skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, there are a lot of moral gymnastics going on here.

Seems we don't really have a good understanding of what goes wrong
with paywalled links.

For me, as an author, I find myself in a ridiculous situation when I
want to share with friends works I've done for a site that uses
paywalls but doesn't pay me (yes this happens in the real world of
publishing). So I am ambivalent and often share a link along with
instructions on how to bypass access controls.

But more generally I am irritated by links other people share, such as
here on HN, that are paywalled. I'd rather not know about them than
experience the frustration and time-waste of following them.

So there is a contradiction/tension at the heart of digital
publishing, that creators, critics, researchers and commenters really
want exposure/reach more than they want (or get) money.

That said, paywalls are not the only problem and are more
understandable than sites that block Tor, use Cloudflare, Geo-block,
or those brain-dead ISPs or university sysadmins who block sites based
on broad keywords so that almost any kind of research is impossible
without tunnelling out past their crappy firewalls.
Same way the fact that someone needs an organ transplant doesn’t result in forcing anyone to donate said organ. Even if fetuses were people, it wouldn’t be a proper argument to force anyone to donate their uterus.
I would absolutely prefer smashing particles over smashing missiles.
> We have a lot more innovation and design exploration, it's just that the major categories have been explored heavily.

The RTS genre is a perfect counter-example because RTSes arguably peaked with Homeworld in 1999 and since then we have had nothing but sequels and re-treads of fundamentally the same concepts[1]. We went from a game that had fully three-dimensional battlefields and complex formations to, basically, rehashes of StarCraft/Warcraft with differing mixes of micro/macro. There have been a few[2] cool indie games, but the concepts they presented never gained traction in the mainstream.

With mobile gaming on the rise, the genre seems to be devolving to Clash Royale-likes.

[1] Honorable mentions for Company of Heroes (2006), which had a lot of cool ideas as well.

[2] http://www.achrongame.com/site/
I know this will be hard to swallow for a lot:
No polygamy is not stable and that is why it is outlawed in a lot of countries. Consider that men physiologically have a drive to produce wealth and "grow" to attract and sustain a family. (Nations I hear want that.)

What do you think throughout history the men that could not find a match did? They joined wars, became vagabonds, thieves, joined piracy or similar and went to forcefully acquire wealth and/or women (and rape). Needless to say a peaceful nation does not want that.
Men are going to fight the rejection tooth and nail (a trait evolved in a similar fashion).
> WWI prior, and the experience of being serfs prior to that

They may be quite old!
> >Except in some specific cases (Finland, other Arctic regions with long periods of low sunlight) I'm pretty sure this cost comparison comes down firmly on the side of wind/solar/storage. Storage is the main cost barrier for 100% renewable-powered grids, but this is also an area where technological development is possible.

> Why the progress is possible only for Solar and storage and in your opinion not possible for nuclear?

Nuclear had more than triple the amount of time and significantly more subsidies for showing this technological scaling.

> Nuclear could be cheaper if people would not be paranoid about it.

People were super enthusiastic about nuclear for the first 40 years. Even after Tschernobyl nuclear opponents were largely portrait as unrealistic hippies in most countries and policies were certainly driven by people very favourable to nuclear. Even Germany one of the most nuclear sceptic countries only decided after fukushima to stop nuclear.

What is the technological breakthrough that we already know about that would suddenly change the progress massively?

>What I think could happen is this new smaller reactors could be deployed in countries more rational, irrational countries will have to buy energy from the others.

What people tend to forget is that about 40-50% of a nuclear power plant is the same as any other thermal power plant. We generally don't build small coal plants either, the scales don't work well.

The reason why wind and solar have very different scaling is because their principle of electricity generation is very different.

If you have two stocks one in exponential just starting and the other being slowly growing linearly for a long time, which one would you invest in? In particular if indications are that both stocks will continue on the same curves. That's the situation we have with nuclear vs renewables.
Does the snap store server process still still use 300+ MB of memory? That alone would seem to disqualify it for IOT or other embedded use cases.
And what, pray tell, would we be using for storage instead? Surely you're not going to suggest some untested and unproven storage mechanism like hydrogen storage, ammonia, thermal batteries, etc. Those technologies have never been built at anything remotely close to grid-scale, and thus we have no idea what they'd actually cost when we attempt to build them at grid scale.

Batteries and hyrodelectric storage are the only energy storage mechanisms for which we have any meaningful cost history.
>Nobody is going to shell out $15k-20k to build a solution.

Well that's not true, if the solution is a success 20k is not much....problem is it rarely is with canonical.
Sounds like a good idea if you want to launder money.

Anyway, I don't think that's legal anywhere in Europe.
Show HN: CSV to/fm Sqlite3 via JSON
My grandparents had 2 and 4 children respectively in communist Poland in the fifties in sixties, while living in what nowadays would be classified as abject poverty (e.g. a 6-person family living in 400 sq ft flat). Being very, very poor and having to work 6 days a week didn't stop them from starting families. It's all about what you value in live and for them children were top priority, so they made it happen, even though they came with huge sacrifices.

Obviously, people in our times just don't care about having children that strongly, so even mild (in comparison) sacrifices required are enough to make them go childless.
It's still a bit of a derogatory term, and it doesn't entirely match up to history. Text adventure games, point & click adventure games and so on were very similar in gameplay mechanics to many games that get this moniker.

Many of them do incorporate enough puzzle elements that the game consists of more than just taping down the up arrow. Often, the term feels like it attempts to reduce the term "game" to something more narrow than what the art form does and has encompassed, historically. Not all games require mechanical skill. Not all games are what you expect them to be. Etc.
I'm not familiar with postgres or cloud architectures and I have a few dumb questions. Is the pageserver act as a page cache for s3? Does the postgres compute also have an internal cache? If so, this looks like multiple levels of memory cache connected by networks.
Wealthsimple to layoff 13% of staff amid ‘market volatility’
Researchers trace back origin of black death pandemic to 1338
Thanks for the nitpick, you are right, but given the state of photogrammetry today I wouldn't be surprised if just a few pictures would be enough to give you an accurate representation.
Didn't the author say that he's writing to push an agenda? Anyway, it is a fantastic blog.
We've been there for years.
Judging by the current situation, it seems that there are more resources for building tanks than there are for building anti-tank weapons. Once the anti-tank weapon stocks have been depleted, tanks still play a devastating role in warfare.

EDIT: I'm just relaying what I read in several articles about the difficulties in making anti-tank weapons because they rely on rare-earth minerals and because they rely on silicon chips, which are in short supply worldwide. Here's one of the articles I read: https://news.clearancejobs.com/2022/04/26/managing-the-dod-s...
Yeah, but it's not _that_ useful to me if only giant mega-corps implement it. I want to buy stuff from Zooz and Inovelli, et all.
What exactly is her job at the treasury? I think it was supposed to be properly funding the government with treasury note sales, but clearly that’s a non-issue with the unlimited Fed balance sheet. It seems to be what every leader of bureaucracy does: expand the power of their agency into every possible new domain using policies backed by threat of de facto power rather than law. She makes verbal policy guidance about inequality, social justice, climate change, sanctions, war, sexuality, gender, and whatever else, all backed up by the unlimited and unchecked power of selective tax and AML interpretation and enforcement.

We tried to build a nation of laws, but that became too complex. Now we’re back to power and personalities. Maybe that’s for the best; I don’t know. I’ve lost track of exactly what our society is supposed to be optimizing for.
Renewables' capacity factor is much greater than 10%, in practice. If you need falsehoods to make your case, you have no case.
Submitted a couple of hours ago:

Internet Explorer 11 has retired and is officially out of support (windows.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31753475

Submitted by alexobenauer | 1 hour ago | 257 points | 136 comments
You can just say you don't want to pay for it and would rather steal. No need to try to find some moral justification for it.
That's for you to assess based on your risk profile. My answer is at the moment it's not worth it
Infantry can more effectively hide, disperse, and bring down aerial drones.
At least from the conversations I've heard about this topic, the issue isn't acknowledging that slavery and Jim Crow has caused problems for generations of blacks. The problem comes when measures to address it are discussed, like reparations or quotas. People see it as monumentally unfair because, while being black is a handicap, it's only one of many that are too endless to enumerate. For example, there is no affirmative action for poor whites who grow up in broken homes. There is no affirmative action for simply having parents who are a standard deviation below the population in IQ. Insofar as student spots at high-tier institutions go, here poor whites see favorable action to benefit blacks when they themselves never played a part in their oppression. Black, well-spoken immigrants from Nigeria who never experience discrimination in their home countries get benefits merely by dint of their skin color, and not actual suffering.

Even if you limited it to some way to only US blacks who could prove lineage to an actual enslaved individual, suffering is difficult, if not impossible, to quantify. So... why action on this topic is politically impossible. I think color-blind welfare policies based on economic resources would be much more feasible, but... good luck raising taxes to increase the size of the welfare state.
GP refers to "last decades" but that source is from 2011 with data ending at 2009. Do you have data for the last decade?
Na snapd need's just about 220, so perfect for a 1G raspi, if it's the only thing you want to run on.
Ask HN: How often do you pair program?
The logging utilities are just a frontend to a bunch of supported logging/tracing providers, many but not all of which accept plain text. So yes, it was technically a separate system (Honeycomb) doing the rejection, but one that was blessed by the vendor. And the only debugging facility I had available, which was duplicating the payload to stdout and tailing that, masked the issue because stdout is an actual stream.

And to be clear, the system would be broken for the plaintext providers too, just more obviously broken as you'd presumably have a bunch of JSON tokens (or segments of a format string or whatever) show up as individual log lines.
There are legislations and use cases where contractors themselves are responsible for reporting their taxes.
Internet Explorer 11 has retired and is officially out of support (windows.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31753475

Submitted by alexobenauer | 1 hour ago | 257 points | 136 comments
I think its because influential companies in the tech space pushed them. For instance, Go is backed by Google, and they made alot of rounds evangelizing Go.

Kotlin is a Jetbrains project and it certainly didn't hurt that Google made Kotlin the preferred language over Java for development on Android, and that Kotlin itself has great Java ecosystem compatibility.

For years, Rust was Mozilla's baby, and they did a lot of good work evangelizing Rust for its use case, and other companies adopted it as well, continuing the cycle.

There is nothing I can think of that is comparable for F#, OCaml, Haskell and many other fine languages
> Doctors say they are the only profession that saves lives...

Yeah. Because rescue workers, fire fighters, EMT's, nurses, etc., etc. don't count. (As if the ways in which America's medical establishment treats those people didn't make that obvious enough. And the alpha sociopath in the room always deserves 100% of the credit for anything good happening...right?)

My impression is that other countries (ones not poisoned by the AMA) don't have this particular problem nearly so much.
The uncertainty over whether something is a date is a common trope in media.
A lot of money is being invested in anti-drone tech.
model.energy assumes a flat, constant energy demand.

Which isn't a ridiculous assumption, given their caveats and default options, unless you're trying to argue for 100% nuclear, in which case it renders any conclusion totally nonsensical.
> I'm afraid to make investments fearing that the market could crash the second I enter it, and erase my money, leaving me vulnerable to being homeless or dependent on doing shitty jobs I hate just to stay afloat, so I just hoard cash like an idiot as that makes me feels safe and lets me sleep well at night.

Blended funds! You can choose what % of your money is invested at various risk levels. Choose a fund that puts only a fraction of your money in stocks, money markets, CDs, etc., and finally cash.
Fermat.ws – Programmable Hypermedia
Hey! Good question. I wish I could give you a better answer but the truth is I don't know (yet). That's one of the reasons I built this. I want to learn how organizations deal with things like that, and share that knowledge so we can create best practices. I promise that soon as I know the answer, I'll circle back!
How Price Stability in Formative Years Incites Consumption for Life
I worked at a fast food place where our power went out. They forced us to keep ... open and selling anyway. The 240v was out so no grill, but 120 outlets worked so we could make coffee/tea. That was about it. Cash registers didn't work. I was writing everything by hand, calculating tax, etc, keeping records.

2 hrs later, the regional manager - WHO HAD TOLD US IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS THAT WE HAD TO REMAIN OPEN DESPITE NOT HAVING POWER - came in and chastised me for 1) not wearing the full uniform (we had no AC and it was July, so I took off the tie) and 2) handling money without a register. "You can't guarantee your numbers are right - that's what computers are for". "But... they're down, and you said to stay open and keep selling". "That doesn't change the fact that you might be making mistakes!"

Insanity.
Installation Step 1: An Ubuntu SSO account is required to create the first user on an Ubuntu Core installation.

Yeah... no.
Look for balenaOS (http://balena.io) if you want an alternative IoT solution. We looked into ubuntu core, which seems like an overkill in complexity. With balena you can get started immetiately with all the tools you already know, like docker etc and have a solution that works...
> no one just rolls unsupported tanks into a city they are expecting to have to fight for

An example counterpoint is the Iraq war "Thunder Runs." Of course the US had air superiority, etc, etc. However, sometimes the resistance level cannot be known in ways other than getting out there and seeing if your unit draws fire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Baghdad_(2003)#Thund...
I assumed 3 events in the next 80 years.

There's been 25 years between Chernobyl and Fukushima, and assuming we build new reactor, there is no reason to imagine it would happen more frequently. Why do you think there could be a catastrophe per year ?
And as has been explained to you numerous times, intermittency is an incredibly difficult problem and cannot be solved without some miraculous storage mechanism that makes energy storage effectively free. It's so trivial to solve, yet you neglect to mention the solution.

As per your previous comments, you assume that hydrogen, compressed air, or some other form of energy storage will be this silver bullet. This is a very risky assumption. We have no cost history for these systems being built at scale. There's a massive difference between writing a white-paper promising a super cheap storage cost, and actually building an energy storage facility and looking at the bill.
> None of which affected the usual big distros.

I guess we can argue about "big" but didn't both Arch (https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2018-July/...) and Gentoo (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Infrastructure/Incident... and older, https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323691) have actual compromised packages? And also not five years ago, but Fedora (https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-Janu...) and Debian (https://www.debian.org/News/2003/20031202) had compromises but no known package changes.
No, but largely that's not what they use dating apps for. Women have no issues getting dates in other ways.
Cortex M* lack MMU, which is necessary for any normal linux distro. Cortex M0 and M4 are just beefy microcontrollers.
> building with and on top of market-tested, existing technologies.

I think yes?
I had forgotten about those days. The VS debugger slowed down my computer so much though that I often just used alert anyway. Firebug was a huge improvement.
Administration. They've absorbed a big chunk of the academia's money. A simple law could fix it: expenses on admins can't exceed 5% of the budget, the chief admin's pay can't exceed 75%-tile of postdocs pay. Admins will scream, they will break walls and tables in fury, and they will quit, but it won't be a big loss for academia.
%2E Trick (2001)
Yes. The issue is that compute doesn’t have enough of the cache AND you need to have a scratch space to update pages. You could theoretically do it on the compute too and this would be a valid design. A bit harder to work with read replicas.
> it was part of a tradition
What the poster is saying is that cryptocurrency is relevant to them, not that they are "relevant" to the world economy, whatever that means.
> Or as someone I know likes to say to various smaller humans: have you looked around the couch? Really? Are you sure? Have you had a good look? this is how the tv remote usually subsequently reappears as there is a difference between just looking and having a good look.

Dealing with larger humans in a social setting - the only method I've found that works for finding the remote is addressing one of them on the couch and saying "The remote is UNDER YOU!"

Then they *actually look*.
The US ones, anyway, will be cancelled. Each dollar poured down the rathole first, diverted from renewable build-out, brings climate catastrophe nearer. That has thus far not stoped the pouring.
Can confirm this. Middle class here. Have a relationship with someone well-off. I view it as cultural differences that we need to overcome. In our case we did. The only "downside" is that it takes a very consistent form of energy. I'm constantly thinking "if I'd be as rich as she is, how would I deal with the situation?" I can imagine it to some extent due to how I play poker and seeing parallels with my stack size versus my financial situation. Long story short: when I feel I don't have enough, I get very tight on my spending. When I feel I have enough, I get loose and lax. As one might imagine, I wasn't a very good poker player because of that ;-)
I think this is probably the way most are going about it right now. Though it is one of the questions I'm most eager to get an answer for. And I have been reaching out :)
Rainbolt is a pro Google Maps player
You could say it the other way around - once the tank stocks are depleted, anti-tank weapons can still play a devastating role (against other armored or unarmored vehicles).
it was a joke, anyway
The Spaces Model: The Framework for Defining Your Community’s Business Value
Not to mention nuclear proliferation and risks of terrorism or social unrest...
I would also chip in along the same lines as the other comments here and strongly advise against using Ubuntu Core in any application. It's a tempting idea when you first look at it, but in practice it is seriously difficult to build an application with, comes with a lot of constraints, and requires you forking over repeated large sums of money to Canonical with no way out.

We had a much better experience with https://www.balena.io – quite a different service, but achieves a sweet-spot combination of having an open core with good management tooling that I'm more than happy to pay for.
They're slick but not terribly accurate. For example, the top-attack angle for the Javelin is depicted as far more vertical than it actually is. It's actually only about 50 degrees, which means it doesn't perform as much better than the NLAW as the specs would suggest thanks to the NLAW's 90 degree top attack.
Hardly. As someone local to this conflict I see it as a simple matter of Russia needing a war (or just something internally recognized as a "success") from time to time for whatever internal reason du jour. Wouldn't even be the first time it happened in history.
Show HN: Slack app to manage messages overload
Many of us wake up to dozens of messages on Slack, feeling overwhelmed when we start our days.

My friends and I worked on a side project to help people manage this daily Slack struggle.

You can use Rewind (Slack app) to tag any message in your Slack workspace and find it easily later. Think of it like Slack’s saved items, but better.

You can use Rewind to tag a message as ‘todo’, ‘readlater’, ‘feature-research’, ‘togetback’, pretty much anything you would like. The app is great if you have a lot going on in your Slack.

I think many of us moved from Gmail to Slack and find it really hard to manage all the incoming messages, so I'm hoping Rewind will be useful for a lot of people.

Check it out here: https://www.rewindapp.io/
I'm interacting with you now. Are we on a date?

Dating is a ritual interaction, it's not just term for any interaction. A tell that it is new is that the name is meaningless; it's just a term for an appointment that got wrapped up in a bunch of connotations that became denotations. Also see "go out" or "go with."