skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I'm at a classical music concert I feel strongly that I'm part of a culture. Here's music written 300 years ago that we're actively conspiring to conserve. None of it really makes any money - not for the musicians who have spent their lives getting good enough to play it, not for the mostly amateur promoters, not for the taxpayers who probably bear the bulk of the costs of the thing - but we do it anyway. Even the bulk of the audience are probably not real afficionados, but still see value in it. I think it's kind of a lovely thing
A mouthful? You're not wrong ...

https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/searchId.do?chebiId=132927

"8-[(1S,2R,3R,4S,6S,7S,8S,9S,12R)-pentacyclo[6.4.0.0^2,7.0^3,6.0^9,12]dodecan-4-yl]octanoic acid"

Not sure how I would format the ring closure notation (like 0^2,7 is meant to be superscript)
> As I mention in a few other comments, the goal here is to build multiple systems of evaluation

Regardless of your intentions, barring significant evidence to the contrary, you're going to be making yet another arbitrary ranking system dressed up as something rigorous.

> The main concern here is to just make sure they don’t submit the story to a magazine/publisher before we conclude the contest.

Just make it clear that you don't allow simultaneous submissions. https://duotrope.com/guides/simultaneous-submissions.aspx
To be frank the instances you listed sound very improbable, but could withstand the burden of truth needed to prove guilty
I thank you for your criticism. This is the only way to move forward and I take it very seriously. Therefore I thank you!

Best regards from the Alps
Renato
I think this discussion thread is basically people looking at this in different contexts. A lot of the replies seem to interpret your post as saying "systemd is more complicated than sysvinit was" which is most definitely not what you meant regarding your further replies in this thread. You seem to say "even systemd is too complicated for the layperson". I somewhat agree, if we assume someone totally not dealing with tech in any way on a daily basis, except for typical Office work. But the "in-betweeners"? They totally could. Like, not even Linux users, but curious tinkerers that fiddle aound with .ini files and registry settings to tweak their machines; do overclocking? They totally have what it takes to chew through a tutorial that tells you how to set up a Linux VPS with a couple services running.

For the layperson that's a bus driver by day, not so much, most definitely, but I think no matter how simple you make setting this up, just having to maintain this and having to do something when the setup eventually has some unexpected bug a few years down the line is just too much.
The pronunciation is intentionally odd. It’s a play on an old advertising tagline.

It was “choosy developers choose gif”
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I don't speak Rust well, but I can share my perspective from Clojure, where I tend to think in data.
A program is a sequence of immutable functions taking input from the world and reducing that to instructions to mutate the world (aka side effects). The world here can also be some place that stores state.
Ideally mutation is the last step of the pipeline, which takes the instructions and produces the side effects.

Or simply

input -> fn1 -> fn2 -> fnn -> mutate!

Where 'fn' are all immutable.
maybe you should put your thoughts into a gist :)
The translation I've always heard is:

"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."
> It makes you think how much stress and mind play a role.

Stress and the mind can also end a pregnancy sometimes...
Totally agree that this is ultimately very non-individualistic.

But there is a difference between what this teaching is at its core, and why it appeals to certain groups in the west. see McMindfulness etc
What I was trying to say that it would be in the hospital's interest to offer a better solution since it will be that very same hospital that this guy will inevitably return to.

I guess you are in the camp that thinks everyone can help themselves? All I would say to this is that there's lots of evidence around you that proves this idea is wrong.
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Thank you for avoiding the straw man I inadvertently invited to. This was indeed how I meant the question.
True. You made me remember a different concept, where words would flash at the same point, but centered around some fixed highlighted character per word.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ky8DP55YEO0

Edit: but thank you for sharing your concept here, very interesting, and I like the discussions it created.
There should be a special badge you get to wear forever once you have been In Charge of Symbology at some point in your life..

In a previous job, after a few years I settled on (Type, Expiration, ISIN, Listing CCY, Listing MIC, Trading CCY, Trading MIC, Fudge) as The Tuple that could handle almost everything…. Once in a while I would still get a messed up case of non-uniqueness, that’s what the “Fudge” is for :)
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> Why this anger towards the author for doing what he considers to be the best thing for himself?

Because most of us don't have the luxury to take a break from work.

Honestly, I feel jealousy towards people who can take a break from work. I've been feeling like I'm on a treadmill since my teen years.

I am not ashamed of it, though - jealousy is a human feeling and we can't wish it away, we can only control it and not let it interfere with our lives.
> Unfortunately I had to make bad experiences

That has to be the most unfortunate choice of wording !

More seriously though, does BR work in your native Swiss German ?
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> I want to spend some time making impractical decisions. I want to build software which solve the problem of making me happy, or at least entertained.

I hope you get a chance to do that, at least for a while. I want that too.
Try calculating "Dead with water" and tell me how dangerous you think water is. Looksl ike another misrepresentation by the "covid fanatics"
We have just completed the preliminary study but I cannot publish any results yet.
And you are right, of course. It does not help everyone. That's the way it is. But there is a lot of feedback thanking us and hoping that it will be available to as many services as possible.
> Centralization will almost always be more efficient but has "security" flaws in the form of bad faith actors while also acting as the central authority.

And de-centralization has security flaws in the form of more difficult or impossible oversight, which can allow bad-faith actors to pursue their goals with impunity.

Neither paradigm is perfect, each has its flaws. Knowing that a system is de- or centralized, tells us exactly nothing about the morals of the people using it.
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Unfortunately you might be right :)
Dude that sounds horrible. I feel you. Keep up the fight and try to concentrate on what is really important, you and your family. I had one wife and two dogs, now I don't. The 'pandemic' most certainly accelerated that outcome. Stay positive!
There are a number of 'platonic hydrocarbons', like tetrahedrane, cubane, dodecahedrane

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_hydrocarbon

Weird in a way, but not totally unexpected. Similarly Fe-S clusters form cubic shapes.
Well they can afford it.
Ed Hamrick has been saving my arse since 2001, and my full licence from then is still honoured to this day. For real. Currently powering a Minolta Dimage 5400 II from the early 2000s and I really ought to find a way of giving the guy more money. Excellent software, ridiculously powerful, has kept my digital darkroom running for 21 years and counting.
"They key phrase here is: “weather stations near the north pole.” The northernmost weather station is Alert, Nunavut and it is 817 km (508 mi) from the North Pole. That’s like trying to gauge the temperature in Indianapolis from a warmer temperature reading in Atlanta."

Do you think you can gauge the weather when you are 500 miles away from it?

If that is correct, should all the papers etc have run with the headlines that they did last week? If you were a newspaper editor and knew this was how the information was being derived, would you feel comfortable giving your readers this information?
NPR story with more details:
https://www.npr.org/2022/03/23/1088410133/gif-creator-dead-s...
One of the funny things I experienced at my old company was that we were totally open to sponsoring visas and stuff (I'm in finance, it's very much a global market), and we'd often interview people from Tech. It was extremely common for us to interview people from both Google and from Yandex, and we'd consistently hire from Yandex because they had super strong C++ developers, and almost never hire from Google because they have such a different approach to C++ (metaprogramming).
> Why not give every user a base URL for their personal site, and serve pages under it directly from the browser running on their computer?

Your description reminds me of Beaker, the "peer-to-peer Web browser".

https://beakerbrowser.com/

I feel like Mozilla could do more to fund and otherwise support/promote such efforts for re-decentralizing the web, to bring the power balance back to the user.
Sysadmin long enough and you'll find yourself inadvertently scripting in Bash. A few languages and API later and you'll realize that you may be coding. That is how it went for me...
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Both Hex and Go place a strong emphasis on forming connected groups of adjacent pieces placed alternately and then never moved -- isn't this a similarity not shared with the other black-and-white-pieces games?

(Even the similar terminology of "stone" and "ladder" seem to hint at a relationship.)
I'm more and more convinced that people who don't have kids should have double the tax burden compared to parents, at least for the first 5-10 years.

The stress is unimaginable, and then some people have the gall to complain when parents try to do it well. Appalling behaviour. I would not tolerate such complaints as a manager, but thankfully I have never met such attitude in my life.
Hi mdp2021
I understand your skepticism. The point is that the reader needs a fixed point to absorb the text. That's why this definition is placed.
As shared in other comments, I unfortunately had to make very bad experiences. And the responsibility I perceive among others Marco (feedback website), I do not want to jeopardize.
But I understand your objections.

Best regards from the Alps
Renato
While you're not wrong to imply PV doesn't work at night, concentrated solar power (CSP) actually does. It achieves this by heating salt into a molten state which can then discharge heat (and drive turbines) overnight. CSP is very promising for helping manage peak loads in place of gas, too.

There's also batteries: virtual power plants that give us the ability to arbitrage between when power is cheap and when power is needed. These can be rolled out in conjunction with residential PV systems and eventually pay for themselves. A similar approach can be used to store hot water produced during the day by PVT (photovoltaic-thermal) cells.

See:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_energy_storage

https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2014/01/f7/csp_revie...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_power_plant
Yes, this tool is amazing. I use it almost daily for my work, and I see coworkers naturally default to using this app (something I haven't seen all that much, usually people use whatever they are already used to, or they use something they are forced to use).

So kudos for that!
The original press release is at https://www.eink.com/news.html?type=releasedetail&id=2600&ye...

> E Ink Gallery Plus is using E Ink ACeP [Advanced Colour e-Paper], a full color electronic ink system with four color pigments: cyan, magenta, yellow, and white, used to achieve a full color gamut at each pixel. The contrast ratio is improved by 40%, from 10 to 14 ... E Ink Gallery Plus will be available in various sizes ... including 13.3-inch, 25.3-inch, and 28-inch

The (this?) ACeP seems to handle 16 shades of ink for each ink, CMYW - like usual monochrome E Ink -, for a total of 16 bits for colour definition - 65536 options ("colours").

Edit:

Having not found information about update speed, which is critical in the ACeP technology as a weak point, I found a demo of the previous version at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1JaFAUa2Ys - many seconds of ongoing update with heavy flickering. Good for "framed pictures", not for readers.
the word gin is closest to grin, maybe we should say gin without the "r"....

these arguments are really bad, there is no real rule to follow, especially for an acronym. Anyways...

this gent was a gem, a real gentle giant and genius.... these debates are like germs and generate generic retorts, lets be more genuine.... I hope you are getting the gist of this comment.
Great piece of software - even if the user interface can be overwhelming and some features take time to figure out. But as a matter of fact I am able to continue using my old and trusty scanners even if software support by their vendors has stopped for many years. It was money well spent.
To be fair, the original post was complaining that he couldn't find suckers to sell the loans to ^W^W^W "there are not mature capital markets for ISA programs to tap".
I consider it no small blessing that I have a pious priest as my spiritual father. May God bless you in your struggle.
I re-read the thread and you're right, you were just providing relevant context. My apologies.
> the reactor body can be built into the ground and concreted over until its time to decommission it.

This seems wild. Who is doing or proposing it?
Wow, that brings back some nostalgia. Very happy to hear they’re still going strong.

Back in the early days of macOS, scanner manufacturers wouldn’t release compatible drivers for existing hardware, forcing you to buy a new one instead.

Throwing away perfectly good hardware was a non-starter, so for a few years VueScan was the only way to use your scanner without having to boot into Classic.

This became less of an issue with Image Capture and manufacturers realising that macOS wasn’t going to go away quietly, but VueScan saved the day for many a print designer at the time.
I just wish most software were smarter about the speed ups. Naively playing everything X times faster can be weird. Either the pauses are too short, the words spoken too fast, or something. But it should dynamically stretch and squish more, I feel, to make it sound like a person actually speaking faster.
Hahaha... yes unfortunately there are countless apps that gum up and slow down the brain.
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I don't doubt that this will help people. I know how it helped me to train myself in the way I read today during my university years.

So as said - there will be people who benefit from this. Still - being an empiricist I just like to see independent and scientifically valid representative studies being done before I believe marketing claims. ;-)
The worst nuclear disaster is far, far better than burning fossil fuels, when you consider all of the costs and impacts.
How do you explain the ten's or hundreds of thousands of people in the world that already have financial freedom (i.e. enough in the bank to live comfortably the rest of their lives), and yet still get up everyday and goto work?
It's a "what the hell have we (browser vendors) been doing these past 20 years?" shout with a surprisingly clear path forward.

Additionally, this is as close to be anti-Chrome as possible without shouting "Anti-Chrome manifesto", which tells you a lot about Chrome-dominated web.
Author here.

Re: search. It's not that site search is impossible, or even particularly hard, with a JAMstack site. It's just that I didn't consider it MVP for my personal site. I know how it can be done, and I'll implement it when I have time.

Re: CMS. I know where you're coming from, I spent a good decade or so specialising in traditional CMSes / frameworks myself, mainly Drupal and Django. There are various answers to the CMS question for static sites - the ones that I'm most familiar with are https://forestry.io/ and https://tina.io/ (and I've heard no end of buzz about <https://www.sanity.io/>). Those solutions are solid, I wouldn't call them "bizarre suggestions and workarounds". And they're good enough for most needs, IMHO. But I haven't tried pitching them to clients yet.
It's also just turned warm and sunny in the UK. I turned the heating off for the first time in months today and solar is producing just as much as nuclear right now.

At a much much lower cost.

Those wind shortfalls have a strong tendency to line up with good weather when solar produces more and heating is less needed.

The UK also has more pumped storage coming online and octopus even has home electricity tarriffs that promote time shifting demand.
Thank you matsemann
> I have started to watch more videos at > real-time speeds.

I started doing this too.

But mostly because it helps with those videos where the speaker is speaking about an interesting topic but is speaking very slowly, or with large gaps or with many fillers. It helps making the viewing experience much more bearable.
Meanwhile I'm expanding my server collection to house ever more Wordpress sites...
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I actualy think it's the best excuse to dismiss other options, as those options makes self-hosting even harder because it gives the ISPs ample reason to keep restrictions in place "Oh, you don't NEED to host it yourself you can just trust your data to live on some random machine somewhere else"

What I dislike about this use of the term "selfhosting" is that it's practically an advertisement for hosting providers vaguely disguised as a way to privacy and freedom, which it most certainly is not.
That’s why pressing enter several times for a manufacturer-recommended default setting works for most car drivers, oh wait, I meant end-users.

Mean Time to Consult the Manufacturing Specs (MTTCTM, or HOWTOs) should be cut down … drastically.

Oh yeah, say “YES” to that fancy option of the Positron rear axle (cue in increase to manufacturing delivery time). This is the Information Age! You’ve only lost the “trial period” to get it right.
I started at CompuServe in 1990. I met Steve a couple years later when I interviewed to join his team.

I didn’t make the cut and I thought he was a bit of a jerk during the interview. Turns out I was the jerk and Steve was actually being really kind to a kid who wasn’t even close to being ready for that level.

Anyway, what I can say is that Steve was a lot more than GIF. In fact, back then, no one really thought too much about it, but they thought a lot about Steve.

George Jones, another CompuServe alum, penned this a few years back. I think it’s a nice summary. https://web.archive.org/web/20220129204133/http://curious.ga...
We should not forget that it was Mitt Romney who called out Russia as a threat when campaigning against Obama, and he was ridiculed about it by democrats.
Part of the problem is that the more reputable hydroxychloroquine studies were abandoned based on an even more blatently fradulent paper in the Lancet claiming it actually increased the risk of patients dying - like, it wasn't even some subtle statistical issue, there was no way the authors could've had access to the data they claimed to use and the number of patients supposedly in the study from some countries was implausibly high. So there wasn't really any good-quality evidence for a long time. Also, there's reason to suspect that the reason the Lancet was so willing to publish that paper is partisan; their editor-in-chief's Twitter had a blatant political axe to grind the whole time.
Lots of corporate users here who love their Macs but don't need the media features. 13" Airs are lovely, but plenty of us would go for a bigger screen if it was an option.
It is hysterical Greenspan gets blamed for this when we have barely been able to keep rates off the floor the past 13 years since he left.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS

If 2002-2004 was keeping rates too low then what do you call the past 14 years?
I wonder if this is also to make it harder to recruit folks who work at Meta. If everyone’s title is the same external recruiters don’t know who to target by level.
I couldn't find anyone else with my experience: No change at all. I wasn't faster or slower on either side, as far as I could tell.
I don't understand this either. I have no trouble drawing an accurate bike, helicopter, or chainsaw, and can't imagine how people move in the world and can't.

I have to think that people just don't care about physical objects.

But most people who can draw a bike cannot accurately describe how they stay up, or how to ride one. When they teach a child they tell them it all wrong, and the child takes a long time physically unlearning what they were told; but asked to explain, they will repeat what they were told instead of what they actually do when they ride.

I have multiple experiences of teaching small children to ride in, literally, seconds, just by saying correctly what one really does. Learning to ride really is as easy as riding, if you don't need to unlearn falsehoods first.
Price controls are being tried out in the UK and it doesn't work - every institution charges the maximum, so it's no longer a ceiling but simply the price everyone pays annually to go to university (£9,250 at the moment).
> Can other elements, except uranium, be used for power generation

Plutonium, Thorium and a few others yes

> I thought uranium is used in reactors because it also produces A-bomb material as a by-product.

It doesn't and it's used mostly because it was easiest to work with and best researched when the majority oft reactors Werke build
Problem with plugins, as others don't seem to have the problem?

(I know pretty much every case of my browser not working, has been due to the mottley collection of plugins I appear to have accumulated)
I’ll admit I just now realise that the author seems to have shared the post here themselves.

That does put it into a slightly different light.
What! This blew me. This magic happening before my eyes. Forget the negative comments here on HN, the fact that you had such an insight, it's awesome.

Going constructive on the HN comments, if someone found something, you got a right to protect and earn from it anyway, charging for however a simple idea helps it spread and let's you do more innovation on it. But that said, maybe a library with paid access is a better idea than api which needs to travel across 14 seas and 7 oceans!
lets hope this works. The two fastest growing energy consumers in the world - India & China - are pulling people out of the poverty line by the millions every year. And so are not signatories to any climate accord.

Both are incidentally also the worlds largest reserves of Thorium. And has no military use.

An accelerated nuclear power research could end up being the next "COVID vaccine marathon". Cleaner air for everyone.
Yes and no. You're more likely to find counter-culture beliefs among the tech crowd in Russia just like rest of world. How many of us watch TV for our news? I have 20+ Russian / Belarussian engineers working at my company and granted its a small sample size but views tend to range from "I need to get the hell out asap" to "I really should get out... but I have X keeping me here... this is fine." (dog w/ flames)
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