skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Humans very quickly realized that food doesn't always come in at a constant rate and learned to hoard[1] in times of plenty to protect against times of scarcity. As you note, current governments still stockpile food, but before power was so heavily centralized this responsiblity fell to smaller communities and family units. The very first proto-states formed around resource stockpiles[2], but food preservation had been a big deal for much longer, some 12k years ago[3], predating agriculture. In contrast, the expectation that I can go to Walmart and buy fresh ground beef at any time is not even a century old.

Neccesity leads to JIT, but also sustained surplus. If the winters are mild and food can grow year round, why bother stockpiling? If any widget can be obtained quickly and cheaply, why spend the extra effort to maintain inventory? If I can always buy ground beef at Walmart, why should I keep a winter's worth supply in my freezer? These practices are fine as long as the underlying assumptions remain valid. If one suddenly finds that they can't reliably buy toilet paper on demand, there is an incentive to hoard it. And that's exactly what happened.

[1] While it has taken on a somewhat different meaning in recent times, the early meaning of the word was 'to store and preserve for future use.' https://www.etymonline.com/word/hoard

[2] https://www.jstor.org/stable/44687105

[3] https://nchfp.uga.edu/publications/nchfp/factsheets/food_pre...
What do we think the estimated ratio of fake shutters to real shutters is in the world?

Is there any other thing in the world where the fakes happily outnumbered the reals?
> a problem mentioned, that I would consider damning/major is using the CPU for video. That is a serious headache for video conferencing

If you have a hardware codec, graphics card, or codec support built into your chipset like many AMD and Intel chipsets have, then you can accelerate video encoding/decoding via VA-API, VDPAU or whatever Nvidia's solution is. Check out this page[1].

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Hardware_video_acceleration
Nox in WebAssembly
Sure, we do that sometimes, just ad hoc rather than systematically. It's currently at something like 5M monthly unique users (well, IPs - hard to count unique users) and 6M daily page views. 1200(ish) submissions per day and 12k comments per day.

HN has been growing much the same way for 10+ years - linearly, but with fairly large swings up and down. If you step back and squint, it's unmistakeably linear. We like it that way. Growth is important, but rapid growth would be unstable. This is a community not a startup!

The one thing that hasn't grown much, since 2012, is the number of submissions per day. Comments yes, but submissions no. Why? I have no idea. Maybe there's a cap on how much content is out there.
If I might suggest a major: (3) breaks SEO for potentially a very long time causing HN to fall out of search results to common queries on the major search engines. (I'm aware of site move tools and 301's, but we almost always see some decline on a domain switchover that takes time to recover)
> The argument you are arguing with is predicated now on what free-speech is it isn’t but on situating one side as the victim of free speech crimes.

No, not really. I've pointed out the mistake of conflating the right to free speech, as in the governments not being allowed to stop people from expressing their ideas and opinions without fear of retaliation, with the privilege of using (and abusing) someone else's services or infrastructure to advance your political ideals.

Convenience and rights are not the same thing, and not being able to benefit from the services provided by someone else does not mean your right to free speech is infringed upon.

To put it differently, just because you can say whatever you want that doesn't give you the right to grab someone else's megaphone to do it.
Earlier it was working for me but I could not attach files. Depending on a single provider is a recipe for disaster and I expected their infrastructure to be more robust. Mail is critical infrastructure. At least the messages aren't bouncing or so I hope.

I guess using aliases indiscriminately was a bad idea after all as it increase the cost of moving to another provider. Not that there's any reasonably alternative on this aspect but they being an Aussie company and Australia government pushing hard to become a police state is making me unhappy.
There's nothing wrong with your view or the author's, however it seems like you're talking past each other because neither of you are each other's target demographic.

This is like complaining about how bad JavaScript is as a language on a thread about React, or something. It's nearly irrelevant
Your comment clearly demonstrates OP's argument.
Parents believe their time is more important than that of people without children.
This is the price of free code. If you don't read the open source you're adding to your system then don't complain when it owns you! You wouldn't take your medicine without reading the label first.

NPM is a miracle for open software development, but it requires diligence.
If you want Java without the verbosity, try Kotlin: https://kotlinlang.org/
From what I can see, their guide for contractors to set up in Serbia (https://www.letsdeel.com/blog/how-to-set-up-as-an-entreprene...) is outdated (2019 law changes are not taken into account) and even incorrect (VAT taxation limit of 8M RSD is not the same as fixed-taxation-if-total-revenue-of-less-than-6M-RSD), even though it says it was written on Oct 18th 2021.

It also does not seem to help anyone in Serbia at all: basically, the article, other than being incorrect, suggests the things I had to do on my own (i.e. set up a company, and it has to be at least a Ltd/doo company since the start of 2020). I was hoping they'd incorporate in each of their "supported countries" and simply offer "regular employment".

Basically, what I am saying is that they might be ripping you off :D
It's not your imagination – Microsoft's sofware has gone downhill
Sounds like there's more to this
> What nakedly political reasons do Amazon workers have?

The workers don’t, but the union leaders do.

That’s the point.
If you dress up for the opera, take a look at your clothes - almost every aspect will be some “fake aesthetic” that has become standard.

I was hoping for more detailed reasoning beyond “it’s fake and not a great imitation” - but so are many other vestigial fashion items. Ties don’t work well as bibs anymore, after all.
I have a book from the 1700s on my bedside table I can read just fine...

My lived experience is I can read texts from hundreds of years ago just fine. Old mate is struggling with 50s tv.

The only tip is to use stable language. IE don't use the term dab or vibe or whatever the latest fad niche speak is.

I think whoever is interested in a 500 year old website is going to be ok.
I recently switched from Gmail to Fastmail and have been really enjoying it so far, unfortunate they are having these outages right as I was getting familiar with the service.
Both are now nostalgia formats, and Vinyl is nostalgia for people with more money and free time. So, wins.
Maybe you could write a blog post about how people should stop writing blog posts about fake shutters, then when it gets posted to HN the contrarian crowd like yourself can complain and wish that you'd just fold up your lawn chair and stop complaining about people complaining about fake shutters.
> Organized religions are some of the very few institutions that survived for thousands of years with little change.

Which organized religion are you referring to here? All the big ones have changed immensely.
>"Evidence of something" means "I can prove something with this data and I'm 100% sure about that this happened".

I see. A lot of people are comfortable with the idea that knowledge is always incomplete, and satisfied when they can get reasonably narrow error bars.

I am not criticizing your way of looking at things directly, but I think it is a fact that normal science is done under a paradigm of less than absolute certainty.

When there was an uncertainty of hundreds of years, and someone has an analysis that produces a very high probability of one specific year, then I think that is considered a meaningful accomplishment, and about as precise as can be expected.

>I'm not saying that vikings weren't in America in 2021. I'm saying that when you scratch a little the article does not prove that.

It sounds like you are saying that Vikings might not have been in America before Columbus. This does sound like you are going beyond rejecting this article, and rejects a major premise of the research in it.

I don't believe this article was intended to establish that Europeans were there, only to narrow down the timeframe.

If this article was completely wrong in their analysis, I don't think it would indicate to other scientists that there were no Europeans in the area before Columbus. Just that the uncertainty about when it was remains relatively large.
i don't think that's right. People were already using the information quickly weren't they?
For an elegant "Cliffs Notes" version of Origins, I recommend this recent book by Grasso published in 2020:

Reading The Origins of Totalitarianism in 2020: A Short Guide to Mass Movements and Ideology - Daniel Grasso

https://www.amazon.com/Reading-Origins-Totalitarianism-2020-...

From an Amazon review, which I agree with:
"Grasso has clearly and effectively translated the twentieth-century’s totalitarian crisis into the modern day.

As someone who struggles to grasp Arendt’s philosophy, I appreciate Grasso’s synthesis of her thoughts and how he relates them to our modern political climate. He does this in a very objective/unbiased way—exposing growth areas in both conservative and liberal thought. Overall, this is a fair, helpful, thoughtful, and necessary work."
Tbf, as someone who's never read or heard of the book, it just seemed like an interesting quote about a hypothetical future for humanity. Definitely didn't occur to me it might be a spoiler.
I'm all about CDs. I can play them in my car without worrying about battery levels or data caps.
The issue whether the language is interpreted or compildd (which would distinguish compile time types from strong types) is in my opinion completely orthogonal to the issue of how dispatch works. Strong types and multiple dispatch fix the issues I see even in an interpreted language.
What about real but collapsible shutters? They often come from above but they scrunch down to a smaller space than actual shutters would.
> "Evidence of something" means "I can prove something with this data and I'm 100% sure about that this happened".

No. Evidence is anything relevant and probative. Probative is not the same as dispositive. And only fools are "100% sure" of anything about the exterior world.
Gitlab 14.4 Released
First of all it is sad to see a comment like this under yet another throw-away account. Just say what you want, using your regular account. The worst that can - and possibly will - happen is that you get shadowbanned in which case you just create a new account.

There are a number of current theories around the woke phenomenon, of which the "trans movement" is but one exponent. Vivek Ramaswamy (writer of "Woke, Inc." [1]) sees it as an outgrowth of a corporatist agenda which is meant to channel public outrage - which was turning against them, viz. Occupy Wall Street - towards shallow social causes to draw away attention from a corporate power grab. James Lindsay (of New Discourses [2], Cynical Theories [3] and the grievance studies hoax fame) sees it as the latest iteration of a Marxist-inspired agenda intent on domination or, lately, as a deflection manoeuvre by the ruling class to try to steer society away from the second enlightenment where the marketplace of ideas will become a reality. Vladimir Putin - yes, the Russian president - compares it [4] to the ideology which led the Bolsheviks to hijack the Russian revolution for their own purposes.

All of them are right, in their own ways. Corporations have jumped on the woke train, often using it to deflect attention away from whatever nefarious activities they're up to. There is no doubt about the fact that its proponents lean strongly to the left in their political opinions and favour Marxism or one of its many offshoots over other ideologies, nor over the fact that they're intent on injecting their ideology into all aspects of society - just like the Bolsheviks did in Russia after the revolution.

Whether what we're dealing with here is an astroturfing movement created to drain the public of the will to resist, a new religion running amok, an aggressive political movement intent on domination or a combination of such I do not know, I suspect this actually depends on whom of the 'woke' you ask. What I do know is that the more people get drawn in to this movement, the more true grief it will cause, both for the people who are deluded into assuming whatever identity is being foisted upon them as well as for society at large.

It is time to speak up, time to speak out against this divisive ideology which only serves to keep the public angry and confused, this ideology which tears apart communities, which threatens to dissolve whatever semblance of cohesion we have left in society. It is time to realise this has nothing to do with race, sexual orientation, ethnic background, nationality, skin colour, religious affiliation or whatever other identity category might be brought to berth. It is a power grab, pure and simple, by any mean necessary and no matter the cost to those who are being used as tools, as 'useful innocents' (or, more often, 'useful idiots') [5].

[1] https://www.vivekramaswamy.com/wokeinc

[2] https://newdiscourses.com/

[3] https://newdiscourses.com/books/

[4] https://www.dailywire.com/news/putin-warns-wokeness-is-destr...

[5] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/08/22/useful-idiot/
Exactly! Cash is king in this. You can just slip it under, no need for anyone to carry electronic terminals and fiddling with buttons or touch screens.

And also vending machines! (Especially when you're a tourist in another country.)
That reminds of another game that celebrates their polarized reviews on Steam, because 75% of players love the game and 25% of players loathe the game, and there's no in-between. I kind of like that view; I'd rather people feel most strongly about my work. Opinionated works that do resonate with me resonate far more strongly as a result of expressing an opinion.

Apparently, as we've learned today, if you're looking for variety and novelty in artistic style, you probably won't find it in the works of ConcernedApe. That's probably a very polarizing "love it or hate it" moment for quite a lot of people. From a press standpoint, best to put that out there early on, and let people form an opinion. Far better than letting them build up anticipation for a year!
It’s the kerning thing - once you notice it you see it everywhere.

My house has fake shutters and I actually took one off to see what it looked like - I put it back on as it just didn’t look right.
Of course not, but I kinda feel like this discussion is splitting hairs. If you accept that killing and eating another being is fine, as long as you aren't going out of your way to cause excessive pain I don't think it's a problem.

And I kinda feel like the difference between factory farming and pasture farming probably has a larger suffering delta than industial slauighterhouses vs Jewish butchers. But for whatever reason people don't care all that much.
I don't normally like to do self promotion on this site, but this is the exact reason why me and my team (mostly me) created Vinylr.

Instead of just getting a digital download, we provide a full size copy of the album art minus the actual record, and we give you a slightly lower quality version of the digital download with some random crackles and pops added in with advanced AI to simulate the vinyl listening experience.

For an additional 20 dollars, we cut down a tree and set it on fire for you.
In general no, but occasionally we have carnivals.
Also nothing says he didn't try and profit enough (to fund more research) from his idea already.
I do pastrami the way Franklin BBQ book describes cooking brisket using their recommended side barrel smoker mods. I use scrub oak logs off the back lot, leave the door open, and smoke it for say 4-5 hrs. Then I take the still tough pastrami and stuff it in the oven with foil covering, no water underneath, and give it another 4-5 hrs at ~200F.

Yeah. Store pastrami is sorta disgusting now (unintended bad side effect). Good gawd my pastrami is delicious.

I use Ruhl and Polcyn's "Charcuterie" for the seasonings and prep. I roast the whole coriander and pepper and then grind it right before. And that book if fantastic for a whole variety of slow cooked preparations.
You can Google "does global warming cause extreme cold". Here are my first results:

"This Is Why Global Warming Is Responsible For Freezing Temperatures Across The U.S." (Forbes):
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/01/30/this...

"Climate change: Arctic warming linked to colder winters" (BBC):
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58425526

"How global warming can cause Europe's harsh winter weather" (DW)
https://www.dw.com/en/cold-winter-global-warming-polar-vorte...

"Record cold, intense storms and tornadoes amid global warming: Could there be a connection?" (USA Today):
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/02/17/global...
You reminded me of a video from Strongtowns I saw recently and now get annoyed when I see something specific out by the street. This video even starts with a disclaimer to not watch it if you don't want to be continuously annoyed by the built environment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of81YkHsv88 (59 seconds long)
I actually like New Reddit, except for the advertising.

Design is much more responsive now, I'll give it that. Lots and lots of huge photographic headers. Hamburger menus? I'm guessing that is the name for the 3-line icon? They were pretty new in 2013 on mobile sites on my iPhone 5. And the 3-dot thing for "extra" options ... I don't remember that existing back then.

There is a reduction in information density.. some of it is warranted by an increase in white space which is good. A lot of sites now have super-intrusive advertising posted all the way through the copy, which wasn't common in 2013.

The sheer amount of data I burn through just browsing the Web.. that's a huge change. Even my mobile plan with 100GB of data gets burned in no time just browsing around. Sites are so, so heavy now. I saw that post yesterday about Discord having an enormous favicon file and so I can see that people just gave up trying to trim their code. I look at some HTML source now and I lose my shit because it is literally megabytes of bullshit. People were more careful with their code in my time.

One weird thing is that my brain doesn't know it is 2021 yet. I saw a show the other day where a woman said her son was born in 2011 and I did the maths and my brain said her son was two years old. This happens to me constantly. It's like my brain stopped counting time as soon as I entered the jail.
> This is like complaining about "fake columns" on a neoclassical facade. Or the non-structural "fake brick" on any modern building.

It is. But I'm more on the author's side than not on this. I mean, fake shutters don't make me angry -- but I do notice them because they look so stupid. I feel similarly about most fake columns. Not so much about fake brick.

I think I react that way because they're so obviously fake -- that's what makes them stupid. If they were decorative but plausible, I'd react differently. I suspect that's why I don't mind the fake brick -- most fake brick looks realistic.
Where do you get your recipes!? I've had an instant pot for a while but never ended up using it much.
Reads like he would be a good friend of Stallman. No record of defending friends with shady friends though.
No:

> I expect all of my coworkers to be protective of their work-life balance and I'm dismayed whenever I see them prioritize work in a detrimental way.

I agree completely, as a parent. I don't expect non-parents to put in extra time. Kids certainly do give you "real time deadlines" that can't be moved or pushed out of the way, but I don't expect to work any less because of them.
I used audio cassette for a few years (1978-1979) on my home-built Z-80 system.

Upgraded to a wacky cassette transport called a Phi-Deck. It was faster and had automated head control and seek; you could do a real file system on it. 9600 baud equivalent, for the setup I used; could get 100K or so on a cassette if you were patient.

https://bytecollector.com/dg_phideck.htm
Given the housing inhabited by many of my neighbors, to my eye fake shutters say "mobile home" more insistently than any of the statements in TFA or ITT. One suspects that if more people saw mobile homes more often, their tastes in adequate suburban exterior accents might change.

As a child I lived in a mobile home for years. There's nothing wrong with mobile homes. However, they are not concerned with good taste. (This is an advantage: many residents don't have time for complex yet relatively lower priorities like taste.) Neither is any other home with fake shutters.
Management is still one of the fastest ways to a high paying job. Managers get rewarded (implicitly or explicitly) for being in charge of more people, either with better pay in the same position or by appearing to be more competitive when going for promotions. This creates a perverse incentive where someone can make decisions which promote a higher headcount at the cost of actual capability or efficiency.

It's often not even deliberate. No one sits down and says, "This language or tool kit requires a higher headcount, so I'll select it for my project". But they aren't motivated to find a more efficient approach that results in them being put in charge of a smaller team (because this would cost them and not reward them).

EDIT: Some grammar things.
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> Everything I have read recently says the exact opposite, that gas spews most of its energy into your house and very little into the pot

That graph is showing thermal efficiency end-to-end, at least when assuming fossil fuel-based power plants. That's made clear in the article, where they also point out that gas burners are horribly poor at heat transfer--but not poor enough in their model to make them worse than electric stoves, induction or resistive.
Sounds like what they did in the Netflix show Travelers, where important information about the world was encoded into DNA and kept alive within the bodies of specific travelers, called Archivists. This allowed information to be transmitted over long periods of time to the Director.
You can just send them to argue with Ritchie himself :)

"C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success."

https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html
Because remote employees are a danger to other employees.

And unvaccinated people are a danger to the vaccinated.