skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience with in-flight message-only WiFi is that they're just really slow and the ping times are long. Some services are actively blocked, e.g. Skype wouldn't work at all even for text messages, but browsing the internet is usually allowed. My VPN wouldn't work, but I suspect it might have if I used an obfuscated connection instead of OpenVPN or whatever the default is (e.g. over SSL). I could load GMail in the browser and Wikipedia probably would have worked. It's strongly website dependent. Hacker News is extraordinarily resilient to lousy connections and generally the index would always load without any trouble. It works even on a 3 second ping over satellite internet. Very few websites are that tolerant.

The flight crew (BA) knew what's up. They specifically warned us to check which package we were getting, because evidently they get a lot of complaints when people buy the message-only bundle and are surprised that nothing works.

Singapore gave out free passes for single devices last time I flew with them. It was possible to rotate MAC addresses by forgetting the connection and then re-joining. The connection was quite good, you could watch YouTube in potato resolution. It's quite fun to chat to people and send them photos out of the window.
No, the reason we don't have reactors that recycle nuclear wastes is because they are economically ludicrous. Uranium is cheap, enrichment has become cheap, so there's no incentive to reprocess for plutonium the use of which would increase the cost of fueling a reactor.
> Netflix can make a case that content continues to make an impact on subscription revenue over a larger window of time, and so expenses should equally be recognized in relation to the income statement.

How many people are getting Netflix subscriptions to watch Bright (2017 Will Smith+Orc movie) this year?

Or from a Disney perspective, how many people are getting Disney+ to watch Coco (2017 Day of the Dead 3d cartoon)?
The Democrats supposedly stand for health care reform. They don't have a coherent plan and they aren't even trying. The Republicans are pretty hopeless in that area anyway.
IMO focusing on one company in what seems like an industry-wide bubble bursting always struck me as myopic.
Some other ones I watch again from time to time: Big Bang Theory, NYPD Blue, Supernatural, Cheers, ER, Law & Order, Blue Bloods, Waltons, Parenthood, Little House on the Prairie, Cosby Show, West Wing, MaGyver, Seinfeld, LoveJoy, Rumpole of the Bailey
You can simply split packets into multiple messages and tag them with a unique code and use base64 (or something more efficient), that's how you can do things like do IP over IRC which has even more restricted character counts.

The problem is always going to be bandwidth as doing any kind of communication across systems optimized for human text will throttle you: you'll trigger spam warnings, rate limits, etc - and the modern web is extremely demanding
>The French schools actually have an interesting dynamic. Having worked with a few French Canadians here in the Bay they pretty much all told me they never considered going to an American school (or more generally working for an American company) due to their perceived language gap.

Yes, I think Polytechnique Montréal is a popular choice for French looking to study STEM in North America. (Despite my mentioning McGill earlier, it wouldn't necessarily be the first choice for Francophones because it's an English university in the English part of Montreal.)
I don’t see (no pun intended) why disabled yet visible should be considered an illegal state. Disabled is a higher-order concept. You can’t know whether an object should be visible or not after you’ve enabled it without storing that information somehow.
Only by having a nuclear fuel that is itself a proliferation risk (undenatured 235U or 233U).
Before the widespread pricing on the internet I remember following computer parts via the ads in the local weekly computer paper.

DRAM was $32 a meg for soooooo long
>good and evil don't matter, only influence and power matter.

"Good" and "evil" are loaded stand-ins for sets of values and actions, but consider: the U.S. has more influence and power than China. Which country would you rather live in or be influenced by?
It seems that they would leak so easily to the wild, that I would tersely recommend against introducing them to any additional country, even if it is in a closed industrial facility...
I wonder how much the cable companies are charging them to not throttle their content right now? The price would drop by half the second you put net neutrality back.
Firefox user - have seen this many times. Always assumed it's either NoScript or Firefox's built-in tracking protection meaning there's some pre-existing cooking not set that Cloudflare places from other site visits, or because some script is getting blocked somewhere else.
What Rachel has described here is essentially a topological sort
My theory - technology advances at the rate of half life of each buying cycle. Phones advance quickly because people replace them every 2-3 years. Cars, every 7-10 years. Nuclear reactors every 59 years. Hence the slow rate of advancement.
Lincoln wanted to save the union. He did not care about slaves (there was slavery in the north too, but the economy did not depend on it)

The South seceded because of the threat to slavery and the writing on the wall about the way that was going.

So, yes, the USA Civil War was about slavery. The fact that Lincoln did not fight "for the slaves" or even "free the slaves" (the slaves in the North were not freed by the Emancipation Declaration" but by the Thirteenth Amendment) is not relevant.

It is not "semantics", it is a simple fact.
> I’m genuinely unsure what purpose anti-islanding actually serves.

I think it mostly prevents inverters from trying to destroy themselves feeding into a dead short, or creating weird instabilities - the grid segment is either up or down from the inverter's point of view. Any sane inverter will detect it's trying to feed a dead short and shut down. And if you're grid tied and your grid segment is down, it looks like a dead short.

It's a useful enough filter for people who understand power systems and power system work, because, as your linemen pointed out, if safety is a question, the workers simply create a bolted short across all the phases and neutral, and you're not simply not going to make that ring.

And, yes, migratory line workers are a thing. I don't get it, but relatively few people I've talked to out here (Idaho Power territory) actually work for Idaho Power - it's mostly migratory contract workers doing the power pole inspections and such.
I don't think submarines can include cruisers ;P
Hmm yeah, kinda, or at least I remember it slightly differently - that the sort of 'winning point' for it was that it was useful for individual users because it helps you pick out tags you already have or add a new tag you didn't have, plus it tells you something about the url. The purposes overlap, of course and it's been a while.

The thing above is much closer to what some of the librarians were really into.
It's simply not profitable to do the job so well. Abundance (blowing past the demand curve, if you like) just isn't rewarded under ccapitalism.

There's plenty of more specific stories worth telling, but for the big picture around much such infrastructure work, this is the elephant in the room.
pg defended YC funding a company making installer adware [0], you shouldn't really be surprised

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092711
Ah, yes, quit the poweruser nerd bubble and witness the soberness of the Real World of Most Users, who actually love forced reboots and the Tile menu.
Why are you choosing a meaningless metric to decide on the technology? Utilities or consumers don't care about energy density of fuels, they care about cost.
When selecting my personal use domain I ended spent some time finding a short domain partly because it's convenient but partly because it meant more goodput via Iodine. I ended up on "ds.gy" as ds are my initials and it was the only TLD that domain wasn't sat on by squatters wanting to charge thousands.The ratio of people wanting to sell you short domains vs actually using them in any capacity was surprising.
How is that representative of Catholics? There are 1.34 billion Catholics in the world. There were a total of 7 abortion clinic murders between 1977-2015 [1].

[1] https://www.vox.com/2015/12/1/9827886/abortion-clinic-attack...
That sounds dangerously close to trickle down economics. In any case, your example is far less problematic than the current situation where a rich person could fund their lifestyle off loans against their portfolio while never paying capital gains taxes at all
I hit the “checking your browser” quite often, as well as hitting captchas. I assume this means my adblocker / tracking blocker (in Safari) is doing a good job.
Having done some light home renovation, I would prefer installing printers over carpentry.

And I hate printers.
Now that we've got that out of the way, does Donald Ervin Knuth pronounce the "K" in his name?
I agree with everything you said.

As it stands our current civilisation is a ponzi scheme that relies on constant technological innovation in order to sustain itself. This constant technological innovation is partly fueled by the deterioration of value built into the money system.

When I said it was a feature not a bug I was talking about it from a nation state perspective. The problem with the Bitcoin community is that they don't acknowledge the indirect benefits of fiat that they benefit from so they are blinded to the potential benefits to the environment that Bitcoin could provide.
Great mission. LA has some excellent gardens, would love to see more. I enjoyed Huntingdon in Pasadena although the transplant-the-Japanese-structure-as-garden-feature thing struck me as slightly late/postcolonial, library-in-garden is definitely a feature (not a between-the-pages, accidentally pressed bug).
You realize hammers are a last resort tool these days when you can't get a nail gun somewhere.
Well no, but I also don’t want to constantly be switching just to watch one or two shows. The original benefit of Netflix was that you could have a service with a decent selection, no hassle.

If I click unsubscribe, that’s more or less final.
Interesting if food shortages will result in other conflicts, one of the causes for the Arab Spring were high food prices [1]

Is it possible that all this will result in a cascade of conflicts?

Here they are saying that food prices were going to rise due to COVID - and that was before the outbreak of the war [2]

Things seem to be going from bad to worse...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring#Causes

[2] https://www.ifpri.org/blog/covid-19-and-rising-global-food-p...
at current costs of fuel maybe power would be too cheap to meter, but is uranium really so abundant to meet demand? I thought I read there was only a couple hundred years supply, but maybe that was propaganda one way or another... I know it exists in seawater but is it easy to extract?
these are amazing.

also a lot a very cringe inducing. but no less amazing.
Managers complaining about "not enough x" mean "I'm not willing to pay the market rate for x". Like, its a free market, up your price... or do you think basic economics don't apply to labor too? I'm surprised this article doesn't examine why companies aren't upping their pay.
Yea but then you'd have to be interviewed like a software engineer

http://www.jasonbock.net/jb/News/Item/7c334037d1a9437d9fa650...
Over 20 years ago, as a teen, I went to St. Louis with my mom who was attending an art teachers' conference. I think the City Museum was almost ready to open to the public, and the conference arranged to let us all in one night.

The place is nuts. It's even nuttier with 600+ art teachers getting their minds blown all at once.

Fast forward to five years ago, when I went back, this time with my own kids. I tried to prepare my wife, but it's hard to convey in words just how much _everything_ there is. Of course they had added even more over the years.

We did a lot stuff in St. Louis during that trip, but the City Museum is the thing my family still talks about.
It has nothing to do with economics, nuclear energy is stagnant because the industry is a regulatory hell. From eia.gov:

Of the 104 operating nuclear power reactors in the United States:

The last construction permit for a nuclear power plant was issued in 1978 for Progress Energy Inc.'s Shearon Harris plant, near Raleigh, North Carolina.

The last operating license for a nuclear power plant was issued in 1996 to the Tennessee Valley Authority's Watts Bar Unit 1, near Spring City, Tennessee after initial construction began in 1973.
I’d probably haunt expired domains websites, buy one that looked promising, update it w new content, then try to sell it. And repeat until I either had real money or went broke.
My parents met when they were both working construction. My mom was a surveyor and a laborer at various times; she helped get my dad into the union (Philly) and he was a carpenter. My mom stopped it to raise me and my sibling; my dad did it until it entirely broke his body. (I would not be writing this as a college-educated adult if he hadn't had a union pension that kicked in on disability.)

I know precisely one person my age who's working construction and he knows he's got to get out before it does the same to him. If most of the people you know work office jobs you may not be familiar with just how routine and severe those "injuries" are that they mention. All the cultural factors are real too -- hoo BOY my mom has stories -- but you gotta look at this stuff through how physically destructive it is to the workers.

(I'm sure there's a health care angle too, of course -- so much of my parents' compensation went to those "Cadillac" health care plans that politicians don't understand the point of. It'd be interesting to compare Canada)
This is the theory, and yet in practice my experience is almost always the opposite: MPAs load and render quickly and are responsive during use, SPAs are slow to load and render and often chug substantially. Some of the better SPA manage to beat mediocre MPA implementations, but it's not super common. I don't know how it so frequently gets screwed up so badly, but it's a really consistent trend (and this is across fast desktops with a good internet connection to mobile devices with not-so-great signal). For example, hacker news is way, way more usable to me than new reddit (which actually renders my browser unusable on a high end machine after some use).
Perhaps you could elaborate on what you mean, but from my viewpoint there isn't much daylight between DB-queries in most server-rendered apps vs. SPAs.

Instead of this:

def endpointAB:
a = db.getA()
b = db.getB()
return template('ab.html', {a=a, b=b})

You tend to have this:

def endpointAB:
a = db.getA()
b = db.getB()
return json({a=a, b=b})

When I think of ways you may want to generalize over arbitrary queries on the server, I run into the same challenges you'd have in a SPA rather than fewer.
You are correct, but all investments have a maximum size at which returns will stop. That said, even large banks are seeing returns considered impossible in traditional markets with DeFi strategies, often with lower risk. Arb bots like mine are now generating more than $1 billion per year in risk-free earnings, so the pie is not exactly small. Estimates are that statistical arbitrage bots, which do take on some small capital risk, generated over $5 billion in profits last year.

I agree with you that throwing money at anyone who tells you they can take an unlimited investment and offer compounding returns on it is a recipe for disaster. But in DeFi, intelligence and strategy translate directly to greater yield. Math has proven time and again that those things matter very little in traditional markets.
I don't think the opposite of single-page app is multi-page app. The opposite is not an app at all, it is a "webpage". My viewpoint here: https://notan.app/
Nope. Not at all. For example, a friend of mine is working on an enterprise system used by a number of very large international companies. Every company demands slight variations to everything. From UI look/flow to how low level business logic is done. Flags are perfect for this. The key of course is to make sure that the flags are used correctly. By (for example) having a validation step at startup making sure the flags are configured correctly. Or (even better) using types to make it impossible to configure it incorrectly.
Still, for a computer programming to maim you, you really need to be creative.

Carpentry is by comparison easy to get maimed.
Yep, but with ever-more wheel reinvention.
Somewhere I saw a "considered harmful, considered harmful" article. Full meta.
You are ignoring that "a season" can be 6 episodes or 30.

Great shows are often 6-12 episodes for 5+years.

Most streaming shows have far shorter seasons than classic TV sitcoms/dramas/soaps.
My great-grandfather and uncle (retired) were carpenters. While carpentry is a great hobby they definitely preferred/liked my professional direction -- at some point lungs, legs, hands, and wood do not like each other.
Walk me through it.

Year 1, I own 10,000 shares at $0.1 each. I'm taxed 25% of $1000, or $250. Year 2, my super smart investment pays off and I own 10,000 shares at $100 each. I'm taxed 25% of an "income" of $999,000, or $249,750. Only, I don't have enough cash to cover the bill, so I sell about a quarter of my stock, leaving me with 7,500 shares. Year 3, the stock goes bust down to $0.2 per share. I write off a loss of $997,500? Does this mean I basically never pay taxes again?

So the end result is I paid a total tax bill of $250,000 on essentially nothing?

Furthermore, what if I decided not to sell my shares when they were worth $100 each and wanted to defer the tax bill. But now the price has crashed to $0.2, and I still owe a massive bill. Is that offset by my tax write-off?
Because nobody wants it in their backyard
For sooooo long the upgrade cycle was so short that you could live quite cheaply and comfortably by inserting yourself in the right place in the chain.

In college I’d upgrade every three to six months and sell the old system off to someone for a good percentage of the new hotness.
Party like it’s 1899.

(Whist is great btw.)
Motivation to start a subscription is irrelevant. It's what people spend their time watching that matters, and people are still watching "Bright" and "Coco" many years after release.
I'm a little surprised it cites carpenters make more than real estate agents. I'd assume a full time agent (not your neighbor who just happened to have a license) could make more than 50k a year.

If I recall, average home price now sells at 300k. A realtor keeping 2% after fees...buy/sell 10 houses and that's 60k.
> To me, the big misstep seems to be that Netflix invested too much in low-quality filler that shows up as "viewing hours"

Reflecting on that: I’ve started to reduce my consumption all together. Bought Blu-ray’s of one or two shows I was interested in and that have been around long enough to buy at a reasonable price for all season (though I won’t bother with that anymore after relocating to a different region).

But the biggest change: turning away from the TV in the evening hours. Back to educating myself or gaming.
Yes, but the (alleged) attack on the algorithm would have happened on blockchain, and would have been recorded as transactions in the blocks.

Ironically, some attacks on blockchains themselves (like 51% attacks) are actually harder to analyze, because part of the evidence lives in blocks that were deliberately orphined from the blockchain, and the p2p network doesn't have any incentive to share those blocks. I've analyzed such attacks and you actually have to examine the caches and logs of nodes that were running at the time to find evidence.
Why is this decoupling important to you? Do you use multiple front-ends or backends?
Queens Gambit was a miniseries adapted from a book. You need a LOT of those to compete with full multi-season series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_panic

I would have thought HN was above lurid, unsubstantiated satanic panic tales.

edit after reading the replies:

orange site is the worst subreddit.
> Just a 10% increase in production in the US alone would replace Ukraine's harvest.

Given the fertilizer shortage, the US is most likely to produce 10% less.
Selling real estate doesn't grind down your joints like construction
Yes, and now they've reached a dead since they have no way to render mermaid source code except as plain text or by introducing a new name like mermaid-src. It's minor but it's unsatisfying conceptually. I'd rather have them introduce a new "run delimited text into external program and replace by output" tag.
As a software engineer new to the data space, I am baffled by why people recommended great_expectations. It has a lot of questionable dependencies that inflate image sizes and lead to conflicts at scale. It is also a very ambitious project that fails to deliver on many fronts, including documentation and basic data quality checks. The complexity in writing your own checks is way too high. There’s a lot of very abstract concepts you have to understand before you can write a single line of code. If you think I’m wrong, stop now and go look at some of their code examples. You’re better of using python’s built-in unittest to run a query and then make assertions on the result as a task in your DAG
Even in 2000 computers weren’t required - the school had a computer lab you could use if needed, and it was only a few years before that they had begun requiring essays and papers to be printed from a computer.
I assume training follows with field repairs necessary to keep equipment running. With the miniaturization of tech, no one is going to be replacing chips or wires on boards, just swap the whole board with a spare.
DEVONthink (not DEVINagent) has been spectacular for me. I have many different documents related to many different projects/purposes, and it does the best out of anything I’ve tried for searching, categorizing, etc.

It has a learning curve. It also seems to be designed with a different mentality than many modern packages (not cloud-focused). I use perhaps 10% of it, and yet still find it with the $. It’s that good at what I use it for.
I think if Netflix changed it’s policy of just canceling series to giving them an ending, people would be less pissed.

The ending could just be a limited episode conclusion similar how to they ended sense8.
GOT wasn't milked. It outran the unfinished source materials and then the director/producers D&D "phoned it in" because they started working on Star Wars.

And seasons are so short that even the bad seasons weren't a lot of TV.
Number of homes sold keeps decreasing, and there is an extremely low barrier to entry for real estate agent.
That was the era of really expensive computers, but each upgrade really seemed to do something phenomenally new - color or resolution or printer or 3D etc.

Nowadays it’s hard to really notice the upgrades without running benchmarks.
What's interesting about this to me, is how many times he refers to the user wanting to go one way, namely private and uninterrupted, and him continuing to drag the user back into the public, data-mining open. He and the lot are creeps. These platforms pretend like they're social services first that mine usage to keep the lights on, when in fact they're data-mining services first, baiting users into engaging in a public forum so they have more data to mine. It's lame and super average, vanilla, capitalist bs.
I also got perma blocked by cloudflare (no option to override to get access, not even their captcha), because I dared to disable web timing APIs in Firefox at some point in the distant past. (I felt those have no legitimate uses, and I still do)

dom.enable_event_timing / dom.enable_performance_navigation_timing

I only figured what was wrong after a month of no access to gitlab and other websites.