skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The existing system is perfectly rational, although using base-60 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagesimal ) rather than base-10 (decimal). We can use the ideas of metric without base-10 (see http://chriswarbo.net/blog/2020-05-22-metric_red_herring.htm... ); and I would argue that base-60 is actually better, since it has many factors (see http://chriswarbo.net/blog/2020-05-22-improving_our_units.ht... ).

It's actually illuminating to trace the linguistic history:

- The 'hour' used to be the base unit for time

- Smaller intervals were called 'small parts', where a 'small part' is 1/60 of an hour (the sexagesimal equivalent to a 'decihour')

- Even smaller intervals were called 'second small parts', defined as 1/60 of a 'small part'

- Even smaller intervals were called 'third small parts', defined as 1/60 of a 'second small part'

- And so on

This was done by Latin speakers, whose phrase for 'small part' is "pars minuta". Hence 1/60 of an hour is a "pars minuta" ('minute' in English), and 1/60 of a pars minuta is a "pars minuta secunda" ('second' in English).

Metric/SI units take the "second" to be their base unit, and give us shorthand multipliers like "kilo". Tracing this back, we find that a kilosecond is 1000/3600 of an hour! Likewise we don't tend to use thirds or fourths anymore, instead using multipliers like "milli" and "nano".

I'm not aware of any shorthand multipliers for sexagesimal. In my blog post linked above I suggest “prota” for x60 and “defter” for x3600, so we could use "protasecond" instead of minute and "defersecond" instead of hour (I also suggest abbreviating second to "sec", since it's no longer used as an ordinal number ("second small"))
I predict this will sort itself out in a week or so.
We took that off because of the feedback we got. contact me with your order URL and I'll be happy to give you a free shipping vouhcer.

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At no point have I had an issue finding buccatini at my local large chain grocery store. This chain is Kroger owned so if you have a Kroger or Kroger owned chain nearby I suggest looking there. The Wikipedia entry for Kroger lists the many chains across the country which they own.
I have a cheap one from high school chemistry.

My wife may have had one, though she would have called it a "proportion wheel"--people doing print production used these well into the 1980s and perhaps beyond to calculate the
reduction need to make photographs fit on a page.

In my view, the great think about slide rules is that they do not encourage false precision. Too many calculator users will copy all those decimal points without considering how far they are meaningful.
Try Clojure/ClojureScript, you might like it. Much less ecosystem churn, good tooling, an excellent language.
Typically emails you get will look like "Hey ucosty, we've got some great candidates for you. I've attached their CVs here.". For emails from referrals they're more likely to be "Hey ucosty, your colleague foobar referred me. I've attached my CV"
Intentional or not, the word choices in your reply are the reason why my "office politics" alert goes off whenever I visit reddit (enough that I deleted my account):

The word "conspiracy" has become a way (mostly for the media) to assign low/outgroup status to unfavorable theories. In the unlikely case where something is later proven to be true, one can always just say, "okay, but isn't it GOOD that everyone was silently cooperating?" And when it works, it's a tool to move the Overton window by painting the others as loonies.

I mean, the idea that a company worth $6B has a political strategy is hardly outlandish. You can have five people working in an office and they'll eventually start to conspire against each other, power games are human nature.

"Hate speech" and "alt-right" are similar terms that are not clearly defined, but conveniently serve the dominant discourse.

reddit's tolerance for "anyone but the bad guys" was brilliantly summarized by SSC: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anythin...

(I agree with the sibling thread that /r/popular looks really fun today! It was a very different place throughout 2020.)
Reddit has weathered countless dramas over the last years without noticeable negative after-effects. Basically, once or twice a year they get some outrage, shed the outermost layer of bullshit and that's it.

And since it's almost always either far-right stuff (t_d, chimpire, incels, greatawakening, pizzagate), morally obscene stuff (jailbait, watchpeopledie, gore, deepfakes), discriminatory stuff (fph, gendercritical) or legal hot topics (sonygop, gunsforsale, creepshots, darknetmarkets) that get banned, the reactions from general society to the bans are usually positive. Not many are willing to defend pedophilia, Nazi stuff or LGBT-haters.
This fine song includes the name of 168 AWS services: https://youtu.be/BtJAsvJOlhM
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It’s good if you keep in mind who the typical redditor is and if you would take advice from that type of person in real life. One notable example was when I was trying to do some research on cars. The type of things generally recommended seemed almost tailor made for young men at a certain stage of their life (ie budget/sporty/manual/etc). Sure I love that stuff too, but just take a look around in the real world, and it’s pretty clear that the recommendations you’re getting are super limited in scope.
What exactly is the "car accident" argument and why is it wrong?

All I see in that section is putting the death toll in proportion to other causes of death that we pretty much ignore, which seems entirely reasonable.
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It's basically about money. As a tech guy, you choose the technologies with the largest margin. Companies who use AWS are either (1) rich enough to spend huge sums of money, (2) can't calculate or are gullible enough to believe it's the best solution for them. In either case, typically you're more likely to make money on AWS-related technologies than working for more cost-conscious clients who understand the cost structure of the overall infrastructure. That's why people code a Hello World as a React app on AWS, as ridiculous as it may seem.
And as a high school student back in the day, I really would have appreciated the ability to pay for something like this!

Really, not everything on the web needs to be mission-critical.
What you get for $1/month

> Each website in your account can use up to 1GB of disk space and 30GB of monthly bandwidth. These resource limits are enough for most normal websites. Each website can set up 3 databases and 25 email accounts.

The server specs are here

https://web.archive.org/web/20200618180933/http://www.nosupp...
I've been trying, to some degree of success, to use RSS to generate my own personal "newspaper". The platform I'm using, Feedly, has a bot that learns what I like or not and filters for me. I don't have enough experience with it to comment though, but I like the idea.
> Is there a parallel between the advertising industry and their ever increasing quest to mine more data and the games industry with their incessant need for DLC, microtransactions and whatnot?

There is: being "data driven", which is a short for "we need to tighten the feedback loop in our revenue optimization algorithm". The most annoying players in both industries are essentially trying to run a PID controller around the people they're monetizing. For that to work, interactions must be frequent, telemetry must be extensive.
Game quality was not the point though, games are great. OP is talking about quality of life as a developer.
I did glace at those, actually read most of it. It all depends also on how much energy consumption you'd deem adequate. And further, how you even tell or know what would be adequate.

The reason is I don't think the costs for our broken monetary system are fully appreciated, or even appreciated at all, at this point.

I can't back it up adequately right now, but I do believe most of the environmental damage today, most of inequality, most war, and most political corruption is caused by fiat money and its skewed incentives. Crypto at least has a real shot at fixing those.

Interesting question would be, how much of _all_ energy does bitcoin cost? Now I've looked up the numbers. Total consumption of the bitcoin process seem to be 78-87 TWh depending on which source you look at (I found one higher than what one of your source said and will use that, for 2019).

Total annual energy consumption is 584 EJ, or 162,222 TWh (statista numbers, 2019).

That would put bitcoin at 0.05% of total global annual. I feel that is not too high.
If you read the original article it tries for a long time to figure this requirement out and it's just arbitrary and apparently rarely ever checked (so also not checked for other pasta products, imported or not). The requirement also doesn't match those in other countries, e.g. in the EU you probably can't sell this product as its not allowed to be enriched (same as all US products have to black out their ridiculous and evidence-free health claims when selling in the EU; any "American food" section will have stickers over these parts of the packaging).

So while you are technically correct that the product is substandard, you could well argue that the issue is the arbitrary standard rather than the actual product.
TypeScript, ESlint, SCSS, React, etc are training wheels. front-end development is harder without them, but it's also much faster if you skip them once you learn.
I've added my sources and more details to the comment. For what it's worth you're looking at a graph of total offenses per 100k (which does show an upward trend but it's hard to see in that graph, I link the excel sheet that data comes from in my parent comment).
Thee chart I was referencing earlier was the victimization survey (also linked in my comment).
Though Google is merely a storefront en payment intermediary of what the banned user bought (apps and movies), it could be argued the client of google per se is the companies selling the product, they're the one paying Google a share of their sales.

Not that I disagree with you here just making the argument.

Like parent said, I found that google has decent customer service once you clearly become their client (which I have been on adwords, analytics and on gsuite).
They don't even need to be internet-accessible, physical security is often weak as well. Surprisingly relevant:

https://youtu.be/rnmcRTnTNC8?t=252
>The NYT is one of the best information sources in english language

Really? https://www.bbc.com/ is free to read, no paywall etc. I basically never read NYT because of the paywalls.
Thanks, I always love this kind of comparisons giving perspective on big numbers with something familiar to us.
Could you elaborate more about why it is a bad idea? I have seen homebrew install the same way too.
Yes, browsers make a new request in order to view the source, because they don’t retain the original page source after parsing it (because the corner case of “view source” is the only thing that could conceivably have any use for it at all, so it’s not worth wasting memory on).

One alternative that I’ve found useful on occasion is to Select All (Ctrl+A / ⌘A), then in the page context menu, View Selection Source. That shows you the current DOM, serialised to HTML, which is sometimes easier to look at than the dev tools.
your phrasing makes it sound like a conspiracy, but its really not.

Going on various social media platforms to decide on a purchase has already been an established pattern for more then 10 years. That's more then enough time for even the biggest corporations to act on.

Do keep in mind that the influencing agency doesn't actually have to write comments. Machine Learning is super good in determining if a given comment is about [topic], and wherever its a [positive] or [negative] comment.

I'm sure people already know that there are a lot of agencies around which sell you votes on relevant platforms, so any given company can - for peanuts(!) - just upvote positive 'real' comments and downvote the same for the competitors products etc.

There is very little you can 'trust' on the internet, as its just too profitable to spread propaganda through it.
there have been several people that publicly admitted that their whole job was to derail critical conversations on various platforms. So even if you put in time and produce a quality comment... there are people who get paid just to write comments to make it look like misinformation.
I waited and got it on steam.

You can't blame them for taking time exclusive money, they are a business afterall. And its not like they support their practices.
If anything nuclear's problem is even more political than practical.

We could fulfill the world's nuclear waste storage needs with a couple landfills if the will was there (though any geologist will tell you are better options than near surface storage).

From an ecological perspective nuclear is the best option by a mile because the amount of stuff you need to pull out of the ground, move around, use and dispose of is so small per energy produced.
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I don't get that valuation, though.

I've been on reddit for 13 years (today!) and I have never once purchased anything I've seen advertised there - because I never see anything advertised there.

I don't run ad blockers or anything.

How do they justify a $6 billion valuation?
Maybe I'm a minority here, but I already used an alternative color scheme with beige backgrounds and dark red title bars (I think it was called "Brick") on Windows 95 because the various shades of grey looked too dreary for my taste. So I was happy to see that Windows XP kept the beige background and never looked back. Plus, under Windows XP an application that popped up with the "classic" styling was a red flag indicating that the developers didn't know how (or didn't care) to include a manifest file/resource to activate the "XP-style" controls...
Are there any studies looking for genetic differences in mothers of gay men? Is it possible for the mothers to have a genetic trait that increases the chance of a gay son, but doesn’t get passed down to that gay son?
This is not a free speech issue under your (one true and only correct) definition of free speech.

Imagine a bully goes up to a citizen and tells them to be quiet about, say, potholes on their street because if they don't "it would be unfortunate should you and your spouse lose your jobs and your professional reputations destroyed".

In this analogy, there is no threat of violence. Nothing the bully said was illegal as far as I can tell. But when a bystander looks at this and says it's wrong and unethical for a bully to do that, guys like you crawl out of the woodwork and start yelling about Free Speech rights of the bully. But we're not talking about Free Speech rights. We're talking about the ethics of mobilizing the social media mob to destroy people's lives, frequently over nothing other than vague innuendo. As far as I know in any of these situations, no laws are broken, and yet, there is something deeply wrong here.

Here's another example: Because we are living through a kind of a mass hysteria moment, the similarity to 'Salem witch trials' is quite striking. In that case, teenage girls accused hundreds of people of witchcraft and consequently those people would be ostracized and their lives destroyed (for the sake of argument, let's ignore the small number of people who were put to death because we would both agree that is wrong on another level). If someone highlights this as a major issue, do you go out, frothing at the mouth, and yell about free speech rights of the teenage girls? Isn't that missing the entire point?

>It's her freedom of speech to do so, so long as it's actually true as opposed to defamation.

The irony in all this is you didn't even bother reading the article ... or the HN headline. She did defame Andreessen because she maliciously and malevolently asserted something that he said, that he didn't say (when called out about it she fell back on 'well, it was male voice' which was another lie).

But even if he said this 'r-word' in context of explaining the WSB phenomena, this malevolent 'reporter' is doing the same thing as the Salem teenage girls did when they accused others of witchcraft. In this case, she's accusing Andreessen of blaspheming against holy tenants of wokeism in order to paint him as a bigot so the mob will do the rest. Why? So that his public image and professional reputation would be destroyed and maybe she gets a higher profile and a raise. When people point out this is wrong, you yell about Free Speech.
Looks like it was old school shared web hosting with things like WHMCS, Cpanel, Softaculous, Wordpress one-click installers, in-house written web admin, etc. Where each user was running in the same instance of Linux. Not, for example, a VM per user. That kind of setup has a really wide attack surface. Not surprising it was hacked. That kind of setup with deliberately narrow support was bound to get hit.

Edit: Apparently their "sister company" sells virtual private servers, and appears to still be alive. http://nosupportvpshosting.com/index.php
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Yes, exactly.

I just played a mobile game, and as usual it has a hundred different in-game currencies that you can buy with real money. Every time I finish a level there's an endless parade of meaningless "rewards", and I see some coins going into a piggybank. When it was full, I clicked it, and the game congratulated me for now being eligible to buy the contents.

The game is a clone of puzzle bobble. Like you said, none of that is making puzzle bobble a "better game". It's saying "Wow, you won/earned something! It's almost yours now, you just have to pay this tiny fee to actually have it...". I don't feel like I'm on the same side as the developer, and this is worlds apart from how Factorio treats players.

Since "addictive" still has positive connotations in gaming, I'll just call it "manipulative" from now on.
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Many the author’s points are exactly the reasons I like and am bullish on SvelteJS. I started doing web dev in 1995. PHP was game changing. I feel the same about Svelte. For me, there are way too many layers in modern front end. I want to be as close to the foundation as possible - vanilla js, css, html. That is where the joy is. Svelte is the new old thing with a healthy sprinkling of awe and wonder.
This is the conclusion of the American Federal Trade Commission...

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-01-08-ftc-wary-o...

""heavy taxation" by Apple and Google means developers are forced to use monetisation models that "rely on surveillance, manipulation and other harmful practices.""
Why would they shut down though?? Worst case they can wipe the servers and start afresh.
Part of being a good engineer is pushing back when clients and managers start making bad engineering decisions.
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NearlyFreeSpeech, where I have been hosting my static personal site for 9 years has a similar model. You pay for exactly the resources you use. I pay less than $20/year.

If you need support, you pay $5/month extra.

https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/services/support
European here. You must be a right-wing American because I find the site fairly right wing, myself.

I was actually shocked how long they allowed the constant threats of violence and racist abuse to percolate on the_donald, and which still exists on r/conservative.

It might be that you believe that threats of violence are protected speech, however, being a US conservative. Let me assure you that they are not, not even in the US.
The Cpanel licenses would take 30 cents/month out of that $1 too.
His website says he works with Clojurescript at his employer. I thought it was strange when I saw that.
I did exactly that on stackoverflow
On Steam, larger developers are charged a 20% commission, whereas Indie developers are charged a 30% commission.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-12-03-indie-deve...

You are put at a fundamentally poorer economic position if you quit your AAA job and make Indie games and release them on Steam.
We have a lot of place names in Scandinavia and the former Danish Viking colonies, and apparently in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, reminiscent of this. A "hundred" is a geographical entity that can deliver a long hundred men to the armed forces.
The owners and maintainers of the product get to decide on how to handle issues like this one. But I’m not convinced that an “internet catfight” is a good enough reason for shutting down the conversation completely as it was done. I am aware that it’s totally unfair that signal owners should have to deal with this kind of behavior and not take strong measure like they did... I don’t really know what a good resolution would have been. But it’s also a fact that if a system is broken in some way then that hard truth remains true even if it’s wrapped in layers of shit. The ultimate losers will be the users.
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Similarly, the Russian RBMK nuclear reactors were designed for dual purpose: Producing electricity and producing weapons grade plutonium. Following your argument, we should weight down the Chernobyl disaster, when counting statistics for nuclear power?
I have no idea whether they still use this reduced character set. But whether or not they do, this could still affect the protocol or stylebook, for the usual sorts of reasons when legacy systems are involved:

* News wires are large old distributed networks. There may still be old equipment attached to it that natively uses this encoding; or modern software may still be using the compatible encoding because it was never practical or cost-effective to have a "flag day" to switch over.

* Even if the technical limitation has been lifted, the convention may live on as part of the folklore of the field.
Not sure if you're aware, but it's interesting that you mention Lego as the person you're responding to once accidentally bought literally tons of bulk Lego and later designed an automated Lego sorting machine. It's a fun read:

https://jacquesmattheij.com/sorting-two-metric-tons-of-lego/
Have you ever used Western Union? The experience is horrendous, and they charge very high fees. Maybe they have improved lately with competition, but when I had to use it a few years ago, it was horrible and I ended up not having money for the rest of my trip because they messed up my papers. Bitcoin is orders of magnitude better than western union.
Is grouping all restrictions under the term 'lockdown' a form of mass hysteria?

Here, we had shelter at home orders that they enforced by not doing anything. It's been harder on businesses, especially restaurants, but not being able to seat people is not particularly a lockdown.
No Support hosting? So AWS basically? /s

(For context, unless you pay 20% extra for AWS support, you basically get no support. There is a public forum for those that like to scream into the void.)
The YouTube channel "Professor Herning" has some good videos on how to use them, as well as discussions on various designs:

* https://www.youtube.com/c/ProfessorHerning/videos