skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I'm optimistic, but these are just problems to be solved. Space exploration is a big risk / big reward investment. Yes it would require a comparatively huge investment to mine an asteroid vs. open a pit mine in Brazil but "mining" an asteroid likely means carving off hunks of solid metal for transit back to the Earth's surface rather than processing megatons of rock by blasting, trucking, and smelting. Like many things about space, it boggles the mind that a single asteroid mining mission could produce more platinum group metals than have ever been mined on Earth throughout human history. How does the total amount of money and resources spent on mining those metals on Earth stack up against the cost of a single successful asteroid mining operation?

I think this argument extends to colonization efforts as well. What is the economic and cultural benefit of founding a new nation? It's not something that we are familiar with at this point in history so we are relatively blind to it. We just take it for granted that the nations in which we live have always been there since they have always been there for us. I have no doubt that once we begin colonizing Mars or the Moon or even just Earth orbit it will have as great of an impact as the colonization of the New World.
A couple of years ago Amazon bought four million ip addresses for $108 million dollars. 44.192.0.0/10

AMPRnet sold them a quarter of the ip addresses that were allocated for amateur radio. They got a /8 back in the 1980s. A small number of addresses were used for ham radio networks but the AMPRnet addresses were generally not routed between the internet and the radio networks.
Could you elaborate on why this is an active division? It might help if you explain it by comparing/contrasting it with the situation wrt. measles vaccines, which I understand is mandatory in parts of Canada and which hasn't involved noticeable protest.
If you've ever been part of a family business, you'd know the approach to handling things is quite a bit different. When family dynamics come into play, you end up having to tolerate things and compromise things in ways that would be considered unacceptable in a corporation.

You find out your brother is pocketing part of the tips that are supposed to go to the back of the house.

Your son has been accused of sexual harassment by one of the waitresses.

What do you do? You're not going to "take it to HR". Any action you take here is going to be painful and is going to be challenged by other members of the family with an equal stake.

So I immediately recoil when I hear that I'm "family". Oh, you're going to look the other way when I get caught embezzling? We'll work something out when I get caught the second time? Didn't think so.
To briefly clarify on why I believe it is the former: Caleb just happened to have caught a really bad fungal pneumonia when he was 9yo, and that was his inspiration to explore what could be done to diagnose things differently. And he just happened to do tons of research to try and re-use open source technology, etc.
I suspect a big chunk of this is that it’s a lot of nee people that jumped in when every day was a green day.
I don't exactly agree with many of the points made in that post, BUT, I think this was the paragraph that made the best point:

"But even if you disagree with me, and you think that Apple should be allowed to be the only gatekeeper to 60% of people’s mobile devices. Surely you still agree that Apple should apply their rules consistently? In this case that would mean either allowing Wörd on the store, or purging all apps that resemble other apps from App Store. Starting with their own Apple Music and Translate apps."
Is it possible it was rejected because it's called Wörd which is too close to Wordle? Try naming it something else and resubmitting.
Microsoft does not have an official Minesweeper application for iOS, never has, and probably never will, so clones are more acceptable in that case.

Scrabble and Tetris are actually trademarked names and have official applications as far as I know. They can sue any competitor for trademark infringement. There are competitors like "Block Puzzle," but they may predate the official Tetris for presence, but I'm not certain on that.

> "What’s even less surprising is how (little) Apple apply their Guidelines when it comes to their own apps" (from post)

Actually, I think any resemblance is forced (particularly with the Translate app) and that the design decisions are more logically-based than copying. How else would you make a Translate app by Apple look?
>"The primary objective is to take Linode and really scale that up and sell it into the large enterprise space," and "…The focus will be moving Linode’s capabilities into our platform and having a comprehensive solution for large enterprise customers."

This is good. Cloud Hosting is capital intensive. I would imagine Akamai have access to much cheaper capital. And I would not be surprised if Linode's growth is fairly limited by capital. From new Datacenter, new networking equipment, new storage, to new sever. As long as Caker is still in charge. And Akamai provides additional engineering resources. I am actually quite optimistic about this going forward.
This is a common anti-pattern — I believe they're trying to ensure that the web fonts have loaded before the text displays but it's really annoying for mobile users since it can add up to 2.5 seconds (their timeout) to the time before you can start reading unless you're using reader mode at which point it renders almost instantly.
Tough to do a show on that considering the time span involved but it would be interesting if they ever covered an episode where that happened.

Of course the show is not a broad coverage of the detectives process. The detectives featured almost always are the most senior detectives and of course they cover situations on camera where ... maybe somethings won't happen.

The cases featured in the show they almost never actually end up prosecuting anyone without quite a bit of evidence. They're not really the kind of cases you hear about where someone is just prosecuted on hearsay and one bit of evidence and so on, that i'm sure is by design (for the tv show). Detectives show a lot of skepticism about what people too, that was interesting. They follow those leads but those featured seem highly flexible.

I wonder how much of the bad prosecutions / situations are about the prosecutor rather than detectives.
Mind blowing! I had not spotted that feature yet.
Thanks for sharing the feedback! Glad my post was helpful :)

A few web serials that are very good and self-hosted via blog that I can think of off the top of my head are:

The Wandering Inn by Pirateaba [0]

This is a story about a college student who randomly gets teleported into a fantasy world one day when going to the restroom. She stumbles upon an inn and takes over as the innkeeper. It's a fun story with great worldbuilding that spans multiple continents. Starts off pretty slow and is hit or miss for a lot of people, but I personally think it's a fantastic series that just takes a while to hit it's stride.

Worm by Wildbow [1]

This story is a rather grimdark take on a realistic world that has superheroes and villans. It follows a high school girl named Taylor who gains the power to control bugs and her attempts to become a hero. Well regarded in rational-adjacent circles because all of the characters make decisions that are both intelligent and in honest pursuit of their goals. Some of the most inventive use of powers I've seen in superpowered fiction and despite the bleak nature of the world, there is a lot of exploration of the human condition. The author has also released a sequel to this named Ward, and has two other on-going stories named Pact and Twig. All are beloved by fans.

Finally, there's A Practical Guide to Evil by ErraticErrata [2]

This is a story that is actually a deconstruction of many fantasy tropes which I really appreciate about it. It follows a young woman who meets a Name—someone who represents the platonic ideal of whatever their name actually is—who is one of the most feared villans of all time. The protagonist, Catherine, realizes the futility of fixing society through good works, and instead chooses to become the Named villan's apprentice. Her goal throughout is to fix society and make it more equitable—just through becoming a powerful Name in her own right.

Hopefully this gives some ideas for other self-hosted blogs for web serials. My list is far from comprehensive—there's a huge world of web serials out there to explore. I just listed some that I've personally enjoyed greatly. Also, as far as I know, none of those authors were known before starting their blogs, but are now some of the most popular web serial authors.

A great community that I've enjoyed for finding similar works is on Reddit at /r/Rational. There are a lot of great discussions about up-and-coming works that fit within the genre. (rational fiction—I promise it's not as cringe as it sounds lol)

[0] https://wanderinginn.com/
[1] https://parahumans.wordpress.com/
[2] https://practicalguidetoevil.wordpress.com/
Flies possess more sophisticated cognitive abilities than previously known
There have been a lot of complaints to the city council about these dark stores.
The gig workers hang out outside the store waiting for their orders, causing noise issues. They don't follow traffic rules since they are under immense time pressure. And converting these retail locations to distribution centers takes away from the limited retail space available in the city.
I don't find your example compelling, pharmacies already deliver and these stores are not allow to deliver actual medication.
The city of Amsterdam also stops people from starting new Nutella stores or souvenir stores because these decrease liveability. This is nothing new in that regard.
Slightly wrong? Catastrophically wrong.

Earth uninhabitable? No, every nuclear plant in the world failing at once wouldn't make 1% of the earth uninhabitable, cut the hyperbole.

Nuke fantasies? Vs what, the fantasy that somehow wind and solar are going to be always-on sources of energy? You need a reliable backup, right now it's either fossil fuels or nuclear. The fantasy is thinking that fossil fuels are safer than nuclear - they are not.
It is definitely more honest.
But the point is that they're not using it. If it's not addressable from the internet, why not use 10.0.0.0/8 instead?
1pass has excellent support so if it’s a real issue just bring it up with them. They seem to be one of the few companies that’s exploded in growth but managed to keep support quality up.
Atomic mechanism of near threshold fatigue crack growth in vacuum
That’s Dan Grossman, a community member. dang is Daniel Gackle and runs HN.
Did you mean C++ in your second paragraph?
Maybe Google should just add an upvote button.
First why did you even reply? We’re taking about what a Ponzi scheme is and energy use has nothing to do with it.

I’ll reply to your criticism anyways - There is absolutely energy required to store gold, monitor gold, protect gold, transport gold, mine gold, etc… any financial system requires energy to operate.
Looking nice! I think Remix is gaining substantial popularity over Next.js these days. It's pretty interesting to watch.
I would see it more as an issue that secrets are potentially shared with departments that shouldn’t have access to it.

> you may not want your entire company to know that you just generated a password for a jobs site.

I would not put any personal (as in not work related) passwords and secrets in a 1password account controlled by my employer, on principle.
I spend some days writing a program which construct an expression tree (actually a DAG) from the instruction and then through applying logic derives the equations between the input values for when the final result must be zero. But this was after analyzing the puzzle itself and understanding how the puzzle worked. In a sense it automated the analyzes I performed myself on my own input. The program works for all possible puzzles and very quickly finds a solution. For the details see: https://github.com/FransFaase/AdventOfCode2021#tuesday-decem...
i think this feature is needed. Often times, an insightful reply to a question is asked (others want to see it too) but the OP just may not have noticed it.

so, maybe 8 hours later, if there is no response from OP for a reply made, a notification is sent? OP may choose to ignore of course.
Send the ASCII, let my Gemini client figure it out
this question is posted 2-3 times a month. and this answer is written all the time. and it goes to the top. hn cycles
I can only assume that OP is unaware that the biathlon combines high endurance cross-country skiing with target shooting.

It seems to me that biathlon is one of the few sports that has truly deep and historic roots with the human condition. Obviously ancient hunters weren’t using rifles, but the concept of long endurance (tracking a wild animal) followed by the need to be calm, quiet and precise (eg with spears, bows and arrows, etc) seems fundamental to the required skills of an ancient hunter.
Contrary to the author's opinion, I actually don't believe his premise that the Translate app and the Apple Music app were visually copies of competitors.

The design decisions appear to me to be more about what makes sense on a phone with a limited screen size than a deliberate copying. The Translate app comparison feels particularly forced.
Indeed, Fedora uses it from 34. As a user, I had no idea.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DefaultPipeWire
I'm immediately reminded of the science fair projects in elementary school where it was clearly obvious that the parent did all of the work.
I wonder if I’ve misunderstood, but as a developer, I like being given problems, rather than solutions. I’ve also found being able to formulate a customer or business problem well enough that others can come up with a good solution is a real skill which (IMHO) should receive recognition.
Seems to me like a blatant copy of Wordle. I only agree that the other clones shouldnt have been approved.
I agree, these clickbait articles are rarely honest and most of them reek of parents trying to turn their children into (internet) celebreties.

Also I noticed that they typically employ a very common pattern in which the headline makes a truly big claim (e.g. "10 year old invents cheap way to purify any water source"), then afterwards it turns out that this claim is far from accurate (e.g. the child did not invent it himself, had massive help and while the solution technically works it is in not feasible at all in the way the headline suggests).

Once it is noticed that the claim is false in the way it is presented the article then gets defended by pointing out that a child that young coming into contact with such a project is still impressive, which is again technically true but ultimately comes off as a dishonest deflection.
I’d think it’s commonly interpreted as “don’t be evil” where the cost of not being evil isn’t specified.
This post is also available over Gemini.
gemini://matthiasportzel.com/gemlog/gemini-transfers-responsibility

For those unfamiliar with Gemini, see:
https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.gmi
Even without superconductors.

If I was in change of a lunar colonisation plan, first thing I’d do is send up a rover with some limited ability to process lunar regolith — at a minimum into aluminium, preferably also PV. This rover would slowly crawl around the moon (doesn’t need to be the equator, but at least 5.14+6.68° from the poles to avoid being in darkness at the wrong time of year), leaving a fat conductor behind it. If the rover needs human interaction, it’s only a few seconds of light lag.

Once the processing has circumnavigated the moon, the conductor is already in a desiccated vacuum on non-conductive rock, so no extra insulation needed for that to be an HVDC line.

Then send some transformers and as much PV and industrial equipment as you want, because now the 14-day-long lunar night is easy to get through. The current going through the conductor gives you a free magnetosphere whose strength goes up the more PV is connected.

If you can’t build such a rover, you’re probably not ready to colonise the moon in the first place.
> Some parsing libraries may have hard-coded assumptions or bugs that don’t take into account three-digit major version numbers

22 years after Y2K and we're still not anticipating what happens when we exceed an easily anticipated limit. Yes, I know the cause of the Y2K "bug" wasn't exactly the same as this situation.
Same here! Down to a T. I actually think the consideration to hide it came from the fact that everyone *else's* votes are hidden.

Incidentally, rather than a custom style sheet to hide the score, I have the entire top bar set to the karma color. This means I cannot see any of the actual links, and I have to really squint at the screen and hunt for them. Long-tail accessibility issues seem part of HN's brand, or something ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Two Keys for Successful Remote Work
Alright, the data can be stored on IPFS, but where will the computations be carried out?
I use optional chaining so much I forgot it was, like, a "feature" that was added semi-recently
Why stop at four?
There has always been stigma against shell programming, not shell scripting, and I think that more-or-less is still the case. It isn't so much anti-bash stigma as, using a less than ideal tool for the job being a smell that'll cost you to fix later.

Shell scripts to automate processes with other tools is exactly what they are designed for, and adding in other logic and loops is fine too, but if you are setting out to create what would be considered a full program rather than an automated task you should definitely consider alternatives (of which there are several suitable choices) that usually end up being easier to maintain.

It used to be that the main alternative was perl, but frankly that was/is no better (IMO much worse) than bash for encouraging the generation write-only (difficult to maintain) code. Python is often a good option, and I've seen node used, though these don't have the ubiquity that sh/bash does (or perl used to have) which is one advantage of bash: it is almost everywhere, even Windows these days (or stick with core posix sh and you'll find support a little wider again), though maybe without some of the supporting externals which is when tricks like these come in.

If you are writing some simple automation, or maybe slightly less simple, then bash is fine as a go-to, but if you are setting out to write something complex bash is a bad choice unless compatibility with many environments you can't dictate have another interpreter present is a non-negotiable requirement.

There is the grey area when a script, or collection of scripts, becomes a larger program/environment over time. Sometimes the effort to rewrite (and fully test) in another environment is not worth the small benefit of doing so, and is therefore a bad use of developer/admin time that could be used elsewhere, particularly when high performance is not an important feature. Though if you find yourself with a lot of bash script, do yourself (and your later replacement when you've moved on to newer projects) a massive favour and make sure it is well documented even if that is only in in-script comments.
Use it or Lose it. Back in the day companies were allocated large blocs of IP space. They do not own it - what they do not use should be allocated to others who will use it with zero compensation to squatters - they own nothing. Sadly some have valued the IP blocs as assets = boosted bottom line - and there are some large boosts! These people will whine and scream - but screw them, they are just squatters and deserve nothing.
Valid users can easily be identified by network data.
Subscription fees / rent seeking?
> The more it grows, the more useful it becomes. It's quite pleasing to be able to respond to a Slack message with "read this and tell me if you still have any questions"

People have mentioned this in other comments but it's worth repeating that this habit is the true key. Make docs part of your core workflow. The other great things is that you're making them aware of the docs site (when they see the link I bet some have said "wow I didn't know we had this!") and you're specifically asking for feedback on where the doc is lacking.
Tesla is now under NHTSA investigation for Autopilot’s phantom braking problem
In this case it is absolutely the user 'doing it wrong'.

AWS allows you to store gigantic amounts of data, thus lowering the bar dramatically for the kinds of things that we will keep.

This invariably creates a different kind of problem when those thresholds are met.

In this case, you have 'so much data you don't know what to do with it'.

Akin to having 'really cheap warehouse storage space' that just gets filled up.

"It's now complexity and scale makes it unusable for newer devs. I'"

No - the 'complexity' bit is a bit of a problem, but not the scale.

The 'complexity bit' can be overcome if you stick to some very basic things like running Ec2 instances and very basic security configs. Beyond that, yes it's hard. But the 'equivalent' of having your own infra would be simply to have a bunch of Ec2 instances on AWS and 'that's it' - and that's essentially achievable without much fuss. That's always an option to small companies, i.e. 'just fun some instances' and don't touch anything else.
When people get paid to do it. Younger me would rather be trading my data for training their ai, doing whatever quests they set up, hanging out in that environment if it can pay close to a minimum wage job. (Note this is easier to do in poor parts of the world, and they are just as human, with similar ai teaching potentials to those in the wealthiest nations.)

Then when all my friends are there, "working" I'll have plenty social incentive to get me to strap on the Oculus and be part of the group even if I wasn't getting paid/or didn't live the game. I remember wasting soooo many hours of my young life watching my friends play boring games of fifa, just because I wanted to part of the group.

I really don't love meta, they are insidious. but I'd rather my kid work the metaverse for extra cash than work as a "essential" worker.
I mean this is a cool application, but not original idea. Gas/particulate sensors are used in ag to detect fungal spore concentration zones for spot treatment by looking for a specific particle size using the laser in the sensor. The worst part about these type articles is that they don't even cover the design usually so you can't tell if it's a novel idea or not. This one features hand drawn diagram with some incubator system, I guess it's for training purposes but idk. Mostly it seems like this is an advertorial for Microsoft AI.
The term 'drought' may be insufficient to capture what is happening in the West
I love the App Store. If you want my money then you will be on the App Store. I have purchased zero items for use on my phone from places outside the App Store. I am very happy with this.

I love my walled garden. I purchase apple products for this as I consider it a feature.

I understand why some people don’t like this and don’t participate. I spend very little time discussing it as people should be able to make their own decisions.

What I don’t get is the angry soap box lectures from the people who disagree. The intense planning on their part to mess up a thing I love just because they couldn’t make their money… Oh. Nevermind.
Un, this isn’t really like the others though. Making a JavaScript pop up, blowing up a building in a video game, and then your link is threatening to kill their teacher and then plotting a terrorist attack along with coconspirators in another country…
Because a majority of people are "feelers" (by nature) - they feel first, then run it through reasoning. An immature person of this nature would feel first, and then never proceed to use logic.

In the same manner that a mature thinker uses logic first, then feels. An immature one may think, yet never also run the thoughts through the "feels department".
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