skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been to a few dozen sites there over the 3 trips I've taken to the Yucatan area.

I climbed a pyramid in Guatemala a few years ago on a trip there and chatted with the park rangers there. At first they were kinda of standoffish, which is common, but I learned that when I took out my little "Spanish for Dummies" handbook and cracked a joke about me needing it they'd laughed and warm up to me. Being humble made an amazing difference.

It can get pretty hot there during our winter months here in the US when I went there and I finally realized just a few days before at a different site on that trip that on all of my trips the one thing in common when you climb those is a wonderfully refreshing and cooling breeze, whereas in the forest below them it was hot and muggy, and I mentioned that to those Mayan Park rangers.

They instantly became excited to talk to me about that. They told me that is exactly why they were built and what they were used for, and emphatically pointed out they were not built for "chopping off their enemies heads" like the archeologists that come from the US and Europe like to opine and imagine they were used for.

I was kind of shocked by that, and their disdain for those foreign archeologists that keep saying they were, which they made very clear to me.

I got fairly well torched the last time I mentioned this here but I think it's important to share because it's so easy to overlook. I overlooked it for quite a long time myself.

Just a few years ago my wife and visited the Chokia site near St. Louis, MO on a vicious hot and humid summer day and it's there too. So you don't have to go to the Yucatan to experience that wonderful cooling breeze on a pyramid because climbing that big mound offers the same cool breezy relief, and it's undeniably there while just below it is not.

Now... to put this into proper prospective you have to spend some time below those pyramids working a bit. Working up a sweat for a few hours in the sun like real labor does for you. Then go climb that mound. It's the equivalent to modern A/C.

The Mayans will tell you that's why they were built. It's fair to say some were modified over the years to be more ceremonial, like Uxmal for example, but all around even that one are many lesser structures with perfect places to sit and refresh in the cool breeze to be found on them.

If you go to Tulum you'll notice that in the parking lot it's hot and humid and the air is dead still and there are no tall structures anywhere. But if you walk to the edge of the cliff overlooking the ocean you'll find the cooling breeze. They didn't need a tall structure there. That was where they took their work breaks.

We need to update our take on those because that is too common and too easy to prove and it's what the Mayans themselves say is the reason those structures were built.
CEO of Pfizer arrested, charged with fraud – media blackout as PfizerGate
I am willing to bet that you never had a good tomato. A good ripe tomato is impossible to transport. So what we get in the store is full of water with this weirdly mushy texture. Feels like the tomato is stealing all other flavors in your mouth. But a tomato from a home garden. That's a totally different experience.
i wonder what other plants are that we fear or overlook that are edible/medical
I am somewhat shocked to find that an RDBMS is considered a “loaded footgun” in 2021. Perhaps grandparent isn’t the most charitable in their interpretation, but I am in full agreement. It continues to astound me how little about the basics of databases most developers know, and how strongly resistant they are to trying to learn.
Again, what is your point here?
> I don't take as much issue with this happening the other way around.

That seems to imply that your opposition to a person not being spooked is not a moral one. Please tell us more about it.
I listed 4 actually, all with their OWN household name with plenty of users.

Under the Google umbrella or alphabet is the same. Just like under Facebook or Meta.

Nobody cares about the exact legal construction of those products. Plenty of people still say FANG, where it's short for Google and not Alphabet.

Nice nitpick, but you obviously mispositioned your initial comment by putting the emphasis on household names and not on the legal structure, which is a strange argument fyi.
I was just comparing the pricing to OVH's cloud VPS's (https://us.ovhcloud.com/) and, accounting for the currency conversion and OVH's huge amount of free unmetered bandwidth (vs 20TB for H), it actually looks like OVH is even cheaper.

How can DO and Vultr even compete? Probably on the basis of their nicer dashboards and easier sign-up flow (especially OVH's)
In addition, based on the last time I looked at System76's Github, they have a lot of in house Rust talent already.

This is including the guy doing Redox OS - which means there's even some experience writing a DE in Rust, though not a Linux DE.
>How was tobacco a monopoly.

Philip Morris.
They don’t make him sound like a crank, but like a narcissist, which Wolfram definitely is. Not that it’s really a bad thing, most lang devs are a little narcissistic in my experience. Comes with the territory. But the guy named his language after himself. No one does that! Creating a language is already a very ego-driven endeavor, but naming it after yourself is next-level egoist.
It my not be FP, but I imagine it will be heavily type dependent and Haskell has one of the best type systems of any programming language.
I imagine there's also some false positives from people who know that "wanting to quit" is the more socially acceptable answer.
wow. The comments are just filled tobacco sympathizers. I thought the topic was closed after decades upon decades of research. My guess some people wouldn't mind to see the world burn tomorrow if they make profit today.
I used it a lot while pursuing my electrical engineering degree. It's ability to solve almost any mathematical formula and to show you the solution step by step is just plain awesome.

I guess it's safe to say I would not have passed some algebra and electrical engineering exams without it.

One tip I have (not sure if it still works though): Buy the Android or iOS app for a few bucks to get access to the step by step solutions if you can't afford the pro subscription.
He is both a crank and an innovator, and comments regarding his crankery are perfectly appropriate.

I think his "new kind of science" needs to be singled out from Wolfram alpha and Mathematica as especially crank-ish. It appears to be an attempt at a grand foundational philosophical statement, but it doesn't interact with pre-existing literature that covers similar territory, conveys ideas with pictures and informal statements without robust definitions, doesn't have an underlying bedrock of concepts or uniform vocabulary, and doesn't have the focus or clarity of purpose to rise to the level of being right or wrong. And it nevertheless maintains a grandiose tone of establishing an entirely new domain of science

It's not necessarily wrong, but it is unfortunately very vague and concerningly childish, even though I think it does have some meaningful things to say. It's a very fair example in favor of crankery.
I've been using relational databases for web apps for my entire career and probably would have made this same mistake if using PlanetScale for the first time.

The author had two misunderstandings:

1) An index isn't created automatically

2) You get billed for the number of rows scanned, not the number of rows returned

Even if I noticed #1, I probably wouldn't have guessed at #2 for the same reason as the author.
Oooooooooh!
This is a horrible argument. I could apply the same logic to all your unhealthy habits as well.

I don’t smoke but regressive tax structures and social control “for the greater good” are signs of a dystopia.

Good intentions, road to hell…etc
Have you read a single one of my arguments? Less paper work, more doctors and nurses handling fewer patience.
Correct, they picked other excuses.
This is awesome, API is easier to understand than Giraffe for someone who isn't a hardcore FP programmer IMO.
Let’s put old billionaires in windowless dorms instead.
Does "previous corona infections" refer to previous Covid-19 infections, or previous infections by other corona viruses?
My taking loans using his stock as collateral, he then gets to claim the associated expenses as losses while claiming no gains.

See: http://archive.today/j4vAG
Just to clarify, Hetzner now has Cloud servers in the US. Dedicated servers are still only available in Europe.
This is full of hot takes, but it's missing sources and examples, so can't be taken as valid observations.
Full screen is terrible when multitasking. It's usually why I have to put my phone down and do something on my desktop computer instead.
Funding a project is very straight forward. There are three things to cover 1. Who pays 2. What do they wants 3. What is the impact.

Munger pays some money and he wants the building to be built in a certain way. University pays some money, and they have many direct and indirect things they want from it. Also the university is accountable to many more people than Munger.

Munger is just person with limited/no accountability and he is very exact in his demand. On the other hand, the university is accountable to the trustees and the students.

There is a value for simple and exact demands with money being handed over to someone with a goal. If you take a step back and see this entire engagement as an investment with social goals and not a billionaire donating money the nuances the whole ordeal becomes very clear.
That's a bit recursive. I'd have needed english translations of the german articles to get to know the english math terms to be able to write about them in english :)
why should I defend an autocrat?
If we are to live in a mutually prosperous society, how is the labor and therefore well-being of the content creator improved by a web scraper? Does this precedent not injury future opportunities for exercising one’s life to making website data available for others to scrape?

By my understanding any website with a copyright disclaimer warrants their data as exclusively their own and are granting permission for other web users to generate it, ie people are not entitled to share their web data with anyone. So if they are, and we agree that it’s good that they do, and continue to create information for others to know, how do we avoid the implicit harm in extracting data without nothing being given in return but possibly harming the internet’s experience for everyone accessing the same information?
I think the second hand smoke thing was largely overblown to make it an "us vs them" thing rather than letting smoking be a personal choice. Smoking is a terrible habit, I hate being around people who are smoking, but I really think that modern anti smoking campaigns were less about health and more about puritan values, and not being able to stand the idea of someone else enjoying themselves in ways you disagree with. We see this regularly but it usually doesn't get enough traction to matter. The "dangers of second hand smoke" happened to be what finally stuck.

From what I understand, anti smoking campaigns have actually had a positive impact on life expectancy in western countries. On that metric, this is a positive thing. Personally I don't believe it outweighs the ills of allowing others to tell you what to do in the name of your health. I actually think all of the covid craziness can trace itself back to some extent to when we gave in and banner indoor smoking in most places. You start letting people make rules "for your safety" (and try to spin it so it's really about others) and next thing you know we've got the current hysteria as a popular thing.

Edit, because everyone that's replied so far has missed the point. I dont mean second hand smoke is pleasant. The rhetoric used to make allowing or disallowing smoking not a business decision but a state mandate, is that it was killing people. This was overblown, and is a completely different bar than "it smells bad and gives me a headache" - I agree with that, but its unreasonable to argue the state should be telling people what they can't do because of it. I'd sooner see Axe body spray outlawed on those grounds, but again, it's not the states business.
Rust uses proc macros for compile-time programming, not generics. These are quite distinct features, with distinct purposes.
They can already do that without harming repairs. As if replacing the hardware with physical access and giving the phone back to you to tap you is an attack people are actually afraid of... (and if they were, e.g. targeted by state actors or whatever, they could just get a specialized phone, not a mass market one).

They already have non-E2E-encrypted iCloud backups where they give access to the Feds and others.
If you're going to submit stuff like this, at least fact-check it first: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pfizer-albert-bourla-arres... , https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2021/11/06/was-pfizer-...
So they have all these restriction for security and privacy, but they’re all worthless if Apple decides they’re going to provide surveillance for the government, right?

IMO this is a win win for Apple. They get to pretend the anti-repair shenanigans are for your protection, but they also have the option of turning around and selling access to you and your device to whoever they want.

The NSA spying isn’t comparable either. That was mass surveillance. Swapping a piece of hardware, which requires hands on the device, doesn’t scale to the point of being a threat like that IMO.

For me, the negatives of non-repairability outweigh the pros of the security provided. I’m not worried about the government swapping my screen to gain access to my device.
Writing to the rc field even for read only access dirties cache lines and causes cache line ping ping pong in case of multi core access, where you also need to use slower, synchronised refcount updates so not to corrupt the count. Other GC strategies don't require dirtying cache lines when accessing the objects.

Determinism: the time taken is not deterministic because (1) malloc/free, which ARC uses but other GCs usually not, are no deterministic - both can do arbitrary amounts of work like coalescing or defragmenting allocation arenas, or performing system calls that reconfigure process virtual memory - and (2) cascading deallocations as rc 0 objects trigger rc decrements and deallocation of other objects.
PT Barnum was an optimist.
Oh please.

Scary high-end governmental supply chain backdooring with chips the size of a grain of rice are for fiction rags like Bloomberg:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-h...

Techniques like this; tying hardware together and not allowing legitimate owners pair them to work is purely anti-competitive garbage. We've seen this with coffee pods, automated cat litterbox cleaners, dish washers, inkjet printers, and more.

Apple finally wanted the market for themselves. And since they control the hardware, well, yeah.
Thanks for the feedback. You are right getting an economy working will be hard and slow, and it will become quite heavily subsidised for some time. Sharing the infrastructure you build (space tourists...) could certainly work, and to some extent sending some raw materials to orbits, which is cheaper to do from the Moon than from Earth.

I understand your comment on the price point, this is a topic of endless debates, I aligned myself on the price of similar indie games for the genre. Maybe you are right, but you are the first person mentioning it is too expensive.
They never charged. People were willing to pay, but they never offered a for fee service.
Multiple others have commented on this already here, but I will chime in.

The intent is to deliver a message in person over a synchronous communication. In many cases, dropping a message over Slack, text, or email, does not feel fair to the other person. For example, "Hey, I need to talk about my departure from the team when you have a minute".
I'm curious how touch screen glass cockpit pilots feel. Flying and messing with a touchscreen seems a lot more risky and dangerous on the surface, not to mention more difficult in turbulence thanks to bouncing around in three dimensions.

In an industry arguably more obsessed with safety (from regulators down to pilots), surely this would be a more heated debate in that space?
I think you're assuming a level of market rationality that doesn't exist IRL. In practice, certain industries have tended to be more profitable than others... even long term.

Same for stock. Apple & MSFT's stock price does, in theory, "price in" their tremendous revenue, growth potential and profitability. But.... This was also true 10, 20 & 30 years ago. Yet, investments in tech companies over those years did yield market beating returns.

I think that for tobacco and other cash crops, it helps that it's relatively durable and that the market is quality oriented.
Taking notes is the simplest. I started with outline-mode back in the day. Once you start taking notes you'll think: if only I had a way of cataloguing, tagging and prioritising tasks. Before long you'll start estimating tasks and creating agendas; then you'll want to tie in other parts of your life to your tasks and notes -- as nothing ever lives in a vacuum -- and... well, there you go. That's how it goes.

Create a .org file and start writing is really the simplest. If you never make it past that, you still have an effective note taking system in Emacs.
> No amount of swivelling your head allows you to see the blind spot right behind you - not using a screen is really dangerous which is why they made them mandatory.

I've worked in the auto Industry for a large part of my life in some form, and even when cameras are installed their are a lot of owners (mainly older) who don't use them.

I can use them or not since I've spent enough time staging cars, so while it's a useful tool to have them it's specious reasoning to think they are an absolute answer to all accidents that happen when you back up. It's just as odd as thinking as somehow cars with auto-dimming headlamps when the turn signals are on are what was necessary for others to see you want to turn--I have no problem seeing this even on motorcycles as I ride and tend to be rather vigilant to these lights just to not get hit. It's akin to thinking that all cars must have a self-parking feature.

Honestly, I place more blame on mobile phones for needless accidents than anything else on the road these days, second only to tired or careless drivers. Both of which I have been guilty of at some point, too.
GP does have $149 worth of wiggle room to fit those two Ubers in and have their point still work, so I think not trying to exactly estimate their prices was fine.
I am not sure your comment refers to the in-game economy in the video-game or the video-game business model itself.

The video-game business model is pretty simple: sell on PC for a one-time cost of around $15-25 through channels like Steam.
I know what you mean but I do a surprisingly large amount of mobile HN commenting anyway, lol.
Univ. Of Florida Reverses Course to Allow Professors to Testify Against State
And there are also (naturally) economic downsides as well:

The costing model in this study covers three areas where smoking has been shown to
create ‘external’ costs: the direct costs to European public healthcare systems in a given
year; productivity loss to the EU27 economy due to increased absenteeism; and the
monetised cost of premature mortality

Taking the three main cost factors together, the loss to the EU in 2000 is estimated to be at
approximately €363 billion. This figure corresponds to about 3.4% of the EU27 GDP.

https://ec.europa.eu/health/sites/default/files/tobacco/docs...
Sir you're the one presenting ad hominem attacks on me without the faintest of point.

Meanwhile I have a very solid point that bicycles are dangerous with evidence and citations to support that point.

Bicycles kill more kids every year than school shootings.

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/a01

We need to use the federal government to ban bicycles to prevent these machines from hurting our kids.

Criminalize bicycles!

Your parents should have taught you when you were younger that if you don't have something nice to say then don't say it.

So if you have a valid point then please say so,otherwise stay quiet and stop these ad hominem attacks on people.
In Canada we use that model for funding schools, it’s set by the province on a per student basis with adjustments for special needs.

In BC private schools get (or used to get, govt changed recently) half of the funding of public schools.

I don’t know if the issues are to the same degree, but they certainly exist. That said I vastly preferred the poorer school where we got to wear hats to the rich area school with more rigidity.

It’s funny too as in my area the private expensive Christian schools would shuffle off their pregnant teenage moms (the rates were alarming) off to the poor school that had the teenage mom program. So to me education solves a lot more problems than income for sure.
Sure, all businesses are regulated within the jurisdictions in which they operate. But if I want to set up a mining machine in my house, I don't see how a government can say that running my heater is fine but running the miner is not.. are they monitoring my electricity usage down to the device level? How?
I have this gameplay trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqdmSsaBtI&t=12s
I don't know JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, I think it's a bizarre coincidence!
> Also, not deterministic

> not deterministic perf wise.

was what parent wrote (emphasis added), I assume referring to the problem that when an object is destroyed, an arbitrarily large number of other objects -- a subset of the first object's members, recursively -- may need to be destroyed as a consequence.
Composting a humanure mix in sealed enclosures with a regulated exhaust would produce relatively high nitrogen compost. Deliver this locally to growing crops in a just-in-time manner for less nitrogen loss. However, it's hard to see this happening on any meaningful scale, with regard to the current trajectory of modern civilization, especially in the cities.
Social Media Should Be Treated Like Broadcasting
I can't beleive this works.
> For instance there is no need for a 5nm power management chip

But like what if you did it anyway? I remember pondering this while looking at some guitar pedal schematics. A lot of them use ICs that are basically ancient. Do newer processes have anything to offer (even if it wouldn’t be cost-efficient)?
If those million items need to be read from different servers -- as they might well, in a distributed database -- it's definitely not just a few ms of computing power.

For reference, reading a million items of up to 1 kB each costs $0.125 with on-demand dynamodb.
WW2 had plenty of examples of essentially slave labour with high levels of mortality.
Elon Musk using Twitter poll to decide the selling of 10% of his Tesla shares
> argued that he had gained entry to the Indian Institute of Technology, one of India’s most prestigious universities, only as a result of affirmative action. (India has banned caste discrimination but does hold a certain number of places at public universities for Dalit and other lower-caste applicants.)

How is that not discrimination?
I will never make the mistake of trusting management again.

No matter how good my relationship is with my direct manager, someone above them can decide I’m gone and neither my boss or my boss’s boss can do anything to save me. Happened to me twice.

Every time some bad happened in my career, it’s been preceded by vague request to talk.

This isn’t helped by having an unrelated anxiety disorder.