skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This might be a simplistic view of history.

First Iceland is only half way to North America if you consider Greenland (which is kind of weird since both Iceland and Greenland are islands between the two continents). The distance between Iceland and Labrador is twice as long as the distance between Iceland and Norway. And the double distance is on top of much much rougher seas of the Labrador sea then the North Atlantic. So for small sailboats Europe is definitely close while North America isn’t.

Second, people traveled a lot both to Iceland and from Iceland in the centuries after the voyages mentioned in Grænlendinga Saga. Ships went to Iceland to trait, or fish and people went from Iceland to continental Europe for pilgrimage, trade, etc. These people definitely talked to each other and told each other stories of their ancestors. I wouldn’t be surprised if some Portuguese fishermen were told Grænlendinga Saga while wintering in Iceland sometime in the 14th century after their trip home was delayed for some reason. Or that a pilgrim from Iceland told a fellow Spanish Christion in broken latin about Leifur Eiríksson on their way to Rome.

Third. Flateyarbók (which contains written stories about the norse settlements in North America) was written down in the mid 13th century. The Icelandic sagas were coveted by Scandinavian royalty and I bet royalty in both Norway and Denmark knew about it’s existence, and might even have heard Grænlendinga Saga recited.

Now it probably wasn’t common knowledge that there were lands west of the Atlantic which people once tried to settle, but it probably wasn’t unknown either.

It is not hard to imagine an alternative scenario where by some freak luck Christopher Columbus happens to talk to a person who’s great grandfather told a story about an Icelander they walked part of the way to Rome with. “Curious folks those Icelanders”, they say, “in the old times they used to sail all around the world. Even going West of Greenland”.

“Greenland? You mean the icy land way north in the Atlantic where they get those Walrus husks?” Columbus replies.

“Yes, there! Apparently there are some much more favorable lands south west of there. I wonder how much further south it reaches, maybe as far south as Africa?”

Or maybe a scenario where a common crewman on Columbus’ voyage knew about these stories from a Basque fisherman who in turn heard them while on a fishing trip to Iceland. “This isn’t Japan”, he claims. “An old friend of mine heard stories about lands as far west as this—albeit further north as well. Maybe these islands are of the same island chain which lie between Europe and Asia”. This crewman is promptly laughed at. “Off course this is Japan, our captain says so.” They say, and the crewman never mentions it again.
290 million fully vaccinated and 1,390 million total population. :)
[1 crore = 10 million]
Just say it: using a laptop on battery power is for hipsters.
Among the 1% or so of the population that even ever gets a "positive test" in their lifetime, a microscopic amount of people who even still does menstruate (age-wise) has any trouble with it at all. Yet this wild west injection is forced upon all of them.
Does autocomplete (ie, pressing "." and waiting for the IDE) help with that?
My take at this is because of inertia. I have a large fleet of servers that have been Intel since forever. I see no reason to migrate them today as things work reasonably well. We upgrade the hardware every 4-5 years. So during the next upgrade for sure I'll choose AMD, there is no question of that. ARM will be a serious competitor and RISC-V, too, that's for sure - but they are just not there yet when we talk about maximum performance (in our case, energy consumption is not the main concern)
20,000 years ago the ocean level was 400 feet lower.

Climate changes with or without people.
The question is how much does Human behavior effect it.
The tool analogy is flawed. Languages that move fast and break backward compatibility are tools, but organic. If you leave them in your toolbox for too long they start to rot.

This does not apply to those languages that do not get updated (bash?) and that does not break backwards compatibility (perl? but without CPAN modules). I know that my PHP tool has rotted even though I was actively using it. It moves too fast and the frameworks I was using are no longer any popular - should've learned symfony instead of yii, now laravel is taking over
What about non markdown alternatives.
I colab with people who will not use markdown. Notion is ok... But I would like tools with some real knowledge management not just the basics
Thank you for pointing out European backwardness.

America is extremely stable compared to Europe.

The time between the founding of the eu and now is the longest Europe has ever been without two major powers at war. Europe was basically the middle east version 0.5.
Idk what's going on with the modulated carrier in that image. Here's a better visualization: https://flypaper.soundfly.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/AM_...

Notice how, when the modulator wave is at its top the FM wave is very short, and when the modulator wave is at its bottom the FM wave is very long.

FM = adjust the frequency (width) of the carrier based on the absolute value of the modulator.
"LPT" = Life Pro Tip
(just learned that)
Follow-up point I forgot to add:

> If the fine is double what you gained but you are less than 50% likely to get caught, logic dictates you should commit the crime.

It turns out that people’s decisions whether or not to break the law have very little to do with any rational economic calculation about the probability of being caught. Consider how shoplifting is basically not enforced in San Francisco anymore. People just steal things from the store in broad daylight and nobody bothers even trying to stop them. Sure, this does result in a lot of shoplifting, but the question is, why does anyone bother paying when they could just brazenly take their desired merchandise out the door with no risk of ever facing any consequences?
You think "I'm not sure" means "I think it doesn't"? Pot, kettle; I'm sure you'll hit it off nicely.
For the casual HN reader, he was the one who recognized and scientifically described the creative state of "flow" [1]

Why would it be of interest for the audience of hackernews? Well, programmers and related fields' mostly creative workers tend to experience the flow, and even though it is hard to explain (or describe, for that matter) most of us agree that it's great to be in.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)
lol, got ‘em
Newer Macs have hardware accelerated transcode with Handbrake as well.
Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second
Yes, but at this point there is no number of nines that’ll convince the skeptics; you can’t argue someone out of a position that they didn’t rationally work themselves into.
Yes, and the M1 is consuming less power at low loads, enabling longer battery lives. What other explanation do you think there could be for the long battery lives of the M1 laptops?
Somebody should tell DHL and USPS that they should shut down their businesses because TSP and CTP are unsolvable.

Nah, you’re just wrong because good enough solutions are easy to find, nobody cares about 100% optimal.
I too think Apple did a poor job at introducing their new screen.

When showing the screen growing into the sides of the frame, they could have paused and introduced their 16:10 aspect ratio (or whatever it is, below the notch) and then said "but we want that screen realestate to be used by you, and not by the MacOS menu, so we have moved the menu on top of the screen, surrounding the camera"
It's important to note that this pattern plays out for many issues. It's progressive politics and rhetoric, which is simply for any change and refuses to admit that anything is ever good enough, has natural causes, or is a completed process - to blindly accept claims of: climate change, covid, racism, etc.
It’s simple, the implications are complicated.

The focus on individual choices is flawed because industrial processes and infrastructure emit the most GHGs.

Regardless, there’s no laws of nature that say you shall burn fossil fuel to transport and cool your self. The issue is that if the machines that produce carbon were to be replaced with machines that do not emit, many institutions would find themselves with stranded assets that required large capital investments.
Having both witnessed the whole opioid debacle first hand, first the sleezy over-prescription, then the reactionary under-prescription, which has caused, in my opinion, at least, as much, if not more, suffering and death than the over-prescription. Reading these comments is the first really sensible debate over the issue I've encountered and very encouraging.

For quite a while I've thought that the via media on the Rxs and an honest, more intensive treatment of the causes of 'deaths of despair' (which would certainly only partly be medical in nature) is by far the most humane (and medically ethical) way toward treating the problem. I know MDs who feel the same way but whose agency is very limited by this opioid Thermidor -- both in acting and speaking on the issue. I hope this is a sign of a changing trend in the public and political debate on the issue.
Canada has no need to fight wars of aggression. It has only one neighbor, the united states, a nation with which it essentially shares most culture and language (Canadian English and American English is almost 100% identical). It never will need to fight a war because the United States will never let anyone near Canada.

This is like claiming the isle of mann never fought a war while ignorning it's protectorate status with the UK.

For all intents and purposes, Canada is a protectorate of the united states, we just don't call it that to avoid diplomatic incident.
Fair enough, but that's not a replacement for 100LL since not all engines can use it. It's gotta be a pretty large FBO to have enough market to pay for setting up a distribution for UL94 in addition to 100 octane gas. Like, there are engines that were certificated to run on 80/87 avgas but no one sells that any more either. Today's avgas market just isn't large enough to make it worth offering two fuels.
> Shouldn't this kind of research have been carried out before billions of people were vaccinated?

It's unfeasible to carry out research on every little aspect of any medication, except for the very long term. That's why drugs get approved all the time, yet trials and studies continue for decades to account for long term and extremely rare side effects.

That said, literally anything can change the menstrual cycle (flu, stress, changes in nutrition or exercise levels), and especially given that menstrual symptoms correlate more with inflammatory markers than with actual hormone levels [0], it's to be expected that treatments that elicit an inflammatory response might have an effect in menstrual symptoms. It's good this research is done, but I doubt these changes come up as a surprise to any physician.

> Is it ethical to enforce vaccinations (via mandate) with these matters unresolved?

I think so, unless you consider to keep enforcing lockdowns, travel restrictions, or a Children-of-the-corn-light type of scenario to be ethically better.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16403011/
Monitor IoT Devices in the Things Network with Prometheus and Grafana
Hipster graphic designers make upwards of 150,000 a year in my area. The professional in pro, never actually meant “software engineer”. It meant anyone who can hang up their signboard and work on their own: lawyers, doctors, architects, and yes… graphic designers.

Personally, I think software engineers don’t need fast laptops either. We need mainframes and fast local networks. Nothing beats compiling at the speed of 192 cores at once.

Which reminds me, laptops and render farms is exactly the technique those hipster graphic designers you talked about are using so they aren’t missing out on any power.
Considering the statistical overlap between climate change deniers and religiosity, belief in natural medicines, and likelyhood to believe in conspiracy theories. Climate change deniers are not denying it based on the quality of the research. They deny because they want to believe it is false. They want to follow the controversial viewpoint. They want to question the establishment.

It's not exactly a scientific endeavour.
BTW, here is the good overview of KMS: A Distributed Hypermedia System for Managing Knowledge In Organizations [1]

[1] http://csis.pace.edu/~marchese/CS835/Readings/kms.pdf
the concept of marriage stems from long before the baby boomers, and long before it was a "fiscal" thing.

Every married generation would have encouraged the next one to get married, it's not suddenly a thing the baby boomers started doing.
On a quick glance I see numbers 1 ,43,44,48,90,96, of the climate change deniers list (1), and that's just from a 30 second skim. You are doing the classical playbook of "just asking questions" which either can't be settled (but what really is climate change?) or have been settled and you are willfully ignoring them (the IPCC has a clear definition of climate change, anthropogenic climate change etc.), in order to make it appear that the debate is ongoing and there is substantial doubt. There isn't. Like a sister comment pointed out, there is more consensus on climate change than on evolution. I expect you to wine about being downvoted and "silenced" as the next move of this playbook

1. https://skepticalscience.com/argument.php
Do you learn about the history of surveying as well? I'm super interested in how people surveyed the land for early bridges or for the purpose of cartography.
While "checking" it you have interacted with it, so it seems you have confirmed its existence
So many word for so little content. We are mostly scientists here so you don’t need to be so condescending. Problem is that your words are just opinion with no basis in reality, no consensus get to 99% without some manipulation.
It seems likely that fewer people would use P2P meth if they knew it was going to destroy their minds in weeks. So a big contributing factor here is that this has not been publicized, which seems like a major failure of both the medical and political worlds in the USA. It shouldn't take more than a decade for news of something this destructive to spread.
Intel x86-x64 chips are yesterdays technology, Apple stopped using them and the mobile market is mostly ARM based. It is the post Intel world now.
The risk here is that your fix might significantly improve the code in some way but also introduce a new bug or break some obscure feature. As a dev you're always sticking your neck out when you improve code in ways that aren't directly tangible to users or management. Leadership & management need to buy into the concept that code cleanup and refactoring are necessary but always carry some risk.
The short Storyspace review: https://mprove.de/visionreality/text/2.1.11_storyspace.html
sigh.

But what if the consensus is right? Demanding diversity of opinions for the pure sake of avoiding consensus is a good way to end up producing wrong results too.
This is basically exactly how I understand functor/applicative/monad. I wonder how well it explains to someone whose not as familiar.
Like anything it's a tradeoff.

You trade simplicity of having everything in one place vs. ability to independently version pieces at the cost of more complex tooling and build systems required to test.

Usually there's some sweet spot, but the answer isn't obvious and one isn't clearly better.
that is assuming that it's provable that climate change is/isn't man made. Just because a fact exist does not mean it's knowable
> When you have the complete verilog source code for the CPU core

That's a big "when". The road from an ISA to a core is long, and unless the core is copylefted (this isn't), then you aren't going to get the source code for something someone else manufactured either.
Brave's operation is all the more impressive when you consider that Mozilla gets $500M every year from Google. I would be surprised if Brave has invested half of that in total over the last several years.
"People will no longer get married and will live with each other just for sexual pleasure." - taken from the Wikipedia page about kali yuga. There are many more entertaining observations there:

Lust will be viewed as socially acceptable and sexual intercourse will be seen as the central requirement of life.

People will become addicted to intoxicating drinks and drugs.

Rulers will become unreasonable: they will levy taxes unfairly.

Rulers will no longer see it as their duty to promote spirituality, or to protect their subjects: they will become a danger to the world.

Avarice and wrath will be common. Humans will openly display animosity towards each other.

People will have thoughts of murder with no justification and will see nothing wrong in that.

Gurus will no longer be respected and their students will attempt to injure them.

Weather and environment will degrade with time and frequent and unpredictable rainfalls will happen. Earthquakes will be common.

The powerful people will dominate the poor people.

All the human beings will declare themselves as gods or boon given by gods and make it as a business instead of teachings.

Everything except the last one is the norm already. I'm curious what a society of self-proclaimed gods looks like.
The port of long beach is actually the port of Los Angeles. It's in la city. There's a weird finger that reaches out from downtown.
It is normal to get values close to zero in a correctly implemented floating point algorithm - what matters is that, at that point, you don't rely on their dynamic range or precision. Trap-on-underflow would produce many false positives for algorithms which would be perfectly happy having those numbers be treated as zero.

This is not uncommon - it is completely expected with, say, anything implementing an exponential decay! A slow exponential decay could run into subnormals for large spans of time, yet be fine having those treated as zero.
Yeah I saw that I was just highlighting the bit about animal studies. GP had the entire quote in context.
Well if you weren’t suspicious, would there be any need for the effort?

Circular reasoning is fallacious.
While I am a fan of auto-formatting, I do use it sometimes and don't think it is necessarily dumb in all cases (and so agree with your premise of making it a team decision)... but, doing it as a pre-commit hook--as opposed to doing it when your file gets saved and merely verifying it was done pre-commit--is extremely dangerous as it leads to these issues like "code is tested locally... and then something different is committed that should be the same, but might not be" and is the real problem being described.
7 and 8 really call to me - if you ease time on bugs, no automation (or worse poor slow automation) then the project will take 2,5,20 times longer.

I’ve seen this time and time again and it is such an easy thing to get right at the start of a project.
Creative canvas painting. It's actually an incredibly deep (skill-wise) field.
Wouldn't it be easier to carve a rock to a standard shape than to fit one particular hole? As far as alternative explanations, maybe they did it because it's more material-efficient. I could see you having to remove a lot of material to turn a random lump into bricks. And small rocks may not give you even a single one.
Add: '-site:pinterest.com' to your Google image search to avoid pinterest results.
It’s been getting worse too. Covid was absolutely an accelerator on this; each successive news article on Covid and the research for a vaccine or anti-viral got progressively crazier.
> Also, there's more focus on cross-platform now, which adds its own complications.

We are talking about Windows now, and there is zero cross-platform compatibility in Microsoft's UI frameworks (unless you mean cross-architecture between x86/amd64 and arm32/arm64). It is against their interests and they will never do it, just like Apple.
Well, plus the fact that a new aviation engine runs $30-60k, which is about what an old, small, airplane is worth. It just doesn't make economic sense to replace those engines, you're effectively just trashing those planes.
These cards idle at 15w while m1 max is yielding like half the performance at that wattage.

Sorry, Apple is clearly lightyears ahead. All they need to do is put out a chip with 48 of their gpu cores and they will beat the most expensive top of the line best ever performance gpu on the market… with a laptop-grade SoC.
I think DNA data should be considered public data. 99% of our DNA is shared, and the DNA degrees of separation between you and me is ~3. Practically we are all already identifiable from the small sample that exists in genealogy companies and it s been repeatedly done by law enforcement. I think it's bonkers that , after 10 years, companies like 23andme are not allowed to give us health reports because ... what reasons really? Especially in Europe it makes no sense to have such draconian laws about something that's important to everyone's health. Full sequencing costs like $200 today and i m sure millions would be willing to give their data to a public database that would take the field meaningfully forward. Instead what we get is we allow these companies to sell data which should be public domain. The US has its problems with their broken social security - here's a suggestion: fix it. Europe could use its public healthcare advantage to get ahead in genomic research while simultaneously improving the quality of its health systems. Instead we are stuck with outdated privacy laws (yet somehow making tax information public is OK). China could be using their own advantage and databases to get ahead in genomics while we 're still playing hide and seek.
I'm afraid that is not a good argument. There are many historical predictions that didn't come true [1]. In 1970s, there were concerns about extensive glaciation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling. I think it is fairly uncontroversial that it is very hard to make detailed predictions about climate. This Bloomberg article discusses a recent relevant issue: https://archive.ph/FMOn5

I think a better argument would be to say that we certainly know more about climate now, and we have a lot more computational power to construct more detailed models.

[1]: There is a positive side to wrong historical predictions: that people actually dared to make concrete assertions, instead of waving hands.
Successful app farms do make a lot of money. Since the development cost of a single app is very low, it doesn't have to bring in much money to become profitable. Produce apps in bulk, and rake in millions.

To be clear, my assumption are based on what I read about developer houses like this. Sometimes (though it is rare) their accounts are getting closed on App Store and they hit the news.
I've been using Firefox since, I don't know, 2006? Maybe 2007? Still use it for everything (note that my web dev ability and interest don't really reach beyond HTML and ASP.Net). My main reasons for using Firefox are it works well and uBlock Origin.

What features do other browsers have that Firefox doesn't? What's so compelling about these features? Does Brave still do that ad replacement thing?
It's not a huge figure though: a glass of wine with dinner most nights, or a couple of brewskis with boys on Fri & Sat night. For men, the bar for "heavy" drinking is 15+ drinks/week.
Painting is almost exclusively mental, and requires just as long or longer stretches of mental exercise.
Alimony is stupid. Child support without the man having a say in abortion is even more stupid.