skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never succeeded in getting even a single upvote on links I submit. I've stopped bothering, there seems to be no point. It's not the quality of the links either. It just doesn't have a high chance of getting through. I've actually seen links that I submitted land to the front page a day or so later when somebody else resubmitted them. You basically need to get lucky with the right people actually looking at the new section in the few minutes it will be on there. After that it's gone.

One interesting enhancement that would help with that and that also addresses the problem of duplicates is to simply count duplicate link submissions as an upvote on the original. Most popular links have numerous duplicates before and after that did not make it. Some links actually make it to the front page multiple times.

So use the link as a Unique Resource Locator and treat them like the ids they are.
I Miss Software from the 90s
> Plasma physics is the hardest kind of physics, so plasma physicists have to be better than other physicists.

I'm pretty sure this is a joke, but I could use some reassurance.
That wouldn't work for me because many of Grammarly's corrections in my documents are clearly wrong. I'm using the Pro version. Grammarly is good for making suggestions but unusable for blind spell checking. It just doesn't know enough words, and some of its grammatical and style features also sometimes go astray.
I am shocked, because I see it for the first time. Recently, I have been browsing gcloud documentation like a crazy to prepare myself to PCA certification but I have never seen this doc page before [0]. Thanks a lot for a mentioning it!

[0]: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/containers/deploying-c...
Right.

Why is it that so often it happens that if one comments on some topic or other then others automatically assume that one's of a certain belief and or that one belongs to some group or organization? I'd suggest that this likely shows a more narrowed thinking on behalf of those responding to the comment than it does of the comment's originator.

Often, in the grand scheme of things, the unfortunate outcome is that many people self-censor themselves to avoid being criticized or being in the spotlight.

This is very undesirable as it can shut down important debate.
Haven't tried it myself, but LanguageTool offers a selfhosted variant, that their software can easily switch to.

https://languagetool.org/

https://dev.languagetool.org/http-server
> Do you have a blog

No, I have a job.

Seriously though, no. As a one-man band, anything besides "client X needs Y" or "[internal/forked/contributed to] tool A needs enhancement/bugfix B" tends to be very low priority.
The _average_ life expectancy was 30 but that's because loads of children died at a young age. If you made it past your teens your life expectancy was that way higher.
Aside from the text, the Telstra TV advertisement he linked to is a classic. I remember seeing it when it was broadcast in Australia years ago and it was funny then, and now as a parent of a curious kid I resonates in a different way. Reminds me a little of how Calvin’s Dad in ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ would invent answers to his son’s questions (how do they figure out the load limit for a bridge? what is the theory of relativity?).
Shape of Melting Ice Depends on Temperature
Performance anxiety goes away with repetition. I have plenty of personal experience with that and so do many others I know. This is not a special skill. You don't have to be a champion. You just get used to doing the performance and the anxiety goes away.

Just like if you're nervous about driving on the freeway, or flying in an airplane.

Heck, I remember buying my first phone answering machine. I froze up repeatedly trying to record the message. After a while, that problem went away.
On Photo Sharing
They also will have regulations around financr, health codes, discrimination and hiring, etc etc.

Very few business owners are experts in all regulations when starting. You learn and adjust.
The security concern is very very valid. It is surprising how well wine&co run windows malware considering that they were (probably) never specifically meant nor tested for that.
You think that's bad, try talking to computer people. They think a kilo of their bits means 1024 of them, not 1000!
Something funny I've noticed with a few buses and large trucks is that the 'suspension' is built into the driver's seat
That war didn't "stop", since USA military remained in Arabia for reasons. This occupation was cited as the reason for the 9/11 attacks. So, the enlisted did their jobs but the end result makes it feel sort of weird to call this a victory.
> One interesting enhancement that would help with that and that also addresses the problem of duplicates is to simply count duplicate link submissions as an upvote on the original.

It does, for a time (a few hours?) after the original submission.

But when you repost a link two hours later on a submission that didn't get any traction, that upvote is meaningless and a new submission with a new chance of traction might have been better.
Most websites have a few kilobytes of zipped useful text, and a few useful jpegs. By all means, most social media notifications could fit in a single ICMP packet each. Hacker news could be checked over ARPANET.

Wrt. classical probability, useful data divided by total data/metadata, the ratio has steadily been decreasing. Our infrastructure is changing for the worse and 'probably' about to fail.
I've come back to this in light of another story that's made it to hacker news' front page - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30158269

It's an interesting exploration of the problems with fact checkers and weaponised use of 'facts' in online discourse.

It's also pretty much exactly what I was talking about when I said I was not talking about censorship, which you repeatedly ignored in the above discussion.

There are other avenues to explore here, in which we can look at whether information is correct and put it in context, than just heavy handed government action or merely better presentation of one side of an argument.
Huh, I thought HN actually prevented you from resubmitting the same URL for a certain period of time (at least a few weeks).

I always thought people added some query parameter or something to get around that restriction to resubmit.
Specific to Flickr URLs, its the '_d' at the end. Remove it and you can view it normally in the browser. But as danielbln wrote, that 'Content-Disposition' header is what forces a download in general.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51847931721_c3feebd201_o...
Ask HN: How do you explain the sloppiness of modern software?
This is a recurring theme on HN, so I think you all have very good opinions on this topic: why does modern software seem so unpolished, slow, bloated, unprofessional?

Let me provide a (frustrating) example: the last straw for me has been OneDrive. I am using it to select and share photos from my wedding. It is an app written by one of the largest and most ancient software companies in history, so they should know something about making apps. And still:

1) The directory list view keeps "losing" the position at which I am, so every time I share a photo, I have to scroll down to where I left (in a directory with 5000 pictures).

2) If I screenshare using the Google Cast functionality, after a few dozens photos it loses the signal and I have to wait a few minutes before reconnecting. The entire app becomes extremely slow in the meantime.

3) The app in general is inconceivably slow. What is taking so long? I am viewing the same directory for 2 hours, why is it still so slow to load?

So at this point I am struggling to understand: how comes such an app got released? Are the incentives given to developers so at odd with app quality?
Galaxy lightning. Or maybe FTL Vapor trails.
Oh man, reporting to _local authorities_ on _local authorities_ corruption, what do you do?

Great idea on surfacing reports that was worked on of killed journalists.
Heat dissipation mostly. Square-cubed laws are brutal for getting the heat out.
The reason websites aren't designed to last is not due to ever-changing design trends; it's because the web is inherently ephemeral. For a website to continue to be available requires continuous effort and expense to run a web server, update SSL certs, etc. This automatically shortens the time horizon when you're developing for it.

I think the way to get more "timeless" software is to build a platform where the code and the data can be brought offline. PWAs do the first but not the second. The data needs to be in an enduring format like SQLite that can be queried offline. With that kind of system, an app or game (and the accompanying data) could remain usable 20 years from now, long after its author stopped distributing it.
How is it different from "Researchers from MIT found ..."?
This is an incredible image and the filaments are super-mysterious. Do you know how large the objects in the image are? Are we looking at the whole Milky Way or a very zoomed-in part of the center?
They could be aligned with the magnetic field lines around the Galactic Center: https://media.springernature.com/original/springer-static/im...
How is this “from the ground up”? It basically uses the same web technologies and back end from the existing web solutions.

Also, I missed the challenges of handling offline usage which was stated as a requirement, but the back end appears to be GraphQL queries to a server?
> references to 'communism' are an intellectual canard

For me, they are references to actual events in my past. Unable to provide the bare necessities, in the 80's, the Communist State's central planners had rationed bread, sugar, flour and vegetable oil. A black market has promptly sprung up. Its vendors ranged from regular folks who did not use their entire ration to illegal "entrepreneurs" who had other means of getting stuff.

This market could easily tell you the actual price of these goods. But you had to be careful because some of the participants where actual Secret Service laying traps. It was illegal after all...
Corentin is on the C++ standards committee, so no surprise there.
Same here. The first time I hear that containers are hard-linked with Kubernetes in anyone's mind. Docker standalone was used for a long time before Kuberbetes was a thing. AWS, Azure and Google have had options to run containers long before they had managed K8s. There have always been excellent ways to use containers without involving Kubernetes.
> People will prefer their own MacOS, Windows, or Linux based setups

As a devops I strongly oppose developing on the desktop OS. Only your repos and code editor should be on your workstation, and you should have dedicated dev environment in a server farm - be that vms or containers.

> "How do I get a Django app easily reproducibly built and deployed, across dev and prod, the Docker solution that I went with appeared to be such a shortcut to the rest.

Only you don't deploy Docker in prod, do you? The fact that the container starts means nothing if it doesn't interface with the other contanerized apps. So you start needing a Kubernetes cluster locally and all goes to hell from there.
I won't (and can't) go into details for obvious reasons, but here's a tip from a recent WTF:

Something is not right if at the start of a planned outage, it takes your staff who "built" the system in place an amount of time measured in hours to:

- block most public traffic; while

- allowing traffic from a restricted set of IPs; and

- showing a 'nice' maintenance page to the blocked visitors

I don't honestly recall the exact time it took them to make the above changes, but it was somewhere in the order of 3 hours.
Greater Los Angeles
But it is not just about having the new hotness, the scale of these IP libraries is about having something for everyone.

Through that lense ActiBlizz is a great buy. Candy Crush and COD and Warcraft.

You don't need the top seller if your goal is to keep customers above the subscription cancellation threshold.
The way to perspective this is that your own farther has just died and somebody said that. How would you respond?

So "grossly offensive" seems about right when you put context like that into play of thought.
> If it is done unprompted, then I would argue that it at least is an attempt to take over the conversation, and at worst it is saying that the person who has the problem brought it on themselves because they aren't using what you're using.

I don't think that this is a charitable interpretation. If i said that a Python library X doesn't work for parsing nested YAML structures and someone recommended library Y instead, i wouldn't feel like they're blaming me for using X, rather offering a workable alternative.

If i told them that it's impossible for me to use library Y because of reason Z then that's a different discussion, but in lieu of clear information about these constraints, it's perfectly fair to suggest alternatives. That can prevent us from falling into certain dead ends, like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem

Furthermore, in a threaded medium, i'd argue that taking over discussions is a moot concept, since you can have any number of branches that the discussion goes in. If most people prefer focusing on a branch that's of no interest to you, then i guess the majority has just decided for things to be so.

> The following things are very different:

> * stating that there is a problem

> * stating that there is a problem and asking for help with it.

> Confusing the second for the first is a terrible thing that a lot of people do these days, and intentional or not, it is destructive to constructive debate and discussion.

I've heard this opinion be voiced in regards to social interaction - for example, when someone is upset about the way things are but doesn't want a solution, only empathy and for the other person to acknowledge how upsetting the situation can be, and therefore feels frustrated when potential solutions are offered instead.

And yet, in regards to technical discussions, isn't solutions what we should focus on most of the time? If i have a problem to solve but have no idea how to do so, i don't want someone to say: "Sure, that seems pretty rough.", instead, i want someone to offer me advice on how to tackle the issue and move on. Mere empathy alone here is kind of useless.

Admittedly, it's perfectly fair to introduce others with your particular circumstances and concerns for others to consider them, though that's a different discussion once again. Describing a problem and not addressing any potential solutions isn't as much of a debate or discussion as it is just stating the fact, the net value of which can be pretty close to zero.

In my subjective opinion, the value add here is to actually discuss how to solve problems, or why a particular solution or a group of solutions might not be valid for the set of constraints at hand, or what their shortcomings could be. For example, a sibling comment brought up a point about the integration between the mentioned non-libre pieces of software being much better, which is a fair point that's worthy of consideration: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30146365
I almost have a different issue. I feel like I miss big news here, even though I check in multiple times a day. When using the "past" menu item, there's stuff on top there I never saw on top on HN. Does thing stay shorter on top than they did before? Didn't feel it was such a problem a few years back.
We're talking about the US military and US patents.
Since qubits are so dear, and quantum operations so fraught, we have to perform operations on their contents and write the results into other qubits, like an ALU operating on a register bank.

A tricky thing is that every operation has to preserve all the input information, and be at least in principle reversible, so there is no such thing as fan-in, and deliberate fan-out is ruinously expensive.

My question about quantum computers is: is anybody using Bose-Einstein condensates as qubits? It is my impression that they are more resistant to decoherence than your usual quantum state, which seems useful. Or, is it so hard to make one that making thousands is not practical?
Not an answer to your title, but Lightroom CC lets you store a copy of the original photos in an arbitrary location.

Go to Preferences -> Local Storage -> Store a copy of all originals at the specified location.[1]

I then sync the folder to S3.

[1] https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-cc/using/preferences.html
Scientists identify obesity-promoting metabolite from intestinal bacteria
You said "read" but there is at least this talk by the Datadog team: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dsCwp_j0yQ
Your IPv6 address is the hash of your public key
> After 20 seconds, the figures drop to 134 hp and 184 lb-ft of torque

Almost exactly the same :)
They don't seem to include "missing", they say there are 15 missing journalists.
I've heard HIV patients describe ART as "aging" their organs. obviously preferable to dying horribly from AIDS, but still gnarly to contend with.

it's really interesting to me that their health becomes poorer earlier, but that it doesn't affect mortality.
Aahh, totally did not parse the original comment as meaning that, how dumb of me. Thanks.
Needle Points: Why so many are hesitant to get the Covid vaccines
for 95% efficient 200kw motor you'd need to dissipate 10kw. Doing it with air is problematic, and usually motors like this are water/oil cooled, otherwise it is really limited to short sub-minute burst of full power.

For example 160kw, 6.7kw/kg motor https://www.yasa.com/products/yasa-p400/
Chip8 for example.

/s
It's the TODO that's the killer. We are constantly adding tech debt, and never paying it back.
When communicating in English with the intent to be understood it is wise to include both, putting the conversion in parens. I’m always thankful when Americans include this - otherwise all those feet and pounds and inches and stone are just random numbers to me.
WHAT? Of course they are, they just aren't a base unit.
Looking at the stats it's also like 20% of Danes have been infected at some point.

80% is vaxxed.

What more can we do?
Uh like the United States is too right? [0],[1],[2],[3]?

0, https://www.dailynews.com/2021/12/28/parents-of-girl-14-kill...

1, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/matthew-wi...

2, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_th...

3, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shootings_in_the_United_S...
Long and thin - volume and area increase proportionally with length. Think of 10 small motors put together end to end.
It's quite telling the fact I needed a 3 paragraph reply from a user on HN to explain to me how to use the odometers and lights in my car.

I had a Tucson before this Volvo and it was just so intuitive and easy to use. It's something that needs to be standardized, they are tools that no car would be street legal without and thus, should have identical interactions no matter the manufacturer.
Yup, I suggested another title because I first interpreted it as "correct all of the Grammarly autocorrupts".
Move fast and break things. The cicd model of delivery means that engineers are encourage to deliver functionality and polish things only if they are critical. The consequence is that people tend to reuse solutions of intermidiary problems no matter if those solutions are optimal. This accumulates technical debt that nobody really wants to repay because it is not a solution of a business requirement.

Additionally, the Moor's law and the well-paid jobs of developers mean that the machines where the code is written are not the machines where it is ran with the difference often being a few generations of processors, graphic cards, and monitors.
It's not fiber, it's copper. Copper wire theft is very common -- they often go after ground wires. Looks like some fiber was cut in the process of the copper theft since they likely couldn't tell the difference.
Thank you for adding my project (https://mathlegame.com) to the list.
To disagree with a group/cause is one thing, but to single out an individual for the venting is not the best of approaches.
Not if other people resubmit them.
I don't think the size of the electric motor is of concern even in a hybrid vehicle. The problem is still the batteries.
Historic vs. Historical: What’s the Difference and Which Should I Use?
Kubernetes is indeed popular. Inexplicably so, I must admit.
$5,000! https://performanceparts.ford.com/part/M-9000-MACHE
In contrast to /asknew which is almost spam-free. Since /asknew was introduced about half a year ago (?) I have the feeling 'Ask HN' posts do reach more often the front page. This might back up your point because people seem to go to /asknew (and leaving an upvote/comment there) more often (less spammy experience).
The European VC scene has actually been doing pretty well over the last two years and grown fast.[1] Seems slightly under-discussed. What surprised me is how much money even Thiel seems to be pouring into Europe who I never associated with being bullish on the continent.

[1]https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/25/venture-capitalists-fell-i...
I'm willing to believe that, but who would use a single core for an embarrassingly parallel problem such as image convolution? I'd expect it to use all 8 cores, but AFAIK, Wasm really only uses one. Probably that's the biggest performance factor then.
Would love to hear more about that baby
I've done it once and found it a very uncomfortable position and hard to relax.

Definitely don't see the appeal, though I would be interested to try it I'm zero gravity.
NYT has been charging separately and extra for access to their word games online for years. 'tptacek's explanation isn't wrong, it just undersells it by a lot - word games have been an NYT premium sub business since before their news digital sub business took off.
C cannot express quite a few useful things that assembly can. Things like tail calls, stack management, non-flat address space just cannot be expressed.
I agree with you. However, I think the real value of the language is that, despite flaws, it provides a reasonably consistent platform in this "glue" context. It better to have one imperfect language, than a dozen perfect.
Jonathan Blow has interesting ideas and views to share.

Please watch the [Preventing the Collapse of Civilization (1 hr)] presentation by him going into details why it is happening what you observe.

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

Edit: Corrected the uppercase spelling of person's name.
Ask HN: What do you do to jump start your brain in the morning?
I'm not a morning person.

Mornings are by far the most challenging time for me to be productive. I sit at my desk fighting through my brain fog trying to find something I can focus on.

If I'm "lucky" something has gone wrong that needs my immediate attention [1], the small kick of adrenaline is usually enough to get my brain to wake up and I can continue being productive. By this I mean, solve problems, implement solutions, do the non-routine part of my job that I enjoy.

But having stuff break is not a sustainable method of waking up. If everything runs smoothly it can take an hour or two before the fogs clear. Even walking the dogs in the Scandinavian winter wakes me up sufficiently. I do of course use this time in some manners, read HN/reddit/blogs, write emails, meetings.. But I don't do any "real work", at least it feels that way.

So finally my to question

What do you do to jump start your brain in the morning?

[1] Bosses boss-boss decided that 24/7 oncall is too expensive so 8-17 it is.