skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dust clouds won’t happen on the moon due to lack of an atmosphere. You can get a localized dust plume, but not fine particles drifting away for thousands of miles in the manner of, say, the California fires.
By that time there isn't much you can do to prevent impact.
I would say I'm "wise enough to not use spaces in filenames".

It's not about fear, it's about making good decisions, and avoiding unnecessary complication.
I don't like the idea, not because it doesn't work. It might, but in the mean time I lose ownership to my own code and tools. My code and tools might be shit, but at least they are well documented and I know how shit works. I prefer to play with my own shit than someone else's, if possible.

You may ask why then I don't write my own OS/IDE/Database/etc., well I'd love to but sadly I don't have the skills. I only do things within the boundary of my skills.

Sorry, ownership is No.1 issue for me.
FWIW, the 2014 smart fortwo and smart forfour got 4/5 stars in Euro NCAP. It actually gets a better score than the 2017 Ford Mustang, where the safety rating for adult occupants is rated higher in the smart.

https://youtu.be/iXUBU0eieLc doesn't look all that bad.
Well, still... It's not exactly brain surgery is it?
I used to use Thunderbird. But Gmail's spam filtering capability combined with their search are something I missed.

Unless something has changed in the past 3-4 years.
It's odd that you are so aggressively defending Japan.

How is you having an opinion that they have "the best restaurants in the world" an achievement of Japan?

Secondly, if you read the original comment I made, I am agreeing with someone who states that many people develop an idealized concept in their mind and project this image onto Japan.

This appears to be exactly what you have done and my "negative things" I have said are facts well-known I listed to show your points are not conclusive.

Edit: I am amused you edited your comment to try to paint this as an ethnic debate. You are clearly arguing in bad faith and I will not waste my time further.
I think so. Trying to find a Transit or Sprinter right now is hard enough.
>> Large investors prefer fewer, larger deals. Because of attention scarcity and transaction costs.

>> Today, we have excess idle capital under performing AND zillions of unfunded ideas, unending needful work not being done.

That might be a consequence of the concentration of wealth that's been happening. Not only does a VC have limited attention, but there aren't many ideas that need billions of dollars to fund. It might be better for startups to have twice as many rich guys with half as much money. OTOH maybe there's a way for them to spread it around more with a layer of oversite? But they'd need trusted oversite, and I'm guessing that's hard for them to find.
To be honest, consider if you owned a small business, say a restaurant.

These are the same people who said two weeks to slow the spread, then proceeded to lockdown for months and put your business into flip-a-coin odds for insolvency.

It doesn’t matter how many credentials are next to their names - you are never listening to them ever again.

And neither will your family who depended on your business or saw you lose your business.
It's weird from the perspective of game development because it's so obvious. A lot of time is spent on development tools because making a modern game is a very complex undertaking that is highly data-driven. A large amount of game tools are #nocode not because it's a movement but because it's useful. A classic example is level design tools that are much more about spatial design with some coupling between entities in a game. Non-programmers can get really far and build some surprising diverse things with simple primitives.

As an example our Art Director built this without any programmer assistance or writing a line of code. Just taking a basic multiplayer FPS game then grabbing components we had already made and jamming them together to get parts working:
https://twitter.com/voxeleus/status/1437754413813207047/vide...

You can further see this in many creative games or games with modding tools where players put together complex behavior without using a line of code. Right up to things like Minecraft Redstone which is really an esoteric, spatial programming language. But crucially doesn't feel much like programming at all.

I think there's a lot to be taken from the game space for people trying to build no-code tools. Particularly in that you're not trying to remove a programmer but empower non-programmers in ways that suit them.
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For anyone intrigued by the term, maybe this would help: http://www.hearye.org/1999/05/whats-an-en-site/ – bear in mind 1999 predates the popular use of the term "blog" (which appeared only in that same year) but e/n sites were, more often than not, what we'd call blogs now.
> The people you are competing with study leet code for 3 months

You can keep competing with the B and C players if you want but don't give that advice to others.
Blame the supply chain for high prices, and the reason inflation is here to stay
For a temporary amount of time...

"Viral loads of Delta-variant SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections after vaccination and booster with BNT162b2"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01575-4

"...By analyzing viral loads of over 16,000 infections during the current, Delta-variant-dominated pandemic wave in Israel, we found that BTIs in recently fully vaccinated individuals have lower viral loads than infections in unvaccinated individuals. However, this effect starts to decline 2 months after vaccination and ultimately vanishes 6 months or longer after vaccination..."
OP here (actually the top of this thread, not OP on the post). Thanks for commenting pal.

I've had lots of time to marvel at technology in my nearly 40 year oil and gas career. A lot of the work that I did when I started in the exploration end of that industry has now been used, even decades later, to drive exploitation in areas that I came to know and appreciate for their raw beauty and isolation. The rock cycle teaches us geoscientists (I'm a geophysicist) that time changes everything and not even the rocks are forever.

In the grand scheme of things looking down through time it appears that a case could be made for humans being only the latest one of a series of afflictions that earth has endured in the past. No doubt earth is resilient enough to survive and establish a new equilibrium should we manage to deplete enough resources here that we can no longer survive as a species, and like rats escaping a flood, hop on any interstellar flotsam available in a bid to save ourselves from our own technologically-induced suicide.
Glad you didn’t choose a sequence that crashes my browser.
The one time I saw something like that sign scene was Carmageddon, but that game was quite self-conscious in its humor, whereas in this ad it's worryingly out of place.
this was commentary on the /hypothetical/ scenario from OP on which regime was more damaging, which I read as essentially ideology choice, not an endorsement of any particular methods
And honestly, it's a good fear to have; there are contexts where it still just doesn't work.

Last I checked, the standard answer for GNU make is "Spaces are expected to break the tool, that's working as intended, it will never be fixed." And because we build our towering edifices of software on the pillars of the past, I can't guarantee to you that a project of arbitrary complexity won't try to cram a list of filenames through a make script.
Yes billions of data points showing the safety and efficacy of the mRNA shots just isn’t enough. We need tens of billions otherwise you just can’t trust those things.
SARS-CoV-2 is basically already endemic.

In the US, since the start of the pandemic, the total number of deaths "involving COVID-19" in children aged 17 or younger is 595. During the same period, total deaths in this age group amount to 61,523.[1]

The vaccine does not provide sterilizing immunity. Fully vaccinated individuals can become infected and transmit the virus to others.

Based on these facts, can you explain how vaccinating children will "end" the pandemic and make children significantly more safe?

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#Se...
No, it frees you to pick whatever unmessy solution you want.

You can do `configure --prefix=/Program\ Files/<app>` if you want.
Since banning ended up being a big part of their revenue model, I think an interesting approach they could have took was to allow you to re-instate your existing account if you were banned for $10, instead of having to register a completely new account. That would have avoided the chaos of losing users that had reputation while still kind of working for their odd moderation and revenue system. They could have also, of course, just made the $10 an annual thing and solved it that way too, but that just seems clinical to the madness that made the forum entertaining, and the banning kind of played into the humor.

I'll out here that my work is very strongly influenced by Something Awful and I had an account there a very long time ago. I was banned by Zack Parsons for I don't even remember what post (nothing any reasonable person would think deserved a ban), and that was the end of my participation in the SA forums, I didn't want to have to re-build an identity from scratch there and I decided to move on, for better or worse.
I think that article is 90% generic banter about hedge funds and the author tooting his own horn. There’s nothing substantial about IBM, if you trade your reading glasses for an electron microscope you might find some talk about the price action you could see in the charts yourself.

What I know is that employees have been heading out like rats from a sinking ship after they blew up their own e-mail server.
Never forget the C donut

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEqXNfs_HhY

https://www.a1k0n.net/2011/07/20/donut-math.html
I bookmarked the simple version and called it a day.
The first successful no-code platform(VisiCalc) came out in 1979 so calling it a new movement or innovation is just people being ignorant about the past.

In essence this is an old Idea that have been on the cusp of making the professional application developer obsolete since COBOL was invented back in 1959.

There is a cyclic nature to this and at i don't see any real difference in this generation of tools then something like SAP ABAP in that it will not also develop into a new sub-specialization that Leeds to an increase in the need for full time programmers.
There are a lot of sites that have fake delays to load information to make it seem like they're doing more work than they actually are.
Edit: after posting the below, I took a closer look at your commenting history and was shocked to see how frequently and how badly you've been breaking the site guidelines. That's definitely not ok, so I've banned the account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

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I'm late to this, but can you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN and stop breaking the site guidelines? You did so extremely badly in this thread. "I love when people out themselves as having never worked on anything significant" is a bannable offense just by itself. No more of that, please.

I don't want to ban you, but we need you to post in the intended spirit of the site. If you'd review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules going forward, we'd appreciate it.
> the system kept trying to replace folders in their original places.

This is the file that you want:

$ cat ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/"
If you are wondering what this is about and figure it out from the website, they basically want to sell you a dead man's switch as an app.

It would be clearer if they'd replace confidential information with the word kompromat.
Seems okay to me, it's just one more layer of abstraction higher up the chain.

The organizational problem is controlling ad hoc app proliferation by non development units and thereby creating unsupported shadow systems. So, when used by dev teams I see no problem, but usage by operational units should be highly policed.
> More often that not when I see a video with tons of dislike it's because it's been brigaded by an adversarial community and not really an indicator of the value of the content.

Strongly agree. For example in HN itself if someone poses a fact-based positive opinion about China, it is down-voted whenever Americans are online and voting (does not happen when Europeans are online).

So dislike/down-vote has 0 value. In fact, majority of the comments in this thread are against Youtube, which tells me that Youtube has made the correct decision.
More funding for bike paths would have been great, but what would you have cut to get it? I kind of like things like water I can drink and bridges that don't fall down. This bill was hard enough to pass as it is. Trying to add funding for bike paths would have been difficult because (a) right-of-way issues tend to make them hideously expensive relative to the constituencies they serve and (b) that constituency tends to be more liberal than the fence-sitters were. Even those who aren't in the pocket of the fossil-fuel industry like Manchin still had to satisfy their own constituents who are more oriented toward giant pickups and SUVs than bikes. Proponents needed to attract votes, not drive them away.

Yes, it's a missed opportunity, but no bill at all would have been an even bigger one.
Interesting points. It's too common now to lump a person's strengths and weaknesses into one big package. Right or wrong, that is the common way of judging people it seems.

I enjoyed SA at first, until it became quite clear the moderation was heavily skewed to Lowtax and his friends, Photoshop Fridays were largely rigged, accounts would be locked for no apparent reason and good luck getting a response from that cancer guy that never checked email. And fine - that's his site, his rules, and opted (since phpBB was free and had "access" to university servers) to set up something just for me and my friends. Apparently I wasn't the only one because the user base slowly declined with some hardcore hangers-on sticking around to form the shell of a community it is now. Lowtax was always an asshole, but he did build something that greatly influenced internet culture (again, for better or worse is left up to the reader).
> 2. would need to know # of assets to be downloaded by the user (since # of assets, not just file size, affects load time)

Progress bars are typically where AI would excell. After a while, the algo looks like this:

- “I know that at 34/93 items, there are generally 3 seconds left.”

- “I know that in 5% of situation, instead of going smoothly at 64/93, it takes 7 minutes more”

- “So I’ll show a progress bar that goes smoothly.”

It would be great because it would benefit from other people’s install/loading experience, and we could stop trying to make it smooth as a developer by typing “x3 weight for files, x7 weight for dependencies…”.

Please don’t download TensorFlow as a JS dependency, though ;)
Booking.com is kind of a Dutch company, at least the .com division, but it's actually owned by a American parent, "Booking Holdings", based in Norwalk, Connecticut.
>News publications have slowly gotten rid of comments sections,

Slowly? I havent seen comment on majority of new sites for years.

On the other hand: I'm not shocked, majority of stuff written there was basically trash.
SLS was never the low-risk bet. The low-risk bet was Atlas V Phase 2.

But you're right, it wasn't completely insane in 2010. Nobody could have predicted how successful SpaceX would be and how untrustworthy Boeing would be.

The insanity of SLS was obvious to all but the deliberately blind by 2018 when Falcon Heavy flew.
Same, really not a fan of the dumbed-down Apple look laptops are heading in. Look to old school Thinkpads if you want "Linux-friendly" inspiration.
I’ve never seen a 16 bits per channel BMP… is that even possible?
I did this in high school, which was, in terms of school work anyway, pre-computer, so everything was paper all the time. I was aware of people's binders and notebooks and so forth, but somehow ended up just accumulating looseleaf paper folded up in my back pocket until I ran out of space and ended up throwing most or all of it out and starting over.

I might resume that practice, now that I think of it.
Why do you think they missed that part, considering they directly quoted it?
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While not technically a precise loading indicator, this seems to be along the lines of giving a better user experience than anything else. Gmail has real dark patterns though. One of which is to load the emails first, and then after a short delay (even on a fast connection) load advertisement rows on top. So if you attempt to click one of the new emails on top, you're just as likely to hit an ad that just loaded in that space.

Probably creates a ton of false clicks for whoever is paying for that advert.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted, aside from knee-jerk reactions to any questioning of taking the vaccine being perceived as being in bad faith. Which is perhaps fair as of late. But I think your comment asks a fair question, too.

I would then it would then look beyond the benefit to the self and take into account civic duty. If your own personal probability of mortality is exactly the same with the vaccine and without, then we need to ask, what is then best for the system within which I live? (Remember, never send to know for whom the bell tolls.)

myocarditis isn't contagious, but covid is, and if left unchecked, might (will?) mutate into something that might be a lot more than 1% deadly to you. So you expected value of taking the covid vaccine will be higher than not.

I really think we should encourage people to be willing to think objectively like this. There IS a set of efficacy and risk numbers that would make the vaccines not worth it. They're just obviously not the numbers we have (which make it very worth it). It's just unfortunate that such an astonishingly large portion of the populace apparently can't do the math right enough or objectively enough to come to the same conclusion.
A Death-Aware Career Plan
>So you don't think psychological abuse is domestic violence?

It doesn't follow that making a distinction between the two concepts entails approval of instances of either one.
Hah, lucky for me Chrome on Ubuntu didn't implement the spec correctly. ;)
I've kind of assumed that the posters were being ironic and describing Ozark, but maybe not.
Show me some real systems and their efficacy before we even talk about how massive of an overstep these 'tools must rat out their owners' proposals are.
I think that is the question that we have to ask ourselves. Thanks for getting the ball rolling.
The Oldest Book Printed with Movable Type, Jikji, Is Now Digitized Online
Not sure about Romanian, but for many other languages people essentially came up with transliteration schemes (multiple, incompatible, ambiguous) to squeeze your language into ascii.

The resulting text was understandable by the "computer people" but not the general population who did not use the networks back then, perhaps somewhat comparable to when some time ago USA parents encountered the "SMS slang" used by their teenagers.
You broke the site guidelines with this comment. Putting "respectfully" in front of something disrespectful does not make it ok.

It's particularly important not to pile on someone when they're presenting their own work—the Show HN guidelines have additional rules about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.

Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN in the intended spirit.
The better aligned to the desired trajectory you launch, the less delta-V you need to get where you want to be. If we launch a payload and, in order to get to where you want it'll need to do a u-turn, our launcher isn't helping.
The Great Reset?
regex this, bravo
We would be better off to eliminate all of MADD's current "gotcha" laws, raise the drunk driving BAC back up to something sensible (like 0.12-0.15), and make THAT a felony with mandatory jail time. But that doesn't have the opportunities for graft, corruption, and enrichment of the lawyer class that the current system does, so...
This headline is very different in meaning than the article's or the article. Any particular reason?
I've read the laws, and that's the case in Massachusetts too.
Sure. Eating is similar; after a while, you have to do it some more. As a result, we build a large infrastructure to ensure people can get new food when they need it, so starvation isn't endemic.

If vaccines and their boosters infer temporary immunity, there's a certain level of rapid vaccine production and administration that can leverage that temporary immunity. Whether we can reach it is somewhat of a political problem.
Californians have watered down the phrase 'cancer-causing' so much that probably nobody cares! I guess being down-wind of a Starbucks counts as being in a sacrifice zone according to Californian regulations!
> Cargo bike carrying three children and their bikes

Count again:-)
You might have meant this as a joke, but I honestly think this is a better way of doing things than a rigourously designed system of organisation and workflows and all that.

There are a million ways to approach this kind of thing, and whilst browser tabs aren't nessecarily the best way, they're certainly up there
> For maximum correctness, you want to turn it into a file handle as soon as possible

This is why I get stressed out when I see paths turned into special objects encoding separators and such.

It tells me the path is living for way too long compared to the file handle.

I only want to see path-specific objects if we're modifying the path, and even then I want that to happen as late as possible.
This ad was a oh my WTF moment. This would never fly in Germany. Oh hey, wait. Were does this company originate?

I was absolutely blown away by this.
As a dad I can tell you I often have to use a bowl for a cup or the handle of a wide handled for for a spoon. For some reason that always drove my partner nuts. Guess her solution was to wash the dishes lol.
Demand has skyrocketed

Supply is catching up

That's a supply chain problem and a supply shortage?
> Is that really a "trick" question?

Sure-- per a sibling comment of mine, it tricks half of freshmen at Caltech. Throwing it at a random 8th or 9th grader can be expected to be even worse.

> I would. I expect physics students to get past their knee-jerk intuitions and think about the principles they've been taught. Otherwise what's the point of learning physics?

In 8th grade?

A) To learn a little bit about the world works

B) to get a whole lot of practical experience with dimensional analysis, applying formulae, and drawing diagrams of simple systems

C) to begin to decide if deep study on this track might be for you, hopefully building a little bit of wonder that might inspire you to study it more deeply and pay attention to physics in the world around you.
i would say even seatbelt warning beeps is taking it too far. Ideally it should deactivate (as some actually do) after a couple of minutes when it's obvious you don't care. The proposed technology is orders of degrees more complicated and therefore more fallible than a humble seatbelt.
Why would anyone build something like that in Perl? I could only see it being done “just because”. Wasn’t Perl specifically designed for the quickly code it once and not change it again case?