skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Past threads. Others?

How the Soviets Put Out Oil Well Fires by Using Nuclear Bombs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26756899 - April 2021 (2 comments)

The USSR used a nuclear charge to stop a gas well fire in 1966 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8397750 - Oct 2014 (124 comments)
No Ryzen option.

No 16 inch screen option.

No numpad option.

Pass.
Seconding this. "How to catalog all my books" is a decidedly nontrivial problem that people literally make the concentration of their masters' degrees (MLIS). The advice will depend based on the type of catalog you are likely to have, and you'll probably get asked questions you didn't even know you should be answering.

This will also be legitimately valuable experience for someone who can't get an internship at a real library (not enough slots/demand) and needs something to put on their resume. (If you had a budget of $0 you could possibly get someone to do it for free even, but don't do that.)
> I would also be very interested in the percentage of people for whom deferring a cigarette for five minutes is easy.

I would be too. But I can’t imagine it’s very low. It’s like holding your pee for 5 minutes, uncomfortable, but eminently doable as long as you know you’ll find a toilet soon.

I think the problem is with knowing that those 5 minutes are supposed to mean deferring the smoking forever.
Well done lad!
I'm guessing you're being facetious. Hard to be certain except for the ludicrousness of your comment.
If you only want to spend one minute on it, footage of the actual event starts at about 15:52 and is followed immediately by an animated diagram of how it worked (detonation 1.5km below the surface which collapsed the well from the side).
And ironically @foone hates Hacker news with a passion(1) for some reason and yet these threads make the front page of HN every 3 months or so!

(1) https://twitter.com/foone/status/1310432709273989120?lang=en
seems they're working on it https://community.frame.work/t/ethernet-rj45/2203/2

if there's a bounty on it, i'll pick it up :)
Thats awseome! Thanks for sharing.
Life is deadly, it eventually kills you and everyone around you whether you like it or not#.

Life's a risk from well before you were born until the day you die. Taking risks everyday is what life's all about. That said, when transversing life's obstacles it's incumbent on you to do your best to not trample on others and thus increase their risks. And sometimes that means taking additional risks yourself as it's the right and proper thing to do as it minimize the risks for others - and here that additional risk is pretty insignificant - that of bring vaccinated.

I'd contend that those who aren't prepared to take that risk are acting selfishly. If not, then they're spooked or damn scared.

Why some people in the US, where there's access to good eduation, verifiably accurate information, etc., and yet they still refuse to accept evidence and logical argument is one of the big conundrums of our time. Still, even with all these obstacles in hand it's our duty to help them, difficult as that may be.

# That's a raw point at the moment for me as a close friend of some decades died a few days ago (no, it wasn't COVID).
Deep Space Network: A Laser Communications Future
Berkshire doesn't have to be right about every stock pick as long as the average is good. But if you buy 100% of the Berkshire picks that go down and less than 100% of the picks that go up (because some never drop below the level they bought them for), there is a real risk that you could do substantially worse
I'm guessing ADHD medication like dextroamphetamine.

Controlled substance agreements aren't that unusual. Usually the patient has to agree to a program and the drug tests ensure it's not diverted.
Wadsworth point is 15:55
Your comment reminds me of that infamous iPod review from 2001:

> No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
I would definitely encourage you to try digital libraries. I’m in the LA area and have access to both the LA county and LA city libraries, and between those two I have access to the vast majority of books I’m interested in. It’s easy to connect to a kindle as well; I use the Libby app which connects to those libraries, and I can send books that I check out to my kindle in one click. The main downside is that popular books sometimes have a wait time, sometimes for several months. This happens somewhat often, but not the majority of the time.
His comment may be considered irritating but still is a valid point.

The article could be better without that part.

Taxes is political and divisive and that does not belong here.

Please check the guidelines before modding.
Changed above from https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/royal-holloway-music-prof.... Thanks!
I took one for bioengineering

It was more so that we all understood that the people who used the fruits of our labor were trusting our knowledge of engineering with their own lives, in the hopes of preventing tragedies such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

but yes if you failed the class, you didn't get the degree
This works pretty well for establishing an exercise routine as well. I wouldn't feel like exercising, but I could convince myself to exercise for 10 min. What's 10 min?

Then once you hit the 10 min mark, what's another 10 min?
This reminds me of a story I heard about how a child was scared to go to school because her teacher kept on talking about what they would do "in the meantime". It turns out she was afraid there was a "mean time" coming up.
(Heard on "A way with words")
I'm hooked into multiple recruiters to find local office work, and they keep telling me the roles are just not coming in. I'm on the automated weekly jobs list from multiple companies. I also check linkedin and other boards, local jobs seem to be very low for my area. Rare interviews, but I'm competing with a ton of unemployed people after mass layoffs from 2020 still looking.

I talk to recruiters from texas to the florida, and If I want to move, there is work.

I'm in a major metro on the west coast, so I'm guessing for me, people are not back in the office here yet.

Also, I think recruiters are taking advantage of it, I did find 2 jobs for 1/4th the pay.
Looks like it. Not surprising that they investigated borrow checking in C++ though as rewriting Chrome is much more than a big job.
It sounds like you could maybe make substantial progress by just separating the differential pairs (?) by a millimeter or two of dielectric, giving you a ribbon cable, with much lower crosstalk than the round kind. Bonus points if you color the dielectric rainbow colors.
There's definitely a dearth of English-language info on Casio's premium offerings, especially the older Oceanus stuff. I gather you must have purchased your wife's watch during the brief period they tried to make a go of the Oceanus sub-brand in the US?

There's all sorts of bizarre sub-variations, too. I saw a similar women's Oceanus on eBay last fall, with English-language Discovery Channel Shark Week branding, and the seller in New York was dumping it for cheap because they couldn't get the radio sync to work. Turns out it was a model that was only set up to sync with the UK and German time signals. Older Casio models also only say Multi-Band 5 as well, because, I guess, the Chinese atomic-clock broadcast hadn't been set up yet.
now we're talking, let's get classy canes
The article said it's not activated by default for western buyers, but that Xiaomi has the ability to remotely enable it. On that note, there is no setting on either Apple or Google phones that lets you tell the phone, "Under no circumstances remotely install or disable software on my device unless I give explicit consent. I paid for this phone with my own money and I own it and control it."

Google and Apple are the real owners of Google and Apple phones. They can install and uninstall whatever they want, whenever they want.
It was an app that spun up and managed environments for WordPress websites, including local envs, with 1-click deploys and DB migrations to most hosting providers. Eventually expanded out of WP to other types of apps. It flopped for various reasons, but the main being bad fit with co-founders.

It was a first to market competitor to https://localwp.com, who ultimately won out. gg
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sounds like what they teach casually is simplified well past the point of accuracy and possibly even particular usefulness.
My problem with Rust: I'm sure that if I used it as my primary language for a couple of years, I would be able to claw the productivity loss back. But I can't find any reason to justify using it at my current productivity level.

There is a vicious cycle: few projects use Rust because the productivity hit is large, and programmers do not get enough experience using Rust because few projects use it.
You realize the NHS in the UK recommends using e-cigs as harm reduction?

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/quit-smoking/using-e-cigarettes...
Isn't nicotine the primary addictive chemical in cigarettes and vapes
Insanely clean build. I’m going to build a system around this case as well.

Nice to see Gentoo getting some love. Curious why a custom 5.12 kernel though.
Cheap interpreter, part 1: overview
Which border do you think? In 3 seconds of googling you can find out you have the wrong opinion unless you don't think fentanyl is one of the worst drugs.[0]

What do you think happens to vulnerable children smuggled by the cartels?

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/fentanyl-seizur...
> Taxes is political and divisive and that does not belong here.

When an article contains a slight passing reference to a political provocation, that's a great reason not to copy it into the thread and create an off-topic distraction on HN. If it were the main point of the article it might be a different story, but it's obviously a generic tangent in this case.

When there's flamebait, we should just not take the bait. It isn't necessary and there are much more interesting discussions to be had.

You're right to reference the guidelines, which include:

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I mean, it’s still logarithmic. What’s a constant among friends?
Pompous Facebook clown.
And after going "all USB-C, all the time" on their laptops Apple still can't figure out how to put USB-C on a phone.

At some point you have to conclude Apple is fucking with us all on purpose, just because they can.
FWIW. You could rent a studio apartment in the Melbourne CBD for ~200AUD a week (search postcode 3000 on domain.com.au for some listings)

That’s about 700USD per month which leaves plenty for other expenses.
Is there an advantage to use my ISPs tunnel vs another tunnel? I have an open case inquiring about IPv6 and can ask them via that ticket. But if there isn't a benefit from using an ISPs tunnel then I'd rather just save them the work.
Not enough to justify cutting them out.

(The answer is of the same level as question. If you want to imply that there's a significant gain, go prove it.)
Well none of us will know what happens in the long run. Maybe climate change will wipe most of us out? Best we can guess is short term (next few decades). That time frame is where my comment was really aimed at.
Can you not tighten your belt without cutting to yourself in half?
Open-source sound generating software
The most effective marketing copy is often written at a 5th grade level. Some who have studied copywriting have found the reverse correlation between sales figures & grade level to be the highest of anything they could measure in terms of the copy itself.
In the same way you took the money.
Tesla leading the way. https://www.systemplus.fr/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/SP18413...
Fast Grow
fast grow
Thanks for reading, and for sharing. A supportive spouse is a great thing. I wish you luck with your beta! Looking forward to the Show HN.
GP originally said "across the Pacific Ocean," hence my comment. GP has since been corrected to "Atlantic Ocean," but I can no longer edit or delete this comment.
NEVER click on a link that looks like that
Having worked with linguists on an ads eval platform (human eval), I can definitely appreciate what they've put into formulating questions/answers/documents/etc, such that these do not sound ambiguous, and not only that.
Does anyone have a mental model for why an airburst generates so much energy?

For the Chelyabinsk meteor, quick math shows the kinetic energy was about 2e15 joules or .5 megatons. Apparently, ALL of the kinetic energy was converted to radiation and heat, even though it never hit the ground.

My mental model was that something that big (20m) would just punch through the atmosphere and hit the ground, converting all its kinetic energy, and leaving a nice crater.

An airburst, instead, is caused by the inverse operation, i.e., the atmosphere punching into the meteor and shredding it.

Hmm. In the airburst case, the meteor is slowed down just as if it had hit the ground. Okay. Model updated. Thanks for reading.

Yeah, for some reason, I was thinking that stuff that got vaporized by the atmosphere didn't generate as much energy compared to the stuff hitting the ground.
There is an important value, implied by the repairability, that gets little attention here.

When I went to Malaysia, My 7 years old Asus N550 was malfunctioning and I needed to get a new laptop. In my previous company I got a zenbook 13" and loved it, but the ones in Malaysia were only sold with 8GB ram. I've been using 16 for 7 years and there was no way to go back. I wanted 10th gen intel (For the improved integrated GPU) and my only options which sold 16GB were Dell xps (500$ more expensive) and Lenovo (1000$ more expensive), but the latter would arrive in 3 months.

I got a Dell xps as my only option, and I hate it. One reason is that the specific cpu I got did not get the improved GPU (Intel's shady marketing and lack of transparency is to blame). Another reason is that the fingerprint reader has no drivers for Fedora, while Dell advertises the laptop as Linux ready.

Now I need more ram for my new activities and I want to bump it to 32 but I cannot do that.

Manufacturers tell us that they need to solder ram to MB to be able to give high performance for a thin and light form factor. Framework shows that this is not true.

Also, see how Framework tries to be transparent and informative? It clearly tells you that the tiny performance improvement by i7-1185G7 over i7-1165G7 is not worth the 400$ difference for most people.

I will get rid of this Dell Xps and get a Framework as soon as it's available in my area.
I banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines, but changed my mind and unbanned you because you've been here for 12 years.

If you don't want to be banned, please review the site guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules. You've been breaking them badly.

The idea here is: if you have a substantive point, please make it thoughtfully; if not, please don't comment until you do. Flamewar is out, and religious flamewar is absurdly out, so no more of that please.
For me black text on white oled with yellow filter is much easier on eyes than than white on black. Main problem of oled is the flickering.
It seems like the storage-intensive nature of the network would limit growth -- at some point it would get too big and slow. Interesting to have this built in, it would favour many smaller networks; decentralized by design.
This guy will be all over this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1WoOqYOBcE
Why are you using a throwaway to mischaracterize what the reporter wrote?

He literally wrote: "So to be clear: Project Amplify, in this iteration, does not involve any algorithm changes to news feed (which we don't say in the story). But it still involves Facebook pushing pro-FB content into News Feeds in a pre-determined fashion to boost its reputation."

The feed ranking wasn't change, but the News feed is being manipulated by adding pro-FB content to it and he stands behind what he wrote. The article never said the News feed algorithm was changed.
We don't get big ones with high frequency as we are not on a tectonic boundary. No active volcanoes either.

There are faults and stresses within the continental plate but they mainly produce smaller earthquakes with lower frequency but they do happen. Given the population density people rarely feel them. So even a moderate quake is a huge novelty. I can understand why people are so excited and sharing it on social media. I am probably about 700km away and I only barely felt it and it might be the only earthquake I feel in my entire life.
As someone who was a child that grew up watching him, I can assure you that he was extremely appreciated by his target audience.
Maybe. Or maybe by nature of his relationship he gets approached more for interesting opportunities?

Is Dr Dre an amazing talent scout, or was he out and about and by nature of his own fame approached by artists such that he could pick the obvious good opportunitie? Or maybe both apply?

Perhaps having money, power or fame is an attractor of opportunities all on its own.

It doesn't have to be that, but "better than average consistently" doesn't mean much to me when the person is already not average in a few other aspects.
> apparently it's a different type of high that some simply don't like as much as what they get from smoking it.

The main downside (upside?) of edibles is that the high lasts much, much longer. I like them, but I'm not gonna take one during the day unless I definitely don't have anything important to do for the rest of the day.
Fires of Kuwait. IMAX film. Highly recommended. Fascinating all the methods they used to extinguish the oil well fires that Saddam Hussein ordered to be set on fire.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fires_of_Kuwait
Sesame Street took a similar tack when Mr. Hooper died [1].

I was a rather literal child and was often frustrated by adults' use of such euphemisms for death ("in a better place", "passed on", "asleep forever", etc.) as I considered it deceitful and patronizing. It's nice to know that there are children's shows that deal with such an uncomfortable fact of existence with plain language and dignity.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NjFbz6vGU8
The days of AOHell!
And a link to one of the active recent threads for scuttlebutt itself:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25713830 - Jan 2021 (166 comments)
I have, and very clearly at that.
Land of Make Believe crew checking in!!

Modern Daniel Tiger is a good message and all, but blatant. Fred had that subtlety that let you still find your path to your personal truth, like the best dad.
I'm saying what I mean. Death happens. Doing everything possible to stop death infringes on basic human rights. Where's the line?
I was on Zoom with some Australian coworkers when this happened. Cameras suddenly go off, and when they turn it back on they were kind of speechless.

It was kind of funny for a Californian. Although the strongest earthquake I've ever experienced was in Indiana. Go figure.
It is not too much to expect, and then there is the hurdle of actually communicating without sending us off into trauma/Trauma, childhood- or otherwise. It is only recently that I’m even aware that I’m predominantly emotion-driven, acting/reacting before considering, and that’s largely thanks to The Blindboy Podcast and his summaries and examples of Rogerian psychology, cognitive behavior therapy, and transactional analysis.

Here I was thinking my extensive education, travel, and employment conferred “adult” status, only to realize I’m likely emotionally stuck in various unresolved traumas from infancy to my teenage years. Thankfully I (believe I) can rewrite my life-scripts towards adulthood (acceptance of responsibility for my actions, +?).

My feeling is that, expectations acknowledged, Fred Rogers’ style of communication is sorely underused in the US.
-> " ....but it's obviously a generic tangent in this case.......
When there's flamebait, we should just not take the bait. It isn't necessary and there are much more interesting discussions to be had.
"

You got me here.

"there are much more interesting discussions to be had"

You know that thing people you will not change someones opinion on internet.
That has changed.

This insight is golden.

No waste timing on flamebaits when I can have better discussions about other things.

Thanks Dang
This feels like half the story; for closure I hope you can inform us how the pancake turned out.
It would be good to a couple years of birth rate and death rate. Maybe it’s just a drop in baby-making. Or maybe not. Maybe births are up since last year too.
Amazing life story. Thank you for sharing.

Did your wife find out she lost out on millions? Was she angry? Did you reconcile?

What are you up to these days?
Yes obviously after years of being on the losing side of the war on drugs clearly we just need to fight harder
The main reason I donate to archive.org is to keep this alive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20010302013428/http://www.aol-fi...

Btw: anyone know where hypah is these days?
Where's the evidence? Show me!

BTW, everyone who I know including myself haven't had the slightest of problems.
Paul Pelosi helped launch his wife's political career.

Not the other way around.

Just look at timelines of careers. Paul was already very successful before her career, not since.

Nancy could do unpaid work in the Democratic party because of Paul's success ( 70-80's), which helped her career a lot.
@17:13

Russian narrator: Radiatsy..... nyet.

English closed captions: Radiation levels are within natural background limits.