skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought that it is more than this. I think you should support any claim about that by creating a reproducible open benchmark test so at least people can understand what criteria you selected.
The question was basically "If you have a fixed pool of employees at fixed compensation-per-output (ie fixed net expenses) and a fixed product throughput with fixed values (ie fixed net revenue), why does it matter who makes what product since the net profit will be the same?"

Although it sounds like that question may have been borne out of my own misinterpretation of the post to which I was responding.
Yes. It should have been Example.com or something like that. Where we instantly knew it was a domain name.
Sounds like it is merely a dialect of "suit-speak" for the 2020s, aka "lip-service."

While suit-speak often marks the decline of a business, it is not clear lefty-politics makes that much difference in regards to the decline.
Doesn't california have a massive drug problem and literal armies of drug addicts shitting in the streets and harassing families and tax-payers?

How will this help?
Cloudflare Is Down in NYC
The General feeling of his blog is to Mark Twain it and switch logic from post to post(this post bunches all Jews thinking together then his follow-up post is how black society and white society cannot be defined by the best /worst individuals) so a simple explanation would be in order and if those were his opinion and not just devils advocate an apology.
Nope much more insidious. A/B testing is statistically random. This thing dangled the desirable result down a path of rewards to attempt to reprogram people into accepting version A while discarding version B, then measuring which method to do so was more effective.
Because we feel safer and are able to push the boundaries.

As cars got safer, people are more willing to push the boundaries of speed since they believe the airbags and automated braking systems will keep them safe.
Reddit's managed that on their own.
> It didn't feel wrong but it was tedious.

Every WYSIWYG HTML editor made it super easy to us...abuse tables for layouts. IIRC Dreamweaver was still rocking table layouts until the MX 2004 release. Dreamweaver 4 and MX definitely focused on table layouts. I seem to remember MX supporting CSS but the layout focused on tables.
Stack Overflow suffers from a mismatch in expectations. The community is seen from the outside as "a place to find answers" so many people go there to ask questions. But in order for your question to be eligible to be answered (and not closed/on hold) it must be: (1) objectively answerable (no opinions!), (2) completely specified (reproducible problems).

#1: lots of people want answers to subjective issues. "Should I do it like this or like that?" "What's the best way to ..."

#2: many of the people who ask the questions just don't know the right way to ask their questions in order to get answers. Also, taking all the steps to make something reproducible can often make the problem apparent, eliminating the need to post the question.

SO has these rules so that they can be a canonical place for people to be pointed by people who go to search engines looking for answers. But I think it's a big turnoff that they close so many. They might have been better served if they had created roles to prune questions that they don't want indexed or shuffle them to a sister site. Pruning them without telling the user they're "closed" or "on hold" would be a much more friendly experience.
$20k is not that much when it comes to CNC machines. And why would you replace a perfectly good machine just because it's 30 years old?
The drug problem isn't with psychedelics. If you think "drugs is drugs" - then reconsider.
Most likely explanation is that military was testing their secret drone from this AFB.
> I'm not sure what problems you're hoping they'll solve.

I can think of a few (not that this hasn't been discussed to death already):

How to properly moderate a site like that.

How to keep answers updated.

How to keep answers updated without mods shutting things down due to duplication. A lot of html and JS questions are garbage in 2021 but there's no way to improve the situation without mods screaming "duplication".

How to allow for answers that are more than just what you'd find in the documentation. A lot of the value of the site came in the first few years, when you were allowed to expand on your answers and provide useful information. The amount of new value created by SO is decreasing rapidly.

One final one is that they need to stop worrying about low-quality questions. That's the only problem they've tried to solve in the last decade, and it's already solved by upvoting and search.
You created this account an hour ago, so perhaps you don't have the full context here. Amazon has so much emotional baggage associated with it, that it would be hard to present an argument which is factually accurate but indirectly shows support for Amazon. Therefore, taking the argument out of the Amazon context helps with discussing the accuracy of the underlying facts.
Oh awesome. I'm in ATX and have treatment-resistant depression (tried 15 meds) likely from chronic sleep deprivation (sleep apnea).

If anyone knows a dope (no pun intended) psychiatrist for general purposes in ATX, I could use contact info.
> (you already kind of addressed all of that already in your "semi-relevant" disclaimer)

You make some good points, and I wish I could still edit it to "kind of possible" ;)
> Doesn't california have a massive drug problem

Good evidence, in Portugal and Oregon, that legalisation eases drug problems. The homeless problem is a result of Californian voters’ housing policy and policing preferences.
Earth already has this problem. Years aren't consistent both because the number of rotations don't evenly go into a single revolution, but also because Earth's rotation time is variable. For instance, above normal fresh water accumulation on land will measurably change the length of a day.

Generally, there are two solutions. One is to track absolute time by increasing the clock as necessary to realign the day to the year. There are Earth days with where the last minute of the day is 61 seconds long. Daylight Saving Time makes days with 23 hours or 25 hours. And, of course, leap years add a day. Unfortunately, a lot of software/hardware is built by people with misconceptions about time, like a minute can have only 60 seconds or a day can have only 24 hours.

So, the second solution is to update the system periodically. Computers often poll internet time to update the clock and will jump to the new time. Alternatively, some systems skew the system clock with additional milliseconds per second until it catches up with the time change. As long as the values are valid typical ranges, most software doesn't care about sudden changes.
Oh wow, I had to try it to make sure. I can't believe how broken the fundamentals of JS are.

There should really be a whole new standard library made from ground up without `this`, mutability and all the other legacy stuff.
That's not nostalgia. Look behind you!!!

My primary use of Win32 APIs now is to scare people away from making anything that byzantine. If the APIs don't do the trick, I start telling back compat stories. [shudder]
No one here seems to have mentioned stove top espresso makers, like Bialetti. After ceramic V60 it's my second best way of making coffee. Not so conv much richer.
Node.nodeName returns the HTML elements' uppercase name. Not sure why though.
Warren man charged with breaking into woman’s home, laying in her bed
Starting late 2021, advertising ID to be removed if user opts out in Android 12
Did you read the article? It is is nothing but positive praise of his ability to be so available via email and stand up for science, what "truth" are you referring to?
Base editing of haematopoietic stem cells rescues sickle cell disease in mice
I had the same reaction. Of course society is not going to take the lessons "learned" from a global pandemic and apply them to other fields. As soon as things go back to "normal", people will forget and repeat the same processes that got them into the situations that the pandemic "revealed".
Arguably Tesla is doing exactly that. Solar is cheap and available these days, wind is growing consistently. The main issue is smoothing out the spikiness of these sources as they scale to significant parts of the grid. Tesla is the only company I hear about in a real "boots on the ground" kind of way, with notable projects deployed in recent years and a consistent effort to scale those projects up - everything else I've seen is in development, barely started, or vaporware.
All this means is that they cannot hire shitty people.

It doesn't mean that they can't hire people to fire them. They could very well still be hiring people just to fire them because they care more about the people they already have or just to give themselves more choices to fire.
Modeling themselves after the US Congress, itself modeled after the British Parliament (House of Commons and House of Lords).

I personally believe bicameral legislatures - allowing houses to deadlock on a bill - are a terrible idea. Either unicameral (used by one US State, Nebraska) or tricameral legislatures, with 2 out of 3 houses needing to approve a bill for it to pass, make much more sense.
Massachusetts ferry service slowed by ransomware attack
Moka pots are temperamental. It took me a while to figure out quite how to use mine. Makes great coffee once you're used to it, though.

You probably want to pre-boil the water so that the coffee doesn't sit on the heat for too long, but you should also only turn the stove up to medium so that it extracts more slowly. Pull the pot off the heat as soon as it starts making the loud rushing noise — I even rinse the base with cold water so that it stops boiling right away.
I'd suggest checking out Flutter if you're doing mobile dev (or at least Android). It makes styling ridiculously easy.
Yeah, I’m not sure how up-to-date my knowledge is, but opengl and the like are exceptions to the usual deterministic handling of dependencies on non-NixOS distros (not because it is unable to do so, I think it is mainly to avoid storing everything n-times with nvidia/amd), and one has to specify them. It was quite a time I ran nix on a non-nixos distro but there is this tool https://github.com/guibou/nixGL that meant to solve the issue of graphical programs.
> the primary reason people donate to Wikipedia isn't a fear it will go away

> I'm fairly certain that the WMF will continue to fundraise with messages that work on the level of what people care the most about, which is what Wikipedia means to them in their own lives.

Those two are obviously contradictory. WMF's messaging is clearly, blatantly aimed at presenting the Foundation as having a problem staying afloat. If you didn't think the primary reason people donate to Wikipedia was a fear of it going away, you wouldn't be pushing messaging that is designed to cause people to have precisely that fear.

Quite frankly, your messaging reads like typical corporate doublespeak, and does nothing but further make me lose trust in the foundation.
Legalizing weed didn't do that. There's always been an opinion (argument?) that driving high is fine. Carl Sagan even discusses it in Mr. X (1969):

> I have mentioned that in the cannabis experience there is a part of your mind that remains a dispassionate observer, who is able to take you down in a hurry if need be. I have on a few occasions been forced to drive in heavy traffic when high. I’ve negotiated it with no difficulty at all, though I did have some thoughts about the marvelous cherry-red color of traffic lights. I find that after the drive I’m not high at all. There are no flashes on the insides of my eyelids. If you’re high and your child is calling, you can respond about as capably as you usually do. I don’t advocate driving when high on cannabis, but I can tell you from personal experience that it certainly can be done.

http://hermiene.net/essays-trans/mr_x.html
I like to compare greed with steam and capitalism with a steam engine. It's noisy and inefficient, but that's the only tech we have right now.
Holy shit, I had no idea he went to this level of detail to refute criticisms on his video. My respect grows for him every day.
First, we stop treating victims of addiction adversarially.
no, the other way around.
Does anyone know a good programming game that is PvE rather than PvP?
Serverless is mentioned a few times in the text of the article.

More generally, WASM is promoted as universal bytecode virtual machine, so they want to make it "run everything everywhere".
You're referring to a completely different class of drug.
Google will make opting out of personalized ads on Android 12 more effective
Robert Shiller: Highest Real Home Prices in over 100 Years
This removes one of the annoyances that kept me from switching back to Firefox. They've actually been doing a decent job lately. I'm back using Firefox for the time being.

Recent Annoyances Fixed:

1) too slow

1) no default global zoom

2) can't type a site and tab to search

3) cluttered ui, with features too many clicks deep

4) pocket is too in your face and takes too many steps to turn off

Remaining Annoyances:

1) no chrome-like tab groups

2) "save file" is greyed out when you download a file, requires an extra click

3) middle clicking on bookmark toolbar items opens them in the foreground, not background

4) still feels like it's playing catchup to chrome
> almost anyone I talk to is too young to imagine The Days Before Stack Overflow, when the bookstore had an entire wall of Java and the way you picked a Rich Text Editor was going to Barnes and Noble and browsing through printed books for an hour, in the Rich Text Editor Component shelf.

I remember the "Days Before Stack Overflow" and Joel is giving himself a bit too much credit here. Before SO, when I googled a problem I would often find a solution on a blog, personal website, or some community's PHPBB/vBulletin forum. Remember, this was 2008 we're talking about. The UX was undoubtedly less consistent, but it's not like we were rushing off to the library to look up PHP functions and CSS 3-column layouts.
> Since my loyalty to SO is approximately zero

That's you though. It's not about loyalty, it's about Stackoverflow almost becoming a verb like Google. Many many people are used to using it, it's brand is very powerful. I don't see some competing tool stealing lots of mind share.
Btw the thing about talking to maintainers directly is already done on small communities on discuss pages (ElixirForum for instance), on Discord, IRC and many other channels. None of it actually hurt SO.
I've yet to see a claim of obscurantism leveled against a post-structuralist that I felt had any serious weight. They're mostly just awful prose writers (and even worse, French).

Glibly casting off an entire intellectual tradition as a case of the emperor having no clothes is, to me, a really tragic dismissal of an electrifying body of ideas.

For anyone who's been put off by the language of continental philosophy, I'd recommend Peter Barry's book called Beginning Theory. It's written in very clear English and gives concrete examples of the terms you usually just hear bandied about (deconstruction, semiotics, whatever).
the point is that a "single datapoint" does not mean the same thing as a "single datapoint", depending on what that datapoint is and the context around it. The myth he was specifically busting in the original paragraph was that you cannot learn anything from a single datapoint, but that's only true if that datapoint is drawn from a random distribution.

A single datapoint can tell you a lot, if you know other things about it. In this case, knowing that it's a world record dramatically changes its utility. It's powerful in the sense that it tells you a lot about the overall dataset, not in the sense that it's a novel insight.
> My commment stipulates Apple Pay being part of the Apple system

Your comment suggests you think it is, at worst, an acceptable cost for the convenience of Apple Pay over other alternatives. I’m saying that, for some of us, it is not.
I also find it myself much faster than GitHub viewer.
Ask HN: How do I come up with monetizable SaaS side project ideas?
Hello everyone, I'm a software developer with an year under my belt. I have been doing some freelance work like developing websites and making react native apps for small businesses owned by my friends. I do love the gigs, but I want to build a Saas that will generate some passive income. I have a couple of ideas but they can only be monetised through ads which is a big no for me. Can you help me find some ideas or some inspiration for a good side project?
Thanks in advance.
The market for used things is not very liquid, selling online is often the most profitable choice. Selling locally directly to consumers mostly means not finding any buyers or greatly reducing the price. Reselling used clothing to a brick and mortar store, or to be consigned will vary. It often takes 80-90% for children's clothing, 50-70% for most women's clothing, as low as 20% for very valuable items like designer purses. There are other online markets but most of them charge more in fees, and really only Ebay has as much traffic from buyers
Check this out https://washbear.neocities.org/netbsd-macppc-install.html
In some sense I agree. The Continental tradition has always been frustrated by the innate limits of language, so a tendency towards impressions over concrete, clinical terminology makes sense to me.
It's still a _highly_ biased characterization of the editorial. Your take here is nuanced and fair, and I would not disagree at all. The comment I responded to was drastically different.
> weights are recalculated every two years and the products in the price survey are kept constant to the extent possible

Perhaps you mean that the weights follow a 2 year moving average? They clearly change significantly each year, if you look at the weights for consecutive years at your original reference.

Your overall negative tone suggests you are emotionally invested in the CPI being correct, or perhaps just seeming smart. I'm more interested in the truth. While I agree that using consumer spending surveys is superior to having bureaucrats manually pick out weights, I think the budget data should constitute less of the current (100%) weight in the index, the weights should follow a much smoother 10 year SMA, and an index of raw commodities and business expenses should account for the rest of the index. As you say, this would better reflect expected short term price stability and register deviations from the norm.

> If you have a better approach to measuring long-term inflation than the current approach of periodically adjusting your basket of goods to make sure it still reflects the expenditure patterns of consumers

Collecting the data to calculate CPI the way I suggested is a difficult solo exercise. But if you are actually interested in an alternative estimation, start by looking at the growth of SMA(3) of GDP ^ (2/5) * M2 ^ (2/3). This is the baseline growth heuristic I have been using to consider one to be keeping up with inflation.

Further recommended reading: https://www.lynalden.com/inflation/
Now that’s a juicy headline if I ever saw one (^_^)
Taking degenerates makes you a psychedelic?
I recently learned the hard way what happens when you put the Moka pot on the stove and go away without starting a timer. First of all, it made the coffee of course. Then the heat made its way to the upper portion, boiled the coffee, and sent it spraying out the spout and into the room. All while melting the gasket.

After cleaning up, I made a new gasket from an old bike innertube, and it worked just fine.
This is like a car company that also have a tire company, also providing the tires. So far so good, but the company that makes the car only allow you to use its own tire brand, no others are allowed.

How legislators can easily spot problems in bad company practices that forces monopoly in material objects but are so obnoxious to everything digital?

I see even tech veterans here struggling in seeing that there's a big problem in all this..

Its like Microsoft not only shipping IE with windows, but making web sites slow in other browsers on purpose so at least in Windows nobody would use the IE competitors.

Why Apple is getting away for more than 10 years to such shady practices is beyond comprehension.

And this is just one of them.
As someone whose life was very much thrown into turmoil and difficulty for getting caught with a relatively small amount of mushrooms in Texas, to the point that it will soon be a decade and I have not really completely recovered financially or emotionally, and also still blocked from a lot of jobs, news like this is so good but hard to hear on a personal level.
Looks like the proposal supports a lot of different payment types
Sounds a lot like how GraalVM runs Java applications to the point where they're initialised and then compiles them to native code.
The old gaseous diffusion enrichment process plants were very inefficient. You may be thinking of those. They're not used today in the West. (I'm not sure if Russia or China still operates such plants.) The last French plant closed in 2012 and the last American plan closed in 2013 [1]. Commercial centrifuge enrichment, a much more efficient process, started in the 1970s [2]. That's what enriches uranium for power reactor fuel today.

That said, even with gaseous diffusion enrichment, nuclear power had much lower life cycle emissions per megawatt hour than any fossil generating source. Nothing is 100% "carbon free" over its full life cycle but nuclear power and renewables both have very low emissions compared to fossil combustion [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaseous_diffusion#Current_stat...

[2] https://www.urenco.com/about/history

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-cycle_greenhouse_gas_emis...
Yeah, but it changes the calculus somewhat. Heart muscle inflammation is no laughing matter and can be fatal if combined with hard exercise.
There's still a ton of overhead for WASM and it's not first class. Using WASM is a lot like using C code in python. It's still nice to have features as first class citizens :)
People will often say "I don't care about fashion", then I point out that by wearing a dark monochrome tshirt, "silicon valley" hoodie, zip-up vest etc. you are showing that you are most definitely up to date on fashion trends.
Kamala Harris sent Californians away for long haul prison sentences on drug-related infractions. Anyone here who thinks mass incarceration improves society should explain their reasoning, because I really don’t understand.

Also the parent commenter on “tax base” is misguided. We’re not talking about legalizing and taxing drugs, just not locking people up for victimless crimes.
because they're not doing drugs now? And putting them in jail will help how?

Maybe instead the national government can take care of veterans, and we can start having proper mental health care
I haven't used it, but the Librem 14 is getting a good reception from what I've been seeing.

https://puri.sm/products/librem-14/
Gotchas, tools, jigs, and tricks of design, manufacturing, maintenance, and support, as well as the very rare materials, are the most crucial bits to guard.

IIRC, the manufacturing of a low-yield, simple fission device based on an old design isn't complicated; it's the fissile materials that are the show-stoppers, hence nonproliferation of centrifuges, dual-use components, and yellowcake/ore.
I also thought about just using search. But trending topics let me know if something important is happening when I'm not aware. I still think it's valuable at times, while I also think it may be spammy and should be improved.

I think its low signal to noise ratio makes you ignore it, which is bad. But I think instead of just removing it, spams should be prevented more effectively. Because I know "trending" concept is useful when it works. HN, Reddit and some other aggregator sites have homepages with trending content, of course with varying degree of success.