skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm Israeli and moved to Austria and later Germany in adulthood. I now live in Berlin, which is in the middle of an area the Germans consider unsuitable to agriculture due to poor soil quality.

And yet in Israel people managed to employ advanced AgTech to grow food in areas with much worse soil than Berlin-Brandenburg & with less abundant water reserves (and they also did this back when Israel was a much poorer country than Germany). In fact aside from some grains import Israel is mostly self-sufficient in food production. Germany is not despite being less densely populated and having much better natural conditions for growing food, because it is more expensive than importing food.

If need be these areas can produce food if the climate is suitable, it will just not be as cheap as the food we can currently get elsewhere (but then again AgTech continues to advance and economies of scale kick in). Anecdotally as a consumer groceries in Israel cost about 2-3x as much as in Germany but both countries suffer a lot more from obesity than hunger.

Also as an unintended result of the above Israel is today a significant exporter of AgTech.
You divert the time and attention of the security and ops teams; and DDoS-for-hire has made it relatively trivial to stage an attack even if you don’t have a bot net.
"Big bangs" only occur when you're traveling somewhere, for regular everyday driving around your home town, you never use a fast charger.

Trickle charging here and there and maybe some at home overnight from a normal wall socket is enough.
> It's funny to think "democrat control" and "keep regulations at bay" could be included in the same paragraph.

Well that’s been how Democrat control has worked out at the federal level for the last 50 years or so. Regulation does indeed get passed, but it’s against narrow industries (e.g. natural resource extraction).

Given the revolving door between the biggest tech companies and the Biden/Obama administration, I suspect that will magically escape anything beyond superficial changes.
One of the most popular beauty vlogger (NikkieTutorials) is trans. She became the most popular before that was publicly known about a year ago.

Would it have been ok for a newspaper to write about "One the most popular beauty vlogger" and then add somewhere in the article: "oh some other factoid she was able to keep hidden all these years: she's trans!"?
>I would find it gross and traumatic to the point where I might lose my lunch

That's just because you're not used to it. My grand-mother used to kill and butcher chickens, guinea hens and rabbits in front of me as a kid and I've been to quite a few post-hunting parties. It just doesn't move anymore.
It doesn't need access to the content of the messages.
I don't understand, what use is a REST API with no state? Who is making remote HTTP calls for calculating e.g. math equations or unit conversions? A stateless REST API is completely useless; just do everything locally.

For everything else, there will be state to manage, and it's not easy to shove a new version on top of an old version (hence why every API provider agrees to just offer two or more separate versions of the API server rather than having one unified API).
The trivial task of building a working replicator is left as an exercise to the reader. ;-)
Could also be something really petty, like Gandhi shutting down a malware domain.
Interesting that dvdisaster is not mentioned in the answers.
Tech Solutions to the Tech Problem
Immersive Linear Algebra: http://immersivemath.com/ila/index.html
The Blue Snowball Ice looks similar to the Blue Snowball, but isn't as good.

If your webcam sounds as good as the Blue Snowball, either your webcam has an excellent mic, or you could improve your audio quality by either:

- speaking closer to the microphone, or

- sliding the switch on the back to position 1
You don't need a "charging station", you need a wall plug that can handle 8A current without melting. In Finland we have one of those for most private parking spaces for car block heaters.

If you want something fancier, it's 300-1000€ for a "proper" charging station with a Type2 cable. If you've already bought an electric car, it'll pay itself back in a few months just with fuel costs. (EU prices, American fuel prices are just bonkers-cheap).
One of the hosts of this podcast (https://softwaresocial.dev/) is building a file upload widget and is getting most of their early trials from the Heroku marketplace. Worth a listen and maybe even reaching out to compare experiences
There should be a name for this fallacy of “I’m right because I’m quoting the guidelines”. Ad guidelineum fallacy.

Sometimes it’s crystal clear someone hasn’t read the article. Nothing wrong with pointing that out.
Wonder if this is a sign of desperation?
True but all it takes to fix this is to add if on the reference count of the object. You only need a full scan to handle circular references. You could have a gc.collect(obj) which will collect this object and all of its dependencies provided their reference count has gone to zero. And otherwise do nothing until the next full garbage collection.
To play devil‘s advocate a bit, isn‘t my phone (or laptop) already a universal chat client? I have a bunch of apps for different services. I can see when new messages come in on all of them, I can swipe/click to respond, I can control the notification settings.
Curtis documentaries are in this weird uncanny valley that I intensely enjoy, but deeply uneasily. They're very pleasurable. They string together a grand narrative that says...something. Not quite sure exactly what. But man it sure does feel like you're learning a deep truth when you watch them. As much as I like them, I suspect they are essentially poison. They're Alex Jones for smart people. Half cocked ideas strung together in a deeply aesthetic, but mostly meaningless way.

I don't want to impugn him too much. He seems like a good guy and I genuinely enjoy his work. But it really does feel like there's something narcotic about it, something insidious about the way it creates the feeling of insight without actually teaching you anything.
Putting a spy telescope on Moon seems like a bad idea.

- Moon moves across the sky very slowly (relative to stars) which means that your spy satellite would have about 30 days to cover full earth, and would be able to see only a part of Earth at any given moment (theoretically half, but lot of it would be from very bad angles)
- Moon is in an ecliptic? orbit, so spying on anything close to the poles will be from an angle - this might not be bad in all cases but the lack of flexibility is a big thing
- Putting any mass on the Moon requires much more delta V than putting something in orbit. If you can put a big telescope on Moon, you can put several in Earth orbit or put one much bigger one.

Having capability to stage on the Moon would be interesting, especially if fuel can be made on the moon. It would be easier on human bodies and you have access to lot of resources. If you can find water and decent metals, that's a pretty good spot to fuel your rockets.
>Why did they disqualify you based on being able to focus on things you like?

Lack of knowledge on the part of the person assessing them. Some people who go for diagnosis wind up going to people who don't specialise in it and they wind up being told these kind of things.
Ma didn’t publicly criticize the party as far as I know. Do you have sources to suggest otherwise?
How I'm Saving Hundreds of Hours on Lambda Debugging
The news is that this one is being prosecuted.
This would make sense if Rolling Stones wants to be a sort of Medium: You pay us to host your content.

However to make sense they’d also have to share the profits from the ads on the page.
round up or down as needed. 330 million / 578000 is 570 representatives, give or take. To put this in perspective, the current French National Assembly is 577 members, the Italian Chamber of Deputies is 630 members, the UK House of Commons is 650 members, and the German Bundestag is 709 members.
> That’s why the pendulum is swinging back to an internet governed by open, community-controlled services. This has only recently become possible, thanks to technologies arising from the blockchain and cryptocurrencies.

I absolutely believe that the pendulum does need to swing back towards community controlled services but it's quite the leap to make to say that we can only do that now and only with a specific set of technologies that this VC firm happens to be heavily invested in.

What about good old fashioned trust? Producing and following open standards based on systems of collective decision making is how we built the web in the first place. We don't have to have zero trust networks with monetary incentives to rebuild the open web. We just need aligned individuals building towards a common vision of what the web should be.

I think our failure to do this well in the last decade has really been a failure of vision where former leaders in this space have either been too dogmatic to really represent our collective interests or all too willing to adopt antithetical business practices that compromise that vision in the first place.

We need new leaders to represent open innovation and to build alignment towards an internet that can really be a tool for disintermediation. Novel technology won't save the web. Focusing on money will only exacerbate the problems in the long-run. A culture of open innovation is the only thing that will help us realize the abundance of the digital economy. To build that, we need communities that we can all trust will remain aligned to our collective interests.
Console sales were banned in China from 2000-2015, which is why the industry grew into a PC-first environment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_games_in_China
This reminds me of the quote heard recently:

“If the critics aren’t getting their ass kicked in the arena, they’re not worth paying attention to”
I mean, every other science journal does it
Because every car needs to charge 1-2 times per week and you also don't want to park 10 blocks away from home. Maybe 50% coverage is indeed excessive, but it is correct ballpark estimate. Maybe you can get away with 20-30% in cities with less lazy (and more coordinated) people :)
More than 150 National Guard in Washington for inauguration Covid-19 Positive
See my comment from 2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21425897

It's still relevant.
>There is no reciprocity with China on the game market.

There is no single word for reciprocity in Chinese. You can make do with phrases like "mutual benefit".
Always thought this would be a cool way to do a burglar alarm.
Motivated ignorance, rationality, and democratic politics
I think it's fair to say it owes some to Obj-C, but both Obj-C and Java owe a lot more to Smalltalk.
I found it humorous that the title was insinuating they werent DDoSing enough. What did you find insensitive about it?
It's a parody.
One could, but it wouldn’t be real.
> different kinds of website

Are there any laws that differentiate between "public" and "private" websites?
Cloudflare, the solution for no problem... I don't believe in DDOS without any proof. Imo they just have some performance problems to solve. I think the DDOS would magically stop after Database Maintenance on Jan 25.
It sounds good - but the dark side of wechat and social credit lurks in the back of my mind. That is not an easy problem to solve.
I disagree charging points should be introduced at work place parking rather than home. In the day time we have a lot of excess electricity available from solar where as at night gas and coal plants are used. If everyone starts charging at home more coal and gas plants will be needed to be built which will result in higher electricity prices for everyone as capacity payment parts of the electricity bills increase. Majority of cars are parked in parking spots at work between 9am to 5pm just like they are parked at home for 10-11pm to 7-8am at home. Electricity from solar is still getting cheaper by 15-20% a year most of us don't see it in our bills is because of capacity payments that power producers negotiated into our bills.
Good, maybe the competition will make auto manufacturers think twice before they cost cut another component.
The upside of this (and their very succesful WeChat payment platform) is that Tencent is far less dependent on advertising revenue and all the ad-related ills than Facebook.
Introduction to Life Insurance for Cryonics
Maybe the developers just don't care that much.

We created once an electron based app, on a very simple use case.
It was extremely slow since some bad dev decisions as well since nobody focused on performance. Later optimized it a bit and it was usable. In the end it worked. Features and good look were just ways more important.
No I shouldn't expect a subpar experience, and that's why I no longer use Gandi.

Claiming not to do shady things with user data is the minimum I expect from a domain registrar. Fortunately, Gandi aren't unique in that respect.

Gandi came highly recommended to me, so I was quite disappointed by the reality.
Because it doesn’t work in a web browser
> > 3. We need a desktop environment that's visually appealing and has a good UX.

> Such as KDE and the rest?

Just personal taste, but I don't find KDE visually appealing, and not only the default theme ("Breeze"). Unfortunately, I can't get used to the usability issues on GNOME.

IMO, the sweet spot of visually appealing and good UX is .... Windows 10 (sigh), followed by a close second in Cinnamon (and I'm also a fan of IceWM).
> The cost of a generational garbage collector is associated with living objects, not dead ones, so manually deleting doesn’t make sense.

This is true in the context of the discussion, and in general for copying garbage collectors, but it's not always true. Copying is the most common way (and the current .NET way) to implement at least the Eden generation of generational collection, but it could be implemented in other ways.
And there is https://www.proforhobo.com ...
It's a nice detail from the Wikipedia article that Ruby started life on NEWS OS.
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They used to require a phone line. Now they don't, because an internet connection replaced it, with similar reliability.
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I could imagine an opportunity here too. Some places have a bulk buy or business rate for electricity that is cheaper. If a car park has 8k spaces and a meaningful number were electric, it may even justify battery storage to get off peak rates (this may be a stretch), with the employer splitting the saving with staff or pocketing the lot.
No-one will ever be doing "drop-in" EV replacements for gas stations, why would they?
I think it’s mostly liberals that have been spreading this statement. If you take a look at for instance Glenn Greenwald’s latest tweets or statements from the ACLU you’ll be hearing something very different.
Micropayments are technologically simple.

Being a payment processor in the ways that are safe and efficient and irreversible, at least in the US, requires a money transmission license in each state that costs on the order of $1M per state to obtain.

I really really wanted to start a micropayment processor, but it's basically illegal to do it the way I wanted to.
I hope this frees up engineering talent for new studios to grow. I doubt it, though.
I think his work is a great jumping off point. After watching Century of the Self, I started reading pretty heavily into Walter Lippman, Edward Bernays, and the general development of neoliberal thought. Most all of what I read backed up his thesis with much more concrete details.

I think it would be great if he released a reading list alongside each of his documentaries - let the films serve as a compelling aesthetic work and the reading as essentially a citation. Alternatively, maybe I should try to compile some for each of his films.
Tom Love mentioned it in a talk once (sorry, I’m not in a position to search for the reference right now). They were offered a choice between a fixed fee of some tens of thousands of dollars, or fifty cents per device. They picked the fixed fee, and felt it was the correct choice right up to the 2000s.
Are you rich and think that Limp Bizkit is criminally underrated? This is your chance to fix that problem in your life!
> 2. The default way to install third-party application software shouldn't depend on repositories or servers. It should be based on installing files, just like on Windows.

Huh? This is already true.
> ... I don’t care how ineffective it was. I’d want it investigated and stopped.

The level of interference to the election was so trivial I doubt you can back that attitude up. At some level of ineffectiveness, having an investigation and stopping the activity is more costly than just ignoring it. Investigations take time, money and it turns out have collateral damage:

Looking at the charges out of the Mueller investigation, for example [0]:

- ~80% of those charged are beyond the reach of the US government and the charges aren't going to be tested. Weak evidence that whatever it was they were doing did anything given the Trump 2020 election counts were pretty similar to/improved on the 2016 counts.

- ~15% of those remaining hadn't done anything wrong until they were hit with process crimes in the investigation itself (counting those with only "false statements" charges + R. Stone).

- ~5% of charges I can't be bothered to read up on, but given that 95% of the charges are scrambling to find a problem I doubt the remainder are all that impressive.

I'm not deeply up to speed on the all 5 of those "false statement" charges - but the one against Flynn were probably politically motivated. They were interviewing him about a call where the investigators already had a transcript of the call. It is unclear why they were charging him for what could be a mismemory of routine diplomacy.

By my reckoning, at least 75% of the charges in the Muller investigation that could actually be prosecuted were crimes that wouldn't have existed except for the Muller investigation! That is a big cost for what turned out to be nothing much. Even if you want to use some sort of irrational strategy as a deterrent the cost is higher than the benefit.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_charges_brought_in_th...
I am Chinese. Chinese gaming industry is f*cked hard by these paperworks. It kills many studios and jobs.
It's literally the most expensive single structure built in the history of our species. Perhaps this little fact can put in perspective why we have yet to plan for another one.
It's much too early to say. The average Chinese citizen is poorer than the average Romanian (a relatively poor country and a democracy), let alone the average American.

China's economy is big because there are a lot of Chinese, not because the average individual is doing so well.
GP did not say they should, they just mentioned the fact that they do.
> It's mankind's first permanent foothold in space.

Mir?
> 19-22 million dollars per person

That doesn't mean it was profitable. The price could have been set for political reasons. Or it could have been set by the marginal cost of the launch, ignoring entirely the development cost that was written off when the USSR collapsed. Or it could have been enough to simply pay for the weight of the astronaut in a rocket that was going up anyway, like a hotel will sell rooms at a deep discount just to not lose as much money if it cannot otherwise. If communism produces goods and services cheaper than the free market, we'd be awash in Soviet goods.

The US government produces goods and services at "cheap" prices, but the losses are made up for by the taxpayer.

> which can often be less efficient than alternatives

I'd like to see a case of that.
The other thing is that anyone who isn’t oblivious has seen the writing on the wall (React docs and changelogs) saying that class components are not the happy path of React development. This has been clear since late 2015.

The only people I could see not noticing or ignoring this are people new to React or people who are emotionally attached to classes.
Space. Your laptop lid is extremely thin. It's a marvel that it works as well as it does, given this constraint.
Flagged post from HN shows some more info from yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25868680

Going through HN "new" and looking at flagged posts is the only reason I was able to buy GME stock.

You can read the deleted "conspiracy" here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210122054438if_/https://www.re...
We live in economies that rely on consumption. So it isn’t exactly strange that we make the “behavioral choices” that we do during normal times.

There’s been plenty of fretting regarding slowing down the economy, and for good reason.
No idea. When I said "Whether you would have a good case is another question" I wasn't talking about a legal argument - I was just talking about whether or not you'd be able to make a compelling argument likely to affect actual change.
> In the day time we have a lot of excess electricity available from solar where as at night gas and coal plants are used

This doesn’t seem right - why is power usage on my bill cheaper at night and usually marked as ‘off peak’ usage or similar?
I’m surprised how well Apple has done under Time Cook, considering how dull and uninspiring he is - he was a master of logistics and I think that is one of Apple’s secret weapons, it always amazes me how they manage to deliver hundreds of millions of devices to every corner of the Globe within a few days of a launch event.
If Steve Jobs was still around, Apple would probably have more interesting products such as as VR headset you can actually use, but it’s hard to imagine them being even more successful, Steve Cook has executed so well, though their recent arbitrary App store bannings do not bode well and will I think cause a shift away from Apps to PWAs.
Well, I mean they could've moved up to more recent standards well within the C world.

As of now, Glib doesn't even utilize much of C99.
They don't, it just seems that way because everything that can be used for war is used. There's a mad rush to productize existing inventions.

People tend to focus on wars during discussions about history so their time periods are overemphasized.
I believe you're missing the point. It's not about blaming Republican or Democratic party, which are largely made from same dough, but freedom.
> From a social analysis point of view of incomes inequalities, they are just random labels.

FFS, one is not even income. So they aren’t the same if you care about even talking about income inequality.

An equity stake appreciating in a company is not actually income until you sell it and realize the gain. For example, if Amazon’s stock price doubles, none of the shareholders have made any income until they sell it on the market.

This distinction matters because stock owner equity appreciation has literally nothing to do with the amount the board has agreed to pay the CEO. They give a salary and a fixed number of shares with maybe another fixed number of shares if performance numbers are hit.

All of the obscenely rich CEOs are also major owners and their net worth is a bunch of unsold equity in the company. Being mad about companies becoming valuable and making shareholders wealthy is a completely different argument from income inequality. Shareholder appreciation directly benefits 401k holders, etc. and you’ll find a lot less support for putting a cap on how much a company can be worth.