skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Past related threads:

Why Nukemap Isn't on Google Maps Anymore - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21782101 - Dec 2019 (289 comments)

Nuke Map: Interactive Nuclear Bomb Map - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14975863 - Aug 2017 (87 comments)

Nuclear detonation visualizer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14243187 - May 2017 (2 comments)

Mapping the US nuclear war plan for 1956 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11704241 - May 2016 (45 comments)

Nuclear Effects Calculator - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3624714 - Feb 2012 (34 comments)
You are being purposefully dense. “Feels like” and “may have” do not have very different implications. In fact, I’m more convinced you’re being dishonest now than I was just based off of your McCarthy comment.

It also isn’t labeling opponents as foreign agents it is saying that people attempting to equate US credit score, which has to do with the ability to get loans and little else, to Chinas social credit system is fishy especially when accounts that come out in full to defend China are regularly linked to actual Chinese people.

It doesn’t mean everyone doing so is, and it isn’t anyone asking for these people to be arrested or charged, but it does mean that there are pro-Chinese users on most social media and anyone arguing other wise is suspect at least.
Where did they come from, and where did they go? Business analysts that were given no-code tools, thought themselves the new-wave programmers, and then faded back into analyst/architecture roles?
I am not going to comment on facebook because I have basically no relevant first hand experience with them. I also am not going to speculate with you based on second hand accounts we might have read in the news. Sorry. You'll have to ask those questions to somebody else who is able to answer them.

"and isn't intended to apply to large businesses"

This makes no sense to me, GNOME is not a large business.

"I think suffer is a bit of an exaggeration"

You were saying before that they should face consequences. I was just quoting you here, if you didn't mean you wanted them to suffer backlash for some actions then please explain otherwise.

"expecting me not to tell people about that or to pretend it didn't happen is asking far too much."

I never said I expected you to do any of this, you are making false assumptions. Please stop, you may want to go re-read my previous comments.

"Gnome is responsible for Gnome's bad reputation ... Gnome can make whatever bad decisions they want, but they don't get to be free from criticism for those decisions"

This also is vague and makes no sense to me. What bad reputation? What behavior? What bad decisions? What criticism? Who are you referring to when you say GNOME? The foundation? The designers? The maintainers? All of the above? That's at least hundreds of people, many of them volunteers, so are you saying they all make bad decisions all the time every day about everything? Please be more specific than this, remember that GNOME is not a company, it is a large and loosely connected open source project with lots of people who have differing opinions.

This is again why I really advise that you not take this angle when you're trying to discuss this, when you do this it is extremely difficult to figure out what you're actually talking about and what problem needs to be addressed. If you want to take this in a productive direction then please, don't even bother answering the questions I asked above, and just mention your specific complaint so we can re-start from the beginning. Also please try to avoid making platitudes and generalizations, and please avoid saying things that have already been said multiple times, that is not an interesting conversation. I'm trying to help you here so you don't have to feel the need to keep repeating yourself, I'm sure that you can also acknowledge that it is not ideal when you have to do that.
Let me guess, you're using Gmail or another "web mail" on Thunderbird? Yeah there's a lot of artificial lag generated by Google or some bad process along the way. I get the same lag in Gmail, but they hide it behind CSS changes. In Thunderbird they actually show you the inherent lag (until it's ACTUALLY changed state). It's a Gmail thing though and most email connections are blazing fast.

Here's a test to run on Gmail web client: Mark an email unread or do anything that changes state. Now click the email, as to read it, and then close your browser. It will not let you because it's still "lagging" in the background for you. It's dreadful.
I think it's like that statistics about most of purchased Steam games not being played or something like that. You buy an idea that you could have enjoyed this device.
Well I'm not making any friends or profit off of this stance, so I'm not sure what my ulterior motive could be?

I think it's fair to challenge my _ability_ as an interpreter more than bias, but rarely do we have the opportunity to defer important life altering decisions to others and still retain confidence they will prioritize what's best for us over themselves.
That's actually perfectly fine. The more you build for the top end, the more you pressure release on the lower end.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29183055
But you'll have a very happy Christmas 2022!
That's putting the cart before the horse. We'll never have a usable number of electric cars until a country's electrical grid is strong enough to charge millions of electric cars every night.
The potential with mind maps seems so awesome. But, yeah, clunky implementations abound.
I like the look for the web, I think it'd be really cool if there was a "publish to markdown" option. It could even include CSS at the bottom so it would render the same way it does now, but then the docs in github would render and it would probably help to plug it into more things that accept markdown
I started in the fall of 75 and graduated in the spring of 79. So, yeah, Empire Strikes Back was later. You were two classes behind me.

I was also off-campus for the 78-79 year, which in retrospect was a mistake, as that caused me to miss a lot of went on.

I'm wondering if the Disneyland trips started in 78-79?

Anyhow, fun story about the Chinese students!

We also had Page House excursions to the premier of Alien, which was pretty exciting for me, whereas today doesn't even elicit a flicker of interest :-/

The best was a House excursion to see Animal House. The one-liners from that movie became memes from the next year. One dude was taking an extra year to get his degree, and all year people would pass him in the hall with <cough>5 years of college down the drain!</cough>.

It's nice to see a fellow techer here on HN, especially a vintage 1970s one!
Driving up inflation (which likely triggers a recession) doesn't seem in the best interest of the companies listed. It certainly could be short sighted greed driving things, it wouldn't be the first time. But maybe the US government spending 3T in the last 2 years had more of an impact on the current inflation?
> Ok, so instead showing an actual loading indicator, you show a fake loading indicator

Yes, this is the part that is simplified

> and then put in additional complexity to detect loading timeouts.

No, there is no "additional complexity" to put in. Even if the page had no loading bar at all these functions are needed, exactly as implemented, to let the user know if their mailbox is having trouble synchronizing while the tab remains open.

These functions however don't tell loaded percentage (as it's a continuously synchronizing page) they just tell connectivity status. The additional complexity would be special functions to tell initial page loaded percentage just to move the loading bar exactly instead of falsely.

> The user has more knowledge about their internet connection than gmail, so they will likely have better knowledge how long the page usually takes to load.

Not sure what this part was in response to but I'd say it makes a great argument as to why the loading splash screen shouldn't actually try to estimate how much of the initial loading has passed.
You only need enough battery to get between lengths of track that can give you a recharge.
A healthy living environment has value too. The point about taxing short-haul flight is that otherwise their pricing does not account for externalities that we collectively have to pay for. The absence of tax is effectively a subsidy.

Rail has several advantages, time-wise. Airports are far from city centres and security theatre takes a lot of time. Cheap flights also tend to use smaller, more remote airports because they are cheaper to use than big hubs close to large cities.
> How do people on HN deal with the potential disappearance of work altogether ?

Thanks to peak oil and climate change "solving" this problem, I don't really think too much about that prospect.
I wonder if rather than "additive" you could do similar with "subtractive" fabrication. Take a wooden board and cnc mill and cut circles on the surface at the appropriate orientations.
Elon Musk counts on 500k Starlink users within the next year
See the FAQ linked at the bottom of the page.
I was surprised that I was OK with that fact that in Rust a vector and an array with the same elements compare equal. It felt completely reasonable, and I definitely didn't feel that way about it in some other languages where that's true.
If they were always stupid (got it, not "crazy") and we didn't suppress their speech before, then we don't have to now.
Interesting, that one cannot delay a (pre-)payment (except as a credit) yet the goods can be delayed randomly. Seems like some asymmetry there.
SF has that data, but their report is 404ing at the moment.. I recall it being near equal?
Good. The last thing the world needs is discord users getting rich off crypto.
"> How many airplanes keep flying that long?
Many."

No, it's zero. Commercial airlines last about 30 years, they have metal fatigue from pressurisation cycles.

"And have been relaid about 30-40 times since then."

Are those expenses comparable to earthworks and contraction involved in laying down new line?
If you've got a low-chip-count product and an agile business structure, when Chip A is unavailable you can respond by redesigning your PCB to use Chip B.

But if you've got loads of chips on different boards from different suppliers, a structure suitable for a large business, lengthy supply chains, complex certification requirements, and you can't afford to pay much more? Well, that's going to make things quite a bit more difficult :)
You can email hn@ycombinator.com and ask for them to be deleted. I'll see if I can find the source for this
It is very well possible to like working in a language and to have a sincere dislike for its shortcomings. Language shortcomings are those things that repeatedly bite you in the backside or require work-arounds when there would have been alternatives known at the time of language design that would have avoided those particular pitfalls.
A lot of people through no fault of their own just cannot 'get it together'. Either they lack the skills to be employable, do not make or save enough money to afford a permanent residence, or cannot hold down a job for a variety of reason.
David Graeber already had an answer to this with his idea of "bullshit jobs", wherein as the labor that is necessary to keep society running is slowly reduced or automated away entirely by technological advancement, more jobs are invented that serve no practical purpose other than to keep people performing the wage labor ritual of selling their time to capitalists (keep in mind Graeber was a left-wing anarchist) in order to justify having access to resources. Even if there's absolutely no basis in reality for people to continue working, people will be made to think that they need to continue working and will be kept under the threat of work or starvation no matter how abundant resources and labor power are unless they simply refuse to continue to do so like we're seeing right now with the Great Resignation, which is essentially just people waking up to the realization that most of the jobs available to people today (especially young people entering the workforce) are bullshit jobs.
I did ask. They won’t.
> But in all instances there is typically an oversupply of homeless shelters that people refuse to use (due to restrictions on substance abuse etc.) it’s a tough problem.

This is not correct. In most places, there is a wild shortage of shelters. For example King County has ~4000 shelter beds and ~12,000 people who need shelter.

AFAIK the only place where there are enough shelter beds is NYC where they are legally required to provide anyone with shelter.
> Meta will be a complete failure and be made fun of for years though

If you really believe this, have some backbone and put your money where your mouth is. Short them.
no, it's not on them, it's on you for choosing to take money out of their pocket. They have chosen the monetization revenues that they are comfortable with, circumventing the way people make money while watching their content is highly unethical. You don't show up to a local course or theatre production and use a fake credit card because you dislike the fact that they use visa.
Where do you feel intentionally misled? The overwhelming majority of homeless people are not raving lunatics.
I agree. I am a developer and I know how to deal with special characters. But this isn't something I use professionally. I just prefer not to have to deal with special characters in the pdfs, m4as, txts, and other files that I use on a daily basis. When I write papers, I'll write ū or Ñ or ç or whatever (incidentally, I have a lot of shortcuts in my .vimrc for those). I would not say I am "afraid" to use spaces in filenames, but I get a certain satisfaction storing academic papers in the author--paper-title.pdf format and my notes in author--paper-title.md because it helps me find things.
To name just one of Graeber's essential lies: he makes the claim that Federal Reserve issuing American debt is privately controlled and weaves an extensive chapter based in fundamental ways on this misapprehension. This is a lie that's not "minor" nor "a matter of interpretation" nor unrelated to the "character of the book or arguments within": it's a fundamental misapprehension of the most important debt instrument in modern history (perhaps all history). In a book about debt in history.

I don't really care too much for Graeber's self-important response. If the answer is, yes, Graeber's entitled to say what he wants because people celebrate and have conferences about him, and those who disagree are implied to be beneath him... well, the brazen self-importance is so astonishing that I can't rightly understand how one can agree with that degree of self-importance so directly presented, especially when it comes paired with no actual defense of his statements -- not even a link.

Statements of the form "I'm right because I'm important, and that's all I need to say" are not usually tolerated from almost anyone as a substitute for basic, bare truths. That they are accepted here is not only a comment on the character of Graeber but on the character of his followers.
Kinda hoping this motivates some movement towards stabilizing fractional scaling on Linux. It feels like this has worked in macOS and Windows for ages.
Hearing about a JS framework "X" that is surely that much more elegant than "Y" feels like it's 2010s again!
The disappearance of work seems greatly exaggerated. Education and healthcare are a big chunk of the economy and nowhere near automated. Also consider that we’ve been talking about driverless cars for over a decade, and this is something that should be well under way by now, but it’s slow going.
What I do to mitigate the issue is switch account every few months... It means that I usually can't down-vote and flag post or comments, but it is worth it
MoviePass cofounder has bought the company back and is planning a relaunch
Any mountain in Switzerland is minimum +1 hour compared to France, when looking for comparable awesomeness as that Chamonix for example, that would mean Zermatt, 3.5h. Or Grindelwald, 2.5h. Why do that to yourself for weekends?

Besides there are pretty places much closer in France. France is also much cheaper, food better. Not that many reasons to chose otherwise for short weekend trips.

Car is unfortunately a must for family of us, any alternative is world of pain and limitation, even ignoring the prices of trains (just like any other family we know). You need so much equipment for whole family and small kids especially, that using trains means we wouldn't be traveling at all. People we know that don't own the car rent it out every weekend they need and waste tons of time and energy on chasing lower prices. Even with demi-tarif/halb-tax (which makes you waste 200 CHF/USD per head per year for no services), the prices of Swiss trains are properly bad. It still is marginally cheaper to take one's own car even if driving alone, and often much faster.

Frequent experience from times before when I was using Swiss trains for commute/traveling around - you end up standing for quite long amount of time during normal times, many people travel everywhere. Not nice if you are ie tired after long hike/skitour. With small kids, just a horrible experience.

All this ignoring current covid crisis and the fact that in trains here you are stuck in long narrow tube with 100 other people, few coughing, few sneezing, few not wearing masks on nose, or at all because they hold that can of beer for 2 hours to have an excuse, kids not wearing anything at all etc.
Why are you so emotionally invested in whether other people like JS? Languages are tools -- not part of your identity.

Also what languages do you like less than JS? A lot of people think working with a certain tool is "as good as it's going to get" until they try something better.
Listen pal, I don’t care about you or your reading comprehension, delete the comments and account.
I don't think it is safe to say they are not going anywhere in the next couple of decades.
Can you name ANY internet property that has this attribute?

Zuck's greatest fear was that his products would be uncool. What is the coolness factor in 2021?
It's not even legal to sell a new car in the US without a backup camera.
The Chinese are doing some very advanced philosophizing on the subject of Unrestricted Warfare[1]. It's a remarkably comprehensive view of national conflict, that reminds me of Clausewitz's famous maxim that "war is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means".

It's an interesting thought experiment to ponder what exactly a nation-state's political objectives would have to be that a nuclear war would be the best way to accomplish them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unrestricted_Warfare
No. I tell the startups who are doing a Launch HN to post whenever they're ready in the morning.
I remember an ad in the programming rags of the 80's that ran for about a year. It advertised (from my memory) "no coding required! Just use our script interface!"
That sounds like it is written in highly optimized C, not in Rust?
I doubt a static launch system would introduce enough energy to make the battery savings worth it. Most of the energy during flight is spent maintaining speed while climbing to altitude. The linear rail gives you a lot of speed, but zero altitude.

Still, there might be some weight gains that come from reducing the motor's peek power requirements, and those multiply across the entire flight.

I was wondering if it could worth implementing a two-stage system. The booster stage contains a lot of batteries, extra motors and a beefed up landing gear. The booster batteries contain enough power to get the aircraft up to it's cruising altitude before detaching and more or less gliding back to the departure airport. All the second stage would have to do is maintain cruising altitude for the rest of the flight then land.
I didn't ask for movies and video games that have crimes in them, I asked for advertisements, pieces of media that intrude into people's lives whose sole purpose is to tell people to buy and use a product, which demonstrate the use of that product exclusively by depicting criminal (and often violent) behavior.
That is mentioned in an update at the end of the article (so the article was last updated a few weeks ago).
Did you try sinking any ships with this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_glass
you can check out Nuerosity’s crown: https://neurosity.co/
Google's stock is higher than when Google Plus launched. The same will be true of FB.
You may underestimate the ingenuity of non-developers hacking on no-code platforms. They end up thinking a lot more like developers than one might think.

Our operations organization has independently arrived at some things pretty darn adjacent to more advanced software patterns, like circuit breakers. (This being for workflow automation no-code tooling, vs website builders).

And a ton of real world work is getting done out there with Zapier, that's for sure.
Bad solution to a bad problem caused by bad reasoning from bad administration.
[Huge grain of salt here, your data should trump my opinion.]

The header text on your page is: Office Essentials

Compare that to your competitors:

@Trello: Trello helps teams move work forward.
@Slack: Slack is where the future works
@lucidcharts: Where teams come together to see and build the future
@zoom: In this together. Keeping you securely connected wherever you are.
@zoho: Your Life's Work, Powered By Our Life's Work

I don't think you've positioned your product to be understood or inspiring.

I would do the following:

1. Really dig into my web analytics and work on optimizing the site
2. Raise prices to get AOV high enough that selling made sense
3. Dial/email for dollars and get a couple of deals under your belt
4. Write content
5. Make a sales hire
You did misread.

> Until esbuild came along, Rollup was the only sane JS bundler

Rich Harris did create Rollup
A couple of weeks after moving to UNIX from MSDOS, I thought I'd remove lots of unnecessary 'dot-directories' from the /tmp directory. I was root as I had no concept of being a 'normal user'.

So I ran two simple commands:

cd /tmp
rm -fr .*

and wondered why it was taking so long. <grin>
Neat! Quick question—your pricing says "3 forms • 100 submissions" — Is that 100 submissions a month, or once you cross a 100 you have to sign up for the subscription?

I have a use for this, so I think I will sign up regardless.
On the other hand Mac had some great GUI programs.

Sometimes i think that the command-line is a crutch that keeps programmers from learning how to make good UIs.
EGCG green tea ingredient: Literature review on epigallocatechin gallate (2020)
Understood. You've probably seen this discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23623799

It looks like they are willing to work with you to preserve your anonymity, but I'm guessing from your post that this process hasn't worked for you.
I was worried that was your position. If you still need further proof of global warming and it's deleterious effects then providing proof is impossible.
I suppose I should view it as a threat to my living. But nah. I think we'll have enough sloppy legacy systems for my lifetime left over.
Seems like we are dealing with the opposite issue here where factory production is booked many months in advance and can’t quickly adapt to new demand.
Exactly. There is no such thing as dystopia or utopia every government has shades of both.