skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The story is worked on throughout the day/week. It goes through a number of copy editors and revisions. Its final publication date might be in limbo.

It's chosen for Wednesday in the budget meeting. It's 1A material. A cursory headline is written. Then a big news event happens: now it's 2A material. That means less space. The copy needs to be cut, the headline needs to be one line shorter, etc. This happens at, say, 9 pm and the journalist and editor in chief have been at home for hours.
Does anyone know why Siri on Mac is so pathetic. It never seems to work with "Hey Siri" and even after invoking manually it never understands when you've finished talking...
Which is why you can't travel to the the parent post and delete it from history. This keeps the universe working in correct order.
I haven't heard about Semaphore in several years. It's good to hear about some healthy competition to tower/awx.
Which is to say, it's always been click bait.
I like the idea of a simple recipe site generally, but I also like reading the user feedback on recipe sites. Is a recipe any good? Are there improvements? There is no way to tell on this site.
Hard to argue that something that powers like 70% of France is one notch above dead.

If all of big oil had conducted an incredibly successful campaign against you since you were born, you probably wouldn't be feeling too hot either. And they conducted that campaign because of how incredibly good the technology is.

This isn't a technological problem, it's one of corruption, conflicts of interest, and anti-science policy.

Now is the time to rally for change and science-driven policy, not to give up. The water is lapping at our feet!
For me, the real killer was being able to turn off all the lights in the house from my bed.

I could live without it (and currently am, due to an apartment move), but it was certainly handy.
most of the stuff we run is baremetal. this takes over after pxe; public key added with kickstart.

even for end-user desktops, this is somewhat useful. the facts give you a picture of what you have on your network.

but the web hosting and sql, yes containers..actually lxc.
Cryptocurrency has indeed been through several speculative bubbles, and we may even be in the midst of one now.

However, I think the speculative bubble valuation of 2010 is well justified now. The thing about speculation is that sometimes the speculators are right. Tesla is almost certainly in a speculative bubble, too, but every day they arguably justify a higher base value.

That said, you seem relatively balanced for a crypto critic, and didn’t miss the boat but rather jumped off, so I’m not sure you’re part of the cohort I’m describing.
This is why I’m letting my NYT subscription expire. I see no difference between them and tabloids.

Sensationalist junk.
That’s kind of beside the point, any aircraft security staff involved would demand segregation. 150k random companies? Hell, 75% don’t even have security teams.
I've been a programmer for over 20 years and I still use Zapier because I find it relatively quick and easy. Dealing with writing code for authentication, various API versions, debugging, deploying and maintaining the code is all a PITA that I'm happy to avoid where possible.
There’s absolutely state-funded media in the U.S. It just doesn’t encompass as much as those in the UK or Australia.

C-Span is a good example.
+1, they didn't explain that at all.
Of course, smart homes are not for everyone - just telling the OP why some people prefer them.

I didn’t go into detail, but smart home appliances have more variability than I described. Let’s take lights. If you want to play a movie on the TV you can turn your lights off (all of them) from the couch. If you’re listening to music, you can set the lights to a warm relaxing glow. So on and so forth. Definitely more than 2 seconds saved, and in the end, it wasn’t just the time saved but the added convenience and personalization that was worth it for me.

Sure, you can do most of these things with “dumb” appliances, but that’s just it. You won’t get the same level of control, personalization, adaptability, or “smarts” - if any of that matters to you.
Agh, this is using a horribly noisy diffing algorithm.

With quite a few of the posts I'd just present them side by side, with the differences highlighted.
The former McDonnell Douglas and Boeing CEO couldn't have been any more clear when he stated, "When people say I changed the culture of Boeing, that was the intent, so that it's run like a business rather than a great engineering firm." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/how-boeing...

I don't think there's any serious dispute (now or then) that McDonnell Douglas was a financial engineering company first and foremost, not an engineering company. Likewise, leading into the merger Boeing's reputation as an engineering-first company was widely accepted. But as I mention elsethread, claims that McDonnell Douglas corrupted Boeing are problematic. Top Boeing leadership had already made their choice to transform the culture before the merger; the merger was the execution.
It's not an either/or. I work at a place that produces serious news. User engagement pays the bills and it also gets vital news in front of more eyes. Summing up a complex story into one sentence that convinces a reader to click and learn more is an art unto itself.
We're just going now through the process of building a new house. Land is around 10% of the overall budget (and this is a really sought after area in CA).

We did a lot of research and we were initially thinking of prefab for our home, but we finally decided to go for full custom design. In the end, prefab can really make some costs more predictable, at the cost of some flexibility in the design. Cost-wise, it was almost the same (for our case) but construction would've been faster and more probably more controlled in terms of budget.
Sorry I'm out of the loop: why does "we have retail clients" mean "aws is a no go".
It says something that one has to explicitly mention that $product wasn't bought by Oracle to avoid confusion after saying $product runs on Oracle's public servers.
Hard to find these days.
very much this.
We've got folks here declaring they'd march into the store they bought their TV from and demand a refund. That's not a very hacker mindset, is my point.

Also, technically speaking, what you've constructed is a fallacy. When something like what you described happens, nobody's going to use "but you were okay with not-this before, therefore you must be okay with this new thing!"

I'll march into Best Buy right with you when I can't turn it off, but as long as I can, I'm probably just going to do that and move on with my life.
"Meatporn" is rather over-selling your point, since it's simply a text list of a dozen standard recipes and no photos.
Cryptocurrencies: US House of Representatives – Gary Gensler MIT (2018)
You know of an aggregator that shows the actual headlines? The ones I read use a usually poorly editorialised headline created by the user.
This NatGeo link says:

> But the woman in the same grave was buried a short time later with particular splendor, including bracelets, earlobe plugs, rings, spirals of silver wire, and the silver diadem, which still adorned her skull when the grave was unearthed. It matches six other diadems found on wealthy women in Argaric graves; all have a distinctive disc-shaped projection usually worn downwards to cover the brow and nose.

It sounds like the woman was buried with the lobe of the crown pointed down over the nose, or at least other similar crowns were found that way.
"A striped binary built this way is around 8KB."

It's before UPX.

> I mean I get the small binary with the basic `zig build-exe hello.zig -O ReleaseFast --strip` command, without any attempts at optimization.

You could set up all these things in just a few minutes, so it's not a very big deal. If you don't mind 20KB of string formatting code then you don't have to make "any attempts at optimization" either.
The Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network[1] isn't publicly funded, no.

PBS, NPR, and, via the Corporation for Public Broadcasting[2], lots of individual, independent local radio and television stations.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-SPAN
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_for_Public_Broadca...
I suppose it doesn't, but some people want it to exist, and so it does.
The cheapest server you can run is disused mobile hardware on your existing internet connection, e.g. an old laptop. They're designed to be energy-efficient so you'll pay pennies yet have a dedicated server.

Now make a friend do the same and back your sites up to each other. Decentralized Internet, it works!
I just installed the latest security update and was not asked to enable Siri.
That was a fascinating read, thanks.
I was also a big fan, but there are many alternatives now. I think they will remain useful for some edge cases.

I am now more looking forward to seeing battery and energy storage solutions mature, as well as seeing how solar powered hydrogen gas can replace or dilute fossil fuel in gas turbine generators for greener load balancing.
I'm skeptical 'big oil' campaigned against nuclear.

Oil doesn't compete for power generation, fossil fuel power is mostly from coal and natural gas.

I would totally believe coal companies did that
The latest macos updates (11.3.3 or something released this week) broke git for me on my M1 mac. Firstly the update was a security fix and more than 3GB which felt ridiculously. Then I had to reinstall command line tools because apparently with a macos update that can be needed. It really is a new OS these days since I believe apple has some kind of read only system partition probably for integrity so they basically just replace those binaries with new ones I’m guessing which makes the sizes big and sometimes breaks configuration files.
In addition, there's only one case too where it changes back to the original and that's a minor In, in change.

Edit: The only example of clickbait here is OP's title.
CBC did this years ago.

Whenever I'd load the website, sometimes all the headlines would suddenly switch to different wordings, once sufficiently loaded.
As a person with minimal academic physics experience, I've occasionally wondered if the action of passing mass through a wormhole would violate the conservation of energy.

Say if one side of a wormhole is near an astronomical object, and another in an arbitrary point in empty space, then would the change in potential energy of the transmitted mass due to gravity be converted to another form?

If it were the case that the field of gravity were to be transmissible through a wormhole, then would opening or closing a wormhole consume or release an enormous amount of energy equal to the change in potential energy of the surrounding matter?

I suspect the time dilation could also be an issue, where objects passed through a wormhole are stretched or compressed akin to gravitational spaghettification, or if objects surrounding the wormhole experience time dilation due to the stretched spacetime.
Thanks for the correction. I'm sorry you were downvoted!
Two-phase commit is out of style because everything is distributed and the Fallacies of Distributed Systems presents several reasons why the 2PC protocols spend most of their effort on error handling and recovery.

Simply put, at scale, something is always failing, so a 2PC setup is always doing recovery.
Details pls?
Your sesame score went up 1 point, keep up the good job.
In the last few years I’ve learnt that there really is nothing better than a good cook book. Vibrant colors, techniques, stories - these can all really add to your experience if their presence is not solely for the purpose of including additional ads. I’ve also found that the recipe alone is truly not enough - the techniques and background are incredibly important !
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قصة حقيقية

رجل أعمال في تبوك زاره صديق له من الرياض وعند الإنتهاء من ضيافته قال له: نطلع العصر أعلمك ماذا أملك و تشاهد أملاكي وعند الإنتهاء من الجولة قال له
ما رأيك فيما شاهدت ؟
قال : ماشفت شيء !!
انصدم من إجابة صديقه قال : كيف ماشفت شيء؟!!
قال له: كل اللي شفته أملاك الورثة بعد موتك
كل اللي شفته ليس شيء تفتخر به ولن ينفعك ولن يفيدك!!
قال : كل هذا ؟ قال : نعم !
ماشفت لك مسجد
أو وقف خيري
او كفالة يتيم
او اعانة طالب علم
او سقيا ماء
انصدم الشخص من كلام صديقه وبمجرد تودیعه،قام ببناء مسجد يتسع (۲۰۰۰ ) مصلي بكل مرافقه من سكن إمام و مؤذن و مغسلة أموات وبعدها بشهرين توفي رحمه الله .
سبحان الله العظيم نصيحة صديقه بعد الله كانت سبب في قيامة بوقف هذا المسجد له
بعد موته ورصيد له بالأخرة.
لا يغرّنكم كثرة الأصحاب بالدنيا
تمسكوا بالأصحاب الصالحين
فهم كنوزٌ نادرة ثمينة .
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I see it too.

I have an eye for it as a Chernobyl affected.

Every other day there is an article downplaying the risks.
Two reasons: the headline writers need to know exactly how many characters to use, as part of the prepress process, right in the layout room, while the journalists are out in the field, and 2) headline writing is its own skill (especially for tabloid headlines).
This is absurd. Many of these recipes don’t even have quantities on them. Needs some kind of QA process at least ....
As someone who struggles with seasonal depression as well, but who also wakes up early and starts his day early, DST is my enemy for all of the reasons you love it. I'd prefer no DST.

I think we can't "win" with time-related legislation. Is this apple cart something our govt really needs to be upsetting right now?
>I'll march into Best Buy right with you when I can't turn it off, but as long as I can, I'm probably just going to do that and move on with my life.

I mean, yeah, I did too, but I'm also writing letters to my reps for the people who don't know how to do that.

>Also, technically speaking, what you've constructed is a fallacy. When something like what you described happens, nobody's going to use "but you were okay with not-this before, therefore you must be okay with this new thing!"

I'm not saying you'd be okay with it, in fact I think your view is pretty reasonable. Personally I want to stop this sort of thing from being on by default, personalized tracking on nearly every TV, etc.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stumps_of_trees_cut_...

This picture showing how deep the snow was by the height of those “stumps”
Well there were a lot of problems with the X protocol actually, having to do with latency and multi-threading support at the very least. So much so that Xcb was developed as a replacement protocol; so applications were already having to be refactored if they wanted to avoid such problems.

But really, most applications do not deal with Xlib or Xcb _anyway_, they are programmed at the Gui toolkit level. So all that has to be done is add another backend to the few popular toolkits in use. But guess what, Wayland supports both Xcb and Xlib protocols through a virtual X server that transparently translates to Wayland if that's what you have your heart set on.

But I have lost track of what the specific problem is you're actually trying to solve.
What's the actual point of the tech industry?
IMO it's not worth the hassle to add user feedback, because A) it takes a lot of work from the website admin B) it's usually extremely low (maybe negative) value.
I don’t really understand how wind and sun could totally replace nuclear. How do we get electricity during the night? How do we get electricity when it’s cloudy but the wind is light at the same time?
>She says it supports her 2020 study that determined many Argaric women were involved in the production of linen and wool textiles —a valuable sector of the economy, along with metallurgy. So it follows that women could have been rulers: “Women in El Argar were an active part of its economy… a ruler is only another example of the significance of women in this society,” she says.

I think this is pushing the evidence too far. Women have always been a very valuable part of the economy, especially in the pre-industrialization. If we look at modern substistence cultures, if you look at who tends the gardens and raises the livestock, most of the "GDP" is probably produced by women. However, unfortunately, many times economic contribution does not translate into political power.

In addition, there have many times been exceptions carved out for the daughters of powerful men, even in societies that are otherwise male dominated. A good western example is Queen Elizabeth. She was a very powerful and well-respected monarch, but the big thing that made her acceptable was that she was the daughter of Henry VIII. A good eastern example is Razia Sultana of Delhia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razia_Sultana) who IIRC was the first if not the only female sultan (she actually went by the title "sultan" not "sultana") the daughter of Iltutmish.

A more recent example is Indira Ghandi. Indira of the 1960's and 70's was pretty backwards in terms of equal rights for women. Yet, Indira Ghandi became Prime Minister of India (the only female Indian Prime Minister to date). A lot of that was due to the fact that she was the only child of Nehru the first Prime Minister of India who was in office for nearly two decades until his death.

So, seeing evidence of a very high status woman, even a great ruler, does not mean that women in general were considered equals or given their rightful place and respect in society.
The first thing human beings did after discovering nuclear energy was use it for mass murder, and we're still using it to create weapons. Everybody knows this, everybody knows about Chernobyl and Fukushima.

I don't know how anybody can believe the resistance to nuclear is purely out of ignorance. That's crossing the line into industry propaganda, not to mention the whole line about nuclear energy being our only hope towards solving climate change...

Edit: Might as well mention another huge issue with nuclear power. Why is the waste being buried on Native American reservations, where it's not subject to the same health and safety regulations?
I did not say I do that. But usually if the medium is crap, so is the content, so reading the article before commenting adds little to the discussion anyway.
https://youtu.be/73gGwGI8Z7E
At least the wide adoption of CDNs like CloudFlare and CloudFront have had one positive effect - lots of sites have gotten IPv6 support "for free"
And you just proved my point.
I’m incredibly depressed about renewables. They’re a dead end technology for a civilization in decline—one cutting energy usage rather than exponentially increasing it to make wonderful things possible. You’ll never power a starship with windmills. Why can’t we bring down the price on nuclear instead of giving up?
Source on the claim?
I keep thinking discussions are stacked against nuclear unfairly. It's almost as if there are two different arenas to compete: (1) fossil fuels, which is by definition unsexy and ugly, but grandfathered simply because "we need them" now, and (2) everything else, who has to compete against each other on the criteria of "Fine, so we do have fossil fuels, what now?"

For example, in 2019, 80% of US energy consumption was from fossil fuels.[1] Natural gas has actually steadily gained market share.[2] In any objective discussion, this should be considered a massive shortcoming and people should be scrambling to find a better solution.

However, because fossil fuels only compete against themselves in public discourse, it's still considered a victory because gas replaced coal. And one of the reason gas became so popular? Because renewables are rapidly improving but they're still less reliable, so people need an energy source they can rapidly fire up when necessary. Enter gas.

And when people point out that we could be using nuclear instead of gas, they are shut down saying "Ewww, so it's better than fossil fuels, big deal, who cares about that now? Everybody knows fossil fuels are bad!" Nuclear, just by being non-fossil-fuel, is forced to compete in the "cool arena" against renewables, and loses out because it's old, expensive, and has had a series of memorable accidents. All the while these renewable plants are enjoying complementary relationship with gas plants, which is OK, because gas is just gas.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_States#/m...
npr gets like 2% of its funding from public sources, despite being national public radio. they're as beholden to moneyed and corporate interests as nytimes, and as partisan and outrage-oriented too. i stopped donating years ago.
Speaking as a remodeller of homes, which includes installing the occasional "smart home" systems. They are so not worth it. The rest is marketing.
The thing is that no-code solutions are nothing new or unique; they're a dime a dozen, and have existed almost as long as microcomputers have. What's not obvious is why Zapier's version is (apparently) a revelation. I'm not saying there is no reason, but that's probably where the GP is coming from.
Store the power. Batteries, pump water up into lakes, melt salt, etc.
It is a common misunderstanding that all C programs are fast by default. In reality that's not the case. It takes hell a lot of time and resource to get that right. C programs just compile blazing fast. D compiles even faster.

Also, IMPO, GNOME is crap and GNOME != sway.
Store it, or get it from somewhere else?
> The cheapest server you can run is disused mobile hardware on your existing internet connection, e.g. an old laptop. They're designed to be energy-efficient so you'll pay pennies yet have a dedicated server.

If it's disused, it's probably got components that are fairly late in their service life, and it's probably polls enough that it's not energy efficient by current standards, either.

It's the cheapest acquisition cost, though, since that's already paid for.
Congrats. I enjoyed reading your blog leading up to this.
Belt-and-Road is trade war by other means. As is the investment in the pacific island economies (help == votes on a nation-state basis in the UN processes) and in Africa (we get the coltan, you get the money: we don't care about your human rights)

In australia, we're about to pass enabling legislation to let the federal government prevent states and territories signing to belt-and-road without federal oversight.

Without insulting India or Kashmir,Nepal/Bhutan, I think this kind of "no, not unless we say so" thing, is not that different really. India knows it has to deal with capital investment led state risks. From a finance side, this is called "soverign risk" but from a sovereign state side: what else is it, to be a nation-state? don't you get to say "no" to these initiatives, inside you (enclaves or states or disputed territories)
> we believe electrification won't work for long-haul trucking. Bill Gates agrees.

is very different from

> we ... think electrification is going to be trickier for long-haul trucking than for cars

Electrification will be trickier for long-haul trucking than for cars; no one would disagree with that. That doesn't imply that electrification "won't work" for long haul trucking (a statement that many would disagree with).

I hope your system does work, and that it's cost effective! It will allow us to start decarbonizing earlier! But medium to long-term, it's pretty clear (to me at least) that all forms of ground transportation will be battery/electric powered.
Most of the time I read the comments first because there is a good discussion and this is a nice indicator of whether the article is worth reading or not.
Woman are also powerful leaders today. What’s the title implying?
I've had a tough time understanding the regulations against nuclear. A typical coal plant produces more nuclear waste than a nuclear plant... with the exception that its burned into the atmosphere.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...