skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once interviewed with a company that had been hired by the UK government to create a system for one of their agencies. They told me that the system had 1000 requirements (literally) had already been implemented once and failed but they wanted to have another go. Boggles the mind (and I refused their offer).
This argument would be made a lot stronger with numbers...

What percentage of the top million webpages allow Googlebot? What percentage allow other robots?

Why not simply pretend to be Googlebot? After all, browsers pretend to be Mozilla...
Yes, but here it is between eukaryotic cells, which are much more complex than prokaryotes, isn't?

And it is between cell's type that are vastly different, one relying on photosynthesis, the other uses cell respiration. I am wrong?
This quote stuck out:
> I feel very sad for him. He’s a tragic figure. He is one of the most brilliant people I’ve met, who I have always thought desperately craved friendship and camaraderie, and seems to have less and less of it all the time. This is all his doing; nobody does it to him. But it’s still very sad. As far as I can tell, he believes his entire life’s work is a failure.

The auther (Thomas Bushnell) goes on to say the decision (to remove RMS) was the right one but for the totality of RMSs behavior over the years, not the incidents highlighted by the media.
The mailing list post this thread is about is that the people who, for the last 20 years are actually writing free software want rid of RMS, because he hasn't done anything useful, and has done a lot of harm, in those 20 years.

RMS did indeed start a lot of great projects, but that doesn't give him the right to continue to rule over them now, after thousands of other people have contributed more lines of codes than him in the last 20 years.
I worked in two different call centers in eu and it was the same. They can afford treating employees like that because there will always be another student with no money waiting to take the spot of anyone who inevitably quits in a year. Not sure how to solve this, but it definitely feels dehumanising working there.
>racial purity

Not to be confused with the antiracist belief that people shouldn't date outside their race bacause... it's colonialism?
Zig is promising. The UX problem that the author talks about will be solves by Zig.

About documentation, its still not 1.0, the language. So, its a work in progress.
There always will be someone to deliver a product. Why are there engineers developing weapons systems even though they know human beings will be killed by their creation...? The salary is raised until someone is willing to do that job for the offered money.
github pages, gitlab pages, netlify free version
It was Clinton who granted China permanent MFN/NTR trade status, less than a month before he became a lame duck. That's where it went off the rails.
Like everyone really cares about old dead art these days :)
Except they usually don't... Unionized industries tend to be adversarial - if the employees get a better deal, then the employer does less well. Therefore receiving options is a poor negotiation tactic.
There's a basic problem with that argument. There is no telling whether you're actually buying an NFT from Jack himself. In fact the NFT world already seems to have a fake and forgery issue of people who claim to have rights or be authors of creations they aren't even affiliated with.[1] Crypto just shifts the goalpost of what's being faked. Which is why the Beeple NFT sale didn't happen somewhere in the nether of the internet, but through Christie's, a 300 year old seller of art, after buyer and seller had communicated personally. They buyer didn't just fork over millions to a pseudonymous wallet-address. The actual verification of the transaction happened in the real world.

Also as a sidenote, you have actually no idea whether this particular blockchain will still be around in the future. In fact given the volatility of tech that's not really that likely to be honest.

[1]https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/20/22334527/nft-scams-artist...
That sounds incredibly complex and hard to maintain. What you need is a Docker container for every method, for isolation, then just use K8s to orchestrate them and YAML for control flow.
Bots: Please check HTTPS and not HTTP at bbc.co.uk
Ha! I never knew this game changed on purpose after every new run; I thought it was buggy as a kid.
Doesn't that mean that in the future Jack can just mint a new NFT and say that the new one is in fact the canonical NFT for his first tweet? The only way to do it would be for NFTs to support non-repudation, but they don't.

The trust layer is in the physical world either based on hearsay or a physical contract with two parties. In any case, it's off-chain.
Github pages - free

Basic FTP hosting starts from $10 per YEAR so it can be considered cheap as well - just create an subaccount that after login will be in the your page destination so it will be blazing fast to use with w.g. FTPzilla and just drag and drop your files each time you want to update.
A somewhat offtopic question: why isn't there a lighter version of HTTPS that only signs messages, but doesn't encrypt them? This way it would be possible to cache the content and use the cache for indexing.
I would read the article as if the transfer was a a random event, :

But how the whitefly managed to swipe a plant gene is unclear. One possibility, says Turlings, is that a virus served as an intermediate, shuttling genetic material from a plant into the whitefly genome.
You can't be more simple than assembly. And yet it sucks
Most of my favorite audio software comes from Germany.

You make great points about Berlin and about GDP per capita.

It remains true that Europe doesn’t have nearly the number of startups that the United States does, and this is notable.
> I'm reminded of a policy of the southeastern US grocery store chain Publix: if there's a pricing error, the item is free. It will probably come as no surprise that pricing errors are extremely rare there.

I have never shopped at Publix, but I can't even recall being a victim of a pricing error in another grocery.

I think you may find that pricing errors in grocery chains are extremely rare, period.
I think there's a critical element missing from these experiments: transcribing information vs storing knowledge.

When you're transcribing things (writing down as you hear or see it), you're normally not involved in learning or remembering the information; merely writing it down. In this case, handwriting would help to remember it later since writing on autopilot a more involved process than typing on autopilot.

HOWEVER, when it comes to writing down KNOWLEDGE, it's a very different experience. This is why I always advocate to think before you type, and why less than 10% of my time spent developing software involves actually touching the keys on my keyboard. A live coding session with me would be extremely boring; 10 minutes of me staring into space, followed by 1 minute of dumping the code into the source file. But I'm very productive; my projects on github, sourceforge and sunsite speak for themselves.

From the point that I entered college onwards, I've barely handwritten a paragraph of text per year (going on 25 years). I noticed no difference in cognition or memory then, nor do I now. Re-reading things I've typed in the past bring the whole experience flooding back the same as is expressed in the article as a handwriting experience. But then again, I'm not transcribing; I'm writing down knowledge.
Still surprised there's no tool online to calculate the erdos number for any academic author
Unfortunately call center employees don't usually have a choice, no one works in a call center because they like the job.
Reading the paper, I don't understand why the authors conclude that horizontal gene transfer is the most likely explanation, and not independent evolution.
Money can buy so many things that people crave, and in itself has always been a subject of craving.

When toxic or habit-forming materials are involved a craving can be observed which is the type very difficult to control.

But an excess or virtually unlimited supply of a craveable requires an unusual degree of control otherwise it often does not end well and more than just the excess is lost.

Cravers will be drawn like a magnet.

Toxic materials which affect decision-making and are accepted as eccentric within popular culture can give rise to some of the most volatile situations.
is this from https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/13755366054154936... ?
Because you're ignoring a lot of other reasons to use Go or Rust.

Go is simple, has very fast compile times, produces a single static binary, easy trivial to cross-compile, has very short GC pauses, has a fantastic standard library. The same cannot be said for those other languages.

Rust has a very strong type system that makes lots of runtime errors into compile time errors, it's basically as fast a language as you can get, except for GUIs it has a really good library ecosystem (way better than all the languages you mentioned except maybe Java), it produces a static binary, cross-compilation is relatively easy (as long as you aren't trying to cross compile to Mac).
Parent quoted a line of a Rick&Morty episode and was probably not serious ;)
How accurate are rapid tests for diagnosing Covid-19?
Thats why I invite them to a live bridge building session over zoom!
I don’t think anybody died from hunger or disease in the Anglo-Zanzibar War from 1896 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Zanzibar_War)

There may be other short small wars in which arms killed the majority of victims.
cool - yea i think some amount of personal perspective/curation is what makes this special to me. nice project!
I was kinda hoping for "gigapixel" scans so I can zoom right right right in to a painting or sculpture etc, and see the details.

Am I missing something or is it just a bunch of medium-res photos?
Could you explain how being put in jail for transgressions and being free are interrelated? Freedom means you are in control of your life, but in your scenario, you are no longer in control of your life because you transgressed. Who or what determines what is a severe enough transgression to lose your freedom?
urvader,

While there is a technical issue here, there is also a legal issue and a PR issue.

Government institutions have a duty of care and a duty to help to private individuals. Since they are apparently working _against_ people in this case, they are probably in breach of the law.

Description of relevant rules here (in Swedish).
https://www.mfd.se/verktyg/lagar-och-regler-om-tillganglighe...

I strongly suggest that you file a formal complaint against the government agency. This is easy to do and you can do it here.
https://www.jo.se/sv/JO-anmalan/

When you have filed the complaint: MAKE IT PUBLIC (hacker news follow up story, twitter, linkedin, etc). This is because there is a political dimension to this issue and if there is anything politicians care about, it's jobs (their own).

Good luck and keep us updated! I'm sure lots of people will be happy to spread a copy of the complaint around.
Is there a nice idiom name that represents ensuring that an object gets "released" and eligible for garbage collection?
I used it probably since California Games II and one of the last time in cookie clicker; now that I'm older I can feel the strain doing it for prolonged periods, and moved to games that have a somewhat slower input pace requirement.
Marvel characters mobile app built with Ionic [live demo and source code]
How much law do we take with us? And whose?

marslegalcode.org
They baited Warren by lying about the fact that Amazon warehouse / delivery employees have to urinate in bottles to meet deadlines?

The tweets from their account caused significant negative press for Amazon on news and social media across the world.

Amazon is a global company, this kind of disdain for employees isn't looked upon as favourably in other countries. It's bad for business.

Especially from an official PR channel.
They were legal in CA (and elsewhere) long ago. The movement to ban started in the 1970s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_toilet#U.S.
> Germany and most of Europe have no tech sector to speak of as a direct consequence of their labor and regulatory policies.

So what about a food delivery company with €1.238 billion (2019) in revenue per year? Good or bad?

For comparison Deliveroo is £476 million (2018) and DoorDash is $2.886 billion (2020)

That company was founded in Berlin (Delivery Hero).

> it has near zero presence in the most important industry of the 21st century

I guess most people never heard about them, because they target the local/European market. But they exist
Did I miss something or is this a blog article about how to change a shortcut in the start menu?
These pages will I think answer your questions. (Sorry, I don't feel qualified to summarize them.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon%E2%80%93fluorine_bond

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organofluorine_chemistry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorocarbon
You have to remember that lice outbreaks have nothing to do with hygiene or high standards of living per se. Merely close proximity of people.
This might be outdated info:

* Two different Prestos, prestodb and prestosql for maximum confusion. (I think one renamed)
* Making Controller highly available by default is hard
* Autoscaling workers is not simple
* Code very dependent on its own webframework that tries to do everything and lacks docs.
* Resource planner for multiple queries is lacking
* Worker configuration takes a lot of skill

All of these could be solved, but in most cases you can find other solutions where you get a simpler set of problems.
Highly motivated people generally don't apply to these jobs, and those that do don't stay for very long.

Motivation is not what their employers are optimizing for, # of tickets solved / hour and # of upsells sold per day is.
It’s not just the trenches, it’s the the massive movement of people that also contributed.

Exporting hundreds of thousands or even millions of healthy young soldiers around the world with a dose of an infectious disease is a perfect recipe.

They last a long time and give diseases lots of time to spread in the close quarters of ships and barracks and then their homes.
This has zero to do with open source.
Very interesting article, but I had the “plot twist sense” tickling the entire time, maybe due to too much fiction reading. Did anyone also raise an eyebrow on the “refused the lie detector” bit?
This is unrelated, but how in the world can he be held in such high regard in the US? Over here (Europe) he was widely regarded as a clown during his presidency, and the whole Iran/contra deal, together with the pardons by Bush senior, didn't really do his legacy any favours.

Just a week ago a friend of mine (who does not share my views, and is generally positive of Reaganomics) said something along the lines of: "not only was Reagan a clown, he surrounded himself with crooks"(regarding Bush and Meese).

Can someone explain it like I'm 5?
"Economies without property rights in capital" is a convoluted way of saying "economies without capital", and so of course those economies do not have to worry about any conflict between labor and capital, just as societies without higher education don't need to worry about SAT scores declining.
There are still some use cases where light-based computation could work very well without miniaturization, just don't expect it to replace general-purpose chips.

One possible application is in the amplification stages of optical communication links. If you could do error correction in pure optical circuits, you could avoid the optical -> electrical -> optical conversion, and save lots of energy -- something quite relevant for submarine cables, for example.
Aw man I totally misread that! I'll should wear my glasses more often.
I got this:

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Is the current understanding of physics correct by human's in 2021?

In the last couple of weeks I learned a lot from online articles. It may be that there are some points that I got wrong. This could be true or not because I might write something wrong. So let me try to rephrase. What am I looking for exactly? If it is one single thing then this review, where I can see everything clear, won't help any problems anyway.

The answer to the question is - no.

This is the truth: the answer is "no": humans are in love with the beauty and beauty of physical reality as observed by the scientific method. However, the question is how we can approach this. No matter what they try to tell you - physics is not really so mysterious at all.

Let's start with one small example: You use 3D projection on a sphere with two holes, where only one object can move into the second one. In this case, your ball comes into the sphere but the opposite part (the part that was hidden). So the distance between the balls when both objects moved towards each other did not change. The conclusion is that nothing went beyond the speed of light. That's enough to conclude that the speed is $+\infty$.

So clearly, anything that moves faster than maximum allowed doesn't exists. But if you would imagine something which changes the speed of light ($-\infty$), then in the most simple words you would say that there is a particle of $+\infty$ itself because it can move without limit as far as $-\frac12$ (so $mv_{c} = \infty)$ is equivalent to $mv_{c} =0.$

The conclusion will be that if someone says the speed I don't quite know what to show about $\beta=0.1$ means the fastest light ever, so we have to explain why the speed of light still does not change the moment.

Now remember, my knowledge is mostly limited to relativity theory of parallel motion in 1spherocity. And since I do not know how to explain, neither time dilation or time dilation are obvious at all. My teacher said that in this case, time dilation has no explanation at all. Because obviously the fact that you cannot bring the clock past state
On an adjacent note, the work being done/posted by Collabora motivated me to try to get Mesa + Gallium soft pipe working with emscripten. Here is a demo of the classic glxgears: https://martinmullins.github.io/mesa-softpipe-emscripten/
They assumed HGT because they couldn’t find any ortholog phenolic glucoside malonyltransferase genes in related whitefly species, eliminating convergent evolution as a possible explanation. In addition, the phylogenetic analysis showed that the BtPMaT1 gene clustered with other similar plant genes.
Right, but there’s a difference between random events causing biological changes vs. random mutations having to happen during reproduction/birth and proved out in the form of natural selection.
I'm curious what you wanted to point out? (It's a really interesting read either way)
> Unions in Germany are very different from unions in the U.S

Union shop or not, employers in the US are more adversarial, primarily serving the interests of shareholders and will usually not voluntarily give workers a seat at the table. Of course the American unions have to be different as the environment is less cooperative than Germany
> *containers that could be split up and shipped in parts then re-assembled...*

There are flat-pack containers, but they don't have the robustness or water-tightness of conventionally-built containers. People abuse container working limits something awful to squeeze pennies, so the flat-pack version will end up net costing more.

If the US Navy designed a nuclear-powered container ship class for rapid ultra-heavy-lift capacity, like enough to haul over an entire light (400,000) army group in one pass, then that's probably around 200, maybe 300 ships? The fastest sealift in US Navy inventory is 33 kts, so a nuclear-powered one with no fuel concerns could probably put on another 30% to that easily, so around 40 kts; much faster and they'll start outrunning most naval escorts.

Not every warfighting artifact fits in a container of course, but the military has the luxury to be able to define their own extensions to the ISO standard (and they have, with the bicon/tricon/etc. standards).

There are about 5,300 container ships in the world, so at the high end this would be about 5% of world capacity. Maersk operates a fleet of around 700, so it isn't too outrageous, if the US wants massive force projection. Such a fleet could step in to preserve national-security-critical supply chains. Coffee IMHO, is not national-security-critical, heretical as that may be.

For the record, I'm against the US projecting force around the world. It's not worth it IMHO, but like most people on the outside of the US looking in, I'm outvoted. On a strictly we-must-be-the-hyperpower-at-any-cost basis however, it makes sense for such a posture to invest heavily into that kind of ultra-fast, ultra-heavy-lift logistics capacity at that kind of scale. I'm just glad that the kind of leadership glamour disease that has befallen so many US corporations has seeped into its military, and they'll never believe in the benefits of unglamorous logistics and infrastructure until it is too late to fund.
Personally - even if the comment wasn't serious I am glad it received a serious answer which redeemed the original comment. Most of the time I choose to downvote low effort comments like semi-relevant quotes from pop culture, because it triggers my post-traumatic ticks from past reddit experience.
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Tried to spend 2 minutes getting the basics. The "crash course" is impenetrable.
It is hard to blame other people when you are the only one to blame.
When you decide to use a open source project it is your fault if it fails not the open source project, it often says so in the licensing.

While that is always true in reality(you are always responsible for your actions), it is not legally obvious when you buy commercial products(you can blame the manufacturer).

While people are often reluctant to accept that. I find that it is often what people’s arguments in this regards can be boiled down to.