skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aluminum and calcium have substantially stronger affinities for oxygen than iron does, so they'll tend to stay in oxide form even when you're successfully reducing the oxygen.

This is mentioned in the article:

> All of these oxides are more stable than iron oxide, so the iron oxide is the first to separate when exposed to electric charge, breaking down into pure oxygen and iron. The iron, still liquified, sinks to the bottom where it can be tapped out and turned to steel.

There are other elements in ore that will tend to reduce before the iron, like nickel, cobalt, lead, and copper, but they're a lot less abundant than iron and may not be harmful to the iron produced.
how does making fun of these parasites "validate" them? and who cares? they suck, everyone knows they suck. that's what PARASITES DO.

"I don't care that they stole my idea. I care that they don't have any of their own."
> Visa does the same

Visa doesn't do "the same", specifically, Bitcoin does what Visa is doing but in a decentralized, trustless and permissionless manner. That's where the cost of security comes from and why there is no waste of energy.

> Lightning offers precisely 0 of Bitcoin's guarantees

lightning allows to make tradeoff between liquidity and transaction cost/reachability, but settlement is still done on bitcoin, so bitcoin's security guarantees apply.

and yes, it's possible to DoS and possible to lose money if the node isn't operated correctly, it's emerging technology on the extreme bleeding edge of largest financial revolution in hundreds of years. give it time.

> There is no good/service that is (1) legal to acquire in country X but (2) can't be acquired more cheaply and easily with regular money than with BTC.

irrelevant.

> some goods/services that are illegal to acquire in country X may be perfectly moral to acquire

also irrelevant, but i'll point out that purchasing illegal good/service with bitcoin doesn't make bitcoin illegal same as purchasing it with usd wouldn't make usd illegal. bizarre that i even need to spell this out.
As long as you do not need the Greek authorities to do something for you...
Hacking is illegal. Canadian truckers are only demonstrating because they believe their rights are being infringed on. Their goal is not to overthrow the Canadian government. What other action should these truckers have taken? I don't know what rights Canadians have. I do know what rights Americans are supposed to have but I can totally seeing the left in the US responding in the same way to a Freedom demonstration here. The destruction and "obstruction" (think CHOP) was ok for BLM and Antifa but people (as in "of the people and for the people") protesting infringement on their rights, well that must be crushed.
Umm... Google and Bing track the hell out of you whether you sign in or not. DuckDuckGo claims not to but the sites you hit through it certainly employ tons of fingerprinting.
You're trying really hard to get this dunk but you're just completely wrong. I'm not being disingenuous and I never claimed to be a disinterested observer; in fact, an interested observer is exactly what I am.

That's also very different from "picking a side". Like watching the superbowl because you care about the outcome, but don't support one team over the other. You just want to see a good, fair game.

Having an ideological stance is also very different from "picking a side". I'm not automatically friends or allies with people who happen to share a view with me. I'm not automatically enemies with someone that holds different or opposite views.

Further you've conflated an objective observation with an ideological one. The sky is blue. Water is wet. Executive figures with armies are a greater threat to the people than the freight labor class. This claim doesn't need "proving", it's reinforced by history. Feel free to challenge yourself to find evidence to the contrary instead of trying to saddle the burden on someone else.
HOW? I just did a toy trial with two random integers between 0 and 1,000,000. In Excel. I'm getting between 24% and 31% of the products ending in a '0'.

Benford's law makes intuitive sense to me, in that as soon as you run through the leading digits 1-9, you then spend just as long as all those combined with a '1' in front of the "next set".

But I always figured even digits would be more probable, but uniform across the [0,2,4,6,8] set.
Thomas Ptacek is exactly whom I had in mind.
>emit acid and increase the environmental pH.

Acids decrease pH.
Another alternative: https://tineye.com
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30328120
There was a point in the early days where the Yahoo index was more reliable than Lycos.

Then Google came along and worked well, for a while.

But then I found Delicious.com - and those curated bookmarks were better than anything Google provided.

Reddit is the new delicious. Fairly saavy Internet users that aren't afraid to try new things, so they seem to know about cool stuff first.
There is no joke, that's correct.

You won't need more than 2 engineers at the beginning for 99% of the startups.
Almost nobody is making anything technologically significant - and if they do they raise millions and act like a disorganised mid company.

In order to do your typical backend + frontend work you won't need much more, unless your developers can't code.
Grid prices and cost are two things. EU and US grid pricing is dominated by the most expensive things in the market (gas, coal, and nuclear) because once you use up all the cheap supply, people end up bidding for the expensive stuff. So whenever there's a shortage of that, prices go up.

Burning gas costs money. Shutting down or restarting a gas plant costs money too. And a gas plant that is not running still needs upkeep, maintenance, staffing, etc so it costs money. Some operators actually use negative rates to stimulate demand so they can keep their gas plants running and avoid shutting them down. Negative rates of course cost money, so that is added to the overall grid pricing. None of that has anything to do with the cost of renewables.

That same dynamic is also what makes renewable power very lucrative for operators. A low cost and a high market price just means a lot of profit. That's why world+dog is putting up windmills and solar parks as fast as they can. It's just that good of a deal. And of course the subsidies and positive press help.

If you are consuming a lot of power, that difference means investing in your own power generation makes a lot of sense. Which is why many plans for green steel plants involve plans for e.g. wind turbines and other solutions. So, they only buy from the grid when that supply is inadequate and actually supply to the grid when there is enough supply. Yes that's intermittent. But the connection to the grid isn't and the difference is just cost.
I just use adsense. Haven't shopped around at all. If you have recommendations I'm all ears.
Intel says it will buy Tower Semiconductor for $5.4B
Appreciate the QR code! I scanned it. You should too.
It took me a little time, but here's a hopefully readable description of how it works:

https://educatedguesswork.org/posts/ipa-overview/
Yeah, OP is not paying Argentineans 200k tho, you don't want their 5 engineers over there making Buenos Aires the next San Fran. lol
It's not a trivial task anyway, people use google because the results are still better than anywhere else.
You can buy games and software outside of their stores, such as at GameStop, eBay etc. You cannot do this on iOS.
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/10/889953353/nearly-6-years-afte...

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1038914/

Russia with an army near the border is an internal issue.

All my examples are related to internal issues and literally at our border, with a partner.

The country itselve is even literally asking for help.

And if you're not aware of the gray zone conflict since 2014 and that thousands of people got killed on Ukrainian soil because of Russia.

Then your should really start educating yourselves before your say anything further.

No "suggestion" for a "better solution", just ignorance of facts that happened/are happening.
Yeah...I'm gonna get one soon. But it's a shame that I need such a "smart" device to just listen to some music while running.
We need AdBlock lists for search engines at this point.
Change how you view police. They don't do very much crime prevention. Think of them as the people who come to clean up after the crime already happened.
Notably, the pastor and well known boardgame enthusiast, Tom Vasel (The Dice Tower - https://www.youtube.com/user/thedicetower) moved to Vietnam before 2008. He has raised a couple girls there. He goes on trips back to the US rarely and has been very happy with his move.
> How would you prove that jet fuel can compromise the integrity of steel beams?

1. Acquire some jet fuel, burn it, and measure its burning temperature.

2. Acquire a steel beam, hit it with a hammer, heat it up to the burning temperature of jet fuel, then hit it with a hammer again.

3. Wonder why I just wasted $1000 and a hammer on something that the conspiracy theorists will label “doctored footage”.
> Why is Google dying?

> 1. Ads

> 2. SEO

> 3. AI

4. Censorship
This is my first exposure to Unz.com. As a free-speech conservative I like the idea of an independent voice. But it takes a lot of mental energy and careful thinking to calibrate a news source like this. Is it fake news? I don't know.

The thesis of this particular story seems to be that the US is opposed to German dependence on Russian natural gas because it lessens American influence in the region. Given that the US has been encouraging European countries to step up their defense spending, that theory seems weak to me. Of course, we don't want Germany aligned against us. But I imagine the American view is more along the lines: We don't want Germany to be forced into bad decisions because Russia has major leverage over it.
Ask HN: What did Marc Andreessen mean by this?
Yesterday on Twitter:

Marc Andreessen: Let's try an open Twitter Q & A -- ask away!

Sriram Krishnan: What do you find people in tech (our outside) missing about web3 the most

Marc Andreessen: The enormous payoff from decentralization and permissionless innovation. I cannot believe more people don't understand this. It's so obvious.

It's not obvious to me so I'm asking Hacker News what he means

Forgot the link: https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1493464162340532225
Nailing your first technical interview
>In terms of status, a white man can get better results if they date another woman of a different class and race then they would if they dated some women of the same race and status.

Asians are indisputably higher earners in US than white, on average. If anything it would make more sense that people view it that someone from an Asian country such as my wife married down and not up, if we're viewing through the race lenses you are viewing things through.
The forum experience is dying. I spent about 4 years of my time in-between Google stints working on a searchable feed for forum sites. Finally gave it up when I realize the extent to which the forum scene had died and moved to Reddit & Facebook while I was working on the project.

The root problem is that attention has gone from abundant to scarce, and people already have their habits. That makes it really hard to build a new forum site and attract an audience that's willing to type your URL in every day (and if they don't visit daily, forget about building a viable community). Forum hosts like Facebook and Reddit don't have this problem - you can view your Buy Nothing Group and Moms of Springfield posts interspersed with your feed of friends, or your r/factorio content interspersed with a steady stream of r/AskReddit.

There's also emerging technological barriers. If you don't sign up for CloudFlare, as a new website, you're going to get hosed - but at the same time, CloudFlare makes it basically impossible for any new search engine other than Google to spider the site. Ditto security patches, and keeping software up-to-date. Most people don't want to deal with sysadmin stuff at all, particularly if they're trying to build a community as a hobby. So that pushes people further toward hosted solutions with a turn-key secure software stack, which is Facebook and Reddit.
The idea of the whole-web search engine is dead. There's too much junk, and too much incentive to surface it in the name of engagement.

I got so sick of Google's useless results that I started out on a fool's errand. I'm using publicly available, curated or moderated link sources to build my own STEM focused search engine. It'll probably end in tears, but I intend to give it a shot.
Pedantically, are you suggesting that the people protesting were part of the clinical trials for the COVID-19 vaccines? If not, then they were given—at most—a year and, more likely, 9–10 months. I also covered that they "would be affected by it going forward."

(I'm not even going to broach the subject of "innocuous jab" at this date. A year ago, that may have been uncontroversial.)
> the forum experience is far from dead

If you find a forum for a given subject, it is almost always an authoritative source filled with experts. This is especially true in engineering disciplines.

It's unfortunate that Reddit and social media took over and led to their decline, because it's suboptimal setup in so many ways.

- Reddit in the large is a high noise, low signal monetization chamber. Some subreddits have good moderation, but that doesn't stop the spill over and drama.

- You can't assume much about any given Reddior, and you won't typically form relationships or associations with them. It's pretty much pseudonymous.

- Reddit doesn't focus on authorship. It doesn't allow inclusion of images, media, or carefully formatted responses in threads.

- Reddit corporate is the authority and owner of all content. They can change the rules at any time, and that's a fragile and authoritarian setup for human discourse.

- Reddit corporate is constantly changing the UI and engaging in dark patterns to earn more money. This flies in the face of usability.

Forums should make a comeback. It would be better if each community had real owners and stakeholders that had skin in the game rather than a generic social media overlord that is optimizing for higher order criteria that sometimes conflict with that of the community.

But forums have problems too. They should be easier to host, frictionless to join, easy to discover, and longer lived.

Another way to think of this: every major subreddit is a community (or startup) of its own and could potentially be peeled off and grown. You'd have to overcome the lack of built-in community membership and discovery, but if you can meet needs better (better tools for organizing recipes, community events, engineering photoblogs, etc.), then you might be able to beat them. Reddit can't build everything, just like Facebook couldn't.
TLDR - Article Highlights
https://www.kontxt.io/document/d/nV9ATOU9PbvlwnbPlzXtdkouxX-...
Context: Elon Musk and David Beasley (@WFPChief) had a back-and-forth on Twitter in which Elon challenged to justify how his billions can solve world hunger. This was the response from Beasley on where it will be allocated and it looks like Elon was amenable to it, since we’re now discovering that indeed Elon Musk followed through with the ~$6B donation
As a bit of a weird hobby, I like to read up on right wing conspiracy theories. That means I do a fair number of searches for specific terms and people mentioned in fake-news facebook/forum posts.

Google seems to slowly oscillate between thinking that I am a right wing loon, and thinking I am Joe Public who must not be shown misinformation. That is, sometimes google is perfectly willing to vomit forth results from the propaganda mills, even when I'm not specifically looking for it, and other times I can't get conspiratorial-minded results even when I am making an effort to find them.

This most frequently manifests itself when I am looking for sources for claims that I know exist. Like if I remember reading an earlier conspiracy that has just been invalidated, or someone posts some a video of someone reading a blog post. If google has decided I am an innocent bystander not to be shown conspiracies it can be nearly impossible to track down the original blog or posts about the conspiracy.

Recency bias is another huge problem with google results. Older content gets heavily de-prioritized, even when it is clearly what you want. Google is willing to give up on terms in your search before it is willing to show you old stuff. For example, if you tried to research early Ukrainian political corruption during Trump's impeachment, your results would be nearly entirely Trump-related content even if you tried to use google's date-filters and exclude terms like -Trump.
Also "disingenuous", which is a fancy way of saying lying.

Edit: that's not quite right, as throwaway894345 and xyzzyz and Sohcahtoa82 have pointed out below. It's also not quite what I meant (I was being hasty). The point is that 'disingenuous', like 'lie', implies intent to deceive.
Any reasonable justification for requiring sign-up/a user account?
Are people still drinking cow milk? Oat milk all the way.
> most parents can afford to support their kids for a few years after college

Are you sure about that? And even if it's true for most, how many exceptions are you willing to allow before you'll consider that lack of a safety net is a real limitation?

> If your parents are "rich", chances are they are entrepreneurs of some kind themselves

That statement also seems "lightly supported" to put it mildly. What about doctors, lawyers, MBAs, people who inherited, people who had seven-figure years at a MAGMA, etc.? In fact, let's focus on that last one. It's well known that Microsoft has created thousands of millionaires. A mere handful were entrepreneurs. Most were regular employees who drew generous regular paychecks and also had some stock/options. A minority even of those took much risk working for Microsoft before it was already a big company. Ditto Google/Alphabet, ditto Amazon, ditto Facebook/Meta. They're all minting hundreds of new millionaires every month, and none of those are entrepreneurs. I think your sample might be a bit skewed.
Wikipedia is the perfect contrast to google search results.

- It contains 100% signal- no noise- and provides helpful related links if you need more information.

- Pages are organized and brutalist.

- Every page has a steward who (thanklessly) keeps the information accurate, up-to-date, and ad-free.

Contrast this to Google:

- 50-100% noise (depending on the query; more information requires more queries and therefore less signal)

- SERP pages are disorganized and absolutely riddled with UX dark patterns (modals, banners, autoplaying video, etc). Many pages with good info are over-styled/over-javascripted/over-languaged, and finding the one or two sentences you're looking for is a chore.

- One-off SEO spam plagues everything; ads and affiliate links are pervasive. Stewardship is a waste of time.
“I”, “We”…. These pedants sound like the Pharisees Jesus preached against. Also, 3-into-1 as a doctrine can lead to confusion, unless 2/3 of them don’t participate in baptism.

How to turn people against formal religion.

I always thought that if one approached a sacrament with an open, honest and clear conscience that the action was valid. Conversely, if you follow the form with a hard, closed heart it’s invalid. Guess there’s a lot of souls in the deep who are in trouble unless the ship’s captain had the correct form.
I mean then is DIT really a conspiracy theory? I know that people in HN have already started doing replies with AI in some threads. (only because they tell people). Wait a few more years and there will be no way to know if forums are just bots generating content.

I guess HN would be a weird outlier, because there are no ads. Except maybe the bots would be useful after all when various "Show HN" or "Launch HN" and have the bots cheer those companies and get random publicity.
As someone that works on moderation of an online platform I can tell you that lots and lots of misinformation exists and is read by millions of people. On vaccines many people actually believe the microchip, 5G, magnetic, secret ingredients, fetal tissue, vaccines shedding, Bill Gates stuff. Misinformation affects real people's actions in dangerous ways, I don't know what downplaying its existence accomplishes.
One common pattern I noticed among all rust projects is that they support a lot of languages by providing a native client except for rust.

I always wonder why this is the case. Is it due to lack of demand for it or because anyway the code is in rust so it is expected to be used as is (sometimes not possible at all to directly use the code like the recent edgedb showhn - though they have a conditions apply rust client)
From having maintained 60+ API integrations for a B2B business, I can see how Netlify Graph (or previously OneGraph) solves a real problem.

The initial integration is usually straightforward, but the maintanence of these seemingly simple API wrappers is what bites back in the long run.

With having lots of integrations, these are the usual failure points:

1. Teams find it hard to keep track of all the changelogs across APIs.

2. Failing at [1] means that API changes get noticed much later and having to cram the work into product development cycles.
How long until Google starts adding a "results from other sites" box when you add "site:reddit.com" to your query?
I think they’ll just get rid of iTS support and some amount of fraud protection.
It’s definitely easier for people to froth at the mouth and blame Google, but I believe that the issue of pervasive SEO is a chicken-and-egg situation.

There’s no actual incentive to produce quality and authentic content. Quantity is the name of the game in the click economy.

On the other hand, one could make the case that Google is at fault for creating the conditions necessary for this perceived decline. (dominant search engine, ad platform)
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Attacking a website of a defense ministry is like throwing eggs across the fence of Area51.
I'd think that's all relatively easy to compensate for, just film (or create in CGI) the card held in different directions, then merge into the green screen card.

Seems like it'd be better if chip card readers became ubiquitous on home computers and mobile devices, then we can scan our drivers license or other government ID to prove that we have possession of the physical card (and when making online purchases we can scan a credit card instead of typing in a number that can be stolen).
There was a time I could find everything in google. Now results I would've gotten easily 10 years ago no longer appear, even worse, I get 0 results quite often, whereas even obscure keywords, number patterns or hex patterns would easily yield a blog or two about a specific thing, now not so much.

Even searching for a particular blog, having forgotten it's name, I tried every single keyword and couldn't find it.

I also find it funny that I am doing exactly what the author of the blog post argues about. Every single time I look up something about trading, ADHD or disabilities, I append reddit or even prepend it.
An important measure of "misinformation" is who benefits if the information is actually true or false. Also valuable to identify who has the financial capacity to influence the sources of "truth".
By solving a captcha obviously.