skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you look at the whole thing, it does not make any sense at all. Except the media seeing google generating a shit load of money and wanting to take a part of it.

If you think about it, if the article might be interesting, you will go to the website of the media anyway.

But now, most media here are really crappy and are just formatting news from AFP (french Reuter equivalent) or from gov or corp press releases without doing real journalism. And so, logically from their point of view, just showing the title steal the only worthing thing from them. And that does not entitle them to get traffic from Google, but just to receive whatever biggest amount possible from Google without doing anything.

Usually, I'm complaining more about Google bad actions and its monopoly abuses. But in this specific case, I would more likely be on their side, with the impression that they are bullied by the media that are really politically powerful in France.

Imagine, if all the websites referenced in hacker news were starting to ask HN to pay them for the right to list their articles...

And the bad thing is that, once they will win with Google, it will create a precedent and they can legitimately start pursuing the little fishes.

Think about all the corporate assholes around the world that really would like to have the right to decide who link to their website and impose some fees for that!
Short answer: yes.

They do this thing called "COLA", Collision On Launch Assessment, an analysis of launch trajectory to ensure they it won't hit known objects.
I totally agree with you and the other commenters that the total area of the spherical shell is only increasing by a few %, but I still think for the purposes of "escaping earth" as the top level comment was talking about, all that matters is how spread out things are directly above you.

When talking about the area of the spherical shells, it conflates what is above me as equally relevant to things that are on the other side of the planet from me.

That is, satellite X and Y may be over me at 500km and 1000km distance, respectively. Later, they may be directly through the earth from me at distance 13200km and 13700km distance.

In the first case, if I shine a laser straight up, my probability of hitting X is 4 times higher than my probability of hitting Y.

In the second case, (if I could somehow shine a laser straight through the earth), the probabilities are nearly equal.

But my intuition is that for the purpose of escaping earth, this second case does not matter, because we are just dealing with what is above us, not the entire spherical shell.
Yes, serious question and thanks for the response. Is there some explicitly listed criteria for what makes a country 'developing' in the Universal Postal Union agreements?
Ask HN: Small startups of HN, what does your initial infrastructure look like?
By small startups, I am referring to organisations between the stages of an MVP and a fully professionalised organisation.

How do you as a company starting out, setup your initial infrastructure.

Do you keep your internal network behind a VPN.
Self-hosted source control or something like gitlab/github.

When do you setup supporting tools like Email/Chat/Docs

When do you start using paid solutions for things like Backups
lol.

So; how did antitrust work out for Bell? Not too terribly bad, in the long run. (Though there were huge benefits for us consumers. . . )
Tera – a template engine for Rust based on Jinja2/Django
I'm excited for this, my wife is an accountant and often asks me to help her with VBA macros.

Which means that for this reason alone I have to dedicate 40GB of my laptop's hard drive to a Windows partition with office, adobe, and other stuff installed.

And if she's not physically near me, I have no way of getting the script to her with any guarantee it'll behave the same or work at all on her work computer.

Having worked within unix for so long, I'd started taking it for granted how everything is either portable, or can be easily containerized, Windows and accompanying products are incredibly environment finicky and janky overall.

To be able to just do the remote version of "handing over the laptop" will be a godsend.
Yes, fragmented, but not a big enough market to make it worth it for a large entrant to spend blindly.
Yes, there is a database and radar tracking stations, and they'll avoid launching if there's an increased chance of a collision. The density of satellites and debris in orbit is so low in absolute terms, though, that the probability of any given rocket colliding is negligible even if launching totally blindly.

Most launches are timed for minimizing fuel to achieve the desired orbit, and there's only a few seconds of wiggle room for a launch window. So, a particular launch window may be preferred over another depending on the relative probability of a collision. Nobody is explicitly timing their launches or ascent profile with regard to other satellites other than for space stations and other explicit destinations. Most launches the rocket just gets the satellites up into roughly the right orbit, and then the satellites use their own propulsion systems to maneuver into precise orbits over several months.
Not true!

If a terminal doesn't paint on a per-frame basis, then dumping reams of text to that terminal will slow the program to the speed of printing, this can easily be a 100x slowdown versus only updating the view when the monitor wants more pixels.

Most of them don't do this, so the ones that do are within their rights to advertise it as a feature.
You're right, this is a challenge. But it will happen, global warning will see to it. The earlier we do it voluntarily, the better we can accommodate the consequences of this transformation.

Also, such a transition would not be unprecedented, see for example how western societies adapted to the war efforts during WWI and WWII. These were radical changes of industrial production on a truly massive scale. The sort of things we need now.
And to our employees!
A "man bites dog" story.
Don't worry, a future technology will fix everything. Now get out there and buy a new car, buddy.
We're all living that Asian family joke.

Parents spend their whole lives waiting for their kids to thank you. Kids spend their whole lives waiting for their parent to say "I'm sorry."

That said I've never felt that way about my Mom and Dad. I've faults and problems a plenty but I wouldn't ascribe any of that on them; indeed the best things about me seem to clearly come from them and the worst are just as clearly things they suggested I not do. What are you going to do though, even if all that wasn't true they'd still love me and I'd still love them.
> discourse

Hardly a discourse. Both gents above might have a negligible disagreement but they are sticking firmly to radical green agenda shadow-officially endorsed and promoted by Yahoo Combinator. Also, good for karma income. Just the same for praising comments.
I'm not ignoring it anyway. I do think that monocropping and the like do pose a potential for a collapse. That said systems thinking and computer models have led to predictions of collapse only slightly more convincing than religious fanatics.

Humans are highly adaptable and the power of the economic invisible hand is enormous.

I for example will be growing more and more of my own food as I see the quality of food dwindle while the cost rise.

Solar is only becoming cheaper. The future can be a great place, but sure we should think about what kind of future we may be facing if we don't make preparations or let someone else guide us there.
Yep, but the only difference is that tesla in those few markets start outselling other brands in certain categories and their annual volumes will count in millions next year. You can easy compare them to BMW or Audi. next year they will be companies with comparable volume. Somehow I don't see BMW or Audi growing that fast.
I might have suppressed it, as the very idea is the stuff of nightmares.

That said, I'll note that unlike Warp it will actually run on Linux...
Proper "Georgist" accounting of externalities is a really important step in tackling climate change and pollution (as well as a host of other issues). Companies should absolutely not be free to pollute like there's no tomorrow at absolutely zero cost. Impose a cost, calculated in some manner based on the harm caused by those emissions, together with a hard cap. Or better yet, ramp up those costs so there's diminishing returns (a curve so that you can emit a small and sustainable amount for cheap, the costs become more onerous as you emit more, eventually going up to ∞, the hard cap).
“Do not discuss Focus with employees." I don't know how much more direct this could possibly be. The only time the policy allows managers to tell employees they're on a PIP is if the employee asks directly. That's literally hiding the truth as much as they possibly can without actually lying.
> One EU diplomat told Reuters that the success of the package would rest on its ability to be realistic and socially fair, while also not destabilising the economy.

> "The aim is to put the economy on a new level, not to stop it," they said.

How socially fair and non-destabilizing will climate change be?
That all sounds great. The CLA says:

You hereby grant to Company , a perpetual, non-exclusive, worldwide, fully paid-up, royalty free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute your Contribution and such derivative works.

Someday "MUSECY SM LTD, an affiliate of MuseScore and Ultimate Guitar" could be acquired or come under the control of an entity that does not share the "core beliefs" the CLA was drafted under. I wouldn't be comfortable relying on beliefs in lieu of a legal document spelling out exactly what contributed can be used for. The language in the CLA is what matters, not beliefs.

I haven't contributed to Audacity so it's not a practical matter for me. I wouldn't contribute to a project with a CLA that grants such a broad license. I'm a minority, to be sure, but there are probably others who feel the same way.

I've been burned, in business relationships, by verbally-articulated intentions that weren't codified in contracts and weren't honored. The whole "I thought you said..." and "I meant..." game has made me very wary of accepting terms that aren't articulated as part of a legal agreement. If something is important enough to agree upon it's important enough to put in writing.
When I've seen measures of median income it's usually median family income.
> almost invariably, that at least one person from every class was fired within hours for looking up the accounts of someone they knew or a celebrity.

While I don't doubt people do this for real, staging something like that might actually be pretty effective.
Without any context it’s hard to discern your point. Who is Chicken Little in this scenario?
They exist. Hyper is the most notable one using Electron.
>Working backwords from after tax income, it is about 120K-140K a year median.

But your source says that the median family (aka household, so it factors in both earners) income for non-seniors is only $93k, and with kids it's only $105k? Where are you getting $120k-140k from? Households where both earners are high income professionals?
We made the big mistake of not going whole hog at developing a high-temperature nuclear reactor circa 2000 or so.
I concede that you are correct based on the letter of the law but I think the spirit of the law is being violated in a significant way.
Physical location and encryption should be treated as two independent protection requirements, both of which have to be met. Just because something is encrypted doesn't mean it is protected, we already have a few encryption schemes that are no longer considered secure and even if you cannot crack a scheme right now there is always the weak link[1] in the chain.

[1]https://xkcd.com/538/
Not making the argument that VC is bad across the board - companies that require a large amount of startup capital (fintech, space, deep tech) wouldn't exist without VC funding.

We've actually grown entirely through word of mouth. 0 ad spend after 2 years. We also happen to be a late entrant to the market. Companies like Swagbucks have been around since 2008.
That's not fully true.

You can get trig functions without any kind of geometry.
For those interested in learning more about the agrowth perspective, and how investment in public commons can be a convincing solution I highly recommend Jason Hickel's work, specifically his book "Less is More". If you want the deep dive treatment I've just finished Thomas Piketty's "Capital and Ideology" and was very impressed with the thorough historical treatment.

https://www.jasonhickel.org/less-is-more

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674980822
Try my podcast. It’s as balanced as I could make it. Start from the bottom. Thanks!

https://pointbite.podbean.com/
No. It's way easier to set completely unrealizable goals (that your proponents think are compromise because they are completely out of touch with what is actually possible) then blame 'business' when they don't get met.
If you think people are held back from tweeting by anxiety, how would you ever come to the conclusion that videos are the solution?
Technology has blessed us. We've come up with "super straws" to extract oil incredibly efficiently giving us cheap oil, we've devised huge barges which act essentially as vacuum cleaners for fish in the ocean giving us incredibly cheap fish.

The problem is that this skews the curve that would normally slowly taper supply down, which would increase prices and lower demand.

Now, instead, because of this blessed technology, we'll march quickly on full demand to the end and have nothing left. We'll empty the oceans of all the cheap fish and won't know until it's all gone.
And what are the best books on post collapse dynamics. Cause knowing a collapse in all details may not be the best path to bounce.
I'm guessing the auto-complete handling means they need to understand the line editing of the shell. If they've done it well, it'd hopefully be possible to quickly handle others and/or make it configurable.
“For some reason”

I can tell you the reason.

The larger problem with nuclear is that it is prone to central control, taking away self determination and individual freedom of ordinary citizens in how energy is produced and paid for.

Other options like fossil fuels (gasoline, propane, etc.) but even more so solar, wind, and small scale hydro, all coupled with batteries as needed, offer much more freedom and personal choice about how people get their energy and how they pay for it.

The nuclear industry has lawyers, lobbyists, politicians, and large corporations all enlisted for profit and control. These players colluding together have even managed to get the government to make the industry and exempt from liability for nuclear accidents!

As I see it, nuclear projects tend to be magnets for corruption, huge boondoggles, and don’t account for, much less pay, their full long term costs. And on top of that they force consumers to bear the cost in many ways, through taxes, lost property values, capture of government, and resulting opportunity costs.

The topic of waste is important, but it’s almost a red herring compared to the scale of the above control problems.
... we hardly knew ye!
> Although we built Fleets to address some of the anxieties that hold people back from Tweeting, Fleets are mostly used by people who are already Tweeting to amplify their own Tweets

this is exactly my problem with Twitter. It's an even bigger echo chamber than FB. As much as I try, I can't seem to escape the oversaturated bubble of a handful of extremely loud mouthed tweeters and their ardent followers. Mix in the toxic conversations, and it's definitely not a place I feel comfortable discussing anything.
Twitter is great when it comes to transparency. I love how they included this

>Although we built Fleets to address some of the anxieties that hold people back from Tweeting, Fleets are mostly used by people who are already Tweeting to amplify their own Tweets and talk directly with others. We’ll explore more ways to address what holds people back from participating on Twitter. And for the people who already are Tweeting, we’re focused on making this better for you.

It's always nice to know why an experiment/project failed. They didn't have to explain it, but they did and I thought it was a nice touch.
>Past performance is not indicative of the future.

So you will consider it even ods for the sun to rise tomorrow?

Past performance is no guarantee, but ignore the pretty big hit at your own peril.
That audience has always been there. In chaotic times doomsday scenarios seem reasonable. In peaceful times they seem exciting.
Tesla is a useful idiot. It's a toy for rich people who like to buy shiny things and pretend they care. It isn't a solution to anything.

What we need is lots of small and cheap cars that can be built easily and on a massive scale. Something akin to the original Volkswagen, or an automobile equivalent of the liberty ships.

Or even better, more public transport, and more remote work.
I don’t catch how a founder sharing success is an old and tiresome argument. Rather, it’s a common path that many founders have had incredible success with. There’s no particular reason to raise money just as there’s no particular reason to bootstrap. Good founders found successful companies using the most appropriate tools.

In this case, you just accused someone successful of an old and tiresome argument. That’s unhelpful at best.
That seems like an important question. Maybe they will have a lot of individual batteries that they can charge simultaneously.

Alternatively, maybe they could swap out the bottom of the fuselage or wings.
Calling it "dogma" is a sign of a crackpot. It's doing exactly what you said: "rational people would simply note that the idea was wrong, not blame someone for thinking it".
Oh, it's painfully obvious that it's intentional, and that's what makes it truly infuriating. I can tolerate a genuine mistake from a developer, no biggie, we're all human, yadda yadda, I *cannot* tolerate Zuckerborg condescendingly ignoring my own decisions and autonomy with my device and asserting that his stupid app is more important than anything else in my life at any given moment.
But it's not going to continue forever. AFAIK we're supposed to level out in 2100.
I hear you. Would be happy to share results if we get enough responses to be stat sig (probably around 100+)
I don't get what you mean. How do you mean "leech"? The point is that anyone — actually let's take a concrete example, Google and Deepmind — when they produce something, that was due in part to their own labour and in part to the heritage that the past generations and the current fellow humans have given them. Therefore, in principle, some of the fruits of their success belong to them and some belong to society. It's now a matter to discuss the split ;)
I think it's a sad sign of the times that people live vicariously through fake internet personalities--their eyeballs create monetary incentives to push these personalities to become even more fake and banal. All for tiny algorithmically derived dopamine hits and YouTube faces.
> Our plan is to open source the Rust client code once it's more mature.

Your plan should have been to wait until something was downloadable before you announced it.
Harvard in Tech interview: Russ Heddleston, co-founder and former CEO of DocSend
And so maybe true effectiveness would be achieved by having a torrent of work once a week instead of a few minutes a day.
> This is denial of basic spreadsheet realities.

the people who make this argument seem to always leave out that we don't have cheap (and clean) battery technology capable of sustaining entire grids for days at a time.
Right now yes. However any neighboring country with a recent coup doesn't fill you with confidence.
> the EU as is is hopelessly underpowered to effectively address big issues. They just don't have the mandate to actually get all 27 states to act as one.

The EU addresses privacy and many other issues better than the US.

The EU has implemented actually changing the currency of every member, just as one example.
While there are people who misuse the s to score political points, that doesn't erase the real differences in sense and meaning behind them.

Strictly speaking, moderation is a subset of censorship. The key aspect of moderation is that it is generally done by community members (usually volunteers) and done to enforce standards agreed with by the community. Other forms of censorship generally come from outside a community to enforce some rules the community does not support.

Thus perspective and community identity are integral to the distinction but there is still a basis by which you can objectively view the powwr dynamics and distinguish moderation from other forms of censorship (such as corporate censorship or government censorship.)

I do think the term "moderation" is a misnomer when applied to Facebook and Google as their moderators are generally not part of the communities they censor.
Do you mean more than two or one?
IMO this should be the default feature of Twitter.

I can't think of anything I'd be SUPER embarrassed of in my Twitter history, but context is important and something I might have Tweeted 10 years ago would look bad today, maybe.

Still, I make it a point to delete all my tweets after they're a week old or so. Not interested in my random musings living on for all of digital eternity.
Duolingo is great, because learning a language (and many other skills) is a matter of doing it consistently. If you have a 4 hour class once a week but don't study or read anything in Spanish outside of the class, you will forget things before the next class.

Of course, Duolingo is not magical, but it gives you enough vocabulary and understanding that you can start following people on twitter/instagram and know what's happening. Then you start trying to reply and interact, and then at some point try a book, then a TV show..

Also, many people plan on starting something (like learning a language) later on, when they have more time. Many people I know that wanted to learn English (Im Brazilian) didn't start years ago because they `didn't have time`, so now, after a few years, they still need to start from 0
> expand renewables and phase out coal and gas over the next 20 years

Put in a plan to stop building new coal and gas power plants in EU and that strategy would have a bit more support behind it. New coal, gas and oil is the core of the energy strategy for handling grid stability. It will last much longer than 15 years.
Today I learned that there was a feature called Fleets.
That was just an example, there are a plethora from GC algorithms to chose from, which of them needs to be fine tuned for the specific runtime it is to be applied, if performance is of any concern to the language implementers.
Yeah, I knew this was a cheap post.

From my post below though...

systems thinking and computer models have led to predictions of collapse only slightly more convincing than religious fanatics.

Humans are highly adaptable and the power of the economic invisible hand is enormous.

I for example will be growing more and more of my own food as I see the quality of food dwindle while the costs rise.

Solar is only becoming cheaper. The future can be a great place, but sure we should think about what kind of future we may be facing if we don't make preparations or let someone else guide us there.
August 1834, The Guardian: Negro emancipation
Census Statistics Show Early Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Game Console Launch
If you can't finish your meeting in 60 minutes, you won't finish it in 75. Set the meeting length to 55 minutes. Use the 5 minutes to take water/bathroom break before the next meeting.