skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yet, a Pentium MMX with 32MB of RAM in 1999 would stomp the Amiga...

On pure computing power, yes of course. But
- at which price compared to A1200 ? (of course in the case of the PC you have to include a reasonable sound card + reasonable graphic card. I could buy my Amiga as a teenager in 1993 for less than 500 € while any entry-level Pentimum MMX PC in 1999 would still be > 1000 €...)
- The OS was fantastic, very responsive despite the limitations of the hardware. Only when I left Amiga to switch to a supposedly much more powerful PC I experienced what meant "lagging" and "bloat"... (original Amigas didn't have an MMU and therefore both OS and apps were written carefully since there was no swap)
Fzf is one of those tools that instantly makes you shell feel magical to use.

I highly recommend it, and I consider it by far the most useful in this list!
> What makes this group of scientists and their warning more legitimate than these previous “imminent tipping points”

Better models and more computing power?
> I assume google doesn't ask you to prove you're vaccinated against measles for example.

Is there a massive measles outbreak currently infecting millions of people? I don’t see how the fact that they don’t require proof of measles vaccine is in anyway proof that COVID vaccination isn’t in the interest of public health.
It took me a moment to realise that the title refers to the Linux kernel and not to kernel regression from statistics - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_regression
The road seems have destroyed most of its charms. It was little bit different and unamerican, when there was only train and boat. And with "unamerican" I mean lack of fatties.
Nope.
Only use a TKL with Vim and Tmux. I don't actually use the mouse during coding now that I think about it
It is not misinformation.

This is the actual document that provides guidelines to labs to assess breakthrough infections

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/downloads/Information-...

but it is no longer available at that location, for some reason, and here is a link to the old version..

https://web.archive.org/web/20210429184157/https://www.cdc.g...

Also, nice try to look up and discredit what I am saying on the basis of the age of my account. I am afraid such tactics won't fly well here.
I have been learning languages on Duolingo and Babbel for years now. None of them I can speak well, but certainly well enough to have a good base of knowledge to start with. Duolingo has the advantage that you can do it whenever you want, while commuting, quickly a lesson before lunch, or on the loo. It just sums up if you consequently keep doing it.

I totally agree with your point, though, that some languages are better suited for Duolingo style of learning than others. For example with Russian it was quite difficult without any grammar basics explained so I needed to additionally read about it, while with Danish it was much easier to grasp the mechanics. Not quite so with the pronunciation...
I get what you mean and i agree to some extent. With that said i think the general disdain is justified given that the absolute majority of people and companies do not in fact contribute back.

Those who do shouldn't feel targeted by such statements imo.
In Florida I think they wanted to charge me $1000 extra for a heat pump instead of just an AC. for the five cold days a year it didn’t seem worth it. The air handler just has resistive coils for heat.
Yeah, I get that as well and sometimes feel the same. The difference is that a beginner tries to do Y, fails, think they can solve it by doing subtask X, so they ask X. But us with more experience know why Y didn't work and probably have a good reason for asking X.

But the answerers cannot know that. So adding a small snippet of what have been tried, or why X specific is what's needed is a good idea to steer the conversation in the correct direction.
The likes of motorcycle and car magazines/review sites are also incentivised by money, it may not be quite so obvious how though?

Let's say I want to do an honest review of bikes under $500, where am I going to get the bikes from in order to do this? Shall I go out and buy them?
Count me as severely skeptical. I don't exactly feel like digging through the entire prospectus since it's too late to matter, but a quick search seems to indicate their user and revenue growth was fairly flat for years until last year, which just happened to be the year everyone in the world was forced to stay home and find somewhat productive things to do. Investing in this doesn't feel any saner than investing in a startup for people making sourdough at home.

I can at least squint at something like Zoom and say sure, single-year growth like this is never going to happen again, but at least remote multimedia collaboration is probably here to stay, even though Zoom specifically isn't necessarily going to monopolize it just because they were first. But that has a clear business use case that isn't going anywhere. Duolingo is relying entirely on the whims of the general public.
Sorry I just didn’t like his tone. We should all try to be humble and accept that getting to the truth is a process.

You can’t just watch CNN and then assume you have all the answers and anyone else is a dummy.
> There is little incentive for anyone to curate a list of 'best bikes under $500' for any reason other than this though?

“Back in the olden days” people would write pages because they loved the subject area and wanted to share knowledge/show off/start conversations.

So it was very common for people who were just really into bikes to spend some time sharing their thoughts on what the top 10 bikes under $500 were because they wanted to help people buy good bikes. There was no monetization, or at least direct monetization.

Those sites may still be around, but monetization has driven low-quality content higher up in SEO so the bike lover (who probably doesn’t care about SEO) doesn’t get content seen.
I am not sure I like someone vocalising CDCs thought. It is kind of disturbing. I mean, you can be cutting someone throat and saying "be quite my child, it is all for best"..

anyway here is what I have responded to a similar comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27995222
His opinion seems to be that you don’t need to re-season. Just scour it clean as much as possible and start using again.

To which I agree. I’ve had more success just making sure I cook a bunch of fatty foods in a row, then continue using the pan normally, vs intentionally seasoning it (oven method or not) which is slow, messy and never seems to really give the same kind of deep patina.
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That's not a logical fallacy. A logical fallacy would be concluding that "all black things are cats" from the sentence "all cats are black".
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Abba is European and extremely popular all over the world. It has nothing to do with "western culture".
To summarize, you are asking for a hero to come and to save us all with the power of meritocracy. This hero of yours is a PhD executive (from a top university) with access to venture capital and will lead other eminent people to produce world changing green technologies. The stock market will be the bar for which this hero is selected.

Companies that exploit the environment already have PhD executive types (from great schools) with great track records and amazing access to capital already. That is part of the problem. These eminent people have already decided that their personal wealth now is worth destroying our future.

These geniuses have already found a solution: rampant hedonism. Squeeze out every moment of pleasure while you still can and when time is up, jet over to New Zealand and hunker down while the world is engulfed in flames.
> But how is this different from previously? Flu, common cold, various other viruses... all present a similar threat to that from covid and spread as easily.

Because covid is more transmissible [1], more dangerous, has far longer lasting effects (long-covid), and because vaccines for non-covid viruses are generally more effective to _immunocompromised people_ as we've had longer to deal with them.

Furthermore, flu has been around for generations. We've all probably had some variant of it in our lives, and have some level of immunity. Covid is entirely new. It's far easier to rip through the population and get into the proximity of vulnerable people than flu.

> Any decent person would just keep away from the office if they were ill.

Sure. Except you don't know you're ill. A majority of people will be asymptomatic and spreading it without knowing. This is what is happening in the UK right now.
It can be done by law. E.g. France, where 76% of the population support a law making vaccination mandatory for certain jobs, mostly health care, along with requiring proof of being negatively tested, vaccinated or recovered. The same law stopped tests from being free. And all of a sudden people registered for vaccine appointments.

A large part of the vaccine hesitancy is just convenience.
> not from beyond the event horizon

Clearly -- As this would have been impossible by the definition of Event Horizon [1] : )

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_horizon#Event_horizon_of...
The XY problem applies when someone asks how to accomplish something. In this case they want to know why something happens; what they’re doing around it is irrelevant.

It’s analogous to asking “why does pizza taste metallic to me?” and getting “why are you eating pizza?” as a reply.
"it's incredibly harmless"

The two healthy middle-aged people I know who have died within 24hrs of vaccination would beg to differ.
There is far more to it than a single criteria.
- surface to building material
- robustness (resistance to pressure I suppose is the most crutial)
- surface optimisation (those things are holding something, honey, but also larvas).
- chamber traversal (bees have been observed to traverse the Chambers). At least from the outside for auditing.
Easy, France for example contribute around 26 BILLIONS euros to European institutions.

It is a shitload of money in my opinion.

There are around 70 millions inhabitants in France, only around 18% of households pay income tax. But, in fact, only 10% of the households are contributing for around 70% of the income tax.
People prefer problems they know the answer to. Sometimes, when they don't know the answer to a problem, they'll try to cram it into a shape they recognize so the answer they already have works.
Yes, I'm also very much talking about this specific case, where someone posted a factual question to a community channel. No demands, no "how dare you", no shouting, not even directly poking a maintainer. And I find the reactions jarring that just because they mentioned "our CI" suddenly they have to be bad guys. (Hoping that an end-user asking "my script unexpectedly failed" would not also get "what did users ever do for us" response)
You gotta strive to use a right tool for the job, always. Using m4 as a template processor for HTML isn't it.
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If the mermaid took it, does that mean Google search is resting with the fishes?
Ah, interesting thanks!
Young children are at greater risk from influenza. Why do you think they have been barely affected by COVID this whole time, but somehow in the future, they will suddenly be the ones dying?
I have been able to replicate this technique--using the example linked to godbolt from the blog post--working on clang 7 and failing on clang 8-11 (with the following error)... but it works again on clang 12 ;P. (I am bisecting overnight to see exactly what fixed it; if anyone sees this and is interested, come back to this thread tomorrow for a follow-up.)

note: candidate template ignored: substitution failure [with N = 0]: function 'loophole' with deduced return type cannot be used before it is defined
template <int N, typename T = decltype(loophole(A::tag<N>{}))> T get_type();
~~~~~~~~ ^
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Yep the "sous-vide" thing has been reported to me as the safest approach by a lab specializing in the design of new food for top cooks and industrial food.

But you have to buy new cookware... And theses things are not exactly cheap (if you want something that works reliably)...
In my experience, if you tell people your use case for wanting to do X instead of Y, they'll just attack your use case instead.

I, for one, never use places like SO anymore because everyone just wants to pretend you really want Y, because that's an answer they know.
>To do that, you need a very sensitive test, not something that only confirms symptomatic infection.

Now, that makes sense.

But you have also take into account that these are not just numbers. But these are numbers that can destroy countries and communities by implying perpetual lockdowns.

It becomes even more comical that RT-PCR does even when positive, does not imply presence of the virus, but some fragments of a dead virus or even genetic material of some other viruses.

I can only be appalled at the indifference of these people to mandate lockdowns that destroy lives and businesses, based on positivity rate of such a test.
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Which ten, though? Apple goes to extreme lengths to hire the very best of the best. One key technical contributor leaving can strain or stop development of new products or releases.
+1 for chainmail scrub. Just a gentle, circular motion keeps the surface even and smooth, and removes any blackened food. I mostly cook with (salted) butter, and only ever use beech wood spatulas to lift. I also have a ribbed square pan which is more of a challenge...
Depends on what kind of running are you doing. HIT all-out interval sprinting is truly extraordinary for weight-loss and muscle gain. I find it far, far more fun than lifting weights. But then I prefer to exercise outdoors after sitting at a desk all day.
Maybe. But I prefer to keep my fun separate from my production software.
Both the companies I've worked for issued a desktop, for primary development, and a laptop, for WFH and on-call.
I believe both search and affiliate programs have flaws... but I didn't see anything that convinced me this is some conspiracy between the companies.

I also don't have a problem with affiliate programs. If someone posts links that are relevant to the topic at hand, there is little harm in them getting a few cents from a purchase I would have made anyway. If anything, it is funding content creation in a way that works.

That being said, the point of the article is 100% correct that low-effort, low-value review sites just to get affiliate links ranked in search results are problematic and annoying. I make a judgement call when I run into them - if they really did put in some effort and have decent reviews contrasting different items, I'll go ahead and click the link. They wrote content, the content was helpful, no problem. On the other hand, if it was just a list of links with no added value, I don't click the links. It is just as a easy to do my own search on a product name, or even copy the link and remove the affiliate tag.

Like everything else in the world, nothing is black and white. The presence of some problematic sites doesn't invalidate an entire mechanism for funding content creation.
We don't go to face-to-face meeting for papers. We come for live interaction, major release level decision-making etc. We tried video conferencing a few times. It's fun but hard to organize (timezones), too messy, and time-consuming. So are chats.
They are regarded as very safe compared to other approaches.
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Yes, he was. Many people in US specifically does not seem to have knowledge about how other countries are governed.
Think deeper...

If there was less tax and people would have more money to spend, the "far rights" extremists would have less supporters and followers.

If the European institutions and national government would give a better use to the money, like improving citizen everyday life and issues or education, there would also be less "far rights" extremists.

And the funniest and worse point, is that a common complaint of some "far right" extremists is especially that European and international institutions are a waste of their money, and providing in exchange just limitations to what national governments can do. So, on that count also, better spending of our tax money would improve the situation more than this bullshit report.
But Duolingo makes people happy because you can sit on your ass, or in bed, not really try and feel like you're putting in the hard yards.

Kind of like watching sport instead of playing / training.

10/10 satisfaction score.
alternative link (that does not bug you with "subscription" messages)

https://www.bloombergquint.com/onweb/google-sued-in-u-k-for-...
> what sort of test would break on parsing the output of man with no page specified?

I'm honestly curious on this one
>while any entry-level Pentimum MMX PC in 1999 would still be > 1000 €...

It may looked so, but by 1999 you could get a Pentium MMX PC for 600-700 EUR in Spain (100-120,000 pesetas), cheap soundcarp and iGPU included. Cheap, but you could run Quake for sure. And MMX did wonders on multimedia decoding and emulation.
Or simply add "Reddit" to your search query. The first result will be from Reddit. And there will be a URL to other results from there.
Hmm... odd thing for an NPC to say...
Because criminal scum pay their bills. You don't think 8Chan was on a free account do you?

The sooner developers realize that Cloudflare is not saving the Internet the better.
LGM initially was "annual meeting of GIMP devs, but this time — with fellow teams from Scribus, Inkscape, and Xara LX projects" :)
Is this polymerisation thing a proven fact ? Is this chemically right ? I saw that quite often but nobody ever sounded like a chemist, so I'm a little scared of burning oil in my cookware...
Two: Daily Stormer and 8chan.
I honestly don't think it's in bad faith, it does make some sense to treat subdomains separately for cookies.
OSx is also Unix certified by the open group, along with hp-ux and aix.

https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/
>There was no monetization, or at least direct monetization

Maybe they can try affiliate links! I think that was how the "crappy" sites used to do it in the old days. I never really understood the whole seo game and if anyone actually made money or just pretended to make money so they can sell courses
Then specify the context as part of your question: "I want X. I think alternative solutions like Y won't work because...". As it is with many things in life the more effort you invest in the question, the greater the returns :)

Although tbh I quite often want the opposite, so I add "Alternative solutions/workarounds welcome" or "I don't see how I can avoid doing X but maybe..."
Beyond this title, most titles and the prevailing culture focuses on adding non-fossil fuel sources. But adding more alternatives doesn't mean decreasing carbon emissions and pollution. History shows that finding a new energy source leads to using the old ones and the new one.

Only decreasing burning fossil fuels decreases burning fossil fuels. Focusing the important measure: carbon and toxic pollution emitted will get results.

Whether politically feasible or not, the fastest, most effective way to reduce carbon and pollution emissions is first to close fossil fuel extraction and production, then to solve what problems arise. We'll need less peaker plants and nuclear. People will adjust faster than anyone expects, I'd estimate in weeks to months, not years.

Since the people polluting the most (U.S., Europe, rich people everywhere) aren't using most of their energy for life necessities or even things they'd miss, most Americans can decrease our use 70 percent or more just with low-hanging fruit (source: I've reduced mine over 90 percent and each step improved my life, mostly getting rid of waste and frivolities). We'd have to make sure hospitals, public transit, and some infrastructure keeps powered during the transition, and protect people on the margins, but most people will quickly adjust to flying less, not leaving the a/c on 24/7 six months of the year, eating less meat, etc.

Tldr: 1. Focusing on lowering emissions will result in lowering emissions more than focusing on increasing alternatives.

2. Lowering supply of fossil fuels would create the changes we seek faster than trying to prepare for the changes first, mainly because we waste so much.
I generally just use zsh globbing for this by the way:

ls **(.)

To list all files, recursively, or some variation thereof depending what I want: *(/) for directories, *() for executable files, etc. With a global alias it can be piped to less with LL: "ls *(.) LL". You can actually do a lot of stuff with it, and is basically good replacement for find, except with less typing. The syntax looks a bit daunting at first, but especially for basic stuff it's not that hard (e.g. / and is the same as what ls -F uses).

I wish there was a better pager than less though, but haven't really found it (and no, Rust project X with 115 different colours that don't even work on a light background and/or "fuzzy" matching that never gives me what I want is not it).
Making money “In the end” (in this case) seems like a cash grab at the IPO.

And the question is whether those “plenty of companies” were valued at 6.5 BN.
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To anyone else who's curious links for the above:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Stormer
What metaphor would you use though?

Clearly there are companies praising heroic fixes, while not praising too much regular maintenance.
This is the first step: first you put in every policy maker head the idea that there is a problem and that they need to do something about it, then they find "solutions"...

Think about how "internet" and "social networks" become "evil" in policy maker heads.

Now, everything that is happening is the fault of internet. So, internet has to be censored.
In a similar note: https://www.autosuggest.net/ currently approaching a lot of websites in the german market.

"We help you to receive high-quality visitors from search engines, generate conversions and build your brand.
To achieve these results, we ensure your website / company is recommended for specific keywords by the search engine's autocomplete function."
The reason affiliates always tend to use amazon's program is not because it has the highest pay outs. Instead its because Amazon converts really well.
There was also the West German and the East German Sandmaennchen.
We don't have much fun in Germany..
Great way to avoid answering the question ( the money which France contributes still is not your money ).

And this 26 Billion, is this 'netto' or 'bruto' ?
No, but in general, issues like this boils down to grouping too many actions into the same visual category (when they are not acting upon the same entity).

As an example, I often see software where modification of the current entity is grouped together with actions that are really _making use of_ said entity.

Whenever I see "delete" next to "reply" in communicational tools a red flag is waved high. It's a disaster waiting to happen.

In the "delete" scenario the problem is often circumvented by having a confirmation dialog - but other more subtle bloopers often go overlooked.
Getting flashbacks to the earliest Unix/C book I had (from 1977 with 2nd ed from 1983 or so) already mentioning ratfor and m4. Never occurred to me that these two are related.