skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is interesting, and I have a more mathematical way of thinking about this.

If we were somehow able to segment evolutionary pressures, and normalize their values such that they sum to one, I'd hypothesize that as the average evolutionary pressure goes to zero (meaning high number of evolutionary pressures that are generally uniformly distributed), then this author's hypothesis is true. But as the average evolutionary pressure grows (fewer pressures, or highly skewed distribution of pressures), I imagine it would lead to VERY different looking life. I'd also hypothesize that as the average value increases, it leads to system instability.
Depends on how long the item has been sitting on that shelf. They usually factor their invoices to attract suppliers, so they pay their factoring bank a few weeks after the item has been received.
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Good article and discussion about the economics of these "Leeches of the poor":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27650477

TLDR: The products in Dollar Stores aren't 'cheap' in the sense that they cost less than other stores per unit - its just that they're (mostly) packaged into smaller units that people living paycheck to paycheck can afford.
Unix was invented long before modern dynamic linking schemes were. PHK seems to think it was possible, around 1990 or before, to wave a magic wand and have all vendors agree on a way to build and link dynamic libraries. There are a number of decisions to be made before you even get there. First, which binary format -- COFF? ELF? Something else? Secondly, how do you account for the fact that the library will be loaded into different programs' memory spaces at run time? Do you:

1) insist on PIC (what Linux does)?

2) replace all pointers with dummies and fix them up at load time (what Windows does)?

3) always load a given library to the same place in virtual memory (what Linux did in the a.out days)?

Before you have a single compiler flag for dynamic library generation, you have to answer questions like this. And no single answer existed in the Unix environment of 1990, which wasn't a bazaar -- it was more like a struggle among competing cathedrals! Hence libtool, whose messiness reflects the messiness of the Unix scene at the time. GNU actually made monumental efforts to clean up the different Unixen and make them more consistent.

Fortunately, today, all widely used Unixen these days seem to have settled on ELF format and option one -- all, that is, except macOS!
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There's a whole parallel universe of suppliers out there. Some stuff comes from muggle stores like Home Depot or Lowes because they're ubiquitous or the tools are sufficiently interchangeable or some wizard brand gets stocked there anyway (Klein, for instance).

Good stuff largely comes from wizard stores. They're mostly locally owned or small, regional chains with a few national chains most muggles haven't heard of. Electrical stuff comes from Needco, Rexel, and Graybar where I live. I bought some Klein screwdrivers at a Rexel, because Klein (and maybe Wera) are the last ones making decent screwdrivers generally and cabinet-tip screwdrivers specifically.

They were $9-$10 a piece instead of that much for a set, but they're made right, and they're readily available if you know where to look.

My handheld power tools mostly come from lumber yards or local hardware stores. And I happily pay more for Makita over DeWalt, Milwaukee, Rigid, etc from the box stores. Not looking to start a flame war over who makes better tools, but the Makita stuff is consistently excellent and priced fairly for the quality.

I've probably used a wider variety of routers than any other type of tool, and it's true that you get what you pay for, especially for plunge routers. The plunge action is just smoother and more precise as you go up in price. Bosch also makes a pretty good one, for what it's worth.

Though I build furniture, not houses, I end up shopping at a lot of the same places as carpenters. You consistently see Festool for handheld power tools (and I do own a Domino), Stabila for levels, Freud, Whiteside and/or Amanda for router bits, Freud or Forrest for saw blades, and Tajima for a wide variety of layout and hand tools. Tajima makes an outstanding chalk line and the nicest caulk gun I've ever laid my eyes on.

You might see Freud router bits at a box store, but never the selection that a wizard store stocks. You'll pay more, but the sales people know their stuff, and you can get it today, not tomorrow. That's worth a couple bucks if time is money. Incidentally, Freud also makes the Diablo saw blades that you find at box stores, and they're excellent value for the money.

Tools truly specific to furniture making are usually a specialist supplier. You can buy an approximation if a combination square or marking gauge at a box store, but it'll be less irritating to just take your money and light it on fire. Woodcraft and Rockler both have decent stuff if you're near a brick and mortar location. If you aren't, they sell online as does Highland Hardware, and a bunch of other vendors.

How do you know if you're in a wizard store or a muggle store? Wizard stores usually keep hours that reflect the fact that most of their customers are there during their workday, not on their time off. If a store closes by 5:30 and aren't open on the weekend, guaranteed they're a wizard store.
Enlighten us, I'm sure your explanation will reframe 8chan in a way that makes it seem a lot more respectable.
If the US government paid $1 in total to PBS, would you be surprised that PBS couldn't provide its service for free?
The US pays about 4% of what the UK pays per capita for public broadcasting.

https://site-cbc.radio-canada.ca/documents/impact-and-accoun...

Members, corporate underwriting, and distribution fees each provide a bigger percentage of its revenue than the federal government
https://publiceditor.bento-live.pbs.org/publiceditor/blogs/p...
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Iirc, the name "Atlantis" was given by Plato to the last piece of that big continent that sank around that time. Per other sources, that civilisation called themselves "Lanka people".
I'm lucky enough not to see a lot of those.

But everything else in retail around me is Chipotle, Noodle's & Company, Nails place, some other equally ubiquitous brand ... and yet there's lots of retail space available near me that is nice, but empty. Seems wasteful.
It's not a matter of any one thing, the vast majority of "recycling" is trash to begin with, or ends as trash without being recycled.
I can support efforts to create more Big Birds, but not more Elmo's. Worst child influence ever.
Have you looked into labor conditions in the US recently?
Love this. Some ideas:

It would be nice to be able to provide a link to an older post and get the links.

Stats, such as top sites included across posts (all-time, this year, etc.), or posts with most links.
I got a lot out of this article, thanks! One of my problems with learning rust has been the “draw the f**ing owl” problem. There are lots of tutorials on getting started, and while advanced code is easy to find i have not found a lot of intermediate or advanced code with good explanatory annotations. Great seeing someone take beginner code and rustify it!
Instacart ships from retail though.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26148870

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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I rarely read it. It is more startup-oriented in a business way. I like to read some motivating success stories when I procrastinate too much ;)
I think your point is valid for an equivalent understanding of unrestricted (or popular) access. All YouTube kid videos lead to toy review/recommendation videos eventually. However, the internet is a big place, and if I have something in mind that explores an idea I can usually find it somewhere online. In contrast, legacy media like PBS doesn't generally allow for picking relevant content— the unrestricted or passive mode is the only mode available without scheduling your day around TV (something I'm not keen to encourage).

So no, not equivalent, but not necessarily worse.
Jack Ma was essentially engaging in payday loan type shady business. Being some kinda free speech warrior is western media POV.
Alex Gaynor is a flamer. He shouldn't be dragging the good name of science into his language flamewar. His opinions on Rust aren't a science any more than Dianetics or Dialectical Materialism is a science. Alex Gaynor is also the reason we're now forced to install Rust on our computers in order to use Python, if we want to share our code on PyPi.
The gut-reaction is that this is some horrible thing rather than a scalable business model that provides low-cost goods to customers in rural areas that were previously underserved. My family in rural Oklahoma and Texas have to drive over an hour to Wal Mart, the dollar stores have a similar but curated subset of goods at a cheap price, and the distance is much closer.

HN monoculture loves to crap all over things like this. I see it as deeply beneficial to society. Not everyone lives in SF or NYC and can use their iPhone to order delivery 24/7.
Start by banning gold, then, which pollutes far more than Bitcoin. I'll wait.
That's gonna change, if they are to stay.
We already have a government owned internet media company.

https://www.voanews.com/
Yes, and the article is talking about deplatforming issues. What if Alphabet decided it didn't like what PBS was saying, and decided to use its leverage as owner of the platform to influence PBS content? Given everything crazy that has transpired over the last few years, it's not so far fetched now. Maybe it has already happened. Sure, eventually we would find out about it, but in the meantime great damage to society could be done.
At least this can sit flat on one axis and should stay put when you tap anywhere on the screen, unlike phones with camera bumps in the corner that rock back and forth diagonally
That is an incredibly privileged response to something like this. No one who is living in poverty or near the edge of poverty can even consider the additional cost associated with shipping or delivery, let alone on a weekly basis for core staples.

Reasonably priced fresh food access within walking distance should be a basic right. However, the people who need this most are those who are underserved.
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Ask HN: Which internet/website blocker do you use to stay focused?
I find it a bit hard to stay concentrated when I know that procrastination is just one new-tab away. Currently I use Cold Turkey to help with that, but always wanted something more customizable. As such, would like to know what the good folks of HN use!

(Btw, if anyone knows of a internet/website blocker which has an API or similar that would be amazing. Ideally, I'd like to chain my time-tracker to it so that it only enables select websites after I invested X time for something productive.)
And ClojureScript to interop with JS ecosystem.
Android is extremely secure if you don't put a bunch of relatively unknown apps on it and don't root it. I would say on par with iphone easily. I only pick iphone because they do a much better job of keeping apps and such from spying on you. Also android is constantly updating the google mothership on your location and habits.
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Is there a reason why comments on HN so quickly go to to " you said X but X is not always true" direction? Is there something inherent in the nature of HN readers making them gravitate towards seeing absolutism that was never there?
I really like the look of it! If it were possible to easily turn it into something that could be shared privately and live for collaboration with other people, it would be perfect.
I occasionally contemplate this article (and am glad I found it again!), mostly because of this quote:

> there is no standardized way to build a shared library in Unix. Instead of standardizing how to do that across all Unixen—something that would take just a single flag to the ld(1) command

I've never looked into it, but I'd love to know what ld flag PHK was thinking about. Could the entirety of libtool still be replaced by that flag?
You can't do religious flamewar on HN and if you do it again we will ban you. No more of this, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sure. We can start with you explaining why an oil fire in North Dakota is related to a electrical fire in Australia. Are the policies involved in the creation of the oil well related to the Australian government?

Was there a conflict in funding of some kind? Did the American Congress decide to withhold funding from one project in order to build the other? Are the two projects related in any way?

EDIT: Do people even use oil as an energy storage mechanism? I don't think so. The closest "dirty" energy analog is in fact, natural gas (which are used in peaker plants). I don't believe oil is used outside of baseload power plants.

Look, I'm well read and knowledgeable of many facts and disasters. I can even one-up you, and point out the Centralia mine fire, which has devastated a town and continues to burn today (In case you want to 'PROVE' that I'm anti-greenhouse gas and pro-environment, I know of plenty of anti-coal / anti-oil arguments myself). But there's almost no relevance from the Centralia mine fire vs this Australian battery fire. I'm not going to be bringing that up unless there's some kind of connection.

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The classic example of "Whataboutism" is when the Russians are asked about gulags, they respond about riots in the USA. You ignore the original question and instead distract the issue by talking about something your rivals are doing.
> The pre-LTE era was quite the experience as a teenager

You all had it made. I'm sure any younger person can vouch for the social issues that come along with every teenager having a smartphone, but your cohort also missed out on family-shared landlines and all of the issues attendant with them. Calling your date and finding yourself forced to make small talk with her dad the phone bouncer, for example.
>PBS seems increasingly irrelevant

I would agree. In terms of production quality, youtube videos can be all over the map (although the cost of quality continues to decrease), but I'd say that the large-scale commercial broadcasters may well continue to dwindle. Personally, 1 guy (or 2/3) youtube shows are my favorites, they tend to be more charming and cover niche areas.

For newsie news, I find myself using mostly RT in my news reader. There's a POV of course, but they don't carry much US domestic news, which is fine by me.
The article has a photo of the Royal Agricultural Hall in London where they used to hold races. It's now called the Business Design Centre and this year has been converted into a mass vaccination centre - it's where I got my jab!
I completely disagree. I think the 'life can look like anything' (lets call them LCLLAs) train of thought suffers from a lack of understanding of constraint satisfaction.

Think about how some LCLLAS talked about how silicon life is probably a thing. First off, it it were, given Earth's crust is mostly silicon and its the most habitual place ever discovered, it would have evolved here. but it didnt. It turns out silicon is just too ridged, and to get life going you need all sorts of chemical properties that just aren't congruent to life.

We are carbon / oxygen organisms for a chemical reason. despite the availability of other resources, other forms of lifeforms didn't develop for a reason. maybe other forms of life does exist in some methane ocean on Saturn like planets, but its not going to be very complex, and definitely not intelligent life building space ships.
> need to handle cooling at >1kW/U

I wonder if this waste heat could be used to power active/phase change cooling.
Search for your nearest major city + public radio.
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Where I live (Massachusetts) it's a barely legible piece of paper you tape in your rear window.
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Go to pbs.org. It will ask you to select a station based on your location and popup a big donate banner. There's also a donate button on the top bar. I feel like they make it pretty easy and obvious.
I'm about to get me proper industrial quick disconnects (the hard part is the disconnecting, not the connecting, as otherwise a simple valve on each end and a screwed fitting would suffice) for my workstation, so that I can put a large radiator outside of my room and still have an easy-to-carry system when I need to be somewhere else and have a proper computer. It's just no longer silent at that point.

These quick disconnects are polymer, but that's in large part due to corrosion resistance. They are also rated to ~8 Bar and also vacuum, if one would use the latter.

Also, for flexible tubing, compression fittings don't seem like such a bad idea. Yes, don't use them for rigid pipes (PEX counts there, for connecting purposes), but the only thing better than squishing the hose into a seal-barb seems to be welding the hose to the connector...
> If the opposite happened and you got short changed and home depot refused to correct it wouldn't you think home depot stole from you?

If I got short changed at Home Depot, noticed it after I'd left the store, then returned and asked them to swap $1 for $10 I'd expect to be laughed out of the store.