skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's actually my number one issue with Discord: the stratification of discussion. With IRC, your "community" is a singular channel where everyone congregates and talks. It can be chaotic, and maybe you only check in and catch up so often, but it's all in one place.

Discord groups always end up with 735 channels about super specific topics. So you're not only spreading discussion over tons of channels where things will be evenly quiet and unnoticed, but you now have to go and laboriously check each of them to find new stuff. Or mute half of them you don't care about so you're not constantly being spammed with unread indicators. This also creates the "internet cop" problem, where whoever created the community (or someone they added as a moderator) feels the need to constantly yell at people for having organic discussions instead of searching for the specific channel approved for topic #365.

Basically, the whole thing seems to discourage discussion more than foster it, because people simply don't work that way. That sort of structure works for forums, but not for something happening in real time.
It honestly wasn’t meant as a shot at her. Tech bros on the other hand…

Comical (but bang-on accurate) to start this by quoting Paul Graham.
The quality of the mangos in Pakistan is also excellent, and by my subjective opinion 3 times better than what you can get in the USA.
A few huge services is still better than one really huge service
> Why keep old papers and stop adding new papers - that probably depends on the terms of the injunction.

As per the official tweet that has already been mentioned in this thread [1]:

> how about the lawsuit in India you may ask: our lawyers say that restriction is expired already

So according to the owner's official Twitter, this is no longer a valid reason, and yet new papers are still not accessible. Why is that?

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/ringo_ring/status/143435621720862...
tldr - blames federal regulations limiting (coal) pollution that easily travels across state borders. skips any examination of why Texas doesn't have enough plants meeting modern pollution standards.
(Reusing my comment[1] from a different thread the other day.)

Many people think Socrates is "against writing" by all means. In the dialogue Phaedrus, he—well, Socrates as portrayed by Plato—does sort of say that writing is okay, as long as you're doing it in the right spirit (seeking truth) and are not deceiving your audience.

What Socrates rails against is the "speechmakers" who don't truly know what they're talking about, but instead write based on "what is likely" to persuade the audience.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29603526
Probably easier to stick to bash rather than learn a new set of commands from scratch. Also bash commands are universally available whereas this needs to be installed first which is not always that straightforward. Also python is slower at some of the examples than compiled executables.
This sh is a python lib, not a unix shell, so can’t be easily confused.
Definitely keeps his teddy bear in LA.

But I like the writing.
What is the area with these strawberries? Asking for a friend..
I don’t know but I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the case. That’s a clear copyright infringement, no? I don’t expect them to buy the rights in addition to their precious unique pointer.
Yes. Something has changed internally allowing for some obvious spam to get past their filters.
For procrastination, you might try not sitting down hardly at all.

If your default is being seated, change the default to standing or being in motion instead.

Then only sit down for one particular reason at a time, most deliberately.

Whether one seated session naturally allows the eventual feeling of completion, or OTOH far from completion, as soon as that session is drawing to a close get ready and go back to the default for a bit of time.

Standing up, moving around, accomplishing something that doesn't require sitting (housework & gardening are good in moderation), all can help give you better perspective before you commit to your next seated session. Whether you are picking up where you left off or leaving that alone and going back down for something completely different.

At the other end, it's not just procrastination, but productivity.

Things like this really helped when I had 5 desks with various combinations of ambitions & obligations.
People have also started giving answers for the lulz, so I don't put any weight on these things anymore.
Oh nice, it seems the interface is a pattern based tracker interface, similar to Jeskola Buzz or Psychle, meaning you have a multi track table with patterns, then once you click on a pattern you get to a traditional tracker interface, like OctaMed or FastTracker. See from around 7:30 in this video: https://youtu.be/V9ZxN240lr8?t=450
Generate filler content with GPT-3.
Ask HN: Is an MVP the first thing a startup should build?
It seems to be widely believed that:

1. entrepreneurs shouldn't waste any time getting their ideas to collide with reality

2. Building an MVP, that helps visualize their ideas, should be the first thing a startup should build

i. Does this hold up to your experience?

ii. What are the pros and cons of this (MVP first ASAP) approach?

iii. Are there better approaches that have worked better for you?
Perhaps you could grow some of these (at a very high price) in similar facilities that are used for the famous Japanese cube/square shaped watermelons that are given as gifts.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=cube+sh...

If not a market in the USA, maybe in the very luxury food segment in Japan and South Korea, in whatever sort of food retailers occupy the market niche that is even more expensive than Whole Foods.
I haven't tried factorio yet, but it seems very similar to mindustry, except that mindustry is also a mix of "real" tower defense and RTS.

I really like mindustry. It's open source, available for free on multiple platforms (it's java), and paid on others.

It constantly gets updated, and has a nice progress curve. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about the recent addition of processors. It breaks the balance of the game a bit, as you can basically program your own AI for it, and do stuff like smart electric grid load balancing, shutting down reactors before they overheat, and use units as resource transports. On the other hand, it's fun to play with, and with a bit of automation you can save a lot of space.

As an electronics engineer, that game is quite appealing to me, and nicely illustrates some of the challenges we face everyday in engineering: refactoring, dependencies, synchronization, modularity vs optimization, "security", etc.

I feel like a better link might be the official website at https://mindustrygame.github.io/
I think it was in Lynn Margulis' book What is Life that I read that sexual reproduction occurs more where there are more parasites, which gives strength to the idea that sex is error correction.
Related and really cool:

I made 50k calls to explore the telephone network (shufflingbytes.com)

333 points | ValtteriL | 7 months ago | 180 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27602383
Did you seee this?
https://www.deconstructconf.com/2019/dan-luu-files
The problem exhibited so much in the mixed team so dramatic but the man and women team is so boring I think they have to fix it.

I am addicted to curling.

But still the game say the the first game of USA man is a good example. You just play 1 abd hit another most of time. Unlike I still remember the team of Sweden in mix double both get 3 stones out in 1 game by both members.

I have to skipped the iPlayer all the time to get some interesting chess moment (> a few stones in the house) or action.

Some did. But so many boring moment and so many mistakes (each play only 2 stones is the reason?) …

Really need more chess and more action.
Java also has labeled loops. Such that I have used it before. Not nearly as easy to abuse as goto statements.
I will try this, but I still have ptsd from the last time I installed something python based.
Let the market handle this. Simply close stores with high theft rates, which will happen anyway since they’re unprofitable.
The reason EROCT, the Texas Republicans (TRP) and the minesr are doing this is to raise prices on electrical power.

During the right time of year, the cost of power can often go negative overnight. Ercot wants to get rid of this and ultimately raise the price of power as negative power prices have consequences for all the middle men involved. In Texas there are lots of middle men, negative power means they might owe money instead of making money, they all want to be making money.

The general idea is that ERCOT give some guarantees to the miners including rate locks. The miners promise to use so much power and then get to buy the power at a bulk rate. Enough of these miners means that enough demand is put on the system that the nighttime rates never go negative. Long term goal of this is to keep money flowing to the oil and gas companies, the traditional power generators, as well as all the middlemen, regardless of how much green power is invested and built in Texas.

The issue of "too much power" on the grid is something that could be controlled by ERCOT. They could easily put some of the power generators into standby to keep the extra power off the grid.

As for the miners shutting off when demand goes up. They are only going to do that when the price of power goes above the threshold of them not making money off crypto. Since the rate of power in Texas changes moment to moment, and can easily be monitored this is a trivial thing for these miners to do.

Further, the cities and towns that want the miners to be in their town are giving huge tax breaks to these companies to set up shop. In one instance, the miners will end up paying less than a million dollars a year for 10 years, while they estimate they will generate a couple of billion during that same time and bringing well less than 100 jobs to the area.
> an unboxed pizza does not exist

This article reads as if Dostoyevsky wrote it.
Pocket is basically unusable for me without the extension In My Pocket, which is basically a companion extension, that makes it a lot more like it used to be in the past.
The Jitsi integration works ok, and isn't worse than Google. Others I haven't tried.
> No matter how careful I am I still get dysentery at least once a month

I'm interested in ways to minimize food waste but I wouldn't be willing to get "dysentery" on a regular basis. I wonder if avoiding meat / animal products entirely would help make this practice safer. There are people who dumpster dive by choice rather than by necessity although I've never done it for food.
> Probably easier to stick to bash rather than the overhead of learning new set of commands that I need to learn from scratch.

That's all fine and dandy until your shell script grows beyond a dozen lines of code or so. The moment that happens, shell scripts become barely readable and terribly hard to maintain, unlike alternatives such as python.
This is a complex matter and it's hard to describe adequately in a single comment. In short, the USA has a very specific racial situation: black people had been slaves, and until quite recently (some HN readers may even remember that) there was racial segregation. The consequences of that are omnipresent today: black people are, on average, in a worse social situation than white people. One would hope that with time the situation would get better, but it's not happening at the speed one would hope. Also, for some reason people don't like to mix that much. Black-white marriages are not a norm - and it doesn't look like this is going to change soon. To add insult to injury, the children from mixed couples have another set of challenges: often they are made felt they don't belong to either community. The issue of race does mean a lot in individual and social contexts.

Now imagine you are living in Russia. Over centuries you were a poor peasant, always at the mercy of someone. In the end you believe all your woes will end if you join others in yet another attempt to make things right, you kill the tzar, and soon you realized you just exchanged one tyrant for another. This is going on more or less until today. Nothing here has anything to do with race. It's similar in many other countries. But Americans have the tendency to perceive everything through their own context and project it onto the whole world. It makes no sense.
There are clonal trees that have lived much longer than 512 years too with the same DNA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_trees
There is a dogmatic contempt for goto:s. Like people who use them are stupid or something and obviously doing it wrong.

I think the underlying reason is that it is annoying to write tree walking interpreters and implement goto:s. (How do you even do that?). So the prominent CS folks at the time just dismissed goto:s instead by bullying user to submission.
I learned that baby carrots were not actually "baby" (small carrots) when I was I my 20s, after consuming them for years.

Baby carrots are carved from disfigured (but otherwise edible) carrots, because otherwise most people won't buy disfigured carrots.
The iPhone wasn't available for sale in China until Oct 2009: https://www.cultofmac.com/510563/today-in-apple-history-ipho...
Citi’s ThankYou points can be redeemed for statement credit or bank deposit. With the right mix of cards it comes back at one cent per point.
That's literally the first sentence of the article.
That's a great point. I guess hype made my expectations unrealistic. I have it on my to-do list to get the habit going again. I'll try this weekend!

I've wanted to do a retreat very badly. I would need to work to organize my current world to fit it in but it's something I have in the back of my mind.
In my experience Slack just doesn’t work as well as Discord does, generally speaking. It’s good enough to put up with for work chat, but the bar for the general public is higher.
I like the idea but this is really hard to read, could use some UI/UX lovin.
Personally, while I appreciate the difference from a promotion-of-FOSS point of view, I find it obnoxious that FOSS idealists think they can dictate the usage of the generic phrase “open source” and start these kinds of arguments in threads where non-completely-free software whose source is open comes up. We haven’t all agreed on your terminology, and the argument is not “settled” except in the minds of the folks who think everyone should be on board with making this purity distinction. Some people find the distinction uninteresting and don’t need to bother themselves with the ideological argument or agree to its terminology. And trying to be the arbiters of language is not a good look for the “information wants to be free” crowd.
It takes about 14 billion per year to maintain the current price given that new bitcoins are "mined"

14 billion what to maintain the current price? How does that work?
> People may not be familiar with that term because it won so thoroughly that only assembly programmers work outside if it.

I read an old edition of Numerical Recipes, and the first chapter or two was a paean to structured programming, which is when I realised that for, while etc hadn't sprung full-form from the heads of the first compiler developers.
a project other people use? they can google answers or use forum search… I’m not at their beck and call to answer questions in chat

different people will like different things, but chat is transient

an hour a month on server maintenance isn’t going to make or break anyone’s project, but if you don’t like tinkering with things there’s nothing wrong with that
I think we should shut HN down now before someone actually gives ad companies new ideas.
From what I've read in newspapers over the last year or so, now that satellites allow methane and other discharges to be detected and investigated by entities outside of Texas (both American and international), the biggest polluters are getting out of the game.

Up to now, whenever there's been a big discharge, the suspected polluter would say, "Well, it was next to our pipeline, and it's the sort of stuff we have in our pipeline, and it happened when we were working on our pipeline, but there's no proof that it was us." And the Texas regulators would say, "Sounds good to us!"

Now outside eyes are watching, including government agencies downwind in New Mexico, and as the detection technology becomes more refined, it will be harder and harder for polluters to wriggle out of it.
He writes “don’t work” but he seems to mean “aren’t easy to monetize.”

The protocols “work” just fine. It’s making money that seems to require centralization, even by his own examples. And if the making-money part doesn’t happen, the commercialized/centralized service goes away. But guess what keeps running. The open federated protocols.

I made this point in another thread. The point of openness and federation is not to prevent failure, but rather to facilitate continuity when central/commercial interests … lose interest.

Besides. Try building Signal /without/ using IPv4, or HTTP, or email, or git. And then maybe /thank/ federated protocols for making this little blog post even possible.
Consider another translation: “And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.” (Genesis 6:3, KJV).

This verse is not specifying a maximum human lifespan, but the period of probation in which God's spirit would strive or plead with mankind before their judgment by the Flood. This is the period during which “the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing” (1 Peter 3:20).

Genesis records numerous descendents of Noah who lived longer than 120 years (see Gen. 11:10-25). Lifespans did decline rapidly after the Flood, however, and it was recorded in Psalms that “The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.” (Psalms 90:10).

Even today with our advanced medical knowledge and technology, life expectancy is still typically between 75-85 years.
LumenPnP: An Open Source Pick and Place Machin
Lost Ark by Amazon Games
If you haven't experienced it yet, I highly recommend you check out 17776: What Football Will Look Like in the Future [0]. It explores what happens if humans stop aging/dying/being born, narrated by a few cheeky, sentient space probes.

[0] https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football
My townhome is actually an old WW2 military hospital that got gutted in the 90's and turned into townhomes. I can hardly hear anything from outside since it was apparently built to survive bombing, but the walls between units allow a ton of sound through.
I think to be a mute-ant you had to come of age in the 80s/90s after the remote and cable but before DVR and steaming. My wife didn’t have cable so can’t mute to save her life.
> …down 30% from November…

And up over 300,000% over its lifetime…your point in measuring from November arbitrarily? This statement doesn’t seem like “genuine curiosity” to me and more like your mind has already been made up.
> 1000Hz @ 0dB (this only makes sense if you're a phone person)

Any phone people here?
The Bible is many different books combined. Some contain practical advice for living, others have philosophical rules of thumb, allegories, etc.
> E2E encryption should have forward secrecy.

Curios, why?
What scenarios does PFS protect you from exactly?
We've received Harry & David gifts in the past and - if you're expecting exotic fruits - you'll be very disappointed. The presentation is beautiful, but getting 5 under-ripe pears wrapped in gold foil does not seem worth the $50 (including shipping) cost.

Most of their fruit really seems just slightly above grocery store quality (though I do live in California, so our fruit is good). The varieties may sound special, but they're often just a branded version of a common citrus, apple, or pear.
You're totally right and of course we help away. Reducing the steps to be able to ask a question is also a better user experience, hence ditching the forum. Give users what they want, including timely responses.

But the question still remains of how to maximize a user's ability to find answers on their own, for those who wish to do so. There are always gaps in documentation and I find a forum's ability to seek out past answers to similar questions way better than Discord's search, but it wasn't worth the friction.

I think the ideal solution is a combo of continually improving documentation as common questions emerge and a "saved replies" feature. Users still get a human response, which feels good, but they have to wait less time for some replies. And questions that start reappearing drive the development of new tutorials, etc.

Just found the Discord feature suggestion page for saved replies and voted :)

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/3600483...
Why does everyone want to make a macOS ux clone for linux that will stop being maintained in 5 years
Condos have wired risks like you can’t rent them out due to hoa so in in down markets you can’t move or are forced to liquidate. You can get assessed large amounts when stuff breaks and you can get hit with huge hoa dues if your neighbors aren’t paying.
Works much better for me than Chrome had.
The argument “more sensor data = worse” is a pretty hard one to make, especially in the AI world. If it were the case radar is bad at detecting stopped objects at high speed and vision is better there, wouldn’t the model learn this?

Yes, humans drive with just two eyes. But we don’t have LiDAR. If humans had LiDAR, you can bet we would use those when driving too. If Tesla had had LiDAR, it seems reasonable to believe at least one of the autopilot involved deaths would have not occurred. So now we’re at a weird point where we are evaluating the trade off between money, progress, and human lives.
How long would they last?

A lot of record breaking cells are lab only due to them degrading so fast that it precludes any practical use.

General rule, the purer the silicon, the less doping, the longer its life, albeit at low efficiency.

Silicon cells above 20% were in labs decades ago, but practical designs with long life only appeared last decade.
"When you can consume 20% of your electricity on site and sell roughly 80% back into the grid"

That would make sense if the mining made you more money than the grid and you had excess power, but what would be the point of selling your juice to the grid if that is the case?

Seems to me like powering as many miners as you can with your supply of installed power would have to be the goal at all times and the grid would be your backup plan to keep them running if your onsite supply was lacking.
I snuck her into my own dissertation acknowledgements: https://imgur.com/bDgtBAE
If one wants to make a time lapse video of this very cheap, you can do it with as little as a raspberry pi zero w ($10, if you can get one?), a 4GB to 8GB sized microsd card for raspbian, a $5 USB-A to microUSB adapter, and any old USB webcam supported by Linux.

When I did this the pi would acquire an image every N minutes, save it with a sequentially timestamped filename into a working directory. Then another system in my house would periodically rsync the contents of the pi's working directory to itself. From there, it's a one line ffmpeg command to turn the series of JPG or PNG files into a video at your choice of time interval/frame rate, resolution and codec.
Maybe I misread the article. It sounded like they were tracking attention with ordinary TVs?

Ie I wonder if they are relying on smart tv metrics , or tracking volume/people changing channels.