skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will start off by saying I have very little knowledge of physics or astronomy, but reading comments like these feels like I'm watching a 13th century British sailor confidently state what's on the other side of the Atlantic ocean...

Do we really know enough to be able to say if a planet is habitable? Or could there be other forms of life that we don't know of yet... We have only recently put a man on the moon, and now we're saying we would be able to detect dyson spheres...?
Don’t forget that you’re talking 2006, so you need to be doing a lot more infrastructure work: no containers, shared hosting environments are less stable but bare metal costs a fair amount to get started, you’re using something like cfengine instead of Chef/Ansible if you aren’t setting everything up by hand, you have 10% of the RAM and no SSDs, CDNs are an expensive premium service, etc. Then think about what that means browser-wise: you can do a bit on the client side but server side rendering is a necessity and you’re still going to be burning time on browser compatibility to an extent which can be hard to remember now. HTML5 hasn’t happened yet so you’re building more stuff yourself, too.

I’m not saying there’s nothing they could have done better, just that there’s an awful lot they couldn’t have avoided at least without building a very different app.
You can close a channel whenever you want, for whatever reason.
So, no source? Your response is unrelated to the statement at hand.

Think about it: Google has every advantage by respecting robots.txt and nothing to win by ignoring it.

Eg.

1) If a media company doesn't want to get crawled: add it in robots.txt

Then they realize their visitors drops and they'll remove it again.

Ergo: publishers sue. Because they want the advantages, but without the scraping. Which doesn't seem logical to me, since they currently give Google explicit permission to scrape content.

2) if they would sometimes leak personal documents protected by robots.txt they could have a lot of lawsuits on their hands.

Robots.txt is a simple method to not get blamed.

Ignoring robots.txt could literally be a core business liability from my POV.

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So please, source outside of gut feeling, as requested before, would be greatly appreciated.
These are mostly in the prototype phase.
Sure! I don't really know where to start, I got the link.. I wonder how I can increase the odds of getting one of their ads so I can record what happens.

my email is duzunov@fastmail.com
This is actually the answer I came here looking for-- with some unexpected flavorful details! Sad to see it so far down in the thread.

Letting go of whether I 'succeed at life' has been a difficult and ongoing process. I also think it's one of the most important and freeing personal psychological developments one can experience.
Hey do you have any more information on cloudflare supporting targeted harassment? I had t heard of it.
Every state, county, city, township has it's own tax structures that change every year, it seems. Federal is pretty easy.

It's the need for legal review by tax attorneys and CPAs that makes tax software really really hard to make.
Lots of other tech companies, as I understand it, choose not to be "compelled" to store something they don't want to store. Apple being the prime example.
This looks interesting, but the coolest part of this site is the forums. I had no idea that phpBB was still in active development/maintenance. It's surprising how ridiculously fast it is, and how much information is packed into each page. The topic pages are full of images and complex layouts, but it still renders completely in less than a second. Granted, Cloudflare and caching are a big help, but it goes to show what years and years of continued development and optimization can do.
The solution is to not depend on stackexchange. Since the data of stackexchange is released under the creative commons license, third party can host it on onion site. The downside to this approach is real time access and posting questions will not be possible but at least one can browse the older posts.
I don't think this difference is relevant here.

We've seen many technological features that were supposed to be only used in a very narrow use-cases be abused by governments. Contact tracing technologies (for covid-19) being the most recent victim where they are now being used by governments to track political protesters, criminals, and seemingly anyone else that catches their fancy.

I've seen this cycle play out enough time to know better. Governments never relinquish power. If client-side scanning that can report users to authorities ever becomes wide spread, governments _will_ abuse it. Democracies _will_ suffer and humanity _will_ be worse off for it.
I want to add to this that physics aims at this 'simplicity', i.e. being able to derive mathematical models ab initio, with the least amount of assumptions.

While the 'simplest' (in the physics sense) description of something is elegant, it can also be extremely hard to understand and work with. Maxwell's equations are used in engineering for a reason - and not their simpler theoretical physics underpinnings.
I mostly end up using map, filter, for in and for of. Occasionally you still need a good “old fashioned” for loop but in my mind it’s more clear to use that then forEach.

While loops have their own special powers for recursion so those are still appropriate and not something I would label as “old school” but hell, maybe that makes me old school!

I can’t find a ton of good personal examples where I’ve needed a range function.

This article feels more like the author was “exploring” techniques rather than proposing a standard practice
Yeah, It's 100% about bot mitigation. I got hit pretty bad by some botnet a while back, saw 10-15 searches/second. Can't have nice things on the Internet I guess.

Don't really understand their motive either. Maybe they thought I was cloud hosted or used some expensive API to do searches and were attempting to rack up big bills or something.
I don't know where you live, but 98% correct is not what would happen around here.

Edit: Oh, 98% _with_ a calculator. What if you force them to do it by hand?
Thanks for the detailed comment! I'd be happy to continue the discussion, is there an official IRC/XMPP bridged chan for me to join your discussions? Or should i go through any gateway and hope for it to work (matrix XMPP gateway is not really famous, admin-operated matterbridge is far more reliable).

I understand the appeal of CRDTs for some use-cases (in fact, for many more we could develop), but isn't implementation of permissions on top quite a big enterprise? Isn't that what the Matrix project is about? How would your mitigations compare to Matrix, beyond optimizing for arbitrary large messages (files)?

> It is perfectly true that solutions that are explicitely designed to handle these threats

Please make it more explicit on the homepage. Strong personal opinion: i like it when projects make their design tradeoffs explicit and link to alternatives involving other tradeoffs ; it helps me to avoid reading detailed specifications and source code to understand whether the tool is fitted to my usecase.

> our next project that involves mailbox storage

That's pretty cool! Are you aware of existing solutions in this space and failed attempts at producing new ones? leap.se/bitmask.net had some interesting takes but had to lower their goals due to limited human resources, but there's still people very interested in that question over there. Mailbox encryption as implemented by riseup/posteo (source code available, private key unlocked with passphrase at login time) is also very interesting and i wish that approach was used with other protocols as well (eg. XMPP) though it raises some interesting questions in regards to allow/denylisting.

I wish you the best of luck, and certainly hope to read more from you. Don't hesitate to post around in seemingly-unrelated venues to gather critical feedback on your design before implementation.
I got migrated to the NYT site today with my stats NOT persisted. :(

I wonder if some kind of security settings i had prevented it somehow.
Mechanical Turk and fivver could certainly get the job done. I would be willing to pay for a service where all of the coordination was abstracted away and I could input: picture output: typed document.

Remarkable2 looks very cool but the thing I am trying to solve for is the ability to search and have formatted text, which I am not sure if that solves.
This seems interesting to me, I wouldn't mind collaborating on this. My email is here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30169039
a better idea is to first use filter() to obtain a collection you can then map() over. So then you dont need to continue or break, the offending elements of the collection were already filtered out.
Isn’t the clotting thing specific to the AZ? I thought that was attributed to the adenovirus vector and not the SARS-CoV-2 spike
That's what hurt my pride, not gonna lie. Plus its angering they are targeting children with this.
Use Zoom on a Mac? You might want to check your microphone settings
Ah, OK, looks like they’ve progressed a bit since I evaluated it. Thanks for the update.
Oh wow my mistake. Yes it is actually the sequel "what do you care what other people think" that was written after his death.

Yeah knowing he wrote it, I guess it does come off a little more egotistical than I at first assumed. Still a good book though.
Building real-time ETL pipelines with Apache Kafka
For a short time I had become disenchanted with the corporate world, and decided I would go the entrepreneur/consultant route and try to start my own niche business. I had experience in both Developer Support and Engineering and thought I could serve that niche well.

This led to me starting to build out a suite of HelpScout integrations. They had some momentum at the beginning, but from a combination at me not being good at marketing and HelpScout’s marketplace not being mature, it was hard to keep it moving. I also ended up happy again in the corporate world, so my own motivation dwindled.

That said, the tools continue to run well today, and I just have them up and do the occasional feature addition or bug fix. I have completely removed my ego from that project, but I was very excited to see this month I got my first recurring subscription payment!

https://carrick.joewegner.com
Here’s a link to a Gizmodo article talking about the study… unfortunately I can’t get the original study to load: https://gizmodo.com/this-is-what-it-would-really-look-like-t...
First off, accusations of being a shill go against HN rules.

Second, the numbers that come out of China are reliable. I actually think we have a much better picture of what's going on in China with CoVID-19 than we do in almost any country, because the case numbers are low enough that each case is publicly reported in detail.

Not only is there a daily rundown of the number of new cases in each city, but details about each case are published for contact-tracing purposes. When there are cases in a city in China, an itinerary of where the infected person has been over the past week or so is usually published, along with the person's rough address, age and occupation. Sometimes the family name is published as well. Often, there are requests from the authorities for people who were on specific trains or in specific places at specific times to get tested or quarantine, because they overlapped with a known case.

The measures taken on the ground match up very well with the case reports. If the case reports say that someone in building X has been infected, building X will be locked down, and people in the neighborhood will have to get tested. The converse is also true: you don't see buildings getting locked down or neighborhoods getting tested in the absence of specific case reports.

Finally, life has been close to normal in China for nearly two years now. If the virus were spreading, that wouldn't be possible. You can't have open restaurants and pubs without having massive waves of infections, and that simply isn't happening.

So yes, I trust the numbers. Pretty much everyone who has any experience in / connection with China believes that the numbers are at least roughly accurate.
I pointed it out above; even though it is text, the ASCII representation is just a different base for the numbers - base 2^8 - ('325' is '3' * (2^32) + '2' * (2^16) + '5' * 2^8 = 51 * 2^32 + 50 * 2^16 + 53 * 2^8); it should approximate those polynomial functions very well.
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Hey, I don't have any specific papers. And I think neuroscience makes it sound fancier than it maybe is in reality. But the primary concepts are spaced-repetition, elaborative encoding, and active recall. And the main focus is really on reducing friction with putting these practices into play.
Love the inference speed. Best demo anywhere in that regard. Nice work.
In actual, no context terms I agree that a home Meade from wood doesn’t biodegrade fast enough on human scales. However, Infeel like the externals associated with the cultural concepts, particular in ‘the west’, around real property and houses as investments (either for rent or for future descendents) make this statement not accurate in a practical way. So, I don’t think it stands as an argument against excluding non-biodegradable materials in construction projects.
No affiliation, but have you looked at https://papercups.io/ ? They are also OSS: https://github.com/papercups-io/papercups
>what the hell?

Hell, no.

You have exceeded the wisdom normally allocated to economists.

Do not pass GO, do not collect $200.

More than ever it seems there should be a prize for this.

It didn't used to be that way.

Fewer and fewer workers will be able to pass GO and there will not be as many $200 bills in your pocket even if there are more in "circulation" overall.

Much less likely to afford any houses on your property, or very much property at all.

Odds are not looking good when there are so many decision makers and advisers who don't appear to have been paying any attention at all during the Nixon Recession and the still-lingering incomplete recovery in the USA.
It's also important for each participant to not be afraid to not be heard. I feel like that's a big issue in a lot of meetings, especially between developers, where it often feels like people are interrupting each other and talking over each other, where the strongest opinion wins, instead of letting each other finish and waiting your turn to speak. It reinforces people's tendency to talk over each other - "if I don't jump in now, the conversation will have moved on" - while at the same time reinforces less verbal / confident people to just keep their opinion to themselves while others talk over each other.

Don't hesitate to call others out for their behaviour, as it occurs. And involve those who seem to be withdrawn or quiet, ask them about their opinion and input. It takes concerted efforts, if not coaching and training, to get out of that habit.
Awesome, best of luck.
The consumption of natural gas itself has indeed increased. But the sum of natural gas + coal has still decreased a lot. From aprox. 350 TWh per year in the early 2000s to 251,6 TWh in 2021. The partial replacement of coal by natural gas is at least in part caused by the transition to renewable energies. Until the transition is complete, natural gas is the best fossil fuel option to even out fluctuations in the production of renewable energy, because gas power plants can be switched on and off very quickly at peak times (in strong contrast btw to nuclear power plants) and they can be built relatively decentralized, each with a small volume. Therefore it is not likely that we will see a major drop in natural gas consumption in Germany in the next two decades.
By that logic we will never leave Earth. Let’s say it takes 200 years to get a fully self sufficient colony on Mars. If we start now, it could be self-sufficient by around 2222. But, according to your logic, we shouldn’t start since the colony won’t be immediately self-sufficient. Instead we should wait until… until when? Assuming it will always take 200 years to make the colony self-sufficient, do we wait until 2222 to start so that it is self-sufficient by 2422?
For me it is about expressing a concept as compactly as possible.

In case of Nautilus they first ask us to imagine -1 as 180° and then proceed say half of it as 90° rotation and finally give it a name i. For some this may work fine as a way to understand. However it gets awkward to further explain. If 𝑖 stands for half of -1 (as they say) then does that mean 𝑖 == -(1/2)? If not then why not? and so on.

Compare that with:

𝑖 is a unit of rotation which is 90°. That's it. Using this as a base it's easier to explain why 𝑖² = -1 (two units of anti-clockwise rotation) or why 𝑖³ = -i (three units of anti-clockwise rotation is same as one unit of clockwise rotation) and so on.

More fundamentally, they ask us to imagine an operation on 1-d (-1) as happening through 2-d (180° rotation). It seems convoluted way to introduce 𝑖. I'd rather explain 𝑖 from the first principles and proceed to show its consequences such as 𝑖² = -1.
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It made it to the list already - https://killedbygoogle.com/
That makes sense. From what i remember of using redis a few years back, it doesn't do file-based cache, only in-memory. Something like nginx is very good at file caching, though.
Yeah, logically someone who can see a bad trade can see a good trade. Anyone who is able to reliably underperform the market would be a valuable trader.
I think this is the question. I think they either probably generate links that change once clicked once.
I'd be up for collaborating in elixir on something, I have a bunch of ideas and half finished side projects. I'm curious what impossible means to you. My email is here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30169039
European half-timbered houses are out of what then? They're still standing strong, being around 700 years old. Or how about the stairway in Hallstatt? Or the wooden house Kirkjubøargarður? Is wood not truly biodegradable? I think I know what you might mean, but it's not as black and white as you make it to be.
This was pretty much always the case with these old school forums. They where always pretty fast if run on decent hardware. Unlike modern web things.
Pure gut level reactions do make a difference though. The exact mechanism of threat can make a substantive difference to fear and how an enemy react. The brutal nature of nuclear weapons could be a feature.
Very timely topic. For those of us looking for more flexible options, like for an online news publication that needs to show well placed and sized images and so on, I wonder what everyone is using that isn’t Wordpress but has the same sort of core functionality.

Like for example if you wanted a Wordpress style story editor in rails is there an obvious option?
I have contacted both of my senators and local congress on this. I don't think that it will change much, but at least they know my feelings on the matter.
I don't understand what would be an environment where you could fetch the latest rust from internet but not the latest clang. I do my builds on centos:8 (well, rockylinux now) and it has access to the latest GCC 11. On Debian derivatives llvm itself provides up to date repos and on Windows, llvm-mingw works perfectly.
The story of YSFlight is long, but FLYBY2[0] screensaver for Windows 98 is probably one of initial implementations of YSFlight flight engine (aircraft 3D models distributed with FLYBY2 are now distributed with YSFlight in same DNM-format).

Few weeks ago Soji Yamakawa open-sourced[0,1] FLYBY2 and ported it also for FM TOWNS.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30214412

[1] https://github.com/captainys/FLYBY2
This project literally bills itself as an OSS Airtable alternative, so maybe? I've only tinkered with it: https://www.nocodb.com/
https://increment.me
“Get anonymous feedback on anything”

Built it, use it, enjoy it, get value from it and I think everyone could. May turn into 501c3!
"he says/ she says". I think pg would disagree. Let's see if he intervenes directly? Otherwise, we can just discard his speculated opinions.

And if we appeal to authority, there's actual evidence that Musk (who knows a lot about startups!) feels he was a founder. So should we believe Musk, until pg says otherwise?
> which is the question being debated in this thread.

That was discussed elsewhere in this thread. This discussion in this fork is very specifically about monitory costs.

Hence all the dollar signs. ;)
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If you want to have a comprehensive view of what happened and why things happened, I cannot recommend Dan Carlin's Hardcore History series enough on this topic [0].

The A bomb is extensively discussed late in the series, with shift in the strategy from strategic bombing to mass firebombing as US were preparing the invasion of mainland japan.

TL;DR:
> I thought it was pretty well established that the USA knew Japan was willing to surrender, but dropped the bomb anyway?

Simply not true, however answering if Abomb was good move or not, is such a complex and nuanced question you cannot just have a simple statement for or against.

The USA feared the invasion of mainland japan because of the unimaginable looses they would incur. Japan's population was prepared to fight USA with sharpened bamboo stick, and I mean population as in civilians, as in EVERY single person is possibly out to get you. Just imagine what kind of mental damage you would put of your soldiers to have to mow down scores of suicidal civilians. Note that this behaviour was already showing up as US were nearing closer to actual japan.

Also you had USSR freed from fighting nazis having a massive score to settle with japan.
Do you want uncle stalin also be involved? (given what happened to west/east germany was it better japan avoided est/west japan split?)

Have a listen to [1] on the accounts of firebombing of Tokyo. It horrendous fate in comparison to A-bomb. On top the horror of slowly burning alive trapped in fire cage there were far more death from firebombings/carpetbombings than Abombs.

[0]https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-62-supern...

[1]https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-67-supern...
Not really "human". Doing no-carry addition is much easier for a machine to do as well, as that's basically what XOR does, i.e., SIMD. Carry introduces dependencies between the digits, potentially as long as the whole string goes. So that's pretty hard to understand, also for a machine.
> I feel it is not at all hyperbole to call it "torture."

Unfortunately, the topic of windmills is getting politized, and complaining against the negative effects is now being ridiculed and tried to antivaxxing and luddism.

> > There is a growing literature on the health effects of low-frequency noise, and also on (mostly losing) battles of communities against nearby wind farms.

If even Trump couldn't prevent a wind farm near one of his Scottish properties, it's indeed mostly battles being lost:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/joe-biden-just-broug...

While nimbism may play a large role, the negative health effects reported by many people like you should not be neglected.

And I just don't understand why the damage to the wildlife is almost never mentionned.
But there are local competitors, they just got smothered and bought up by US based corps.

Why ? Because the US has a lot more money, which translates to more money for investors to dominate the economic landscape.

Why does the US have more money ? Well, if I want to buy an ice cream from the US for a dollar , I first need to sell something to an American for that dollar. US banks can just mint that dollar from thin air