skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think, what is often overlooked as to why the PC won the market is exactly its hi-res textmodes;

1) The BIOS was insanely slow yes. But on the other hand it was really fast when you wrote to the screen memory directly (address $B8000).

An entire screen in 720x400 resolution VGA, was represented by just 80x25x2=4000 bytes (2 bytes per char code + color attributes). A single plane bitmat graphics mode (just black and white) in same resolution would be 36000 bytes.

So scrolling through documents/spreadsheets was very fast compared to graphics modes, which most other platforms used. And screens used less memory.

The simple text-modes were also really easy to develop for.

2) The high-res text (720x400x16) and graphics modes (640x480x16) on VGA were non-interlaced (unlike e.g. the first Amigas), so they felt more solid and you could work with them longer before getting tired.
Insulating windows often have metallic films that can block radio signals. Combined with the tendency to use metallic films for insulation and metallic meshes for support means that modern buildings are often Faraday cages.

Which is sort of ironic in that modern communications is dependent on radio. Older buildings tend to be better for cell reception.
This is a WIP. Here's how it's going on: https://pythondev.readthedocs.io/subinterpreters.html
They’ve been run out of that market largely by Honda, Toyota, and Nissan. Their truck market is strong though, so makes sense to double down.
It's the escalator of GPS!
Well, yes, platforms will be trolled.
Facebook and co don't care who submitted the content or the truth value, the revenue is made elsewhere.

Facebook is full of personal opinions and misleading articles, it will never qualify as journalism, it's wide open to such abuse.
25% UBO declaration was part of the EU Anti-money Laundering Directive 5.
Russia is finalizing field tests of hypersonics that are due to be deployed on ships in less than a year, and has actually fired them from ships at targets.

China is more secretive but there is evidence there were at this stage 5+ years ago.
US Says Ivory-Billed Woodpecker and More Than 20 Other Species Have Gone Extinct
What is your evidence that the tech related to the "Fukushima plant stopped improving"?
> It is still right to blame religion (...) often isn't passive and it's intentionally so. (...) capitalizes on them through evangelism and then division

You singling out religion is saying more about you than it says about religion and religious people.

I don't even need to squint my eyes too much to see how your description still applies to all types of different ideologies - Trotskyists, "being Woke" and Racial Supremacists are all examples that come to mind.
Beware Superficial Plausibility
Former Robinhood Employees Launch Parafin, a Finance Startup for Small Business
The problem is thus:

People would prefer actual & real adult content over fake simulated versions. There will always be a market for the real stuff, because computer generated stuff feels weird to look at and enjoy. It's too simulated and false to arouse you properly.

(Of course there will always be a market for people who enjoy simulated stuff too, but I don't see it replacing real content).
I don't know the answer for most cases, but what resource is limiting here? Time? Money? Skill?
The way I see it it can be taken as a probability (everything else being equal, it probably is true) but never as logical proof.

If one side has probability based on authority, and the other has logical proof, logical proof wins, but otherwise it is an heuristic to not argue about every single detail.
Are you familiar with the Xerox copying flaw? Not exactly the same problem and unlikely to apply here but still a fun tangent:

https://www.theregister.com/2013/08/06/xerox_copier_flaw_mea...
Haha, that reminds me I did also have J2ME ebooks in my phone about 15 years ago :)
> It's interesting to me the amount of energy people spend on convincing themselves that a technology (POW) that didn't even exist 12 years ago and ran on home PCs up until 7 years ago is somehow responsible for wildfires in California or deforestation in Brazil.

I'm not sure why years of time matters. Rapid growth is extremely common in technology.

How much time did you need to spend convincing yourself that a microblogging website that didn't exist 12 years before 2016 and was constantly crashing 7 years before 2016 had become a major influence on world politics, up to the level of the US presidency? Hopefully not more than a few seconds.

How much time would it take to convince you that one BTC, which did not exist 12 years ago and was worth $300 7 years ago, hit more than 200 times that amount this year? Does it seem impossible?

The ecological argument against Bitcoin-style consensus is short and fairly obvious from Satoshi's paper. The innovation in that paper (compared to existing techniques like Merkle trees) was the ability to stop double-spend attacks by "mining" chains of transactions. This requires making sure that no single participant - not even the financially-meddling central banks that Bitcoin is supposed to provide an alternative too, and the might of their governments - can mine at a rate higher than the network. This immediately produces an incentive for both the network to make use of as much computational capacity as possible to keep itself safe, and for any attacker to amass enough computational capacity to mount an attack.

The incentive goes up as the block reward goes up, which it has been doing in terms of real value (e.g., number of Big Macs you can buy with a reward), even though the reward denominated in BTC goes down over time.

Therefore, Bitcoin-style consensus, if it works, is necessarily a major consumer of worldwide computational power, and as long as computers require energy, it is a major consumer of worldwide energy, which isn't really a thing we have an excess of.

That's the entire argument. It doesn't take you very much time - unless, of course, you're incentivized to keep trying to find counterarguments.
When listeners pay attention to stories, their heart rates rise and fall in sync
> Otherwise, any source I provide will be met with "yeah, sure, scientist Y wrote so in journal X, but journal X has been wrong before, so your source is wrong."

I think it's easy to gloss over the fact that science exists within a context, and if you aren't a participating part of a scientific field, you probably won't have full access to that context. This is a leading factor behind how in many debates, both sides are waving around scientific articles.

This has been especially visible in the last few years with the pandemic and the debate around stuff like restrictions and masks and what have you. It takes years to produce quality science, and here we were months into a pandemic and people kept batting each other over the head with preliminary scientific findings as though Moses himself walked down with them from mount Sinai. The truth was we didn't have all the facts, the scientists for the most part were pretty clear about this, but none of that seemed to matter to the armchair epidemiologists engaged in fierce internet-debate.

If p=0.05 is sufficient confidence to publish, one in twenty published findings will be wrong. In one study, that isn't bad, but in tens of thousands, that's a lot of dodgy results. In practice, it's probably far worse than that because of publication bias: Scientists tend to want to break new ground and publish extraordinary findings and maybe won't publish boring stuff that just reconfirms that energy is still conserved or whatever.

Many just google up some abstracts off arxiv that seem to support their claims and toss them out like pokemon. That's honestly only marginally better than basing your arguments on proverbs, events from the Iliad, and or bible verses.

Science just doesn't work like that. Individual articles are not infallible doctrine. Taken as a whole and in context they do form a pretty compelling argument, but individual articles on their own, even published in major journals, are absolutely fallible.
That’s a counterintuitive thing about current generation EVs: they are heavy. Those huge batteries weigh a lot.

Regenerative braking helps reduce the extra energy cost of this quite a bit by recycling a decent percentage of the kinetic energy you put into moving that big heavy thing.

The weight does have some safety and handling benefits under some conditions but it does probably do more road damage.

As EVs grow states will probably have to charge a “road fee” or something, but it will still be far less costly than gasoline fuel and all the extra maintenance an ICE requires.
No, thanks. I'm okay having a healthy balance of clear thought and normal human emotion. This has nothing to do with either. Why did you mention that? Quit derailing. The video is right next to the text.

Now that I know there's text there, I could ad block the nuisance, but I'm not interested in the tool. Or continuing this conversation. Go have your unmanaged, unrecognized, denied emotions somewhere else.
Np. It's difficult for an outsider to say anything helpful. But if it's really Covid related that frustrates you, keep in mind that other places are probably no different.

If it's the advisor, just keep in mind that you are the only one that has your best interest at heart. Your advisor (prof?) has different goals. But some goals align, for example you probably both want you to finish your PhD (in the Netherlands this means a lot of money for the institute) and to write some articles while getting there. This means you can respectfully indicate that it is in her/his best interest if you stay (or just hint at leaving if nothing changes) and that something has to change (indicate that you are experiencing pressure?). I always tell people: You're either at the table or you're on the menu. In other words, make your choices or someone else will make them for you. Being able to respectfully stand up for yourself is an important skill and one that is (given a healthy relationship) always appreciated. Employers don't want you to leave (and if they do: Leave) so give them the chance to make things better for you instead of just leaving suddenly. Looking back your advisor may have wished for a opportunity to help you finish smoothly, even though that desire might not be expressed now (some managers believe some pressure and show of power is good for you and it makes them "a real manager", I never understood that personally).

It seems that you still have about 2 years to go, I had 0 articles at 3 years, but if you already have 1 or more you are well underway to finishing successfully I guess.

Still I feel you'd really like to stop it. Again, there is no shame in that if you ask me. The biggest downsides are probably the self judgement and they way that makes you feel. But you could choose to feel like you made a choice for the better (better mental health, no more 2 years of pain to look forward to) and just go for it.

And indeed it sounds like a vain thing to care about, but it's real and it can help you. But what is it worth? Who are you disappointing when you stop? Hopefully not yourself and your parents, the rest: you don't need them.

Again, I can't speak for you, and your mental well-being is important so it is important to determine the source of you not feeling optimal. Is it the PhD? Is it Covid restrictions? Sometimes it's good to live by the day, find something nice to do each day and don't focus too much on the future. It will come, you have time.
Everytime scihub is mentioned on HN, multiple comments go on about how it should go "distrubuted" - ipfs, torrents, etc.
While the current database of scihub is hugely valuable and must be protected in whatever way we can, the true value of scihub is in the "invisible" network of sources for the papers - how quickly papers find their way into the scihub db once they are published. A non-updating scihub will start to depreciate in utility very quickly. _Thats_ the true value Alexandra E brings to scihub - and not easily replaced if she quits/gets into legal trouble/etc.
Encryption at rest is generally easier and more secure than encryption in flight. It eliminates whole classes of oracle and downgrade type attacks.
The cynical answer is backlinks haha
ping is what the ping program reports, which, depending on the QoS settings the provider has, can be very different from the roundtrip time of packets you actually care about.
Putting it on the “dark web” is just a different, more effective barrier than the money barrier the industry wants.
Perhaps your perspective is based on your demographics or location? In my anecdotal experience I know vanishingly few people who are not on “original old Facebook”. Male, 30s, southeast US.
Oo, I am sorry. I see I misrepresented VisiData. I apologize. Thank you for the corrections.

I have a lot of respect your work. Let me know if I can make it up to you. I would be happy to point people to VisiData in my README as a recommendation of a tool that is built to explore and wrangle tabular data.

Also, thanks for the compliment! Like you, I like seeing more data tools in the terminal.
People remember print ads better than digital ads
Indie hackers recently went invite only in their community because of this spam cat and mouse. It's a really lame thing to be spending effort on fighting
"The hurrier I go, the behinder I get"
>Don't think the payload has anything to do with cultural issues.

Careful getting stuck in a frame where only a single antipattern exists. First, profit and narrow political stuff is a pretty broad area. Second, religion or culture has the potential to be a force in its own right... whether or not that's been the case here, so far.

Online religious movement exist, and some are big... but none have hit historic proportions yets. That doesn't mean none will. Christianity, or some other religious culture could easily have an arab spring, Trump or Brexit moment. Easily.

The existence of these pages can and might be of historical interest, depending on what happens to happen over the next 5-10 years. Christianity is a lot of people, don't underestimate the significance of religion.
Proof that xkcd links are the real-life equivalent of the prisoners yelling numbers instead of jokes

(Context: https://onemansblog.com/2010/05/18/prison-joke/ )
We are not all awesome or there would be no awesome. Those who are awesome may create something at just the right time or they may not.

I think you may be seeking success over creativity. Comparing yourself to others never ends well. We tend to look in only one direction. Enjoy what you make and have made.
I have to ask, what is then the point of using Python as a backend (not questioning for data crunching)?

Funny thing here is that PHP works exactly the same with its share nothing architecture. You always need to go outside of PHP handle state between requests.

When I started doing PHP years ago this was one of the first things I stumbled upon on, used to being able to easily share state in a backend. Juniors or non-programmers does usually not think about this at all and thus is not limited by it, whereas programmers with experience from another language, but without any deep PHP knowledge, will always trip up on this, finding it awkward and annoying (like I did).

And yes, the share nothing architecture will change how you write programs. Now many years later I'm used to this and don't see it as problem anymore (almost the opposite).

But if you also need to follow the share nothing architecture on Python, what benefits does it give vs PHP? Is it the community only? Because Python is generally slower than PHP.

I don't consider myself as a Python developer, but based on my knowledge I have hard time finding compelling arguments for picking Python as (web) backend. I rather pick PHP (I have bias), Golang or Java. Nodejs vs Python it a tough one, perhaps nodejs because I can write in TypeScript, but nodejs is not a technology I like.
That wouldn’t feed the narrative of conservative Christians being idiot rubes controlled by Russian disinformation and those on the left as being highly educated purveyors of truth.
There is a level at which you are too poor to move. You cant afford first and last months deposit. You cant afford a moving truck. You cant afford whatever required deposits may exist for heating, electricity, gas, etc. There are a lot of families that exist in this zone. Not too mention a lot of people are tied to a location due to the availability of free childcare via a relative.
Unfortunately, there are large groups of people who will say things like "why help poor kids get glasses". Studies like these allow someone to put "$N in leads to $M out, M > N" equations in place to justify it.
To be fair, you'd get a surprising amount of the public objecting to building infrastructure for mobile networks in "scenic" areas like jungles or forests
That's true.

Though with the power consumption required for a VR GPU display, you'll likely need a decent-sized battery pack (maybe on your belt), for this not to be tethered to a power outlet.

For this product space, I think I personally would be happier with a AR style solution, though that comes with its own challenges.

I've got to wonder if a CastAR / Tilt5 AR projection system would work better for working. You could certainly roll up the retro-reflective "screen" into your backpack.
In general, I prefer when people posting on HN post the URL to the original reporting, rather than one of the many summaries different venues write riding their coat-tails.

In this case, the first sentence ends in "internal documents leaked to MIT Technology Review reveal", with a link -- why not just post the MIT Technology Review article in the first place?

[Also, just as an aside, don't forget that obviously many Christians are Black people].

[And also, as far as your original question, if you scroll down in the MIT Tech Review article to the charts from which the headline of this re-report come from, you'll see that the troll farms were particularly successful in their "Christian" positioning, with 19 of the top 20 pages. The other groups targetted, they didn't achieve that level of penetration. This is notable, but I agree the other groups they were targetting is also notable!]
America is running out of time to prepare for the next pandemic
Can you explain to me why and how this can be different?
Most Americans Today Believe the Stock Market Is Rigged, and They’re Right
> And who would be behind it if they followed the money?

Advertisers, probably. I worked in adtech doing fraud detection back in ~2013 and “fake news” sites were already prevalent, but their business model was usually boring old advertising. They were also big on ad fraud (e.g. serving ads in hidden iframes).

That’s not to say that the Kremlin/IRA were not behind some of it, but Occam’s razor is that most fake news is just a result of sites with no incentive to do honest journalism trying to drive clicks.
You're factually wrong. Neither of the parent comments are calling for race discrimination - you're pulling that out of thin air in an attempt to incite conflict, or silence their legitimate points that you don't agree with.

Go ahead, prove me wrong - quote the sentences that explicitly call for racism.
I’m sure someone at Netflix did the cost/benefit analysis and found that for extremely infrequently accessed encodings of certain movies (weird bitrate/resolution combinations), it’s actually cheaper to generate them dynamically once in a blue moon than to store them in perpetuity.

> Hell, compared to the cost to license the movie storage is pennies.

Yup. I’d be very curious to see the breakdown in how much Netflix spends on compute versus content production/licensing. I’d be willing to bet compute is an order or two of magnitude cheaper than content. I guess all these little optimizations add up? Or maybe their engineering management can’t see the forest from the trees.
https://www.parafin.com/blog/announcing-parafin
Side note but the F-150 Lightning is as important to the EV revolution as the Tesla Roadster and Nissan Leaf were years ago.

Rednecks will stop scoffing at EVs once they find out what instant full torque means. Days worth of on site power for job sites or camping without generator noise is also pretty badass.
As usual with blockchain promotion, the word "can" is doing a whole lot of heavy lifting in that sentence.
According to the Bureau of Transport Statistics the US highway system went from 4,050,717 miles in 2009 to 4,171,125 miles in 2019. This is a delta 120,408 miles, or an increase of 2.9%. This is system miles, not even lane miles, so it will not include highway expansion.

Actually correlating this down to individual routes in an exhausting endeavor, given all the places these could be recorded. But I found that we did designate 7 new highways in the past 10 years, including I-14, I-11, I-87, I-41, I-42, I-2, and I-22.
You should check https://swimm.io/
1. Docs are kept as .MD files in your repos
2. You can use Docusaurus to Publish them
3. They use the Github hierarchy and authorization to decide who has access to the docs.
They are in beta, worth checking
More Than Half of U.S. 100 Richest Exploit Special Trusts to Avoid Estate Taxes
Where is Lever....???
They are allies because they have common enermies.

War and ideaology is mans worst attributes and will only lead to the cultures downfall.

That is why humans are stuck in a cycle of repeating mistakes from the past. Blinded by there own ego. In a constant battle of picking sides, where winners reinforce positions, rewrite history and loosers are always waiting to take the crown back at the slightest slip up. Like that will be the final staw, like they will be last king to end all kings.

Unfortunately for the US, China has used its own tactics against it. through the greed of capitalism it has lost grip of its influence and let its competitive advantage be exported.

When push comes to shove, i would rather be taking a blue pill for virility then then eating a tiger penis. The US detains only the illegals in there own countries, while China simply invades, moves in and purifies. The US gives lethal injections, while China sends you to concentration camps then sells your body parts highest bidder.

The lesser of two evils in this case is clearly the country with more diversity and acceptance for other points of view. No way a black person would ever be considered pure enough to lead China. China out-racists the US on every measure, as it does in systemic corruption.

No communist has ever lived in its final utopia. Just as no captialist ever has. Or ever will. After a certain point, every culture that defines itself on war will fade.

And thats that.
I discovered mine at 13 when we went on vacation and I said "wow, the TV reception is bad here".

It was fine; our TV at home was just a lot closer.
Sorry, I didn't mean it was impossible or even hard to do. I just meant throwing a web site up is easier at all points of the stack. It's the same reason Electron is popular, writing native applications isn't exactly hard per se, Electron just makes the process easier and cheaper at all stages of development.
This is not a new observation. At least ten years ago I read multiple comments noting that trigger warnings run directly against our best understanding of how to treat something like PTSD. (Some mix of exposure therapy and emphasising mindfulness skills to anticipate and preemptively deflect triggers when not hyperalert.)

Basically, those well enough not to sent into a fit on the spot generally benefit from those uncomfortable reprocessings long-term. Those who find it too uncomfortable need the skills to excuse and calm themselves (such as stopping reading). And if they can't do that then they need a lot more help than a mere trigger warning is likely to provide.
(I'm not in the US, i don't understand the reference, care to explain?)