skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Without doubt, the tallest mooring mast ever designed was the spire of the Empire State Building which was originally constructed to serve as a mooring mast, although soon after converted for use as a television and radio transmitter tower due to the discovered infeasibility of mooring an airship, for any length of time, to a very tall mast in the middle of an urban area.

The picture below has an airship getting flipped on its nose by a gust of wind while moored to a tower.

It seems to me that airships really need two mooring masts. One at the front and another at the back. Maybe the one at the back flips up to lock on once the one in front is secure?
Unless it's robbed by space aliens, that doesn't diminish the recoverable supply.
Tested it, seems to about double the speed (from 22.3mb/s to 47.6mb/s).
> It was then and there that I decided that being rich wasn't so much about having a lot of money as not having to worry about money.

This is really a crucial insight. My wife recently got a promotion which moved us to a higher COL area. I'm a programmer (but at a non-tech company), and since we were in a low COL area I never cared much about salary before. We didn't worry about money and it just didn't matter.

Now, we are making more money, but we have a massive mortgage weighing over us. I keep thinking that I need to find a job at market rates to pay off this debt. It's a constant source of stress and a huge hit on QOL.

So from personal experience, I can tell you, if you are in a position where you are never worried about money... don't rock the boat.
Bummer, I'm in my fifties now and used to love coffee but now I just don't really enjoy it that much. Mostly switched to tea, is there a study that tea is even better?
From memory, AliExpress wouldn't accept aliexpress@mydomain.com, but ali_express@mydomain.com was fine.
> There is no causal anchor.

While it’s closer to speculation than science, past discussion of health benefits from coffee focused on antioxidants. Coffee, green and black tea, and cocoa have relatively high antioxidant content[1], particularly after adjusting for quantity consumed.

I haven’t seen any breakdowns of how the average person ingests antioxidants, but it’s not like everyone eats 3 oz of blueberries a day :-) Beverages might be a major source.

Again, this is pretty close to speculation, but it’s not nothing.

[1]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11453788/ (a quick citation - IANA expert)
Oh gosh, how unnecessary.
> We are talking magnitudes of didference

There are no magnitudes. One person’s sorrow doesn’t diminish another’s.

> indians who have a 99 percent employment rate and some of the highest salaries

Ah, got it. Because some Indians do well none of them have any legitimate claims or qualms. Quite literally a racist surmisement, but at this point I should not be surprised.
My experience has been that, atleast from a software development perspective, building and launching a product takes much longer than you would initially think. And so to be ready for two or three times as long to get off the ground. Not sure how that applies to non software entrepreneurship
Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead has to take the cake even though I love Xonotic, Beyond All Reason/Spring engine games, Battle For Wesnoth and others.

Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead is the kind of community project that could never be the product of a traditional game company, the game is far too vast, intricate and inventive in every little corner of itself.
Brogue is great, but I personally found it extremely hard. I have to admit I'm not a huge gamer, but I did sink a couple dozen hours to Brogue with what felt like no improvement at all.

You see a Jelly in the second floor? You die. You see a Goblin? You die.
> a more powerful effect on your risk of all-cause death than any drug for most diseases

But these people were mostly healthy.

I'm sure that coffee doesn't work better compared to medicine if you are diseased,
So three answers there -

First, most tech companies provide -paid- paternity leave. Which was my point. The burden on most companies isn't the pay for that period of time, it's the loss of capacity.

Second, the companies that object to that loss of capacity often either misunderstand the nature of the work, or have built their teams without any slack and so have set themselves up for failure. In the former, the teams are fine with the person going out even though management doesn't like it; in the latter they aren't, which is why legally mandated parental leave is so important, since otherwise, as we've seen, a badly run company will make it so you can't take time off.

Third, parental leave tends not to affect multiple members of a team at once. PTO and UTO can. Having too open a policy can lead to half a team being gone for a month, in such a way context doesn't transfer well and actually costs the team a whole month, which will have a lot more effect on productivity than one person being gone for a a couple of months. Obviously you can still have a policy that allows people to do it, but it requires thoughtfulness on the part of someone to ensure it still works out. Again, pulling from example, the big pushback I had to having a person formally reduce their hours by 20% is "what happens if multiple people on the team ask for that?" and that's also why it's easier and less risky to the business to have the person take a day off every week, paid. It means that it can be more easily managed if others taking simultaneous time off is a problem, since pay isn't involved (i.e., you can ask the individual to return to 100% hours until everyone else is done with their vacation, say, and then return to 80%, without having their pay also having to seesaw, which is a *process*)
I wonder if it would make any sense to put out floating barges on the ocean with solar panels that use electrolysis to fill h2 containers like this.

I guess it probably wouldn't be very efficient...
Probably just using a console instead of a PC for gaming; AFAIK, Steam doesn't exist on consoles (other than the Steam Deck), and you still have to buy physical media (which for some reason seems to act more like a license dongle, since as the parent comment mentions, you still have to download the whole game).
> Also, there are no decent UI frameworks for Lisp

How about CLOG and cl-cffi-gtk?
> we know batteries are not charged from low carbon sources today

Have you got any grid-scale "green hydrogen" projects with a higher energy efficiency than existing grid-scale renewable energy projects (solar, wind)? Because unless you do, "green hydrogen" is dead on arrival in any market.

> can we stop shilling for green electricity?

No, because we already know how to make grid-scale low-carbon energy.

Show me grid-scale "green hydrogen" and I'll retract my criticism.
That's fantastic. I've never heard of that.
Veloren[1], a voxel RPG made in Rust and heavily inspired by Cube World

[1]: https://veloren.net/
We have a number of hydroelectric dams around the country, so it depends on where you are I guess.
Show HN: Svelvet – A component library for building interactive flow diagrams
Launch day is here! Our team is proud to present our open source product, Svelvet is a lightweight Svelte component library for building interactive node-based flow diagrams.

Easy install with a NPM or Yarn package!
Is there any well-documented configuration of Minetest that provides as much fun as Minecraft?
Dropping the incidence of malaria in a community is helping the community develop themselves. It's harder to improve your lot in life when your family is sick with malaria.

There is nothing you can teach for people to avoid malaria at night - mosquitos enter the house and bite you.

Importantly, consider the costs involved: $3 protects 2 people for 4 years. Can you think of a "teach them something" intervention that would provide as much good for the same amount of money?
> Just because the Israeli government is highly repressive towards the Palestinian population in the West Bank and Gaza, and treats non-Jews as second-class citizens within Israel proper, does not mean that all Jews around the world share this behavior.

This is a rather hilarious statement as almost no one believes that. You are committing the same fallacy that you repudiated.

Anyway inference is kind of predicated on guessing with some facts isn't it? If Israel is "the only democracy in the middle east", and they elected a government that is openly apartheid, and commits atrocities the jewish people themselves have been victim to, doesn't that make the whole of Israel's voters complicit?
PC Gaming Wiki on the subject: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/SimCity_2000#Installing_on...
Everything Everywhere All at Once: How Private Equity Rules Your World
How did notion make Evernote irrelevant?
ABBA and the rise of the work-from-home rock star
As someone who reads a lot of published research, no, that is a terrible rule and a lot of garbage gets published. Both historically and now there is no shortage of bad science that gets published, or good science that gets really misreported.
> I absolutely condone discrimination

Did you mean condemn?

condemn: express complete disapproval of

condone: approve or sanction (something), especially with reluctance
But did you see that they won the appeal?
Infra Arcana is an open-source Lovecraft roguelike absolutely dripping with atmosphere and I love it https://sites.google.com/site/infraarcana/home
> Would you kindly tell me the “real” name of Switzerland, a country with four official languages.

If you ask someone from Switzerland you will probably get 2-3 different words for the different languages they know. Being multilingual is the norm over there.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20180325-switzerlands-inv...

[1] https://italiana.esteri.it/italiana/en/language-education/bi...
That's a very good idea, probably also the easiest to implement since my set up is API driven.
Firefox removing terminology from browser that has been identified as derogatory
> When making the decision voluntarily, you trade years of life for better quality of life.

If you are well-informed about the decision. Most are not, and realistically will not understand the costs and benefits. That's why we don't let companies sell dangrous things freely.

> Which is a tradeoff many people would accept.

I'm not sure what that means. What tradeoff would many accept? It depends on the benefit and the cost. Of course people would take eliminating excruciating chronic back pain at the cost of losing a day of life, but they would not take eliminating hangnails at the cost of losing 10 years.

I'm sure you know that; my point is, what are you actually saying?
Sand is a fluid.

From wikipedia: "In physics, a fluid is a liquid, gas, or other material that continuously deforms (flows) under an applied shear stress, or external force"

Sawdust may be a fluid but wood is definitely not a fluid. And in any fluid, the particles are not in any meaningful way "aligned".
What you are describing with different grain sizes is similar to the behaviour of different density liquids like oil and water. They are still in no meaningful way aligned.

So unless you want to claim that a guitar is a fluid, even this interpretation does not apply.

What I am saying is precisely that "the fibers in the wood settle somewhat due to the vibration" is a bullshit claim spouted with utter confidence and lacking any king of evidence.

I am NOT claiming that instruments do not "break in".

I am asserting that this does not happen due to exposure to sound or music. I am asserting that if you do the experiment I describe, there will be no measurable difference beyond individual variation (that is why I proposed repeating the experiment on 2 * n instruments). And I assert that playing the instruments from the same experiment in a double blind listener test no one will be able to observe a difference between the 2 sets of instruments beyond just guessing.

I am claiming that this whole idea is the acoustic equivalent of audiophile grade ethernet cables.
Lol, nothin'. Serves me right for trying to engage with an Internet Lawyer
Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?
This has been asked previously here [1] but it has been over a year. The thread actually has suggestions to do this monthly to get insights into other industries but I guess that did not happen. Anyway I think it's been over a year and I think we should have a discussion about this.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13139638
If by "cloud component" you mean the server that receives and stores metrics and serves the dashboard, then yes.

If you mean the paid registry thing that they sell, which allows you to keep track of your installations of Netdata on multiple servers, then no.
I have an old model. I will look into it.
Thanks for the suggestion.
I got to thinking more about this. Many traditional roasters use robusta in their blends. Chicco d'Oro is a bit cagey about this, but some of their offerings are explicitly robusta blends[0], while others are pure arabica. My impression is that their coffees are arabica/robusta blends, unless they specifically say "arabica". I'm not sure about the particular product in the Amazon listing - it may be mis-labeled. I'd have to see the bag. As I recall, besides adding caffine, robusta improves espresso crema.

[0] https://chiccodoro.com/lang-en/?s=robusta
It isn’t enough to focus criticism against a specific individual or narrow group. You also have to consider whether the criticism is justified or echos specific stereotypes

For instance, there’s many who feel that some of the criticism against Barack Obama was racist. Not because it isn’t ok to criticize a US president but because prior presidents hadn’t been treated similarly/held to the same standard
Conveniently, there's a table of contents at the start that hints at the later topics:

Different kinds of numbers
Conversions and type inference
Generics and enums
Implementing traits
Return position
Dynamically-sized types
Storing stuff in structs
Lifetimes and ownership
Slices and arrays
Boxed trait objects
Reading type signatures
Closures
Async stuff
Async trait methods
The Connect trait from hyper
Higher-ranked trait bounds
Afterword

So 17 sections, 16 technical (excluding the Afterword) and only the first two focus on the int/float stuff. So to answer your question:

> Maybe, the int type thing is an intro to some other thing?

No, it's not an intro, it's just the first two sections.
You need to think of batteries/the electric network like an interface. We can eventually replace the electric backend with better and better sources over time without needing to change the cars, but gas will always be stuck being as polluting as it always has been. Retrofits for gas / diesel cars/trucks are few and far between.
One thing I haven't seen mentioned here is using it for notes. If you read them from your phone people are more likely to think of you as unprofessional, but an iPad will register as something else, like a clipboard. You could also print, so this is more of an "I have it, may as well use it" thing.
If the circumstances significantly changed in an unforeseen way since farmers were given water rights, many in 1800s, the State should be able to curtail those rights in the public interest. I do agree that there must be proportionality and due process, of course.
Discord is my favorite place to hang out with like minded people. The Svelte discord is awesome. My private discord has grown a lot with friends I’ve made over the years. My other interests like Blender/Music Production/AI all have great discord channels too.
I think this is something that might be starting to reverse a bit. Just going off of conversations I see online, I would imagine a decent number of players made a conscious effort not to consult guides in order to "spoil" the experience for themselves. Outer Wilds is an example of a fairly popular indie where people are very careful not to spoil or give away too much.
A penny saved is a penny earned, so I'd definitely consider water conservation measures if water prices went up 100%.
But that's just because C's automatic conversions are broken. C's automatic conversions are not the only possible design. Common Lisp (for example) has a vastly better design. But regardless, I don't see how a reasonable result of multiplying (say) 3.14 by 2 can be anything other than 6.28.
Note that there is a suspected link between anti-oxidants and cancer. The mechanism is pretty simple: oxidative stress is a warning system to the cell that initiates various repair mechanisms, up to apoptosis. Too much anti-oxidants suppress this warning system, thus allowing a damaged cell to go on.

One paper, there are many:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30674247/
Alternative interpretation: neither the coffee nor the caffeine is helpful.

Instead, coffee consumption is so pervasive that coffee drinkers are “normal” and many people that don’t consume coffee do so because it’s actually hurtful or uncomfortable … and that likely correlates to other weaknesses.

The same interpretation should be considered for all of those moderate drinking studies… I am quite certain nobody is getting a health benefit from alcohol.
If everyone is ignoring it then who is going to bother confirming it?
It seems like we should be able to make a solar cell light enough to cover the top of an airship and use electric power. Most solar aircraft don't make sense because there isn't enough surface area to get a minimum amount of power to keep the aircraft aloft. Airships don't have this problem. The issues are weight and expense and being limited to operating only during the day. Cloud cover isn't a huge issue, you can rise above it.
ms-msdt: URI protocol directly to a remote resource sharing program with authentication buffer overflow, what possibly could go wrong. At least trying to manually open this in Chrome asks "a website wants to open this application" with Cancel as default answer.
>> How do you know this to be true?

Goto LinkedIn and search for QA engineers in Indian cities. I think that should be a very good proof for you
I've seen posts like yours enough that I think there might be a market for Graphics Settings Simulator, where the entire game is just having a ludicrous number of settings to tweak and a small area to wander around and take screenshots of for posting on Reddit.
It should be ignored until sampling bias is found to be unlikely. Vague suspicions based on anecdotal experience with chronic illness forums are worthless.
Microsoft used to crow about this stuff a lot of with respect to O365. I remember getting a dirty look when I laughed at the rep.

Their services terminate TLS locally for most tiers of service (Even with the “Government Community Cloud”), so you need to be careful and use VPNs in any scenario where a foreign interest may be interested in what your employees are up to.
You say the run-of-the-mill MIDI controllers are not that - are there any MIDI controllers that try to do that? Is there any interest in that?
What are or should be the consequences of these worries of yours?
For my 40th, my wife rented out a theatre and paid them to project my favourite film (2001 A Space Odyssey). It was all done in secret. My wife dropped me off in front of the theatre to look for parking (we were going shopping, or so she said), and then I noticed that the theatre had 2001 posters up with MY FACE photoshopped onto the characters. Talk about triggering an identity crisis! When I walked into the theatre with her all my friends were sitting ready to watch the movie. I am tearing up now just reminiscing :)
The first thing that comes to mind is bargaining. I always claim I have a better choice elsewhere and that I need a discount to close the deal. So I was renting a flat in SF in 2010 and claimed I had a better offer elsewhere and got 5% off in order to take their flat instead.
Related, Washington Post previously published an anonymous open letter from Dalit women in 2020 in the wake of Cisco being sued for caste discrimination: https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/a-statement-on-caste-...

One of the most interesting things that stood out to me from this letter and that lawsuit was the assertion by those affected that discrimination on the basis of caste was more impactful and more severe than discrimination suffered due to immigration status, race, and gender in US society, and the letter goes so far as to state "We know that we thrive when we work under a non-Indian boss. Our work is seen and evaluated on merit, and we are integrated rather than being excluded."

It makes these discussions of castes even more important, especially as Indian immigration continues to rise and Indian culture begins to take precedence in the tech industry. Being a white American from the Midwest, I had no awareness of caste or caste discrimination when I began my career, but as I got more experienced began to learn about it and unfortunately I have personally witnessed some incidents in the workplace during my career. I wish that Google had allowed this talk to move forward, because I think ending workplace discrimination is a critical path to ensuring a merit-based free market open to all.
You're testing a very specific operation, a loop, in each language to determine its speed, not sure if I'd generalize that. I wonder what it'd look like if you replaced the loop with static print statements that were 1000s of characters long with line breaks, the sort of things that compiler optimizations do.
If we could all stop shilling for "Green Hydrogen" that would be great.

No, we cannot and should not, because that is part of a healthy discussion.
The IRA visited Boston every year to pass the hat during the troubles. Sinn Fein is still raising money in the USA.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/sinn-féin-raised-12...
Show HN: A riddle game to find the right spots in famous paintings
I hate to resort to cliche, but it's just so apropos here:

You are missing the forest for the trees. You know all the details but none of the big picture.

QE is increasing the money supply. Since you object to the pejorative "printing money" we can stop using that phrase. It's increasing the money supply.
I just want to point out that in the Qualcomm case, their patents were used in creating standards (CDMA-related I assume?).

From the article:

> When a standards group is developing a new wireless standard, it assembles a list of patents that are essential to implement the standard—these are known as standards essential patents. It then asks patent holders to promise to license those patents on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms. Patent holders usually agree to these terms because incorporating a patent into a standard enhances its value.

> But Qualcomm doesn't seem to be honoring its FRAND commitments. FRAND patents are supposed to be available on the same terms to anyone who wants to license them—either customers or competitors. But Qualcomm refuses to license its standards-essential patents to other chipmakers.

So Qualcomm has a monopoly on essential technologies to implement standards. If you "come up with your own solution", then you are no longer standards-compliant. That means these patents give them a non-negotiable monopoly on an entire industry.

> You wouldn't say copyright gives an artist a monopoly on any particular type of creativity

You wouldn't say that because that's factually incorrect. Copyright protects specific works, not ideas/concepts/styles/etc.
I'd make sure to validate the business idea while still on a paycheck. Burning your savings with no success is more and more painful as years go by. It was already painful at 33 for me :)
The onus is on the victims. Hmm, this sounds very familiar..