skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, hey, hey, hold the horses.

The very idea of using the 1887 experiment from Stone Age to defend GR seems ridiculous. I understand why you are doing that: there are no modern experiments, which you can use to defend your point, but still. Moreover, interpretation of Michelson-Morley experiment as «it proves that physical vacuum does not exist» is frivolous. Let me quote Wikipedia:

> The Michelson–Morley experiment of 1887 had suggested that the hypothetical luminiferous aether, if it existed, was completely dragged by the Earth. To test this hypothesis, Oliver Lodge in 1897 proposed that a giant ring interferometer be constructed to measure the rotation of the Earth; a similar suggestion was made by Albert Abraham Michelson in 1904.

> the first interferometry experiment aimed at observing the correlation of angular velocity and phase-shift was performed by the French scientist Georges Sagnac in 1913. Its purpose was to detect "the effect of the relative motion of the ether".

> In 1926, an ambitious ring interferometry experiment was set up by Albert Michelson and Henry Gale. The aim was to find out whether the rotation of the Earth has an effect on the propagation of light in the vicinity of the Earth. The Michelson–Gale–Pearson experiment was a very large ring interferometer, (a perimeter of 1.9 kilometer), large enough to detect the angular velocity of the Earth. The outcome of the experiment was that the angular velocity of the Earth as measured by astronomy was confirmed to within measuring accuracy. The ring interferometer of the Michelson–Gale experiment was not calibrated by comparison with an outside reference (which was not possible, because the setup was fixed to the Earth). From its design it could be deduced where the central interference fringe ought to be if there would be zero shift. The measured shift was 230 parts in 1000, with an accuracy of 5 parts in 1000. The predicted shift was 237 parts in 1000.

So, Michelson-Morley experiment confirmed that physical vacuum is dragged with Earth, and then Michelson–Gale–Pearson experiment confirmed that it is not completely dragged by Earth. It far from «physical vacuum doesn't exist» mantra from «shutup and calculate» guys.

In this century,

* the existence of Higgs boson, which gives mass, and Higgs field, which exists at every point of our Universe, was proved in 2012;

* the existence of gravitational waves in physical vacuum is proved by LIGO/Virgo interferometers.

Thus, today we have Higgs field, which is presented at every point, which can be used as 0 point, but we cannot detect it. However, we can use CMB (light from distant galaxies with red shift z=1000) as 0 point.

IMHO, relativity is not necessary at this point.
I'm tired of saying that NFTs are not a tool to verify the original property, which can't be done inside the blockchain, but to prove that the following transactions are legitimate.
He literally funded Trump. “Productive” sometimes isn’t desirable.
https://www.albumscrobbles.com/

If you are a last.fm user you can use this to recalculate your weekly/monthly/yearly album listening stats based on the track count per album, which makes a difference if you listened to albums with lots of tracks.
If you substitute writing with developing software (or prototyping) and ideas with requirements then you get great advice for making something users want. It even suggest the practice of checking requirements to be precise and complete. Intersting.
Unlike previous bans, this one seems to be tied to phone numbers. So even users with non iOS/Google Play versions of the app can't access the blocked groups as long as they have a german number. There is a more in-detail article about the nitty-gritty on how the blocking seems to work:

https://reclaimthenet.org/germany-demands-telegram-censorshi...
A lot of things aren’t necessary.
Do you realize you just admitted to a crime?
GREAT idea anyway!
Exactly my point. Blockchain technology is useless here; it's a bad match for the problem of ownership.

I agree with you that NFTs work perfectly fine for their true purpose. In the same way that Bitcoin, a complete failure for its stated purpose, works great for its current purpose: enabling grifts, scams, frauds, and assorted light financial crime.
Truth! Im a professional musician and in my experience, "naturally talented" generally means "enjoys practicing". No one produces moving music without practice.
Ah yes, we'll save the planet by writing web services in Rust, which serve inefficient, bloated webapps to billions people, with browsers constantly spinning the CPU near thermal shutdown...

If you want to save energy, write small software. Small, local, self-contained software. Not everything has to be a webapp. In fact, most things shouldn't.
Maybe it's a regional slur here in the U.S. but I'm wondering where the name originated.
Signal is a pile of crap. Seriously I am in a small chat with four other people and sometimes it just doesn’t sync messages and when it does my phone turns into a vibrating sex toy for 20 minutes.
Curious how you fill your time without TV. Also, do you consider others to be wasting their time for making a different choice?
> The main difference is fruits and vegetables in the US are bred for storage and transport, and not for flavor.

I've heard this take a lot, but I really think it has a lot more to do with how we treat our soils. American agriculture is obsessed with sterile soils. But the MAJORITY of plants in the wild get the MAJORITY of their nutrients from mycorrhizal fungi. Something which is not present in sterilized soil.

They are quite fragile too. Not only are they killed by pesticides/fungicides, but even artificial fertilizers hurt them because plants rely on lack of phosphorus for them to start the signaling process to hook up with the fungi. Artificial phosphorus is much less bioavailable to plants, but its presence is enough to make them not start that complicated chemical dance

The mineral content of our vegetables has declined by over 90% since 1914.[0] I'd find it hard to believe this lack of nutrient doesn't also have a massive impact on flavor profiles

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/soil-depletion-an...
Giving out a phone number to make a phone call. The horror :)
> Installing files into /etc is troublesome

Installing default files into /etc is what every Debian service does. When the user edits them, they take over responsibility. Same as installing them in /lib and then manually dropping an override in /etc, only with all files (default and edited) in the same place.

> Stuff like PropagatesReloadTo exists because there exist things that are built from multiple cooperating units that need such measures

Every little feature is obviously needed for some purpose. The problem is they never did the design step to whittle down the model such that all those extra facets were subsumed by fewer more general features.

> Why would I want to manually go mess with a file after installing some third party service to tell the system what that service needs?

A distro would have the top-level file defining the graph of all the distro packages you could possibly install, so you would not need to edit any files.
> It sounds like you don't understand about various crafts. To me they are a quite analogous to programming.

I understand every craft. They are analogous in the simple minded way you're thinking about it. However complexity in these crafts does not rise to the heights like the way it does in programming. That is the key difference.

>No paradigm or design pattern or whatever will save you from making a mess

This is fundamentally backwards. The FP style saves you from all errors related to mutation. This single statement already proves you wrong. You can't mutate a variable so that's one mess literally taken off the table. There are patterns that can provably prevent errors from happening and you can create languages that strictly enforce certain patterns.

Elm for example, cannot have runtime errors. The language strictly prevents that "mess" from happening.

Outside of strictly enforced patterns the FP pattern promotes better organization. You can still make a mess. But you are less likely to make a mess. Additionally for extremely large programs the proportion of technical debt will be significantly less for an FP styled program than an OOP styled program. See below for one instance of this.

http://wiki.haskell.org/Why_Haskell_just_works

>For me, the more experienced I've become, the less those things matter.

I've found that people who brag about experience doesn't make them smart or good programmers. You have limited intelligence and no matter your level of experience there are just design mistakes you make all the time in extremely large programs. Technical debt is an unsolved issue. Though the claim here is that FP programs tend to have less debt than non-FP programs. The keyword is "tend" as there are exceptions but the generality is mostly true.
> I should be amazed they exist at all.

Exactly this. Go back a century and the idea of eating exotic fruits like these was the only available to the wealthiest.

It's a shame in a way that bananas and the like have become ubiquitous, to the detriment of fruits which were locally available.
WASM is more efficient than JS...
The technology for this is mostly boring, off the shelf stuff. Or it should be. Crypto might help but is probably more of a distraction than an asset given all the scams, hypes, etc. that surrounds it. But building such a thing on e.g. Stellar or something similarly suitable for fintech and micropayments would be pretty doable. I actually know one company in this space, Satoshi Pay, that have been trying to do this using Stellar.

The issue is that building something like this is something that needs funding. You need engineers, lawyers, financially savvy people, etc. The tech side is actually the easy part. This in turn often implies companies and central control and ownership. Investors get involved and from then on it's about them getting a return on investment rather than actually solving the problem. And of course these companies start competing with each other and start creating walled gardens. And then there are people inside the walls and outside the walls. And of course multiple walled gardens just makes it worse. That's basically the history to date of micropayments: it has not worked so far and IMHO it cannot work this way.

In my view, such a thing would instead have to be run and coordinated by non profit organizations (you'd probably need multiple legal entities in different countries) and be based on open standards. Getting that organized is not primarily a technical problem. In fact, it would probably be best for journalists themselves to get organized and jointly own such a thing instead of waiting for some entrepreneur to wave a magic wand to make it happen.

You could fund this from memberships. For example authors wishing to earn on the platform could pay a flat fee per year in exchange for a cut of the monthly revenue based on the performance of their content or some other rules. That way 100% of money payed to readers would go to content creators and the platform maintenance would be payed for by the receivers of that money. And you could simply withhold that from their monthly earnings. For example 10$ per author adds up quickly. It basically means that they'd only need 100 reads at 10 cents. Anything beyond that would be profit. A few tens of thousands of authors like that could manage to fund a pretty sizable organization + hosting and other cost.
I remember their official twitter responding to someone that exporting logs wasn't something they could/wanted to do for whatever reason so I wrote a content dumper super quickly https://github.com/IceFlinger/discord-server-dump

But its a big shame that they don't wanna include this as a built in feature since yeah exported logs are very useful.
What? How do they not support headers?

You have to send "Content-Type: text/event-stream" just to make them work.

And you keep the connection alive by sending "Connection: keep-alive" as well.

I've never had any issues using SSEs.
When you start having sex you’ll likely be exposed to the virus. Once you have been exposed, the vaccine doesn’t do you any good. The number of people in an age cohort that haven’t had sex rapidly approaches 0 as that cohort ages into adulthood. Therefore, it is almost entirely offered to teens to try and vaccinate before they’re naturally exposed.
If you like video content, Jessica Kerr has a very nice talk on git.

https://youtu.be/yCh6TSLIQBQ
You can host it for free if you set it up yourself, on your own server.
While 350k simultaneous connections is nice, I'd be extremely skeptical of that being any kind of world record
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

The more efficient you make it the cheaper it is to use, the cheaper it is to use the more people use it. Efficiency just creates more consumption.

You can’t “efficiency” your way out of climate change. Sorry.
I'm glad i'm not the only person who noticed the weight gain aspect and i have similar stories. I would eat three full meals a day whenever I go to India but I rarely gain any weight. I can't imagine what sort of weight gain I would get if i eat three similar meals here in the U.S.

When it's mango season in India you could smell from nearby areas (with right wind conditions). The mangoes you get at grocery stores in US has no smell and oftentimes taste plain/lifeless.
What if I buy one real device and clone the serial number? This has been solved more than a decade ago but it requires hardware with secure storage to maintain a private key. Some centralized service holds the public key and can verify the device by asking it to sign something with the private key. This is basically every cell phone, quality IoT device, etc. The private key is installed in the factory, maybe provided by a secure connection back to the centralized service. Hardware features lock that key in place preventing it from being read out without a ton of work (connections are literally burned open with overcurrent inside the IC).

Since the key is unique to the device, it can easily be disavowed in the central database if a device does become compromised. Anything less than this is probably a few hours from being completely broken. And this scheme can be broken by non-state actors, especially if the private key storage is naively or poorly implemented. Many MCUs have multiple levels of readout protection and it can be easy to misconfigure. A single mistake in memory mapping could expose information on external interfaces. And then you’re trying to do all of this in China, on the cheap. Pack a lunch.
I was wondering why they shut down instead of solving the problem...

The original (or current) title is "suspends," which makes more sense.
Well, I don't think Dent's heart is mentioned in the Hitchhiker's books but still he has one. Why? Because he is a human being, and by default those have hearts (although Adams could have made it otherwise).

The general point is that inevitably works of fiction drag truths from the real world into the fictional one. Many things (and perhaps which Apple computer Dent had in particular) are neither true nor false in the relevant fictions, but that doesn't mean that inquiring whether they are is nonsensical or misguided.
It looks like you've already put in a lot of work to parse out individual specs and data for the tires. I bet you could inject a paragraph or 2 of text using that, and place that on the pages somewhere. Just make a few different templates with some random phrasing to generate variations, like:

- This off-road tire features a track width of xxx mm, making it perfect for...

- Designed for off-road use, this tire is xxx mm wide, and features...

- Schwalbe, a German manufacturer, produces this xyz model of tube for...

...
So finally the greening of programming languages!

Kind of hard to argue with the article's premise. Though all languages aren't equal for all tasks. For example, its hard to use Rust for web projects because the ecosystem isn't mature enough. May be there should be investments into Rust ecosystem from pro-environment groups.

PS: that Go memory usage is incredible. Why is it so low when compared with even 'C'.
I think they were just pointing out that software architecture will usually make a much bigger impact on efficiency and energy usage than language choice

A bloated app is wasteful no matter what language its in
Shameless self-plug since I recently made a small header-only C testing "framework":

https://github.com/rubenvannieuwpoort/c_unit_tests

Feels a bit more in line with the spirit of C (small language, few dependencies).
Still far better than discord or twitter, at least for text/pictures. Audio/Video-channels on discord can be nice, though.
> Tesla segregated Black workers into separate areas that its employees referred to as “porch monkey stations,” “the dark side,” “the slave ship” and “the plantation,” the lawsuit alleges.

...

> Graffiti — including “KKK,” “Go back to Africa,” the hangman’s noose, the Confederate Flag and “F-- [N-word]” — were carved into restroom walls, workplace benches and lunch tables and were slow to be erased, the lawsuit says.

It's incredible to me that on a story with quotes as absurd as the above, that the two main comments here are painting Tesla as the victim for one.

And the incredible "solution" of, "hmm maybe companies next could stop hiring black people as opposed to actually stopping an incredibly racist environment."

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-02-11/la-fi-tesl...

The refrain is often "I'm tired of hearing about racism". And you don't think people are even more tired of being the recipients of racism?
SSEs had a severe connection limit, something like 4 connections per domain per browser (IIRC), so if you had four tabs open then opening new ones would fail.
What are examples of wanting different rules? I didn't see it in the article
These days I feel like the only way to win against poorly designed antiviruses and firewalls is to—ironically enough—behave like malware and obfuscate what's going on.
I have been using NrrwRgn[0] for editing and presenting individual sections of code. How does Yode compare?

[0]: https://github.com/chrisbra/NrrwRgn
For mangos the varieties that dominate in the US are the ones grown by the mexican and south american producers. They actively lobby to keep out other producer, and they can't just change what they grow overnight (nor does it benefit them since they already control the US market).

US food inspectors are required in places like India
and Asia, but if enough inspectors aren't hired then you can't expect the exports to grow in a meaningful way. As you can imagine incumbent mango producers in the US don't want more inspectors in these countries. It's basically a cartel.
Is there some information to indicate that is the problem?
What percentage are business users? My company pays for a license to creative cloud for me. But for personal use it is too expensive, so I use Affinity suite. If students use something cheaper like Affinity suite and many professionals use affinity suite for their personal use, there may come a time where businesses realize that they don’t actually have to pay out for creative cloud.
Just let me pay with cash for the damn thing you're selling me with ads currently.
It is shown in the specifications table. It looks like the Plus4 Pro has higher sweep rates (600 pts/sec) vs 200-400 on the Plus4, as well as a 10dB lower noise floor for the same amount of averaging. It seems that 6 dB comes from a tighter measurement bandwidth on the Plus4 Pro. Oddly enough, the accuracy is not stated in the spec table for any of the models. If they are the same (are they?), then it looks like you can save $100 if you can live with waiting longer to get a measurement result.
Is composer a problem for shared hosts?

Not that I would ever want to subject myself to shared hosting again, but I'm pretty sure you can run composer on your local machine to install the dependencies and then copy everything over, right? You've got to pay attention to what PHP modules are or aren't available on your shared host, but usually that's not too big of a problem.
As someone who writes, I can relate to a lot of this, but there are aspects that aren't true to my experience.

> If you make an effort, you can read your writing as if you were a complete stranger

Somewhat. Through effort I can take on a more objective perspective, but there is no platonic stranger I could pick out. Everyone has his own context and his own needs. What I try to do instead is visualize people I know who are not close friends. I think "What would X think if she were reading this?"

> If he's not satisfied because you failed to mention x or didn't qualify some sentence sufficiently, then you mention x or add more qualifications

I think this game is endless. There will always be a nitpicker (Hello!). I try to say enough to show that I know what I'm talking about, but beyond that I find that it chokes the broader point that I want to make.

~

For me, the real value is that writing makes language almost physical. What would normally vanish in a moment in speech becomes something you can touch, sculpt, and rearrange. And in doing so you're forced to contend with the form of it and really think through every word, and every train of thought ("Is this really what I want to say? Is this really how I should say it?"). I think this can be done in speech as well if you're in a true debate with someone who cares about language, but it's much harder.

And depending on your temperament, there's a "those who can't do teach" problem where writing about something makes you feel like an expert on it. As always, the important thing is to act.
We use SSE for our APIs Server Events feature https://docs.servicestack.net/server-events with C#, JS/TypeScript and Java high-level clients.

It's a beautifully simple & elegant lightweight push events option that works over standard HTTP, the main gotcha for maintaining long-lived connections is that server/clients should implement their own heartbeat to be able to detect & auto reconnect failed connections which was the only reliable way we've found to detect & resolve broken connections.
I see Jevons' effect touted around a lot as if it's a law of nature when in reality it's just a name given an effect observed in very specific instances

Even within economics it's treated as a rare market effect and not as a given eventuality
Who cares.

It's a good and revealing article for those who choose to do the opposite of what fake free software does.

If you claim you care about freedom if you can choose then minimize obligations and maximize rights of users.
This is barely "under the covers". It really just pictures the core ideas behind decentralized version control systems such as git. You can't reason about decentralized version control without many of these core ideas.
> 2) I use Discord maybe once per week, and every time I do, I have to log in again. The phone app quietly disconnects after a week or so.

Do you perhaps have multiple sessions of discord open at the same time? I only get the login when I accidentally open discord multiple times, otherwise I never really get asked for a login.
Graphviz (dot diagram notation) or Mermaid diagram editor. Emacs has good support for rendering dot notation.
So why did they shut down?

> people selling sets of NFTs which resemble a security

Okay thats a much more valid reason to shut down, because the marketplace will get curb stomped by the SEC
Thank you for the feedback. It's not a hosting issue, my website is hosted at netcup and still up and running. I already created a new affiliate account, but if I don't change anything on the website I assume they will close it again after a while.