skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The New York Times: the paper of record. Oh, oh no, I can hear the screams of “bias” already, but: from either the right or the left, you can’t really argue that if a story is in the Times, it becomes A Story. Their investigations, their opinion pieces, they lead the national conversation, for better or for worse, and people pay for that.

The Washington Post: the paper of the seat of the power. Similar to the times, it’s…sigh…thought leadership. Big political stories break in the Post, and people pay for that.

The Wall Street Journal: the paper of Wall Street. It’s business news. It’s valuable. People pay for it. People have been paying for it for a looooong time, too—they’ve had a paywall for quite a while, and a not particularly porous one.

USA Today: the paper of…uh…the door mat at the Hampton Inn I stayed in because that AirBnB ended up being terrible? I have no idea who would pay for USA Today. It isn’t the national voice on politics or business. They do have some solid reporters, but what differentiates them from either the Post or The Times? Why would I pay for USA Today above and beyond any of these other papers?
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Yes, I think cyberpunk was always film noir inspired. E.g. I seem to recall that William Gibson was influenced by Dashiel Hammett.
The tell with France is when they terminated the ASTRID project, which was taking another stab at a sodium-cooled fast reactor.

What this means is they don't see nuclear growing enough to require breeders on any time scale that would justify retaining fast reactor expertise. Which means they don't see nuclear addressing climate change to any large extent, globally.
Ah, the reasonableness signaling heuristic.
There is an extremely large very religious population in America. If you live in a blue state, though, you likely have little connection with them.

You can't "No True Scotsman" the definition of "religious," though, by claiming that they don't act religious. That quickly becomes a slippery slope of definitions. "Oh, these people don't like immigrants, they're not really religious."
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Scrolling with a third-party mouse on macOS looks horrible
The “she was asking for it” excuse? Really?
exactly. alison’s view is completely ignorant of history.
Jesus fuck that sounds like a shitty working environment with a super abusive boss.

Also a good argument for unions.
This is one of the best pieces of journalism I've ever seen.

And it's not like we didn't have plenty of warning. Our experience in Afghanistan is exactly the same as the Soviets before us, and the British, like, five times before them.

We Americans are such idiots in some ways.
Looks really nice. I think you've done a good job with the landing page. The app itself is pretty barebones right now and doesn't seem to support importing images or exporting video (correct me if I'm wrong)?

I'm curious how you plan to handle rendering the animations to a video. I think that will be a really challenging part to do in-browser, but maybe there are some libraries for this that I'm unaware of.
I've spoken to some who say they need real time stream processing off of MQTT backed by a Spark cluster..... To store ~10 messages/second. I've reduced infra costs and improved perf by just turning it into an API with a retry on the client and storing into a database.

After I left, I hear he's rebuilding the Apache Spark data pipeline stuff "so we can scale".

(This problem they were solving was embarrassingly parallel and could have been shared like crazy to make it way cheaper to host)
Well these are the kind of problems you only have to solve once. There are advantages too : tech workers are less expensive in France than in the US.
I assumed they were referring to the assassination of Qasem Soleimani last year [0], but there are plenty of less publicized examples as well. Technically that was in Iraq, but I think it's the method the US is objecting to, not the location.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Qasem_Solei...
It's mostly about entertainment.
I will prefer reading the same news from a website that does not paywall content. Websites pay-walling content is not the issue here. The issue is Google ranking paywalled sites higher even though the same content is available elsewhere for free. Those non pay-walled websites must also survive.
Ask HN: Has there been a WFH preference poll at HN?
I searched, but have not found any ask/poll during the covid era. Interested in the stats of 1, 2, 3 or 5 WFH day preferences here.

I’ve been a mobile/wfh SME for 15 years, but would prefer something like a 4/10 or 4/32 shift with 50% WFH. Am older.
Starlink has little chance of being the cash cow that the muskrats think. Look, it's low latency satellite internet. It's a giant "meh" for anyone not in very rural locations. That rural market exists, but is quite small — as you can easily see from the revenue of the 3-4 established providers in the field. Yeah, Starlink will differentiate itself by providing a low latency service, and the market for that might be slightly larger, but it'll never be enough to pay for the launches and equipment and then be the cash cow the muskrats dream about.
> Not sure why would users around the world pay for US newspapers

They do because it’s relevant to them.
I'm not sure why this is being downvoted. There's no evidence that the kind of instruction that e.g. Facebook gives its junior developers is meaningful for performance on average. However I bet hiring from top universities is definitely meaningful for performance on average.
wut... are you smoking.

first of all the region was Illyrian, then it was conquered by the Roman empire, and it was the border between the West and East Roman (Byzantine Empire), which was Christian. Then the pagan slavs migrated/invaded it in the 650-700, and the Byzantine Empire fought them back (there are still villages in Greece that have Slavic toponyms).

The byzantine empire started declining, and the slavs created the first Bulgarian empire (the Bullgars were Turkic nomadic tribes who mixed with the local Slavs, but they were not Islamisiced then and eventually converted to Christian Orthodox). The different slavic tribes started fighting with each other and created the many petty kindoms which formed the today's south slav ethnicities. And eventually the Ottomans conquered the whole place in 1400s until the 1900s, including the Albanians and eventually the Romanians in north East, and parts of Hungary in the north.

So.... there is 500 years of conflict against the ottomans, but really there is another 1000 years of medieval conflicts that you are completely ignoring.
And don't forget Bahasa Malaysia
Great point! It's not a far-fetched thought.

I would love to see someone track this at 18 month intervals starting today.

Although, depressingly, growing at the rate of Moore's law, it would still take 24 years to get 1 million people in space.
Move him from country to country to face various charges for the next 25 years
It's a good thing the Nazis came up in the 40's because we would lose the war if it happened now.
I see it differently, although without context we're really just projecting our own assumptions.

The poor person is likely to starve to death. I doubt the billionaire would ever experience that hardship even if he lost everything, he probably still has some lines of support. Hell, just his reputation alone can probably get him an enormous loan or job or something else that other people could only ever hope to have.

Masayoshi Son is famous for losing more money than anyone in history, and he goes out and raises the largest VC fund in history (which is a laughable failure) and is doing it again (apparently logic doesn't apply). Once you reach that status people will worship you even for your failures. Nobody ever pays attention to the person who is struggling just to get by.

https://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/billionaire-news/...
Exactly. Seems most of these big media conglomerates are leaning left. And a minority right. And then we look to what as the zero-influence news source? Not sure it can even be a corporation or organization because that’s inherently controlled by some person or persons who have left or right bias. If only there were social news networks…. Oh wait. ;)

I do enjoy this though: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/
Data tables and keeping one tab per table solves all of those.

Sounds more like an issue with the skill of average excel users than a feature gap.
Hey your site is really cool! How/where/in what fashion did you compile your random list of sites?
This sounds like a bond movie plot… except its happening and at a very steady pace over decades
I don't blame the CTO too much for taking the project: startups need to take risks and try and make money and if something is physically possible you usually have to try. On a tight deadline, you put together a proof of concept and succeeded so it seems like a correct decision. You did your job.

> He didn’t even try the app once before presenting it to the investors.

It's this that really floors me. Ok, not everybody is going to be Steve Jobs and rehearse like a madman to try and put on a spectacle, but at least try an app before a key meeting.
Interesting. It’s similar to the use of the word “chai” in the US. It originally means tea, but in the US it is used to mean a specific blend/preparation (usually masala), so they say “I’ll have a chai tea”, which literally means “I’ll have a tea tea”.
I mean, even back in your original post it would simply have been quicker to say "due to oil" than "I hope I don't have to explain the counfounding factor in this case," even without a couple more posts arguing about it.
Sure, but the cost per unit of energy storage capacity is also higher for PHES. So PHES (and batteries on one side, and hydrogen on the other) have different storage use cases. In general combining several storage technologies like these can end up being better than using just one.
In the recent history Macedonians were rarely in the business of killing or bothering other people.
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There might be some contributions that wouldn't have happened, but there also might have been others that did happen. My hypothetical was in a world with no copyright or license at all.... so all proprietary code would be copyable, too
"It seems kind of presumptuous to think that God's conception of morality would bear any similarity with ours."

If God's conception of morality is not equivalent to the human conception of morality, then what does it mean to claim that God is good?

The fact is that a lot of people worship God in great part because they do think that God is good in the ordinary human sense: that he loves humanity, cares for them, wants only the best for them, and -- crucially -- wants to ease their suffering.

The vast majority of believers pray to God to ease them of their pain and suffering.

Many of them would be completely outraged if they thought that, far from easing their suffering, God was actually the cause of their suffering (though some religions do believe that God is the cause of not only all good but also all evil).

So that's where the problem lies, and why so many theists are so concerned with theodicy (ie. the defense of the concept of a perfectly good god against charges like these).

Saying that God is good in some unknowable and incomprehensible way that would allow for human suffering to exist just isn't a very satisfactory answer for a lot of believers, who continue to believe in a benevolent God who's good in a very human way.
> TFA article

??
How to kill a lobster is as much about our moral code as science
Interpreting 9/11 commemorative Afghan carpets (2011)
You can imagine a robot actively planning to cause damage to others. The fact that this it is programmed doesnt change that it is an evil act. We can see evil as a property of action rather than an agent - this means we dont need to involve free will. But it does mean we have to account for intention.
>>The idea that rich people take more risks is laughable.

No one was arguing that. The point being made is that Branson is taking a significant risk given all he has to lose - which is far more than a non-wealthy person - if he were to die.
Just curious, which features did you want that were proprietary at the time?

The primary reasons for including certain features in Write.as but not in WriteFreely are when they're very early (it's easier to deploy and fix on a single hosted service), or when they involve a ton of external dependencies. My thinking on the latter is that I'd rather leave a feature out than leave admins with a poor experience, vendor lock-in, lacking documentation, etc. But maybe that's the wrong way to think about it.

Either way, "locking features off" isn't a business strategy here, but just a matter of practicality as a very small open source project. As I mentioned elsewhere, we plan to bring things into parity for v1.0. And we very much welcome contributors -- even if it's just reviewing pull requests!
A Denial of Service attack (flood the server with requests) might look like that. What I would do instead though, is have the form pre-filled and scripted to submit the moment it’s live. That might be done with curl/Python/etc to skip the browser render too. If so, it might also inadvertently look like DOS if they forgot to put a delay between attempts.
Exactly. A little {insert favorite language} snippet is immediately inspectable, also weeks or months or years in the future.
Does it have something like SQL's

select *

or do you always have to specify which keys you want?
I haven't used Excel since I was a child and learnt to program. I didn't realise just how bad it was. Someone asked for a list of ids for some inventory and they imported it into Excel. They were all 4 digit alphanumeric but the ones that looked like numbers, like "0001" it just treated it as a number, showed it as 1 no option to disable this ridiculous behaviour.
It's not the word, it's the idea. Changing the word doesn't change the idea. We don't need new words, we need new ideas.
> Yes, strip mining obviously doesn't happen underwater,

And rare-earth elements aren't produced from the ocean.
Ask HN: What's the best CS or software engineering book you've read recently?
While I agree with your analysis I also reminded myself of USA Today's launch and how the conventional wisdom was no one would be interested in such a newspaper. Fox (the TV network) was met with similar disbelief.

Yeah, USA Today and a paywall doesn't make sense, but USA Today doesn't make sense so who knows? I guess we'll find out soon enough.
If PP looks "left leaning" to you, it's pretty clear where you stand.
35C or over is not too hot, if it's dry enough that the body can regulate its own body temperature.

Even 100% RH is not a problem if it's cold enough.

10C is definitely not too cold and much much colder temps are totally fine if you are bundled up.

The problem apparently becomes high relative humidity paired with temperatures that are too high for the human body to cool itself. We all know what happens if you get a fever that's too high (i.e. body temp goes way up): you die!

Wet-bulb temperature is a measure of heat and humidity that expresses how human bodies will experience the temperature. It is so named because it is calculated by wrapping the bulb of a thermometer in a wet cloth. In low humidity, water will evaporate from the cloth, carrying away heat and cooling the thermometer in the same way sweat cools the human body. In these conditions, the wet-bulb temperature will be lower than the air temperature. In high humidity — when the air is more saturated with water vapor — the water cannot evaporate as easily so the cloth stays hot. If the wet cloth cannot cool below the air temperature, neither can human skin.

Humans being humans, we invented stuff to help us both be more comfortable because many of these conditions are still uncomfortable, even if they don't kill you and to not die even if the conditions are made for it (easiest example being: it's -40C outside, yes without bundling up a lot you will also be able to die from this.

I.e. in dry climates, have passive evaporative coolers (if you have enough water supply), preferably in houses that have good airflow and are painted white instead of having black tar roofing (think the old white houses built in spain for example).

The modern humans use AC in most places now. Which does come with its own problems.
Having to constantly go through American left ideology pushed so far to balance the heritage of slavery and their social issues is tiring. Racism isn't really a thing in that sense (there's gypsies but that has a very different dynamic). Gender stuff feels way too forced.

These cultures are not comparable, these are not the burning issues in our society and yet they are pushed to the forefront of attention.

Meanwhile we have the most systemically corrupt governments (these guys don't even do the overt things like industry engagement and speeches after their term, our former PM is in jail for straight out taking bribes in a privatisation scandal, mayor of the capital was collecting bribes for standard city functions for 20 years, the only reason this got to public attention was he died before getting re-elected, and this is endemic in all levels of society)

Pushing on social agendas gives ammo to corrupt politicians to spin the story away from the important stuff and fight a strawman.
I don't think it's necessarily as sinister as that. Perhaps God is simply an engineer who loves designing systems that straddle the line between order and chaos and believes that the laws of physics are supremely perfect and anything that proceeds from these laws is good. Perhaps they find the process of evolution breathtaking beautiful, and the cruelty of natural selection is lost on them. Perhaps they can't understand or relate to our experience any better than we can understand the experience of an ant.

It is entirely pointless to worship such a God, but I wouldn't say it's a nightmare that it exists.
I think calling yourself the victim here is ridiculous. It's a product. You can accept their deal, or not. There's no victims here.

You know how you avoid all those ads? You avoid their site.
Thanks for the background. Fully confirm what you say about the people. It's just sad to see how much damage a couple of ruthless, self-service people can do. But blaming the printer, really? That's like blaming an intern...
Not if there's another stall handing out slightly different bread but without the flyer. There's a lot of content available for free, depending on your goal there's always something descent to read.
More fallout from that Florida Covid data dashboard creator Rebekah Jones
> In the 6th century, Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu claimed that "Silence is a source of great strength.”

6th century BCE, attributed.
I found this list really useful and will be sharing with my team. Thank you author and OP!

In my mind I’ve always categorized tech debt as being broader, and including pretty much anything that doesn’t have a direct benefit to our end users. So this can include things like moving our repos from Bitbucket to GitHub, updating a dependency that has a breaking change (e.g. migrating from one version of Bootstrap to another) or even something more significant like changing from a legacy authentication model to something more modern like OIDC. But I wonder if with this mental model I’ve taken it too far.
The two aspects are intimately tied. A library that implements an algorithm that has few gotchas and can be used intuitively requires less troubleshooting/debugging and understanding.

Sure you need to trust the authors. I'm sure we regularly do such leap of faith all the time we use various software components we surely don't review on a daily basis, not sure why this particular tool should be judged a different standard (provided that is indeed straightforward to operate)
At the start of the civil war, I was obliviously bicycling from Milan to Trieste to Ljubljana to Zagreb and was planning on going South to Greece. I was in Ljubljana when Slovenia broke off and could tell something was afoot. I bicycled to Zagreb (best single day ever) and I could tell, obvious even to me, that something was definitely was going on, if not exactly there then somewhere near. I then bicycled to the Hungarian border as fast as I could peddle. I paid something like $50 at the border for not having a visa, $50 well spent.
Are there any JavaScript engines in Rust?
Yes A stands for Article, of course :-)
Because the universe is deterministic; I was taught the highway code by my mother as a child.

I agree that in a less competitive universe a being could still behave in a way that others find impolite; however you are just describing competition for non physical things; it is still competition; it could still be eliminated by God.

In this universe our daily existence depends on the physical suffering of other beings.
IMO the problem is really committing to a single news source.

I'd happily pay for news. I just don't want to pay to, say, the NYT just to read a couple of pieces a week. (Ignoring the NYT shady unsubscribe practices)

The solution seems to be either micropayments or some form of paid news aggregation.

I pay for a Coil[1] subscription which solves micropayments, unfortunately very few sites have implemented it (and no major news sites AFAIK).

[1] https://coil.com/
The standard $20/mo asking rate of most papers after their trial “$1 per month for 3 months!!1” period?

None of them.
I don't think that is the main benefit. I think it is the ability to "reshare" a post and have your followers see it. So you can follow your "friends" and learn about new blogs from there. There is no reason that this couldn't be done on regular blogs, but it isn't common.
I think the major newspapers need to get together and start offering umbrella subscription packages. Preferably via something like Scroll, which worked in any web browser via a simple cookie.

Surely the NYT, WSJ, USA Today, etc realize that at $10 per month per paper, few people are going to maintain more than one or two subscriptions. Since the incremental cost of online distribution is nearly zero, this means that the news outlets are leaving money on the table.

Make everyone's first subscription cost $10, then provide access to additional papers for 50¢ each. Or use some other type of sliding scale—I'm sure there are numbers that would make sense.

The alternatives are either that a major tech company comes along and does it for them (as Apple is attempting), or that all the papers ultimately merge into 2-3 huge outlets. I don't like either of those outcomes.
It is not clear who this benefits. A lot of commentary is cheering on science which is noble, but what exactly does “faster flights around the world” really help?

I think most people can’t think of situation for the near future that a rocket would help solve. The other side is people wishing money was better spent on issues of the world.

I can’t help but admit it is a bit solution in search of a problem.
> I have found no way to move a purchase history over to another Apple ID. I’m still working through this one. I’m hoping to find a friend of a friend that can move things over for me.

Yeah, that's what we need government intervention to fix.
What’s stopped the Zapatero administration (2004-2011) or current prime minister Sánchez (since 2018) to make excavations and recover the remains? Nothing. They keep alive this topic because it’s convenient to get some more votes and polarize the society.

No government (not even Franco regime) has excavated, looking for corpses. In fact, while looking for “Republican” bodies, some times even have found “Nationalist” corpses [1]

I refuse to be in one faction of a war that occurred 80 years ago because some old-fashioned politician says so.

[1] https://elpais.com/ccaa/2014/07/18/valencia/1405708991_42440...
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> I also wasn't paid for the time I worked there.

That sounds like wage theft.