of the article because they didn't contribute to the narrative it tried to build.
Show HN: I've created a Tmux session manager in Golang
It leads to them needing medical treatment so yeah it definitely is.
Hey HN!

I've started this as a hobby project for practicing my Golang skills. Before it, I've been using tmuxinator[0], but I missed some features(like starting only some windows), so I decided to create my own utility. I would appreciate any feedback/code review.

[0] https://github.com/tmuxinator/tmuxinator
I'd subscribe to "Lisp tricks" by Lars Ingebrigtsen or Rainer Joswig.
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It seems we agree after all.

My mind was attracted to this particular idea: "That is why they are all uninteresting."

I happen to believe that confirmation biases (and their various relatives) are infinitely interesting, and also that there is infinite value in understanding them and their systemic consequences. The irony(?) of the situation is that finding even one individual who shares this belief is exceptionally rare, and I have been through an extremely broad spectrum of communities. This also seems rather interesting as well.
Retina is a great example of how Apple operates in general. They care about outcomes, not spec sheets. Sure, they'll take the time to spec dunk when the opportunity presents itself. It's just rarely the reason they do something, whereas Dell/HP/whatever want to say "4K SCREEN OMG" on the box regardless of whether that actually leads to a better experience.

Apple realizes there's diminishing returns in upping the resolution beyond what your eyes can see. So they hit Retina, and then move on to focus on color accuracy, brightness, and contrast.

They do this throughout their product stack. Only as much RAM as their phones actually need, because RAM is both costly in terms of BOM and also consumes battery life.

Using fewer Megapixels than competing phones because it's about the quality, not quantity, when other manufacturers trip over themselves to have the most Megapixels.
Why anyone would buy new Apple products, arguably the most expensive products in any category, when they support these types of manufacturing slave-labor situations, is beyond me.

Funny how you never hear about this type of situation with any other tech brand.
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And it would have been just as valid to question. The reason we all now know the Holocaust was real isn’t because we just decided to believe 2nd hand personal accounts, but because we have massive amounts of physical evidence.
I recall when AWS first released Lambdas I thought of cgi-bin, especially with PHP where the deployment model is just pushing files. As you say, it has pretty much the same upsides and downsides.

That model does scale well for the web layer at least. Just lots of cheap VPS nodes. Of course, the bottleneck then is the database or whatever layer provides state and persistence.
Childcare and education are not the same, but for working parents the intersection is massive and unavoidable.

My question, phrased differently: given a scenario where both parents are away at work for 9 hours per day, and school is 6 hours per day, are the remaining 3 hours not in school more enriching for children than time in school?
This law is missing a key ingredient that we have in the EU: the ISP need to provide you the credentials you need to access your service. No tricks where only the ISP provided router is whitelisted to get them from the network.
I believe there is research that indicates you might be right. Don't have a link, though.
(Sorry to drag this on, really appreciate your input)

Yep, it's starting to click. My guess would be that this (or the 180 degree opposite) is the flight path of the imager in the golf photo, basically opposite the perceived perspective of the photo:

https://i.imgur.com/MEYo12Z.jpg

So there isn't a sun, but it kind of looks like it because of how the signals accumulate or get shadowed.

This would also explain why we could see artifacts from the curved glass that appear to be 'through' the roof. The imager actually has direct line of sight to them from that flight path, and it's the layover effect from the roof/soffit that makes it appear that we are seeing through the roof.
> the presumption should be regulation.

No.

The presumption should be making it easy to enable competition, which the current rules don't do. Make it easy for Google to come in and lay fiber on their own dime.
> if you don’t get any kind of citation there is no action against you to complain about.

Surely you are trolling? Plenty of evidence of plenty of police doing things that warrant civilian complaints that were never intended to be documented in the form of a citation by a police officer.
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> Acting out of ignorance when the tools are available to be less ignorant, and then doubling down on your original ignorance is irresponsible.

Disagreed. To be "irresponsible" one first needs a responsibility, and I don't think Martin has any responsibility on the matter. He has no authority, he isn't a historian or a linguist; he's a storyteller.

I repeat, the most that can be inferred of him as a person regarding his story and his comments on it (based on what's said on the matter in this article) is that he's ignorant of his own ignorance, and a blowhard (IMO).

> I don't think there is anywhere that Devereaux even implied maliciousness, just irresponsibility and moral failing.

I don't see how saying that someone has "moral failings" is not calling them "malicious". At most, it can be argued that "malicious" is a stronger word, but at that point we're arguing tone. The intent is similar.

For instance, I only used the word "malice" because that's how the saying goes. It was a little hyperbolic in context, but you can replace "malice" with "moral failing" in my previous comment if you so wish[1]; I don't think the message I was trying to send would change if so.

But that's mostly beside the point, I take it you agree with my original comment then: the article does have a negative moral judgment of Martin. The person I originally replied to asserted that there wasn't.

[1]: "don't attribute to moral failing what can be attributed to incompetence".
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So is this about humans or about neanderthals? The article doesn't seem to be able to decide and it's not at all clear from it.