skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I remember back in the late 90's or maybe 2000/2001 running some distro with X from two floppies.

Perhaps it was "2-Disk Xwindow Linux": https://web.archive.org/web/20020408075857/http://www.mungki...
It’s pretty unlikely that invermectin has any protective effect but also why would any listen to anything a government agency says when they lie repeatedly and transparently
Yep, Apple exploits holes in everything. Remember when Europe tried to introduce one charging port standard? Apple got around it by selling the shittiest most flimsy and easily broken microUSB to Lightning adapter known to man. If Apple can give EU such a middle finger, you better believe the third-party payment link ruling will have every hole in it exploited to the fullest to preserve revenue and show app developers their place. And Epic will be sscrewedwith even more, including Unreal for Apple's platforms.

But I feel like these IT monopolies won't hold for more than 30-50 years.
This is a cool project! What's the formula for figuring out if something will blend well (as a human)? I failed several times...

The closest I got was "Dreams Nation Army" (Sweat Dreams & Seven Nation Army) https://rave.dj/bS7DTzUs_kvFMQ - Sounds okay.
I break Anker PowerLine+ cables all the time, not sure what's better.

The connector design itself is shit, and the rubberized housing of the connector isn't mechanically supported as any self-respecting consumer-grade cable should be, all torque transfers to the PCB and that's horrible design.
Car dealership owners are among the richest people in many rural and blue-collar towns in the USA. While you can conceivably tax the profits of company-owned stores on the state level, dealership owners may spend their profits in their local area (building their houses, purchasing local entertainments, visiting local stores, etc.), rather than having the profits go to Detroit and being spent there.
Yeah no thanks, the Inuit lifestyle does not seem healthy. The Inuit currently have lifespans that are about 13 years less than the average Canadian lifespan. Even that is an improvement of 29 years from the 1940s. [0]

[0] https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/82-003-x/2008001/article...
Yes, support for this is practically unanimous by health research on the topic. Obviously there's orders of 'bad', with processed meats being worse than red meats, and red meats worse than say lean white meats, and the quantity matters too. The whole omnivore argument tends to assume we used to eat tons of meat all the time but it was a rarity until fairly recently in our history.
Always love looking deeper into businesses that bootstrapped their way to large revenues, you can tell they were relentlessly focused – and yet still underrated in the mainstream narrative

"You can simply start a business, run it to serve your customers" https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/06/technology/mailchimp-and-...
or it is time to replace these critical libraries with something that has the same features and is far less convoluted and far harder to make serious mistakes with.

In addition to having experts accidentally make mistakes with `ref ref` like in that first video that resulted in performance degradation due to unwanted copies, C/C++ is a major security risk. Countless vulns are from simple mistakes and complex misunderstanding.
> The only reason beef is so popular is because it's available.

You don't think cultures eating meat and integrating meat into their traditions has anything to do with it?

It's difficult to separate the chicken and the egg here because farming meat was super cheap, accessible and beneficial (nutritionally, environmentally and financially) for a lot longer than the last 100 years.

It's "good" to transition to a meatless diet for the sake of the environment. The world is going to have to massively change in order to do that, and the cultures and traditions of a lot of people are going to be casualties along the way. Please don't be so dismissive of that.
Also, eating chicken or even pork instead of beef is a significant improvement.

Replacing pork with cheese, on the other hand, doesn't do much.
They pocket every penny they fail to spend on checking for spurious claims.
I am always baffled by the augment of "well the rest of the developed world does X"

Seems to strike me as a lesson I learned when I was young.. "Well if your friends all jumped off the bridge would you?"

Simply because other nations do X, is not IMO a valid justification for X...
I vastly prefer on screen keyboards. I'm faster with them, it requires a lighter touch, and the auto correct is good enough.

What I miss about blackberries is that they were messaging devices, with OS level integrations around messaging that went beyond the notification system of today.

For 90% of messages i send, i could simply use a generic sms style interface through a system-wide messaging app, only jumping into the apps themselves from time to time. I think palm had that, but it was too little, too late.

unihertz makes a blackberry clone btw, check it out
I would be surprised if dredging up seaweed from the ocean and barging it up the Mississippi and putting it on a train to Omaha where it will be trucked to rural Nebraska could possibly be cost effective against the grass in the pasture the cows are already in. That seems to be job creation in the “I shot myself in the foot, so my doctor has job security” sense. Or are we building oil-rig style floating pastures to cut transportation costs?
I don't know because I can't read Medium articles anymore.
Yes, or the guy who wants you to mock out database calls because it's not a "real unit test" otherwise. So you spend another day mocking out crap when it's both easier and less error-prone to use the real thing. I guess the time spent will pay for itself... in 10 years.
I do miss my Treo. I preferred it to my Blackberry. Both were better and less distracting than my current ad-presenting spy box.
I mean fruit exist to be eaten so the seeds can be shat out somewhere else. It’s part of the reproductive cycle for many plants.
> The only reason beef is so popular is because it's available.

Wait, what? Beef is popular because it tastes good. You don’t pay $50+ for a chicken breast, salmon filet, or pork chop. People consume beef because it tastes good. It’s “available” because people like it. If deer or bison sold for more than the price per lbs of beef, the cattle industry would collapse and be replaced overnight. But it doesn't, because people don't like the taste as much.
Solid answer..

None of this needs to be binary this or that though. We can limit or eliminate our intake of meat products through personal choice AND engineer solutions to minimize environmental harm. We can do both and it does not have to be unanimous.

Also, there absolutely is a very real cultural shift happening right now that is embracing flexitarian/vegetarian/vegan diets.
I find it very unlikely the IRS is not already writing tax software. They would need fairly sophisticated in-house software to evaluate returns, so it would just be the creation a new UI to be tax-payer facing. I would imagine all the required logic is already coded.
The car manufacturer can undercut a dealership, because they have fewer costs. At the time these laws were written, having a dealership was vital to get timely repairs. In Tesla's case, timely repairs might still be an issue - you cannot get a general mechanic to work on them. Therefore, it was designed to ensure sales were locked into a repair system.
That is quite the claim, do you have proof?
> (if so, there should be a process and rules to become official, but there aren't)

I'm not 100% sure, but you seem to be looking for https://www.postgresql.org/about/policies/npos/ ?

Those organizations are then in turn listed at https://www.postgresql.org/about/donate/
This advice is interesting, but almost entirely useless for anybody outside the US / Silicon Valley bubble. Exactly how are you going to go for coffee with your "VC buddies" if you live 8,000km away? The idea is frankly ridiculous for anybody not in a tiny circle. edit: apparently London is the same. Only further away.

This article really highlights how stupid frauds like Theranos get funded. The real answer is between the lines:

To get funded:

a) Be connected, physically close and already in the clique.
b) Don't be outside the clique.

I mean I get the idea that rich kids giving their rich mates money to start yet another dogshit fintech is just how the game is played, but what a frustrating time it is for the rest of us.
> Its not ignoring!

Look a the comment I originally responded to. They complained that two out of three items had no substance, therefore we can't have a serious conversation. That is, specifically, what I was addressing.

> I still don't know why it should get attention though. So they don't have an executive director? Why should anyone care?

> You keep trying to say things, without saying why anyone should care about this stuff, or why it is bad.

It's specifically stated in the tweet. Not having an executive director leaves the chair with more power. Amazon is the chair. Amazon has chosen to let the position go unfilled which results in their own position having more power.

He goes into more detail here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28513656

Actually asking questions about that, like you are here, is the outcome I was calling for, as opposed to ignoring it because of other statements, as the original comment I replied to was.

> It is on you, to both say what is happening, as well as for you to say why it is bad, and what the concern is.

No, you're placing me as someone on the one side of the argument, when the side is irrelevant. My point was that ignoring everything said because of portions that don't add up is not a valid way to assess the information. That doesn't require me to take a side, and in fact taking a side just makes it easier to people to dismiss my point and assume my goal is something else, as I suspect you did.
Mil-spec?
why does it bother you so much
There are the products and tools only available via Julia Computing.
Hopefully at least some of that suspicion is rooted in truth, otherwise I'm taking some really wrong decisions in my life :-)
I apologize. That reply was to a person who mentioned non-fungible tokens, a cryptocurrency thing I really don't like. It got me into an emotional state and I said something that in retrospect was excessive. For that I am sorry.
“Eat food, not too much (instead of “not a lot”), mostly plants” is rephrasing Michael Pollan. My family isn’t vegan or vegetarian, we just rarely eat meat, and we enjoy it as a treat.

I’d rather err on the side of under-eating and then experiment with what I need more of than consume too much “just in case” or because it feels good.
"Very reasonable" if you're prioritizing Intuit's profits above the interests of every U.S. taxpayer; Unreasonable if those priorities are reversed.
The C++ Committee story was primarily about Google and other large corporate interests advocating a large techno local change in the language to benefit their use case with no input or consideration for other users of the tool

Any links for background on this debate?
SendGrid is owned by Twilio btw
Fantastic, saved.
Misread headline as: Researchers successfully train potty cows.

Rather a greater accomplishment I expected.
But it's not eating meat that's making you lose weight, it's cutting out all the carbs you'd normally eat...
I left my school at sixteen in the UK. Five years of barely sleeping, dreading the next day, crying for fifteen minutes before going in and experiencing endless torment and violence including being knocked unconscious on several occasions, having my glasses shattered on multiple occasions, bullying by members of staff, and on one occasion having someone punch the bridge of my glasses quite literally inside of my nose, and yes, there's still a scar to this day, and yes, it knocked me out cold. To say that I was genuinely suicidal at several points is putting it lightly, and that's without going into the problems outside of school. "Fag" or "faggot" is a word I never want to hear again in my life.

I wanted to transfer. I wanted to be home schooled. I wanted to do absolutely anything but be there. I had a plan though: start my own business whilst I was still at school so that I would have goals at sixteen, and it wouldn't be like I was bumming about doing nothing when I left. So I did that.

Fast-forward to me now twenty-eight and I'm very happy, working on my own terms with my own biz. Life is good. Partner of six years, wonderful family. Never went to university.

Did it build character? Yes. Would I go through it again? I can only say that I'm glad I will never have to. However, it gave me insight to knowing what schools of the time were willing to overlook and tolerate, and will definitely inform my style of parenting when it comes to problems at school.
> What is happening here?

Music (and likely other media) is typically licensed for distribution regionally or nationally. What you're seeing here is probably the (unexhaustive) laundry list of different rights holders for various international markets.

Remember region locking for DVDs? That wasn't (just) due to NSTC vs PAL.
Skipping may not be faster than running, but on the moon it is more efficient.

https://www.improbable.com/2018/03/22/skipping-on-the-moon-f...
The Interplanetary File System is a good start for decentralizing websites. https://docs.ipfs.io/

I'm waiting to hear from the rest of HN, I've been curious about decentralized websites for a while.
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It's not just about UB, it's about the design encouraging good code and defensive programming. That includes enums, non nullability, immutability by default, etc.
While I am not and won't dismiss your personal experiences with high school, but I think there is value in that pressure cooker environment, even if unpleasant. College and the workforce/academia is rife with similar bad habits that I can see myself not being prepared for if I hadn't had a dose of the petty viciousness (albeit with somewhat less consequence in the long term). It's one thing to be emotionally abused by some catty behavior in a setting that is less likely to screw your life over or at least gives you a chance of redemption post hs. Than to find out that even worse cattiness exists within your PhD program and now you're royally screwed over with it becoming harder and harder to get a fresh start.
Yes, the API part is using Vapor. But there is not much code that actually relies on Vapor. It is mostly doing request parameter parsing and routing.

I use simple 2D lat lon grids for different regions and resolutions. E.g. the global grid uses 2879x1441 pixel grid. The third dimension is time. All data are stored directly as floating points on disk. Because I know the dimensions of the grid, I can read data exactly at the correct position on disk. I use Float16 as well, which saves me 50% disk space compared to Float32.

Fancy hexagons like H3 are not necessary. They could reduce storage by ~30%, but require much more effort and I have to "modify" the forecast. I keep forecast data from national weather services as untouched as possible.
This article is heartbreaking. I'm not sure I'll listen to his Passions again the same way.
Thank you so much for this.

These sorts of things are amongst the things I used to enjoy on Twitter before I followed one too many synical techies and the algorithm ruined my Twitter feed with toxic waste.
This is a great example of how misleading relative change can be. Double of 1 is 2. Double of 27 is 54.

Stats like this should be presented in absolute numbers and given in context with comparable historical norms, e.g. deaths by other or all causes.

What I really want to know is how the likelihood of death by covid is related to likelihood of death by say, for example, car.
> You can't have capitalism without wealth inequality

First, nobody is talking about getting rid of all wealth inequality, but Adam Smith is questioning whether extreme wealth inequality benefits innovation and indicates a healthy economy. He makes a number of points about inequality, one of them being that the more efficient a market gets, the less profit margin individual products should generate (since they'll be priced efficiently at or near cost), and the harder it will be in an efficient market for any Capital owner to generate profits on what they build.

In general, whether extreme consolidation increases or decreases startup potential is not an absurd question to ask. I understand you have a particular philosophy about Capitalism that states that extreme wealth concentration is enabling opportunities, but that philosophy is not universally shared by every Capitalist, and you don't get to just say that's how it works just because.

Obviously Capitalism requires some inequality, and obviously Capitalism requires some equality and social mobility. You see this mirrored in the market itself; it's good for some companies to be more successful than others (that's how we know that the market is working) but almost all Capitalists outside of very narrow anachro-Capitalist sects also believe that monopolies (even natural monopolies) are bad for the market.

Second, just saying "you can't have Capitalism without wealth inequality" doesn't add anything to the conversation. It's the equivalent of just commenting under an article, "No, you're wrong."

The article argues that Adam Smith advocated against extreme wealth consolidation, it's describing his economic theories. Do you think the article is mischaracterizing Adam Smith? Do you want to point to any of Adam Smith's quotes in Wealth of Nations and explain why they're flawed? Do you want to explain what Adam Smith didn't realize about Capitalism? Or do you just want to keep repeating that he's wrong?

> Everybody equal under socialism

Again, this is totally irrelevant to what we're talking about, and I do not care about Socialism.
Probably should have been clearer about us eating them and shitting in toilet where it ends up in sewage treatment with no chances of ever sprouting...
Military people just sit in canopies and hit buttons these days.

Consumers are the ones that will actually have cables bitten, chewed, stomped, sat on by unfit, heavy civilian asses, jammed into wheels of office chairs, rammed into by strangers' hips in coffee shops when your connector hangs off the edge, dunked in cereal, splattered by kitchen grease, smashed into rocks at Yosemite, and shoved into bags while plugged in after a slow TSA checkpoint and needing to sprint as fast as possible to a departure gate.

Very different set of ruggedness requirements. Most cables of the 80s and 90s were completely fine in these civilian environments.
Assuming copyright was dissolved it wouldn't be a huge money maker for the recording industry (questionably legitimate money receivers) or the artists (definitely legit) it'd be a huge money maker for apple and spotify that'd harness all that uncopyrighted stuff to make money on.
> Curtis draws a conclusion without a narrative trajectory; he leaves multifarious discordant happenings to interplay...

I think Curtis does this on purpose. Whenever I watch a Curtis doco, I feel I'm being told a compelling story. However, if you ask me afterwards what it was about, I will stumble to explain what it was about. I think Curtis is trying to show the viewer the complexity of the world and how difficult it is to actually get a grasp on reality and that there are no good guys and bad guys and that we're all the good guys and bad guys and that most of what we "believe" to be true is a simplification (a caricature) of reality.
And animals, in general, account for nearly 100% of all greenhouse gas emissions, so if we kill absolutely everything on the planet we can save the planet!
How do you decide between raising money and bootstrapping (like Mailchimp acquired for $12b today did)? I think the typical response is whether you want to be a bigger $1b+ company or die, or just slowly see where it takes you by the revenue of your customers. But how do you estimate the eventual potential/TAM of your startup/business as something that needs funding to grow ASAP?
You can't really trust VC's opinions as they're self-interested.
Icon fonts like `Material Icons` are a terrible idea for exactly this reason.

They can also confuse search engines (Try a Google search for "keyboard_arrow_up" and scroll down a few results for instance, Bing too if you put it in quotes).

Webmasters should use SVGs or bitmaps with appropriate alt or aria attributes; but it's easier to just load in a font and hope that it loads fast enough to not cause problems / that the user doesn't override it
> It's interesting talking to people who say "oh that problem is easy to solve, just do X" without realising that the problem is more complicated than it looks.

At no point did I state that the solution was easy. My response was to your claim that you do not know of any possible solution, not an easy solution; to wit, you invited input:

> Maybe it’s possible but I don’t know how. If you have ideas on this, please share.

I also don't follow your examples. Why are you tasking this hypothetical team to review all two billion accounts? The main issue at hand seems to be lack of sufficient staffing to review reported accounts. Why not start there?
3-2-1.

Time Machine (USB hard drive), NAS (Synology) and the cloud (Backblaze).
Not that I am Trump supporter (I was most definitely not), but when hospital capacity was expected to be overrun back in Q2-2020, didn’t Trump deploy USNS Comfort and USNS Mercy to NYC and LA? I don’t hear anything about the Biden administration doing this…I mean if it’s that bad—why aren’t these resources being deployed?
Lots of recommendations in this thread but not many descriptions about what the commenters like about their choice. Is it price? Usability? Deliverability?
The Linux console has more functionality than DOS ever did, sans GUI.
I miss my Pearl, but not the other BlackBerry devices I had.

I like how you could type on it without looking. It's been a decade and I still have typo issues with touchscreen phones. A post this long would likely have 4 noticeable typos if done on my phone.
Android is not capable of handling this? Or you didn't develop it yet?
NetSurf's great, thank you! I'd be curious to try porting it to another "frontend" i.e. OS/device. I don't know how difficult that would be. The development documentation seems good:

http://source.netsurf-browser.org/netsurf.git/tree/docs
I understand the appeal of radical portability that a floppy-based OS gives you, but the fragility of floppy disk media is something I don't miss!