skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is region specific. Miners in Australia are all managed by unions and are some of the best paid professionals in the Country. (1)

And with that said due to the level of influence from the unions, also have great safety ratings compared to other regions. Though admitedly still quite dangerous, but less so than cinsteuction, agriculture and warehouse work (3).

(1) https://www.minerals.org.au/news/australian-mining-provides-...

(2) https://www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/industry_business/minin...

(3) https://www.finder.com.au/most-dangerous-jobs-australia
What would happen is probably the same thing that would happen to humans if the supply chain fell apart completely suddenly. Most die and a handful manage to eke out a rough existence.
Why?

I'm going to trust actual people quoted over an anonymous out-of-five rating site as being accurate and representative.
Seems like if the school put exterior shades over the windows they could save on cooling.
Bug Taxonomy
Private lessons with a piano teacher are still the most helpful service you can find.
The Dravido-Koreanic hypothesis is probably a bad example as it’s considered to be complete quackery by pretty much everyone who studies language. It was first suggested in 1905 and was based off the Turanian language hypothesis, which was found to be completely incorrect long ago.
> so that people can whine on twitter

Whining on HN is virtuous, though?
He’s only dangling $200M not $1.2B. The remainder is UCSB funded.
In general, the death rate of wild dogs/abandoned dogs is very high, especially as puppies. Dogs evolved to have a willingness to essentially eat almost anything. They are obsessed with food sources out of necessity of survival. Wild dogs will eat basically anything they think is edible and keep eating it if they find that it is edible. Abandoned dogs are less conditioned to eat just anything, so they are much less able to survive in the wild (that's dependant on age of abandonment, though).

By evolving to also be extremely open to human partnership, they have much longer lives when living with humans because humans are extremely consistent and persistent food sources. Their "loyalty" and "love" is, instinctually, to our supply of food.
Well two countries were invaded by USA after 11-S. At that moment both invasions were sold to the public as justified, because “security” and “for the people living there”.
There's a limited amount of exterior wall space. If you give the bedrooms windows then that pushes the living space to the interior and makes it window less.

That's how my freshman dorm was. Moving exterior to interior it was bedrooms, study space, and then a shared living room. The result was windows in the bedroom, where they were mostly covered with blinds, and no windows in the living area.

That's the wrong compromise. You want the light in the living areas where people are spending their days. Of all the different trade offs windowless bedrooms is 100% the right call.
It has replaced it because it's better. I'm tired of people claiming everyone else is crazy just because reality doesn't conform with their own opinion.
Sugar Consumption falls, obesity rises
I’m sad for those who use discord. It represents all that has gone wrong in tech. And fools don’t even know better.
I think they'll need to iterate a bit to find product market fit. The 10mbit bandwidth limit, calling it "Decentralized", no public IP downsides are off-putting even at this price.
I'd be worried about Microsoft's comment that unsupported copies might not get security updates...
The reason the generation holds this wealth is because it spent its life working and accumulating it. Is it really surprising that someone who worked for 40 years, including the prime productive years of their career, has received more money in aggregate, than someone who has worked for 10, just starting their career?

Even without compounding returns (i.e. economy growing), and given a fixed spending/saving rates over time, you would expect the former to have vastly more saved money.
>Discord is searchable

Searching for canonical historical content in a chat app, where it may be spread over many discussions, channels, pinned messages and nested threads, is a miserable experience compared to full page updatable forum threads.
yes, "dial up" is what I meant, thanks for specifying it.
Which policies ?
I know some diffing libraries are reluctant to do this for perf reasons, but many of them do not handle cycles correctly leading to potential infinite loops based on the shape of the objects and order of arguments.

Fast is great, but unless you know that your data doesn't have cycles, infinite loops take a long time :)
In Vienna/Austria there is a rpi or similar housing with a real ipv4 address:

https://www.easyserver.at/serverhousing
It’s good advice for many circumstances.

Do a little 5 whys analysis and ask why in the absence of information your employees are moved to terror.

It might be a normal human reaction and an unavoidable power asymmetry between labor and management.

On the other hand, if the median expectation is terror, perhaps that provides some valuable information about the background energy left behind from all your other communications.
Russia Halts Coal Exports to Ukraine, Cancels Power Auction Amid Gas Crisis
Let's not be ridiculous. This room has no artificial light and almost no natural light, minimal ventilation, no water, no electricity, which is the norm nowadays even for cheap apartments.
I wouldn't be so harsh; it's better to have some way of handling things life throws at you, especially things you have little to no control over, than none at all.
Do you really struggle to understand what he means there? It's not exactly cryptic.
I’m not sure if AR, VR or crypto will be big thing, but if they do, I’m sure it will happen like Internet did.

Internet was ”nowhere” in 1990. Now it’s everywhere.

There was no big bang. Change was in a way quite slow - zoom in, track it on weekly or monthly basis and you likely missed it happening. There was also ups and downs, negative predictions, legal hurdles, dotcom bubble burst, companies came and died.

There was also very few (if any) obvious things Internet could improve immediately. Things like ecommerce revolution required many, many small steps.
‘An unbelievable sense of freedom’: why Americans are quitting in record numbers
As for "irreparably damaging trust," better late than never! It was pretty obvious from the beginning that AMP was going to be an anti-competitive piece of shit. (Though throttling non-AMP ads might be a bit more brazen than I personally expected.)
Then why did you? Did you expect a nuanced discussion from your statement?
"The boy said my name's Johnny
and it might be a sin
but I'll take your bet
and you're gonna regret
'cause I'm the best there's ever been."

The kid knowingly commits a deadly sin (pride) and the Devil rewards him for it to reinforce the behavior. Certainly on the path to an eternal musical gig in Hell.
I was about to post about lnav too. It's phenomenal -- and not just for logfiles! With embedded sqlite, it really is a mini ETL powertool with all the benefits of *nix-y CLI usage and scriptabity.
Why don’t you write a script that does that?
As a direct critique of the architecture, it's easy to shit on the building for lacking windows. But when taking a students budget and other tradeoffs into account it's actually one of the best places to live on campus.

Seems to me that HN users in this thread and UCS students aren't able to look past those tradeoffs.

As a student, I'm perfectly happy to have my own room with no windows. This is because (at least pre-covid when the facility was built), there's tons of stuff to do on campus and I won't be in my dorm room all that much anyway. The location is amazing. Even as an antisocial person, you get your own private space, which is something that many dorms don't provide on a budget. Yeah the lack of windows sucks, but I can live with it if it means I get my own private space and easy fast access to all the other things I need.
The people he talks to are CEOs of architecture and engineering firms and university chancellors. If you think those are yes-men, I have more news for you. He's an investor. He doesn't have employees. He may have a few assistants but that's typical of any high-level (or even mid) professional. The yes-men bit about Munger is the last thing I would associate with Munger.
> Prof. Spector use to spread fear, acrimony and stigma should be used to estimate VE, or mislead the audiences ... lacks the intellectual honesty

This is a very bold partisan claim, in fact it is insult. It comes across as another Paranoid fantasy out of US politics, irrelevant to the UK. I'm no longer interested in anything that you have to say. Good day.
An historian friend once told me that whenever you see "ritualistic" or "religious reasons" mentioned in archeology publications it basically means "we have no fucking clue why they did that".
Show HN: Winter is coming. I built a bot that tweets random beaches
Maybe it will make the winter more bearable. Maybe it will backfire.

I’m a beach lover. Holidays to me means beach. It has always been like that.

Have always wanted to build something beach-related.

After reading an article about a bot tweeting random restaurants around the world, I thought: why not build the same for beaches?

Then, I used the code kindly shared on GitHub and here’s my new bot:

https://twitter.com/imbeachlover
I didn't say anything about what Wikipedia should and shouldn't say. I was just responding to what you said because I think it's an interesting question whether something as broad as "murdering people" could be political, and as I say I do think it is political, or that people will reliably interpret it that way.

If the question is very literally whether murder in a broad sense is bad, it wouldn't be political, no, but it would still be interpreted politically probably. There is always context. Even broad movements like 60's "peace" movements have had political undertones. It's not in favor or against them to say they're political; but I think it does mean companies and organisations should expect simultaneously annoying and encourage different groups whenever they support movements that seem in their name or basic statement to be fair or innocuous like this.
Presumably this project is an attempt to address that
Genocide, miserable lives, or do nothing. If you care about yourself, your community / family... you should move away from your community?
To be clear this isn't an alternative to hosting a single Pi it was in response to the distributed case:

> Maybe there are ARM-specialized, highly distributed tasks for which a fleet of Pis is particularly efficient?

Assuming the task really requires ARM, is perfectly scalable among multiple systems, doesn't require more than 10mbps between the nodes, and doesn't require dedicated control/scheduling nodes (i.e. best case for the Pi's) a fleet in multiples of 10 Pi's per would be $59.90 month each plus the up front cost of the Pi's, power adapters, SSDs, and shipping. And even if you wrote off the up front hardware as on hand it would still be significantly less green to run.
NYT Wirecutter is a terrible site. Lazy, uninformed and mostly Chinese recommendations. They never try to seek for better alternatives.
I know someone who lived out of his car at UC Berkeley because he couldn't afford the rent. He would have loved the option for a room with no windows.

I don't care for Munger. With that said, there's a huge disconnect here with your argument unless you can show a reasonable solution. There are poor people now who need housing. We can just build something subpar and help lift people out of homelessness.
...but not prisons
I don't think Epictetus was actually defending the institution of slavery. Rather, stoic philosophy is full of these "hacks" for handling unpleasant things in your life. Many of them seem quite morbid and bizarre to the untrained mind (such as actively thinking about the death and absence of a loved one).
Electrolytic hydrogen production scales poorly. Cost aside, the additional electricity required to replace methane-derived hydrogen is completely infeasible for the foreseeable future.

Just because we can produce almost any chemistry with electricity does not imply that we have remotely enough spare power generation capacity to make it feasible. Too many proposals for green industrial chemistry implicitly assume that we have several terawatts of green power generation just lying around, which is manifestly not the case nor are we likely to have that kind of extra capacity on any timeframe that matters.
There's plenty of potential nitrogen fertilizer available. We just need to recycle it from sewage treatment plants.
Of course it would be remotely profitable for some of the miners. The difficulty adjustment is making the consensus kind of invariant of the total amount of energy used. Even security-wise Bitcoin would probably be fine at 1/10 or even 1/100 of its current power usage
Create an interactive online chatbot clone of yourself (sign up for beta)
Create your beta account now, once completed your chatbot clone will be able to communicate with anyone similar to how you would.
Which would then turn back into wolves or very similar.
They'll do just fine.
I read about this a while ago, not sure if it’s helpful since I don’t think it’s exactly what you’re looking for. Seems like you need collaborators to make this work.

https://mycelium-mesh.net/category/about.html
That's true in the sense that a bullet flying at you and steam roller running you down both represent mortal threats. But practically a reasonable depreciation cycle isn't going to be a breaking change because everyone will have plenty of time to upgrade.
Knowing little about this, I wonder would it change how we thought about these if we didn't call everything ceremonial and ritual? It's like it's to put some kind of figleaf over these people other people who were probably a lot like us.

I suppose my reaction is that popular archeological articles seem to effectively defy economics as a force in their explanations, and seem to prefer treating the cultures as being under an impaired superstition about the world.

It seems like uncovering a stadium, airport, or the Washington Mall from our world today and saying it was for rituals and ceremonies, which sure, abstractly it is, but it seems a bit filtered through a lens of studying them as primitive pagans. Nobody shifts hundreds of tons of rock for being seized by astrological magic.

If you start with the loop of necessity that nothing is ever more than it needs to be, we can bootstrap the question of for what was this necessary? It's even more plausible to say pyramids were the product of a policy of Ancient Keynesianism, than to treat megalithic builders as primitive. Maybe I'm just as curious as archeologists are, but if we applied how mystified some modern academics can seem about trade and economics today and then apply that back to studying ancient cultures, I'd wonder if there were some opportunities to reduce some blind spots.
The article articulates the problems well:

1. The ad-supported search engine business models have led to the creation of massive quantities of low-quality, irrelevant content that those search engines are drowning now in themselves.

2. Ad-supported search exposes fundamental conflict of interest in such search engine UX - serve the user or serve the advertiser?

'Boutique' search engines are not a new idea. I have used same.energy [1] to search for images and that was probably the best image search I've seen. I've used marginalia [2] to find an interesting article about a broad topic I was interested in.

The problem is not in the lack of boutique search engines, it is that using them in this way (one search engine for each type of query) is not convenient. If we extrapolate the future to having 100 finest boutique search engines, how are we going to remember to use them, especially if the use is seldom?

Browsers will let you set only one main search engine. While you can have more with shortcuts, you still need to remember them.

The nature of searching is such that we want to spend 99% of time in our primary search engine. It should then be the the job of that primary search engine to be aware of the 100 boutique search engines and pull the data from them, all happening transparently for the user. The user is then presented with best possible results for their query, assembled by carefully crafted algorithms that take results both from horizontal and vertical indexes. This has been called 'meta-search engine' concept before although I prefer the term 'search engine client' similar to how we have 'email clients'. Having access to high quality search engine clients will allow the existence of high quality boutique search engines, as the two eco-systems need each other.

Furthermore, the search engine client should also have tools to allow user to curate on its own and share this with other users. Want to blacklist domains? Want to create 'programming' results that suit your interests? This should be possible. These concept are being explored in Kagi Search [3] (disclaimer: founder) and what makes all this possible today is the transition to paid search as a product, breaking the spell of the ad-supported search and allowing us to finally focus only on the user and their needs.

[1] https://same.energy

[2] https://search.marginalia.nu/

[3] https://kagi.com
They also have quite a bit of useful Middleware nowadays, like Steam Input and Audio, which are both great.

Their controller wrapper obsoleted all of the messy third party tools you used to need on Windows, and they have a sharing platform for controller profiles.
How dare you sir!

I don't appreciate you mocking my child's injury.

Each year about 100 children are killed and 254,000 are injured as a result of bicycle-related accidents*

It's high time we banned these dangerous machines.

This bill does not go far enough if you ask me.

Have you ridden a bicycle while intoxicated sir?

* https://www.stanfordchildrens.org/en/topic/default?id=accide...
My first issue is with the article, while it seems to say it is about C, it is about a different problem which is illustrated with a C program. So what I would do differently (now that memory is cheap) : do not do overcommiting, so the OOM is out of the window. Do a different approach to fork, so you can exec commands and don't need to allocate the world.
Actually just using the ms windows memory model would be fine.
Yesterday my son wanted to play Overlord II that I had purchased ages ago. It has a native linux version, and I remember 3-4 years and a few distro/steam updates ago it worked fine. Yesterday it would hang on startup. I didn't want to spend an evening debugging it, so I flipped the proton override on steam. After a quick reinstall, it worked immediately and flawlessly.

So, I don't care whether a game is native [1] or run on an emulation layer as long as it works and performs reasonably well and, most importantly, it is supported.

[1] the reality of course is that many, but not all, native ports still run on some sort of buggy, proprietary translation layer.
I actually agree with him here. Windows are nice, but by eliminating them he was able to provide many other amenities. These are dorms, not luxury apartments. Better than the bunk bed and concrete walls you usually get in college.
Valve/Steam does not require games distributed through its platform to use their SDK/DRM in any way. It's up to the individual game developers if they set such a Steam a trap.

Valve doesn't even give an outright monetary incentive to do it. i.e. Valve's 30% cut doesn't turn into 10% if you link in Steamworks.

Though one could argue there's an indirect monetary incentive created by locking away all the platform/social features behind a wall accessed through their proprietary library. But last I checked the DRM aspects of that library could be ignored while using the rest of the platform. It does automatically stay updated though, so they could turn Evil and force DRM @ initialization if they wanted, hypothetically speaking.
When was Micro$oft ever accused of being too innovative - or rather, innovative at all?!

From what I remember, web developers (including me) were so utterly pissed about IE6 being in a state of a years-long feature freeze that Firefox and later Chrome actually had their chance to rise.
> Just check the talk page for anything adjacent to politics - you will inevitably see rabidly left leaning full time editors piling onto any remotely right of center edits.

This seems fairly easy to explain.

Right of center has a long standing notorious history of lying. A lot. Like, all the time. Non-stop lying, that's never, ever revised by any real form of media.

It is, funnily enough, referred to as: The Big Lie

See: Hitler

Do you disagree with this? Do you not think that what I've said is a valid explanation of your observation?
It's a continuum. You want content to go from idea(chat), to discussion(forum), to documentation(wiki). Most people should only have to read the wiki, if they have already read the wiki, they can drop down to the forums, and if they have read the forums and have an idea of their own they can do so within the chat. The problem is that pretty much no service has all three. Discord does fairly well because they do chat, and with their pins feature do a really bad job of being a wiki. So 1.5 is better than most services 1. StackOverflow is the only service I know that has all 3(Answers are wikis, the discussion underneath is a forum, then if there's enough messages they kick you into a chat).

I kinda see this as what happened to TV after we got DVR's and Netflix, where we went from episodic stores to serialized stories. That magnified the amount of nuance that TV shows were able to work through. As a result you get shows like The Wire, Breaking Bad, Squid Game - all shows that were fundamentally impossible before you knew that people who were watching episode 5 also watched episodes 1-4. Because no one can be sure that you have read all of the previous wiki content, forums are currently episodic in nature. They move very slowly. They need to repeat themselves many times. The bigger the forum, the slower it moves.

One of the worst features of Discord is that when you splinter conversations into different channels it becomes impossibly difficult to keep up with them. You need to click once for each channel you are tracking. Forums had this same issue. Reddit brilliantly solved this problem with their "an upvote pushes threads into the future, then we sort by most recent", but no other service(HN might? I'm not sure.) uses it to this day. I'm not sure why.

What I need on Discord is the ability to have multi-Discords like multi-Reddits where I see every message in a single interface, and clicking that message would allow me to send a message to that channel. So every message would look like this:

Server > Channel > Thread : Hi

AnotherServer > SomeChannel > GeneralThread : Some message

The big problem with chat is it quickly becomes useless as more people join the conversation, for example see Twitch chat, it scrolls so quickly you get an almost instant Eternal September effect of low quality content that reinforces itself. Even Reddit/HN falls over when you get over 1000 comments on a post. What you need is automatic sharding of users, an upvote system that would then push those certain users "up a level", and depending on the amount of users chatting in a channel there would be several levels of hierarchy involved. People who chat within your shard would then instantly reach you, but only high quality posts from other shards would reach you, but it would appear like a forum post, or be refined into a wiki.

I have a lot more thoughts on this topic, but I'll leave it here.