skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The through line for all of these disasters seems to be a thirst for attention and adulation. Fried and DHH have always been super excited to tell us how to work, but it turns out when a crisis came to their company, they managed to mess it up to an unbelievable degree. Fried was so thirsty for attention that he told us how to manage a crisis like this before he’d even bothered to handle it himself or even tell his own employees about the policy changes first.

If this is how these two are going to manage after decades at this, maybe they should bring in some executives willing to do the actual work of managing instead of bungling it themselves.
Ask HN: How do you use RSS minimally on mobile browsers?
I don't want a standalone app to hop back and forth between my browser. Nor do I want to embed a browser into an app. I simply want a local web page on my phone for my own use where upon a refresh, I get the latest RSS pages for my subscriptions.

Is this too difficult, or would it be easier to just have an app with an embedded browser?
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And like so many things with Sun in the 90's, it was way too late and aimed at the wrong market. X terminals became popular at the very end of the spinning rust era, when maintaining storage was a big part of the IT budget. Drives would die suddenly, they were hard to replace due to all the OS muckery required post-install, they remained very expensive relative to the rest of the system, they were much slower than network in general, and in practice half their capacity was dedicated to storing the same bytes of software anyway. Putting all that complexity into a single system with redundancy and central maintenance was a win.

But it was ephemeral. By the mid 90's, innovation in the PC world had pushed storage prices way down and reliability WAY up. No one wanted an X terminal by 1996, they'd just grab a 486 and put Linux on it. This was the market Sun should have been worried about, and they were oblivious.

I know this, because my very first job in 1996 handed me an X terminal, and I grabbed a 486 out of a closet and put Linux on it instead. The terminal did have a bigger display, though.
It's not that simple.

Almost everyone buys clothes, electronics made with child labor.

I think you might have clothes made with child labor as well.

Why do you draw the line at diamonds?
Except that brainfuck was actively designed to make programming difficult, and as you can only increment and decrement, the performance is abysmal.
Well, repetition is considered harmful in literary writing but that, too, is just a convention. There's no reason to force yourself not to do it if you find that it comes to you naturally. Rather, I'd try to find a way to develop it further into a unique style instead. Think of minimal music, heavy metal riffs and chorus...es (chori?), or repeating leitmotifs in classical music. Repetition drives a point home. It's a useful device, in music and visual art, why not in writing also?

Actually, I find that constant repetition of the same words is absolutely necessary in technical writing. I used to do this thing where I'd try to write my research papers as if I was writing literature, trying to find new ways to say the same thing to avoid repetition, and I got some really harsh criticism as a result. I went to my university's center for academic English and they pointed out my mistake to me and suddendly it was blindingly obvious. In a technical paper you have to use the same exact words to refer to the same concept, or you will immediately confuse the reader, who will think you mean two (or more!) different things, one for each different turn of phrase. So I adjusted my writing to exploit the rythm created by the repetition of the same few words every few sentences, because of course I want to convey a precise meaning but I also want my papers to read well. And now reviewers note my papers are well written and clear; and so far nobody has complained about repetition.
Happy to answer any questions!
Diamond engagement rings date back to 1477, and diamond jewelry dates back much further. It was viewed as very exclusive/rare. Diamond engagement rings for the masses was from DeBeers advertising starting in 1938.

The growth in diamond mine production in the late 1800s tremendously increased diamond supply. DeBeers took advantage of historical perception of rarity and actual lower cost of materials to create a new market.
That is a good point.

To be able to utilize Lisp well you need to be able to structure your application, but you would need already a lot of experience and exposure to well structured applications.

Whereas if you are a Java developer you get structure from people who designed Spring and now this is how you fill in controller, this is how you make service method, this is how you make your database layer... all these decisions were already made for you and you just need to follow to get a passable result.

Freedom is a double-edged sword. If you don't know how to use it it may very well be worse than not having it in the first place.
You're playing with a COVID mod for Factorio? :O

... that sounds pretty cool actually, though I'm not sure how it would work. The main character of the game is pretty good at social distancing already.
Is there no way to force a crash into a certain region?

If a satellite is being retired is it possible to fire it's rockets to set it on a trajectory to land in a predictable location say Sahara desert or the Marianas trench?

This would obviously not apply to nuclear satellites.
Japanese town builds giant squid statue with Covid relief money
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I wonder if they'll record that they're man-made diamonds in whatever database they register the laser etched serial numbers in
Canada has a long and shameful history of our innovations being screwed up or screwed over. In the 50s our fighter/interceptor was leagues better than the US's jets, but crooked politicians killed the project. In the 70s our CANDU reactors were safer and cheaper to run than the PWRs the Americans were exporting, somehow we lost out on that too. More recently Bombardier built some of the nicest small passenger jets, and now that's owned by foreign companies.

The brain drain is endless. If this project took off, our leaders would roll over in a second to sell it off, it's the proud tradition here.
This seems... convoluted.
The stream of creepy products that Google releases must overwhelm the EU data protection authorities.

EU citizens should retaliate by sending 100 million GDPR requests per year and asking for personal feedback. By registered mail to Google Europe.

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Or he just thinks that the whole situation is ridiculous because there is zero evidence that we have seen relating any of this to white supremacy. Instead, those allegations are just brought out by people on the left anytime they want as a cudgel to stop all debate on a topic.
Impressive. I wonder if Google will sell servers with these cards via Google Cloud. Seems like it could be pretty competitive in the transcoding space and also help them push AV1 adoption.
Dark Matter: The Situation Has Changed
what does elon musk have to do with emerald mines?
Those doesn't apply in all jurisdictions. There is no reason why laws should give special privileges to marriages over other forms of relationships.
So they had two full years with a 99% reduction in mosquitos? Shit, even if it doesn’t last, sign me up for that!
I've seen that movie. I bet it's got The Rock in it.
There's also a common line of reasoning that roughly goes "well this particular diamond has obviously already been mined, so no additional harm is caused by me wanting it."

Obviously you and I see that even that line of reasoning alone jacks up demand for an awful business, but not all people have the capacity to reason that abstractly about how their behaviour plays a part in a very big aggregate.

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My wife did get this after some discussion, but we got stuck with a different problem: we asked virtually every local jeweller to create something with a lab-created diamond (or even a different shiny rock entirely) and all of them -- to our astonishment -- refused.

They only work with mined diamonds from the suppliers they have long-standing contracts with and can ensure are as ethical as they come. I'm sure they have their reasons but that was very frustrating.
On the marketing side:

1. People believe what you tell them if it's exciting and would benefit them or confirm their worldview.

2. Make promises that are at least 1 year away because people don't remember what you promised last year.
Ahhh okay, so his old first girlfriend. That makes sense, thanks.

"Started dating his first girlfriend again" might have been clearer.
It is what I say to everybody: I am very happy that you can find no traces of my childhood on the Internet.

I was never a problem kid, teen and student, but we had parties, fun, we enjoyed life knowing that the day after what happened would simply stay as memories which would later vanish with the time.

We have 3 boys (8, 12 and 14) and I can see how for our oldest one, all the social medias (or whatever social "App du jour") is putting more pressure on how he looks. He has a tendency to pay attention to clothes, hair style, whatever and all this tech is increasing the pressure.

At the moment it has no effects on the two others but they do not have this interest at all.

The amplification effect of an existing tendency is real and very hard to manage because you can talk a lot with your kids but you cannot cut them from these "built to be addictive" apps which are used by all the friends.

And these stuff last... nothing is erased...
Potentially synthetic diamonds could destroy the scarcity appeal of natural diamonds.
I was talking about carbon capture using sunlight.
They are both real.
Love it. Could be fun to toss up a WEP ‘secured’ SSID in an untrusted DMZ VLAN that has doesn’t have filtering. Figuring out how to use the aircrack suite on an ancient thinkpad to bust an SSID was what really got me interested in computers as a kid.
Testing App Again
People buy expensive clothes because it makes others think they have money. By wearing a brand she is mentally leaving the proviety behind.

I don't think you have mentally left that state of mind. Thinking you need $10,000 in cash and telling everyone on the first date tells them this guy will never save more than 10,000 and he is cheap with his money. Might work for some but perhaps you are putting out a negative signal.
100% this. APIs have existed and served content to front ends waaay before the term Jamstack was coined. The author seems to be over applying what is actually a narrow flavor.
Using awk to run CGI scripts is a cool idea. Awk is underrated :-)
Oh this may be interesting!
With a straight face - how can you do anything better than macros in Lisp? I’ve always thought of them as the Platonic ideal of macros. What are your problems with them?
The BBC are one of the only organisations I have some sympathy for in this department. They are obliged to show value for money to the taxpayer and their budget is constantly under attack, despite a more or less universal acceptance they what they do is worthwhile. Even if they wanted to be cynical, they aren't in a position to monetize any data they collect anyway and it would be used as a stick to be them with if they were caught doing it.
I had a similar conversation and I think you're spot on with "conditioning". I don't even think it is about luxury, necessarily. It's literally just how middle class+ white women grow up in the United States. I can't necessarily fault someone for making those kinds of emotional choices after being bombarded with that idea their entire lives.

Totally agree with your campaign idea too. I think a lot of it is social signaling and if there was enough of a big movement against them, diamonds would be "canceled" pretty quickly. Social pressure is one of the great guiding forces we have (for better and for worse).
"I don't think any of these offer cross device identification without having users log in on all their devices."

Exactly, we have...

I wrote a little blog about it: https://yown.it/live-video-call-webrtc

If that doesn't explain it well enough I'll just assume you see being intentionally aggressive!

None of the above solutions enable users to easily manage personalized commerce experiences without paying a developer!!
The way I view it from outside the US is they will diagnose anything as a mental illness. There's a lot of not really needed mood altering medication given out over there.

While mental illness does exist, my guess is it's exaggerated by at least a factor of 10.
The Apple IIc here somehow looks more futuristic than any present day kit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White_design_language
Anecdata: I've rented 2 flats in London over the last 30 years (and been a frequent visitor to 4 more); none had a dishwasher. Rented one house in Newcastle; also no dishwasher.
My wife told me not to get anything for my eventual proposal because she's not going to be wearing it. She preemptively said yes before I did anything.

But a ring is still needed for the ceremony.

I bought some small amounts of rose gold and white gold, gave it to a custom jeweler and told them to do whatever they always wanted to do (but no client ever accepted) using only the gold I bought.

They gave me back a rose gold ring, with a gigantic "gemstone" made of the white gold I bought.

From far away, the ring made everyone think it had a huge diamond on it. It was really funny.

Total cost $1000 including labor, not cheap but at least the ring was special. Formally proposed with it and my wife liked it.

My wife, as promised, never wore it after the wedding. She likes to be not robbed.
Interesting since the real competitive schools are in Asia. Do they talk a lot about ADHD over there, I wonder?
Which is super stupid, especially since there is a negative correlation between amount spent on rings and weddings and the success rate of a marriage: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/wedding-co...

I got my wife a custom designed ring with a fairly large moissanite stone for ~$1,200 all in, and we spent about $2,000-$3,000 on the wedding itself. My wife actually would have been upset with me if I had gotten her a real diamond. Not so much because of concerns over conflict (though she did care about that) but because she felt that spending that much on a useless stone was outright stupid.
I'd assume that the plastic used for medical implants is not endocrine disrupting and carcinogenic -- unlike the microplastics which we breathe in every day. My assumption might be wrong, though: Cigarettes were considered to be good for your health / warding off disease until rather recently, after all.
Not OP, but I would and I have (Blink term emulator for iOS)

I bought it because i couldnt be bothered to set up XCode, figure out the build, and sideload it. Im not a pro-developer so that always takes me time. Also the price was reasonable. In fact, that the source is open encouraged the purchase for many reasons.

I think one of the problems of Stallman and the GPL (I love Stallman, anI think he was the most prescient visionary of the field of computing as it pertains to society) is that there is little recourse for a GPL project to get punked by a freeloading company (who will often not even acknowledge their use of GPL nevermind open source their code). I think Stallman and the GPL are still right, but there are issues that need to be better addressed (i don't know how)
if ever
China Long March 5B rocket in uncontrolled reentry; not clear where it will land
Yet cost of living in the major cities is so high!
You can also coax gawk into being a web server itself, albeit a bit brain-dead. I wish they would tweak the way it does server sockets so that you could make a decent forking server. As it stands now, you don't get the socket until after the listen() and accept().

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22085459
> Basically jewelers refuse to buy back diamonds at any reasonable price (compared to original retail value. And refuse to make new rings with old diamond etc.

I bought my wife's diamond out of an ugly ring I found at a pawn shop. I brought it to a jeweler at a mall and had him pop it in one of his bands.

I saved a TON of money, my wife got a modern design with a really high quality stone, and the jeweler still got some business and his ring on another finger.

Win/Win
Ask HN: Resources for experienced programmers to learn web development
I like to be able to create web apps for my own personal projects. I am interested in using this for both traditional websites, and electron/react-native apps.

I don't care at all about legacy support, I can transpile and use betas and everything.

I know programming already (Python, Julia, zsh and Unix, some lisp (elisp, racket), VB.net, Go, Lua, Java, Scala, Kotlin, Clojure). I have developed REST APIs for my own use (curl) without a GUI frontend. I have coded a bit in JS for some node scripts and the configs of Scriptable, Phoenix, etc.

What are good approaches for me to start learning web dev? I like project-based approaches that jump into creating stuff right away, and dislike expositions that try to teach some soft skills (e.g., UX) using lots of words.

I have previously tried using Clojurescript and Scala JS react (using Slinky IIRC); These experiences were bad. The existing documentation (or lack thereof) assumed too much familiarity with web dev, and the libraries/tooling were buggy to boot.
Linux Foundation and CNCF Launch Free Kubernetes on Edge Training
https://archive.is/80lqM
Fascinating read, thanks for submitting this.
Given that he has a history of quoting Breitbart, the primary newspaper of “actually racism against whites is the issue” and “black crime” I do not buy that.

I also don’t buy it when they rush to scrub a ton of his chat history after this. That’s fishy as hell.

> those allegations are just brought out by people on the left anytime they want as a cudgel to stop all debate on a topic.

The irony of course is that this entire situation was accelerated by DHH and Fried creating a new policy saying “no politics or get out”. The people stopping all debate here are management, not the amorphous “left”.
Altough my case was about really cheap short novels from the 70's, they almost were Pulp Fiction.

An infamous crime in Chicago with mafia and detectives -> some crime in Orion with spaceships, Martian troops and so on.

Altough some of them were fairly good, like one about a time travel paradox.
You made me do some sesrching. It was legal according to international law because Pakistan was "unwilling or unable" to take him out so the "victim state" (USA) had the rights to after him.

https://archive.is/2011.05.08-151556/http://www.asil.org/ins...
But as the context shows, what they mean is not "a smaller amount of happy people". They mean "people who are less happy". Here, "less" is an adverb, and "fewer" is dead wrong.
Apple Hires Scientist Bengio, Who Left Google in Wake of AI Woes
The solution is simple: make man-made diamonds more expensive than mined.
Right. Lots of particles, and lots of complex geometric interfaces with abrupt changes in material properties.
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Regular health checks offered to all people (for free) at different times in their life is a good idea.

However, there is a widespread belief that health checkups are more important in later life (e.g. after age 40) because many conditions are more likely to develop in later years.

I like the idea of general health checks available to all regardless of age, but I don't know what this means in terms of cost (presumably high).

In the UK, the NHS (National Health Service) offers a free health check to anyone aged 40 to 75 (which can be re-taken every 5 years):

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/nhs-health-check/
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As far as I know the long march booster doesn't have a way to turn back on, it's one of the few rockets that does only one burn to reach orbit.

At this point it's just a tumbling chunk of solid material

See this video about it https://youtu.be/06GUEkc4EEA
Even though more than the credited writer collaborates on a Simpsons script (as Swartzwelder says in this interview) it's fun to count how many jokes are packed into a John Swartzwelder episode of the Simpsons. I did it for several of his greats and I found it to be around every 10 seconds something comical was happening.

I've read a few of his books as well, and while I haven't counted the rate feels similar (of course, depending on how fast you read).

That pace of humor is both prodigious and after excessive analysis a tad tiring. But a Swartzwelder episode isn't a thing to dissect, it's a thing to behold. It's really some of the best comedy every produced, hyperbole be damned. Just take a minor key episode like "Whacking Day"-- it manages to hit this incredibly assured series of notes. It's both completely ridiculous (a town holiday to beat snakes) and at the same time a cutting satire about how people dogmatically stick to tradition. It's completely relevant today, even though many of the younger folks watching might not know who Barry White is. And that's kind of the secret sauce-- the longevity and levity are intimately tied in a way that other comedies (or even the Simpsons of today) can't quite match.
Wolves = the only species of wolves in Yellowstone. Eliminating wolves (a native species) eliminates 100% of the wolves in Yellowstone. A key part of the food chain is removed.

aedes aegypti = 4% of the mosquitoes in this region. Eliminating aedes aegypti (an introduced, invasive species) eliminates 4% of the mosquitoes in the region. The food chain still has 96% of the mosquitoes available.

There is just a difference in those two things.
You joke, but I was told this myth about .org multiple times over my education by multiple teachers, including in college. It might be terribly obvious to you, but there are hundreds of thousands of teachers who teach this wrong.
Oh wow, huh. I guess it should not have been news that women value looks differently. Or that men look different. Or a combination.
I'm surprised to read how many nuclear power stations still rotate up there...
Lightning isn’t going anywhere, or at least payment channels don’t. Taproot, aggregation and adaptors will make all sorts of scripts more efficient.