skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
didn't read the article so I don't know if it's addressed or not...

I think that newer generations are going toward reddit over facebook/instagram for text content. I might be wrong but it's my own experience talking with teenagers
"mnt/tabs/by-id/*/title.txt" asks your shell to expand a wildcard match, generating a list of files holding the title of each tab. If I were to feed it into a command-line app, I might start running into command length limits.

Would it work better as a "relational database" than a hierarchical tree filesystem? I noticced that "by-id" and "by-title" and "last-focused" are several views into an underlying source of data, and changing one view causes other branches of the filesystem to change automatically. Maybe it could be more cleanly modeled as a relational data store with one row per tab, and columns with different meanings. Then use SQL, or a cleaner notation for relational algebra, to query this interface.

The downside is that you can no longer use command-line utilities that operate on files (find/grep, fd/rg).
> every encounter with a warrior in the same game I believe (or maybe majora's mask?) you damage them untill they flee the room

That is violence too? It is not killing, but it is unambiguously violence.
Plain text. Put one tag per line in each text file. e.g "topic:", "subject:",etc.

Use grep and awk to slice and dice as and how you want. Incredibly flexible, no lock in, no dependencies, easily replacable parts.

Check into git regularly.
> Think about what other technology is 12 years old you’d call “nascent”

Cars, Steam engines, Airplanes, Trains, the Internet, Radio, Phones, Mobile phones, Smart phones, Cinema, TV's, basically anything that is actually new technology?

I actually can't think of any new technology that reached maturity within 12 years of it's original prototype.

> The first ETF launched in 1993,

ETF's are a contract, they're not technology. By the way, BTC currently has 450 billion in net asset value, so...
That's a neat alternative universe that you're in. COVID is a complete disaster in the UK (and in plenty of other places, but the clusterfuck in the UK is really quite something), besides that brexit could very well cause the UK to cease to exist or be diminished, you can expect a breakaway effort to start in Scotland just about today.

Imagine the irony of the UK more or less trying to forbid the Scots from seceding the union when they just seceded themselves from the EU. That won't go down well, no matter what legalese the argument will be cast into.
FSM are fun to write but horrible to modify especially if you’re not the one who wrote it.
youtube has copyright content, I wonder how tiktak & ig deal with it..
The app in question seems to be the outlet of Guo Wengui, a fugitive businessman wanted for corruption charges in China. (Whether the charges are valid or not I have zero idea. Incidentally I learned about this guy from the news of Steve Bannon’s arrest on this guy’s yacht.) So stating that this app is merely critical of Chinese government is lacking quite a bit of context.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guo_Wengui
As stated somewhere above, the problem with old eternit or asbestos containing products isn't that it 'leaks'. It's only problematic when you start processing it. It will then release microscopic airborne needles that will get stuck in your respiratory system, traveling through tissue and causing serious damage. The damage is caused physically, not chemically.

It also requires a pretty systematic exposure to the stuff, which is why mostly (factory) workers and the neighborhoods surrounding those factories were seeing the most severe cases. Plus the process takes years, which is why it stayed unnoticed for so long (minus the cover ups).

Health hazards aside it's a pretty remarkable product that was cheap at the same time. Exactly why it was used for pretty much everything.

Don't get me wrong, the stuff is bad, but I do think that some, if not most people react almost histerically when they know they are in the vicinity of asbestos. Living in a house with asbestos shingles for instance poses very little health hazards, on the condition that the shingles aren't being disturbed by anything that causes friction. Of course, you don't control your neighbor's roof...

If you have small quantities at home that you need to dispose of make sure it's wet and don't break or saw it.
I don't disagree about its technical merits as a synth, as an instrument, or what it did to music makers. I was merely disputing the claim that it made synth music mainstream.
> Doordash and Postmates doing exactly this got them their start, now it will be illegal to compete with them using the same methods they used.

Waiting for a company with even worse practices, to be able to compete most effectively, doesn't seem like a net win.
The economy will bifurcate into two sections: a corporate economy that builds platforms, and an individualist economy that uses those platform for creative purposes.

Think YouTube + video creators, Spotify + artists, Netflix + more long tail video content, Substack + writers, TikTok + influencers, Doordash + indie chefs, Apple + indie developers.

I believe this will feel like visible people are losing jobs and making less money, but humanity as a whole will see wealth increase.
Interesting article from The Guardian from 2019 [1], Britain’s death toll from asbestos at crisis level, figures reveal

Huge negligence is alleged:

[Roger] Maddocks [a lawyer specialising in workplace injuries] said the Factory Inspectorate knew by the end of the 19th century that heavy exposure to asbestos carried the risk of life-threatening respiratory disease and that by the 1960s it was public knowledge that exposure to small amounts of the substance carried the risk of mesothelioma.

“Despite that people continued to be exposed, and in many cases heavily exposed, for years if not decades after the mid-60s,” he said.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jul/07/britains-dea...

- edited immediately after posting to use the word negligence insteaad of cover-up
The Archers at 70: so much more than an everyday tale of country folk
Not unmarked. Never the gas face. Something to remember like the Alamo. Soul gone to heaven. Only played the games that he won at.

Class ical slapstick
rappers need chapstick

Only in America could you find a way to earn a healthy buck
and still keep your attitude on self destruct.

A villain in your land, in his land, a ruler.

Off to get our wigs twisted back, within reason.
> it is my favourite book

Is it your favourite book because of how much your personal history is tied to it, and the time you deboted to it, or are you comparing it against other books based on an analytic review and comparison of several books that you did at some point?

Nothing wrong with the former case, I also have favourites that I recommend, but if it’s the latter the recommendation is more helpful; in that case it would be awesome to detail why this one over others.

This idea of compared review is useful here:

https://fivebooks.com/

And here:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xg3hXCYQPJkwHyik2/the-best-t...
It is 2021 and ... I can't believe we are still using raw plaintext for these kind of threads. Wouldn't it be wonderful:

* To be able to vote predictions

* To filter, sort, search, group, slice and dice predictions

Same goes for HN:Jobs and other threads like that. We need just a bit more structure.
Well, if you work for a publicly traded company, you could always spend part of your salary on put options on your employer.
Apple Purges 39,000 Games from China's App Store
I wonder if they were inspired by BeOS.

These days many desktop interfaces feel quite dumbed-down. Still very usable though. But perhaps sometimes with unrealized potential.
Raymond chen posted about that https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20200317-00/?p=10...
There can be a lot of reasons we sleep.

Why do we have weekends?
I don't get the games industry's obsession with crunch. Never mind adverse health and personal impacts -- does it actually work as a means to squeezing more output out of staff? I mean, you can definitely achieve a short temporary burst to meet a deadline by putting in long hours and maybe Miyamoto can boost his managerial output by sitting in meetings for 60 hours instead of 30. But I really have difficulty picturing programmers working on complex stuff like game engines being more productive with a 80 hour week than a 30 hour week for anything beyond a few days, let alone extended periods of time. And indeed all traditional studies of worker productivity (not necessarily in IT) I recall suggest that productivity falls off a cliff pretty soon as weekly hours a cranked up (see also https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/productivity-vs-annual-ho..., which suggests a general pattern between countries).

So I'm wondering -- is game industry crunch so popular (majority of game studios seem to be doing it) for reasons that having nothing to do with increasing individual worker output?

In the case of Japan in particular there is also a strong tradition of doing long but very unproductive work hours because presence is prized over productivity .

Or are games really "special" in some way (for example because there is some evidence that people can sustain normally unsustainable productivy/weekly hours ratios for "passion projects")?

Does anyone have any good studies or anectodal evidence from their own experience (focussed 30-50 hour week vs crunch for several weeks)?
In this thread - People complaining about Apple generally and their own app review issues and not this specific case.
Lots of places exist for that. HN don't need to do it.
Concurrencpp – A C++ concurrency library
> Another data point: What happens with the highway bandit in Breath of the Wild? They eventually teleport away, they don't explode into a poof of death.

Except if you hit them with an Ancient Arrow, which completely disintegrates them like any other type of enemy. That's what I did the first time around in the Yiga Clan Hideout.

Also I guess quite a few of the series' villains are human or humanoid, but most tend to become a monstrous form before you actually kill them.
>>> Fixing a bug or delivering a feature where you haven't documented the process, (how the criteria were decided, when it was tested and deployed) is as good a running a web site nobody visits.

Hard disagree. Unless you're writing software for clients a crapton of ceremony goes into JIRA tickets when 99.9% of them will never be looked at again once marked closed.

>>> If devs aren't working on priority items, are off target to timelines, are not following QA process or not following agreed specs then the company could be losing money.

JIRA is used when companies have no trust in their devs. We all use Git. There's a perfect, permanent record of anything I ever touch. Yet management is always worried we're going to "get distracted". As if that wouldn't be incredibly obvious.

It's like hiring a plumber to fix something then following them around the house to make sure they don't straighten your artwork or do the dishes while they're at at.

There's a pervasive theme that "PM knows best" among companies obsessed with JIRA. The best companies I worked at had no project managers at all and things ran great.
The Shamrock System – Plus, Minus, and Equal
The word medium comes from latin, its plural is "media", not "mediums".
So you spend several paragraphs talking about how big tech is evil, and hn is full of sheeple who trade their morals for $$$ and status, etc. Then you say:

> So, no, I don't think what you're saying is true, and what you are referring to is told with very obvious biases.

So i am confused, do you agree with me that HN goes easy on big tech, or not? Because your argument seems to be the opposite of your conclusion.
Also people complaining about the thread and not this specific case.
A compared review of the best textbooks in Any Subject
Mitch Kapor remembers Lotus' Macintosh bomb (2014)
This exact thing is happening to one of my favorite local pizza places. Very frustrating for them.
That sounds like a good idea but I think that might affect the jinx ;) Clearly, the money must be given to me for free, not paid within a capitalist context or resulting from an investment strategy where I would get the credit for making a good decision. Free money (donations) is the only thing that has worked for me so far. Most of my income in the past few years has been donations.

BTW, Facebook reached out for an interview recently but I didn't follow through... So if someone reading this comment buys Facebook shares and makes a ton of money, please think of me and give me some free money.
Buon anno!
People overestimate what can happen in a year and underestimate what can happen in a decade.
A Novel Form of Racketeering
I used to think this too, but when I look at the COVID and lockdown opinions of my facebook friends, they greatly differ, but their intelligence doesn't differ that much.

I know people as intelligent as me, to have complete opposite opinions. My first reaction was that they are stupid, but I actually know they are pretty smart.

It's easy to dismiss someone elses opinion as stupid, but it's really hard when you know it's not actually the case.

With the COVID situation, I concluded that there are more authoritative, "follow the rules" people, and more rebel, "we hate the rules" people. Thanks to covid I have a clear view who of my contacts belong to which group. Most of them are intelligent.
About each topic, a selection of five books
Keynes invented the idea of liquidity traps which is what caused the Japanese crisis. Wild that you feel so confident calling economists idiots when you don't even know their positions?
Jullie ook allemaal een gelukkig nieuwjaar!

Never thought I'd live in a year that will be in the history books for a long time to come. So many lessons learned (most of them hard ones), spending three weeks in bed and many months in recovery was no fun at all. But much better than the alternative.

Now, something tells me that 2021 can't possibly be worse than 2020 was but I've learned to allow for a little bit of superstition here on account of previous sentiments like that. So let me just say that I hope that all of you will make it through the COVID crisis in one piece and healthy and that 2021 will bring you much good luck and good fortune.
* Cloudflare ($NET) stock up 75% from current value to $133 or greater.

* AMD makes an even larger dent in the consumer market, enterprise starts to ramp adoption.

* Apple will reach a $3T market cap.

* Google and Facebook will be largely unscathed by regulatory pressure. No major break-ups.

* TikTok implements more social features such as messaging, to take on Snapchat and Instagram.

* A breach larger than Solarwinds will occur, impacting multiple governments and large businesses worldwide.

Controversial:

* President Joe Biden reveals a serious illness known to affect mental state.

* One or more coronavirus vaccines are found to have serious side effects, including death.

* Tesla market cap will halve to $334B or less.
This looks like a pretty nice and simple tracker. I love the fact there is a macos app and wanted to give it a shot just for that. Coming from the very unhelpfully named “habit” (that btw costs 3.49 GBP per year instead of everyday’s 29.99 GBP), the features I’m missing are mainly weekly and monthly habits, more colours, health integration.

One of the things I haven’t seen much in habit trackers is api access. I was considering building something like simon’s everyday calendar but wanted to be able to hook it up to a habit tracker as it’s too limited on its own.

Keep up the great work!

ps. A mailing list or rss to keep up with updates would be nice. I don’t think I’ll be using it now but maybe when it gets parity with my current tracker.
Buon anno a tutti! This is my favourite place on the interweb, thanks to all of you
I actually managed to finish it. It was a chore.

There's barely any interesting development to the main character. Strike that. To any of the characters. It's as if the novel follows an emotionless robots without any real social connections at all.

The science story is ... okay-ish. There are some good ideas in TTBP, but all in all I'd rather slog through one of Greg Egan's more spaced-out maths novels.

Greg Egan has good stuff, though. Diaspora is a masterpiece.
Probably because the covid issue evolved gradually. First we knew that something was happening in China but couldn't tell what it was exactly, then we realized it was a decease but didn't know how bad, then there was the lockdown but information from China is regulated so no big story here, and then it hit Europe and all hell broke loose. The thing is that there wasn't a singular event that would have captured all of our attention catapulting it to the top of HN.
I agree with that, however I would say that runaway climate effect and its impacts on the planet outweight (in importance/severity) the issue of decreased life expectancy of beings living in cities/near factories.

Therefore I don't think its misguided to "see the carbon as the enemy".

By the way I live in Slovakia and I was baffled by our previous government stubbornly keeping the dirty hornonitrianske coal mines open through public funding. Even though they are loosing money and it would be cheaper (and much much cleaner) to just pay the miners to do nothing.
Sure. But that's still potentially multiple orders of magnitude fewer on-chain transactions than without. I'd call that a quite efficient mitigation.
The British Pathé YouTube channel is an interesting rabbit hole to dive into, it's such an interesting mixture of "oh, that's neat", "they did what back then?" and the unending optimism about the future of technology and automation.
Manufacturing is one thing, the purchasing power of Chinese is another thing. China is about 15-20% of Apple's business and they can't afford to lose it. China will happily ban iPhone while letting Apple keep manufacturing.
New Strategy to “Buffer” Climate Change: Develop Cheaper Eco-Friendly Solar Cell
Similar topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FeliCa
I expect BTC to reach at least 50.000 USD value by end of 2021, but could be much more.
There are decades where nothing happens, and then there are weeks where decades happen
Media's role is not to provide the truth. Their primary role is to make governments and corporations trustworthy and hold them accountable to the world. Nobody holds "the truth", but bits, pieces, opinions may be reported.

Also, authority routinely lie and exhaggerate. If not held accountable, they get away with it too!

The only thing more powerful than speaking Truth, is love.
Yikes! That is less than 6 min per app.
"Grothendieck's political views were radical and pacifist, and he strongly opposed both United States intervention in Vietnam and Soviet military expansionism. He gave lectures on category theory in the forests surrounding Hanoi while the city was being bombed, to protest against the Vietnam War"
> Big/impactful companies are great places to learn

Is it really? I always learned the most at tiny companies.
Okay, now I really want to see that shortlist and visit each place or watch a good documentary visit them and uncover the strange merch.
Twitch wont play with ad-blockers enabled “for stability”
Stop shilling, please.
Or even better, some explanations that are more correct, or a reveal of the common flaws?
Or maybe "consteval," which I was not aware of: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p107...
Don't know much about them, but they do appear to support/do the development of pyls (python language server)
Yes, the GDP reduction isn't trivial, but Scotland spends way more than it makes. The UK would no longer have to support that deficit and they wouldn't have to provide services to 5 million Scottish people.

The loss of the HMNB Clyde (the Trident base) poses problems, but not insurmountable ones. Devonport in Plymouth and Miford Haven (more problematically) are suitable replacements. Also, Trident provides about 8,000 jobs to the Scottish economy, and they'd all move south too.
This is a ballsy prediction, but exactly the kind I came here for. No point in making conservative predictions when the stakes are so low.

(Obligatory "I wish only the best for the president-elect and his family", in case that was unclear)
> Duty is not necessarily to the state; it can be to society

Thatcher is also famous for having said “there is no such thing as society.”

Some people who adhere to neoliberal ideology might behave as you say, but in practice it seems little more than excuse for the selfish, cutthroat chaos that has left the US and U.K. so poorly off today.
I'm not really disputing sales, I'm more disputing the claim that it changed music or made synth music mainstream. Synth music was mainstream before the DX7. And I don't really remember non-musicians talking about the DX7 the way most prog music fans (and also some Clockwork Orange fans) seem to know Moogs. Or Hammonds. 80s pop music fans don't seem to be the kind to do reminisce about synths.

About 909s and 303s, like I said, they were special when they were in their heyday. Most people knew them by name, since there were lots of track titles, there was a TB-303 reference in Ghost in the Shell, and there are some TR-909 and TB-303 tattoos if you search Google... I'm not disputing that 808s are more famous now that hip hop is very mainstream, the 808 kick drum is in vogue for years and Kanye albums have 808s in their title. Like I said, you have to keep those things into context when making a comparison, otherwise only the 808 will ever count as "important"... that's it. Maybe the Moog is a better example?
I have nothing to say about the specific case - I think the app reviewer has an extremely valid case if he was following the app review process that Apple built.
Why does that require anything other than enforcement of existing trademark law?
Mobile web apps are universally terrible.

So if you want happy customers then a native app is a necessity.
I disagree. To me and much of HN, this is a feature and not a bug. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20854214
Someone else already covered that this is Guo Wengui's app, same man funding Bannon's rule of law society report on covid lab leak recently.

> Guo Media App does not contain violent content or incite violence;

...

Hilarious recent drama among antiCCP Chinese diaspora in west:

Surrey assault victim: “They attack the real anti-CCP, actual pro-democratic activists”

>The protesters are part of the New Federal State of China campaign created by Steve Bannon and Guo Wengui, who are also involved in the media startups GNews and GTV. Associates have staged protests against critics in other cities around North America. Gao has been critical of Guo, who is wanted for corruption in China.

https://thebreaker.news/news/surrey-protest-victim-talks/

...

Granted CCP hates Guo. Like a lot. But I think this is mostly western politics due to Bannon association. If Apple was really sucking Chinese dick, Epoch Times would not be #2 app in magazines and newspapers.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/epoch-times-live-breaking/id67...

E: is this about pulling from Chinese app stores? That's even less of a non story. Peak American exceptionalism thinking Apple should decide whether Chinese dissidents get media platforms in China or not. Not.
Yes. However they don't use it to both power the car and charge the battery. Kickstarting the engine with a battery is very different from only having a battery and also using that battery to charge itself and the car at the same time.

The original poster was proposing a closed system where you would turn water into hydrogen (a very energy intensive process) and then turn it back into water (an energy releasing process) inside the car to provide all the energy. This is not how physics works. You cannot use your energy source to create more of your energy source without an external energy source. It just doesn't work that way.