skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah I'm aware it contains chrome, I mentioned that much of the functionality has been moved out and is actually implemented in rust, this is verifiable simply by running `1password --log trace`

EDIT:
168MiB resident memory on my system (just checked).

Though it malloc'd (but never used) 32G, that's worrying.
> Most people think and act as though you can throw up a few solar panels and then run an iron blast furnace with the Green energy.

Electrowinning iron takes about 4kwh per kg. So maybe $200/ton worth of electricity.
Hey Big Tech!

* No Liability For User Content

* Arbitrary Control Over User Content

Pick one!
How well a sector as a whole does is practically irrelevant for what return on investment a investor gets by investing in said sector.

A sector can shrink from 63% of the total market to less than 1% and outperform the market over the time that happened. See the US railway sector from 1900 to 2020:

https://www.credit-suisse.com/media/assets/corporate/docs/ab...
I have 200 hours on Moon Reader reading The Wheel of Time alone. At least 200 more reading other books. I still prefer Kindle because it has features that are important to me, such as a simple and effective notes+highlights system and syncing my place across devices.
WebAssembly in the browser currently can't manipulate the DOM directly. Neither can it make HTTP requests. You need to use a JS bridge to do that. That has some overhead. So I don't think webassembly will replace JavaScript anytime soon. It might be reserved for high-performance compute, or maybe canvas based rendering for the time being.
I don't know, and I am not advocating posting negative reviews for every product you buy. Only the ones that genuinely do deserve negative reviews. Everytime I have posted positive reviews, and wanted to purchase the same product again, I found its price jacked up. If the review system is being used against us users, then it makes sense to stop using it and supporting it.
They started showing up here (Phoenix area) like 5 years ago. The dominant market player (Circle K) looked far less clean and appetizing by comparison, so we tend to go there by preference now.

The food is almost low-end-takeaway quality. The soft pretzels and milkshakes are nice, and the pizza will do in a pinch (particularly if you're the only one who wants it and get an individual-sized one)

In my experience, the pizza there is low-end chain quality, but unlike ordering delivery, you end up getting one $10 pizza instead of the family descending into squabbles over toppings and ordering three pies, mozzerella sticks, wings, and spending the better part of a Franklin.

One of the big pandemic-era family experiences has been getting a pizza there, dividing it up and eating it in the car. (the box is perforated so it can be torn into rudimentary plates)
Cygnus A is 232 Megaparsecs away[1], which converts to ~756,830,000 light-years away. Because of the expansion of the universe[2], what we observe happened slightly more recently.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygnus_A

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_the_universe
I've a horrible premonition that the paper describing this problem (and those that cite it) may eventually end up being flagged for containing too many tortured phrases...
I believe exhaust(file.close() for file in files) should work as well, no need for the extra parens.
Is it possible for intelligent alien life to arise on a world without any oil/gas/coal reserves (maybe they don’t have the equivalent of plankton, or maybe they do, but bacteria that could eat the plankton evolved much earlier)? If so, would they be forever trapped on their planet, never able to go through an Industrial Age and eventually achieve rocket flight? Maybe this is one explanation for why no aliens, so far.
I am sure this was not your intention or meaning, but please be aware that it is virtually impossible for a non-native speaker to write perfect English. English is a language you have to intuit. In contrast to other languages, it has very few fixed rules. Writing elegantly in English is most certainly an art form.

Of course, writing good science is hard enough for native speakers. It is very difficult for the vast majority of people on the planet - no matter how good their research.

And just so we are clear: Not everyone can afford professional editing services at every point in their career.

We meet in English under the premise that it allows for universal communication.
In this, we accept that English natives are almost infinitely more privileged in writing, speaking, conferencing and networking. We also have to accept that the level of English proficiency varies, and - especially English - is easy to learn and so difficult to master.
That's a very HN take on a tale of what might be a real life near-Atlantis! For me, the thing I love about the classics is that people are still people, just with a lot less knowledge of science and engineering than we have, a lot more knowledge of things we are trying to discover about them, and a rather different moral philosophy. The fact that neighbouring villages sent scouts to investigate the disappearance and discussed it at length is interesting, for example -- some times the deaths of thousands warrant at most a cursory sentence along the lines of "Thebes was plagued".

The geography really has moved a surprising amount since those days too -- e.g. Rome's ancient harbour is now decidedly inland. I wonder if a combined large-scale geophysical search together with airborne ground penetrating radar is remotely feasible over the sort of huge area they might consider.
Designing and testing it would have cost them more than $5, but substantially less than $100M. Nice solution.
Have you considered that the enforcement of copyright, trade secrets, and state secrets are incompatible with freedom of speech?
Ridley Scott's debut movie, "The Duelists" is such a movie. It's based on real diaries of two dudes who dueled several times over course of decades. The sword fighting in the movie is among the most realistic. Check out the opening scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvVyyH2mQ9E

Also, the sword fight from "The Deluge" (Polish title - "Potop"). Admittedly, the plot says the commander didn't want to kill a rebelling but skilled officer, just teach him a lesson. But otherwise well done. It was a time when fencing and horse riding training was mandatory for Polish actors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkYjdPCyYjk
> I the problem in the UK is humidity is quite high most of the time and most houses don't have HVAC and there seems to be a complete lack of knowledge around ventilation

Mandating (whole house) dehumidifiers in building codes may help with that if air tightness is also mandated.
We use it for general search and similar items results on www.liveauctioneers.com
Is it just me or is the font rendering of the article text really bad (very inconsistent font thickness)? I'm using waterfox G3.2.4.1 on windows 10.
Though dividends paid in cash don't really count as compounding no?
The recent "Jan 6 was an act of love" (for Trump) is another good example. It was both true-in-a-sense (oxytocin doesn't make you less racist), and brilliant, in much the same way that "Proud Boys" was clever, but it seems to sail right over peoples' heads (Or they're just pretending not to get it. I can't tell.).

And some older political phrases could also be added to your list; for me the archetype is "Pro Life" vs. "Pro Choice".
Startup idea: create a synthetic subset of natural language in which it's difficult to write annoying comments, to simplify social media moderation. Sell it as an API.

All extant moderation* is of the form "start with the set of all text strings, and remove unwanted things incrementally". What if we tried it the other way around -- start with *absolutely nothing*, and incrementally add words / production rules which are "probably safe"? You could build up a restrictive, stilted "internetspeak" that's much safer / cheaper to moderate, allowing text comments in places where otherwise the costs would exceed the benefits. Or allow big tech platforms who have too much text to effectively control, much of which they don't want, to grasp firmer control of that.

I'm imagining the UX to be something like autocorrect, that takes real-time text input and projects it onto the closest-matching strings in the subset language, which are output as suggestions / prompts. But ideally it'd be a language users could quickly learn to master, without needing continuous assistance / nagging which disrupts the flow.

Is this doable now, or is natural language just too insidiously nuanced?

*(Broadly interpreted: everything from "humans manually reading / removing things" to "word / regex badlist" to ML approaches -- they're all "default allow").
Sounds like a business opportunity! Does Mighty, the commercialized, virtualized Chromium distribution do this stuff?
I disagree. At least for me the 'wryly amusing' needs the events to be connected. Like death row pardon just too late doesn't do that for me. Death row pardon too late because you were on death row for killing Telefon operator 'Speedy' does it.

Winning lottery and dying in your newly bought racing car, ok. Just dying, I do not see the irony.

But it might just be me, and probably as with taste one cannot really discuss that.
With kids to feed, one does what he or she has to do to go through backbreaking or stressful work.

Drinking suppresses nightmares but gives a less refreshing sleep. Must have been tough to make that choice... I wonder if he smiled less or had trouble enjoying things when he stopped... More stress or less patience. But you already shared so much about your father, you don't need to answer!

As for the sleeping pills, after I've seen how they made my grandpa dependent, and now that I'm trying to taper off antidepressants, I'd like to moderate. They probably are addicts, just not with the negative connotations of addict, if you see what I mean. I wished we'd help more people tapering off stuff.

Kudos, though, to people doing what they can to give their children and spouse a life without money worries.
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I struggled with addiction to alcohol and cocaine for a long time. I would not say, at least do feel it’s the case, I was trying to escape. It was fun, and as time when on it was just a thing I did. Eventually my body started feeling it and it took me two years to get clean (I still drink about once a month.) But nowhere along that decade long road did I ever feel like I was escaping my life. I was amplifying it, I can write twice the code on cocaine (I’m already pretty fast) and alcohol is a social thing, I got hooked because it was cool to drink so I drank more than everyone else. I would be the last guy up at a party.

I think the other poster, whether what he said was correct or not, is right that it is a disservice to chalk an addict up to someone escaping life. This removes the majority of drug addicts who got hooked from pain after surgery and now can’t stop, or the ones who could stop but enjoy the feeling it creates. Not all drug addicts are homeless people sleeping on the streets. I have an ex who’s sister runs a chain of stores and she’s a legit meth head, you could never tell though because she does it in moderation and doesn’t look like she takes anything at all.
Agreed- Crazy that this came from him. In the last 2-3 months Ive noticed a few pretty annoying things happening with my MS account- First the weather toolbar was added to my system tray and it looked very much like one of those spam toolbars that have plagued Windows ad/malware. Next I started getting memories from OneDrive. I use my 1 drive for dev backup and as such I get an email from MS with a bunch of icon images as a memory.
> But Singapore, oh man 7-11 in Singapore is terrible compared to Taiwan/Japan.

7-Eleven in Singapore is operated by a Hong Kong conglomerate that also has the licence(?) to operate in Hong Kong and China [1].

If we're just talking about convenience food, IMO 7-Eleven still has a better selection than its other competitor, Cheers [2], which is owned and operated by Singapore's government-controlled trade union confederation [3].

[1] https://www.dairyfarmgroup.com/en-US/Our-Businesses/Convenie...

[2] https://www.fairprice.com.sg/our-retail-formats/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Trades_Union_Congress
It might be the mathematical equivalent of Winston Churchill... a person who definitely existed, but who didn’t say 90% of the famous bon mots attributed to him. It might have been that if you wanted your ideas to spread you had to attribute them to “Pythagoras.”
And yet still not a single counter argument explaining why you guys don't build your own social media site instead of whining about the old and stupid leading brands. There's lesson in the irony.
If only there was some way to find information on the internet.
That is why I suggested to use the audio version instead of the images, this is what I always do - I never look at those pictures.
No options? They could deliver food for DoorDash.
I thought this was going to be about sticking little NFC tags over real actual printed paper so clicking them opens the link, somehow, on your phone. Still cool.
Vivaldi allows placing the tab bar vertically[1], I've used this since Opera times (an Opera founder departed the company after its Chinese takeover, and started Vivaldi), I currently have around 120 tabs open in 5 windows (actually you can also scroll on the tab bar itself), yeah too damn many.

I suppose people without AppleScript can write a browser extension that iterates through all the tabs and report the count to a Grafana. It would also be interesting to also record ages of tabs (e.g. time since it was opened/time since it was last seen)...

[1] https://vivaldi.com/features/tab-management/
suppressing nightmares = avoiding bad memories or past experiences

being able to sleep through the night = experiencing peace artificially

not necessarily about avoiding negative feelings per se =
its about avoiding past experiences and not being able to face the 'issues' because you think they will break you or annoy you
True, and that's a better way around it, since then both commits can run and pass the tests.
> it's a common technique/first layer of plagiarizing a text to translate it from english to eg. spanish and then from spanish to english

It's also a common technique for people who don't speak English to translate it... In fact, quite a bit more common.
You're assuming this is malware or tracking. I don't think that assumption is warranted. And at least this unasked-for feature is ostensibly pro-user, unlike Firefox's user-hostile additions like the Mr. Robot nonsense.
> The paid journals take research which is mostly paid for with public or non-profit money, and hide it behind paywalls. You can't avoid this fact.

Commercial publishers have paywalls, but for new research they no longer have to be the only source for publications.

Nowadays, I think it’s often the indifference/laziness/whatever of the authors that prevent accepted manuscripts (same text, but different layout) from also being freely accessible.

For example https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/sharing allows putting accepted manuscripts on arXiv.

The way I read it, the main limitations are:

- you can’t put your paper on a commercial site.

- you have to mention the DOI, which, I guess, resolves to Elsevier’s site.

Reading https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/hosting (“Sites or repositories that provide a service to other organizations or agencies, even if those other organizations or agencies are themselves non-commercial entities, are considered to be providing a commercial service, and this service activity will also require a commercial arrangement with Elsevier”), they make special exceptions for arXiv and RePEc.

So, that’s not optimal, but (for new papers) also not as bleak as it typically is described.
I was in a wreck 2 months ago where I'm assuming the woman was on her phone, because she slammed into me while I was stopped at an intersection. I am still arguing with her insurance company over the property damage claim, and we haven't even started on the bodily injury claim because I haven't yet finished all my health-related crap caused by the "accident".

The phone companies, insurance companies, car companies, and individuals have no incentive to disable phones while driving. Who is left to fix this problem?

Maybe it will get fixed when a senator's family member is killed by someone driving and using their phone.
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On a similar note, what about Rust?
I’m glad you shared this.

A colleague early in my career was badly wounded in Vietnam and was a heavy drinker into the late 90s. It was an escape from physical and mental scars afaik. The experience out a heavy toll on his kids, his 4 wives, and coworkers who had to deal with some of the side effects.

When I met him in the early 2000s, he had turned that aspect of his life around and moonlighted as an addiction counselor. His thought was that he could tell you within 2-3 days who would make it out of a group program — they had to have a reason.

For my friend, his granddaughter’s birth was a wake up call that lit up his motivation. It sounds like for your dad, leaving the army was the trigger.

Several members of my extended family struggled with alcohol - at the time growing up I saw it as a weakness or failure, which I regret. Growing older and gaining more understanding led me to a conclusion similar to yours in the subject.
It also sounds difficult to curate (just another kind of moderation), and much of the success of the current social media heavyweights is due to their curation.
> “When versions of articles are made available too soon, this undermines the need to subscribe [to journals],” wrote a spokesperson, Amy Price, in an email to Science.

Yes, Ms. Price, that is the point.
So malware is okay because you can turn it off? No.
How is AI based video monitoring more effective than the usual call center focused metrics of calls taken per hour, time engaged vs not engaged (availability), cases closed?

Video monitoring workers in their homes who interact with customers via voice seems unnecessary, and not cost effective.
Regardless if their “science” is crap. There is no reason to flag this article.

The claims it is talking about are whether they have a right to speak or not.

China censors their country via private companies, how is it different in the US?

Elsewhere here someone says “Why is a link to AAPS, widely known for spreading [their opinions contrary to The Party], on this site?”

I forgot you must always be in accord with The Party. You can’t be with them on 7 of their 10 points because then you will be silenced. You must be all for all 10 points they make, and be actively working against those opposed to them.
You must not even listen to points contrary to the one The Party makes.

When the whole world is crazy, sanity looks insane.
> attempting to create green buildings is inherently political

There is nothing 'inherent' about your individual actions. Instead of being interested and curious and talking about science, you dismissed other people's perspectives with political stereotypes.
Feel free to contact me offline. Most of the folks that have something to say, don't really do so in public.
ISO exists at the whim of the sovereign entities. You are most likely a citizen of one (or perhaps even more) of the entities that ensure ISO continues to exist, and could ask them to get ISO to give away the standards documents.

Of course if the money does not come from ISO selling documents, it would need to come from tax revenue. In reality however it was scheduled the real money comes from the richest countries, as they're most able to afford it, your politicians may have the opinion that even a modest sum expended in this way would be justified by their opponents as profligate...
Ask HN: Is it SV culture, or tech in general that is entitled?
From my perspective, I do not have the experience of working with startups or "Engaging" tech-focused work. Yet many times do I see an article or blog get posted here that is about substandard work conditions.

Employee metrics based on internal commune engagement; activity that is monitored to judge payroll worthiness; Ensuring profitability based on how many times you say "yes." Is this normal for tech in the 21st century, or just the culture of a select few, yet noticeable, companies?
Not sure if it was an autocorrect, but teetotaling is unrelated to tea.
I have no problem with social media companies kicking off anyone they please. I do have a problem when the lines between government and private get blurred, and a government can indirectly or directly influence the censorship decisions of private companies through threat of regulation, a revolving door, or by explicitly flagging certain posts. That's a grey area 1A violation in my mind.
Neat idea. I love that it works in the browser. It would be cool if it worked for phone numbers too.
My current workflow is to watch for a PR to be accepted on github, then use the delete branch button in the GUI. On my local repo, I'll then use `git remote prune origin`, and only call `git branch -D` on branches that were pruned. It's a workable solution, and it could be scripted around, but I don't want to. Reproducing the functionality that already exists in git feels like a waste of time, when the entire purpose would be to work around the existence of a rebase workflow. Better would be to just use a merge/no-ff workflow in the first place.
Charles Petzold is a God amongst programmers. His "Programming Windows 3.1" book was the foundation of my company. Still going strong twenty-five years later.

I loathe MS Edge. In spite of explicitly setting my default file associations to my preferred applications, every other day Windows insists on resetting PDF, JPG etc. to Edge. Va te faire foutre.
mighty is selling something completely different with a whole other level of lock-in.
> Bells and Famous Grouse, _are_ the purest expression of what Scotch is, and in fact not that easy to get hold of outside of Scotland

Pretty sure you can pick them up at any basic petrol station anywhere in England, 24 hours a day. Sorry to shatter that illusion.
People use Edge? I assumed that a majority of users do what I do on a fresh install, and download literally any browser that's not made by Microsoft, and set it as default.
Is the big deal primarily that the Fed needs to be able to spike rates (like Volcker) to get rid of inflation and close a business cycle, but that tanks asset prices and forces Zombie businesses to finally die, which is politically toxic, so it doesn't happen if there is too much political control of the Fed?
It's also important outside the browser, WASM could be the solution for running untrusted code without a walled-garden app distribution model, but only if the sandbox actually works.
I read the headline and was nodding along.

Then I got to the part where he suddenly rants that content moderators are "probably...teams of purple-haired Millennials with nose hoops and personal pronoun mood-rings."

And calls out the AP for marking a medical claim "false" just because no one has been able to produce any evidence for it.

And says that calling anti-vaxxers nasty names is literally just as bad as racism.

I'm looking at the comment I just typed and it sounds like I'm exaggerating to make him look bad. But I'm not. That's what he's actually claiming.
Something somewhat similar happens in the game of Connect6.

Connect 4 and Connect 5 (aka Gomoku) significantly favor the first player, but Connect6 follows a BWWBBWW... pattern where each player places two stones per move expect for the first move where only one is placed. It ends up being very balanced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connect6