skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The loan was paid back early and did exactly what it was supposed to do (incentivize alternative energy company creation). I think they may have even paid an early payment penalty to be done with it? So it wasn't a bailout at all.

SpaceX doesn't get those contracts for nothing - they're the first to commercialize reusable rockets in a serious way and have massively reduced costs as a result.

All of this stuff was explicitly laid out by Musk (despite massive knee-jerk criticism which continues despite the proved success) and his companies were able to execute on it.

It's not luck to do this repeatedly in multiple extremely challenging verticals (at the same time) successfully.
The NYT cut me off when the old card got declined, so if they had sent it to a collection agency, I would have disputed it.
Putting servers in Canada is a good idea but Vancouver is in the same seismic zone as San Francisco.
Jets [and turboprops] don’t use leaded fuel. Many of the small, piston-engined airplanes do, but because current FAA regulation forces them to, not because of a lack of regulation.
If only you were held accountable for intellectual property theft.

Oh, you were just "credibly accused" of IP theft.

It doesn't matter if we can't prove it.

You should be pre-emptively fired!

Welcome to the woke cancer socialist hell hole.
You need to buy 10,000 hours of self improvement tapes to get to L7. Only the most enlightened have achieved it
I have half glass of milk with kefir cultures, only, and I keep in the fridge. I use it also ad sauce, because the cultures get big and it gets concentrated and strong.
No idea what problems you encountered, but I find Gnome to be a joy to use. It was such a relief after years on Windows. Gnome Boxes is such a smooth experience compared to VirtualBox. Maximizing content area by putting UI elements in the title bar is also something I appreciate.
Airbnb 30 Hosts under 30 class of 2022
- 6: Taking an iodine supplement initially, a few times per week until the bottle was gone

Iodine related to hypothyroidism?
Try to support your local news service first if possible.
What are your actual principles there? Does it also apply to freedom to be openly gay? Walk in your pride parades but get fired from your job as a consequence? I don't think you're using any general principles, just picking argument salad to fit your belief.
It means there is no physical way just with Starship to get even a million colonists there. And, a million colonists is nowhere near self-sufficient anyway.
I think you’re wrong, this UK government is scarily authoritarian and vindictive towards anyone who crosses them (see bullying of the BBC and the sale of Channel 4 as just two examples).

Why do the commenters here don’t think they want to be able to control and bully opponents on the Internet too?
Came to endorse Tangle. I’m a huge fan of what is being built there.
> A bold claim, perhaps they have done it but I have my doubts that such a large efficiency gain is left in aeronautical engineering.

It is a laminar flow design. It's been known for a long time that you can push drag down a lot below the state of the art in commerical aviation that way, and it's been used in a lot of gliders, but it doesn't come for free.

Most importantly: The shape of the aircraft is almost entirely determined by physics, not your wishes, which typically makes it quite inconvenient to build and use. Maintaining the high performance depends on keeping the skin of the aircraft very clean and smooth -- even collecting a few too many bugs can cause a lot of problems.
Don't tell me what I can't do!

HVDC transmission losses are only around 3.5% per 1000km.

So you could get around 80% of the energy you produce in Mali to Norway. Doesn't seem so bad.
Storage is definitely the major challenge but it is being addressed by becoming efficient in getting the energy to the wherever that needs it as soon as it's generated.

My hometown just invested in doing this, they're building a decentralized power grid where people can generate or consume solar energy.

I'm convinced at this point that wind and solar are actually completely ready for mainstream adoption but we're so used to saying "in a few decades" that we don't realize it's ready now.
But Twitter isn't a town square either. It's a private company. No one is guaranteed an audience.
Writers should use the singular “they” in two main cases: (a) when referring to a generic person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant to the context and (b) when referring to a specific, known person who uses “they” as their pronoun.
– apastyle.apa.org

I do not know the gender of the person under discussion, nor do I know if that person has pronoun preferences. I simply followed the "generic person whose gender is unknown" standard.

I've been using "they" in this manner for 50+ years. Never had anyone comment on it before. Are you attempting some kind of meta virtue signalling, considering "pronoun preferences" is a very recently added option?
Being able to say whatever you want does not remove the court of public opinion, there are always consequences
I think your data is a little old. The undernourished, defined as fewer than 1800 calories per day, has steadily declined from 2000 until 2019, and then risen very slightly as a result of Covid. There's about 660 million that meet this threshold. Global malnutrition really has gotten significantly better over the past few decades. https://ourworldindata.org/hunger-and-undernourishment
Thanks for the heads up. It’s fixed now.
New Yorker is kind of expensive, but a new issue every week with usually a very interesting and long 10-12 page in depth article is great. I look forward to a new issue arriving in my mailbox every week.

The Washington Post is only $5/month if you're an Amazon Prime member.
I was thinking Manchester or similar because Boston would be too expensive to land at, but still serves the general area -- that's Ryanair's M.O.
> The earliest ISPs were exactly that: attempts to welcome and help people to join the internet.

As a (mostly former) member of some old communities: it were just the same in the all cases, a small group of visionaries (or just a bunch of folks high on enthusiasm) which are slowly deluted by innate bureucrats and the grind of describing the same things over and over to the people who can't see the bright red "FAQ: NEWCOMERS PLEASE READ!" right in their faces.
Yes, I agree. That would give it the sense of time as opposed to having it just feel like a toggle.
Yes, actually, you're right, at the same time my comment is upvoted pretty well and yours is greyed, which pretty much sums up HN in [current year].
First, do the mother of all grandfathers. Start with a very big list of allowed things, so that every product currently on the shelves can be sold without any issue. And then plan to both add and remove things as time goes on.
Hey! Once again, appreciate your support!
The canvas resizing will take some thinking. Btw, if you cropped the image too small and the text doesn't fit, you should be able to reset the crop in menu Edit → Reset Crop. I know it's quite manual, but maybe it'll help.
someone uploaded the list without duplicates here https://mega.nz/file/wNsRFIBC#jXOrEsIXUwespGbjKrh1fX4OIq436I...
it's ~ 680Mb
Those examples are mistakes the test makers made. It doesn’t make the test “inconsistent”.
Well people certainly thought so at the time. Personally I don't believe the rationalization given for modern slavery either, but apparently you do so it's a "justified" slavery.
Or, maybe, and hear me out; you just don't like what he has to say, which in the real world, means absolutely nothing to 99.999% of the planet.
I'm not sure what you're saying, but GP was arguing that an increase in wages for manufacturing iPhone would eat at apples profit margins, not add to the products final price.
I like bloomberg. Good signal to noise ratio. They generally only cover topics which move money markets, and thus have a real impact on me. Its not cheap but aside from HN thats my only source of news for a better part of a decade.
https://mega.nz/file/wNsRFIBC#jXOrEsIXUwespGbjKrh1fX4OIq436I...
>New technologies should be approached using a precautionary principle.

But what happens in reality is:

When we apply the precautionary principle, it's because technology is dangerous and The Responsible Thing to Do is to be careful. When our opponents apply the precautionary principle, they're luddites who hate change and just want an excuse to drag their feet. Here are some examples to illustrate that effect

* nuclear power

* vaccines

* self-driving cars/AI

* gmo
What our culture does. With the intense thinking and the making of many machines. It's a great way to control our environment but it's also an incredibly narrow approach to being in the world, relatively speaking. A very special speck within a vast smear of possibilities.

We're like intellectual insects. All specialized mandibles and cilia for manipulating a special kind of waxy hivebuilding secretion. And that's our universe. But it isn't really the universe.

So yeah, it's quite plausible that an alien would not share our fetish for intellection and machinery. No lasers. No robots.

Something completely different.
In other news, they are fired.
Thank you for this - an example of the config made it all so much clearer - I would recommended the author steal some of that post for their README

To over-simplify, vale runs hundreds of pre-built regexes that suggest changes to over-used phrases, likely function names etc etc. Google etc have pre-built fairly good defaults I suspect.

(To be fair this is trying to get consistency across huge document bases, and will never replace a human's authentic voice for communication. But sometimes you just want to make sure there are the same number of blueberries in each muffin)

Ok - my mission after next - get something like this brought in at work
By that logic, slavery in the US was a-ok if/because it was supported by the majority. That is why rights not subject to majority exist and should exist.
https://www.trinitydesktop.org/ is an example of the community maintaining a continuation of KDE 3.
this without considering they're actively trying to kill the anonymity of crypto by funding chainanalysis and other shit like that
It's not like asking to leave pickles off your burger. I'm kind of amazed that anybody would make this request and think it reasonable but shoot your shot I guess.
Hi! I was very particular about keeping Shottr lightweight, appreciate that you noticed : ) But you're right, if you need video recording, it's not what Shottr can help with.
Do we have a list of companies who's products are made from American slave labor?
What I don't understand is why it took so long.

That bundling file chooser with a GUI framework is a bad idea should be obvious since well, ... Java Swing?.

And a easy to use system interface for a file chooser isn't hard to make, could have been (preferable) a binary you call and communicate with pipes with or similar or could have been something else (e.g. shared object).

It's kinda sad that the various Linux communities where so focused on their GUI framework being the best that it didn't happen until it was technically needed (for sandboxing) ...

EDIT just to be clear 95+% of applications could use a cmd with Linux style arguments which once done emits the selected file(s) to stdout, but there are a minority of advanced use-cases which require a bit of two way communication. Through most of them are bad ideas anyway, so maybe that could have been ignored.
When those materials were the standard we also didn't have a lot of the medical and technological equipment today that arguably reduced both mortality and morbidity across large swaths of a much, much larger population. Plastics are used widely in electronics and all of the accompanying tech improvements too it isn't just simple as packaging, so it isn't a "solved problem" if you want to go back to those materials and replace everything plastic has become standard for in today's technologies.
Perhaps unrelated..

Is theinformation.com really worth it for $33/month?

They seem to publish tech stories which do not appear anywhere else.
The difficulty in configuring a high dpi mouse without acceleration is maddening.

defaults write -g com.apple.mouse.scaling -1

doesn't seem to be cutting it for me anymore.
If you can afford the house you are buying and like the house then it's worth it. If rates drop in 6 months you can always refinance, if prices fall you still have a house.
First point, as far as I'm aware that phrasing has no relation to HN etiquette, and even if it does and you chose to interpret it in that worst possible sense, that doesn't give you the right to do it too

Second point, do I assume that? I cannot see how you've read that from what I've said. I'm a dyed in the wool labour voter, and last I checked the Tories were down by about 15% in the polls.

The rest is opinion that I disagree with. I'm not here to change your mind. It's fine to be emotional and shouty and take the worst possible view of everything, but I'm completely unconvinced by it, especially when you challenge me to prove a negative
Your 2 billion number is incorrect. It was 500 million until 2020 and then slightly rose given the pandemic. That number has been dropping precipitously for decades.
Yet GNOME is the most polished Linux Desktop Environment.
Steve Jobs demo of NeXT's interface builder and enterprise object framework.

The IB demo has him building an interface without touching code. He goes on to demo a simple app without code. This was in 1989, I'm still waiting for Linux to get close to that.

The EOF demo has him building a CRUD app with queries and joins from IB. Again in 1990. Imagine the original rails tutorial but 15 years earlier. Still waiting on this one too.
For the record, being on the other side, and working hard to CREATE these experiences that customers love is absolutely addictive and intoxicating.

You have to actually give a shit about it though. Which most of us do. It requires effort and grit to have this level of "customer obsession", and to be fair, I would say we are mostly well compensated for it.

But it's not for everyone. Plenty of SDEs, including in this market just want to punch in and punch out, and not meaningfully move the bar forward. That's probably OK.

It's not good enough for me. My work is 1/3 of my life, 1/2 of my waking life. That better be fucking meaningful and significant.

You'd be surprised, you might enjoy working here too.
Thank you for complimenting the above insightful comment! :)
In what world is a $150k out of college starting salary low?
Wouldn't competition for those things be lower, if there are fewer people?
Sin tax is fascism. I don't need you squeezing me because you THINK you know what's best for me.

It is a slippery slope.

What's next?

No more cup cakes because sugar gives you diabetes?

How about no more hip hop music because it largely celebrates violence and influences kids to join violent gangs?

No more cars because AOC might whine with another 24 tweet wall of bar-stool wisdom?
Your 2 billion number is incorrect. It was 500 million until 2020 and then slightly rose given the pandemic. That number has been dropping precipitously for decades. At this rate (ignoring 2021), there should be almost no malnutrition by 2030.
The issues with this were always:

* size of wheels you can upload is constrained by PyPi

* difficult to support multiple versions across multiple operating systems, unless you provide a source distribution, which is then…

* Still a nightmare on Windows
If you have a use for the heat generated (like heating a home or business) then running a miner means getting free heat, even if the cryptocoin generated does not pay for the electricity. Current cryptominers are generally too noisy for home heating though (although GPU's might be quieter).
Or Lunar if you want more automated adaptive brightness than what MonitorControl offers: https://lunar.fyi
The operating systems that get fatter and slower every year?
Abstractly, in the sense that "freedom from speech is not freedom from consequences", I don't think they're fundamentally different. If you're a free speech absolutist, then the nature of the relationship shouldn't matter. They're both just private organizations making choices about how they voluntarily associate with others.

Most people aren't free speech absolutists, though, and I agree that they'd think there's a fundamental difference between employer-employee relationships and user-provider relationships as a whole. But it should be significantly harder for an employer to fire an employee than for a service provider to ban a user.
Yes, it is.

While I agree that databases could absolutely be improved to make streaming query results as described better, that isn't a limiting factor here IMO.
I'd tackle that problem by batching my queries to the database into some logical batch size and send them as table valued parameters. If I had 10k phone numbers to check and minimum latency matters, why not batch into queries of 500-1000 values per-query? That cuts down time to first response, while reducing the network roundtrips.

The issue with taking this out of the database, is you lose consistency. I don't know about your industry, but I don't think mine would be terribly happy if I was using stale data to validate my Do Not Call/Email list. Now there are some situations where you can just update your list of numbers nightly/weekly/monthly, etc. If you don't need any concurrency or other guarentees, might as well save the time/resources on your DB server.

That's just not the world I have worked in.
The Espionage Acts [1] are criminal offenses so Assange doesn't have to testify.

Unlike actual defense employees (Snowden), Assange didn't make any agreements to protect classified information so it's just effectively a SLAPP [2] lawsuit. Imagine you were a comedian (John Oliver) and made fun of China's president (Winnie the Pooh) and then China asked for you to be extradited; I think you'd expect the US to tell China to pound sand.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage_Act_of_1917
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_publ...
The problem is these people think they have a right to work at a company.
Use keyboard arrow keys (left/right/up/down) and hover the mouse over the screen.
> Are all your offerings just OK or even mediocre compared to the competition?

This was Microsoft’s strategy way-back-when. You can go surprisingly far, especially in enterprise, by covering all the basics without excelling at anything in particular, and fixing your mistakes.

Avoiding fatal flaws is really really important and is extremely difficult to do, so just managing to be mediocre at everything necessary is actually quite uncommon in my experience.

I have seen this particularly in my limited experience of founders and startups: you may need to be great at one thing, but you also need to be OK at many many things, and you must avoid the infinite sea of fatal flaws.
Totally, but why do a MAX(Walmart) > MIN(Amazon) comparison to bolster that point at all? Why not exclude the comparison, since it doesn't really communicate what the actual wage options are for prospective new warehouse workers or experienced workers.
How? How can you loose money offering a trading platform where you charge fees unless people stop trading? Is the email/phone support required so costly that they need to hire all these people?

To me it seems they took in more and more money from investors who want to make a quick buck seeing this company's profits double every year. At some point you have to ask yourself if you are growing recklessly und unsustainably.
Oh man - catnip! Thank you
This is an interesting, blunt, perspective. Thanks!
How does the recent decision by the ETH devs to delay a significant change to the difficulty algorithm factory in? This 'difficulty bomb' would have made mining significantly less profitable.

https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cryptocurrency/22/06/276653...
nim is good for cli programs and backend, if you're enough experienced also websites frontend(js target, libraries like karax etc...)
"Complacent and disgruntled" is the problem Bezos was trying to solve. "Replaceable" is the circumstance that he leveraged to produce his solution: hire a continual stream of fresh non-complacent non-disgruntled people and fire them before they have a change to become complacent and disgruntled.

Creating a work environment where long-term workers become happy and productive rather than complacent and disgruntled, i.e. the kind of work environment that their current PR campaign portrays, apparently never entered into his thinking. Which makes it hard for me to sympathize that Amazon is now running out of fresh non-complacent non-disgruntled people to feed their process and has to resort to PR campaigns in order to attract fresh victims.
The NY Times. I get annoyed with their obviously feminist agenda in some articles but I just skip those. Their methodology is stellar though and the articles are well researched and in-depth.
The problem is you can't practically do that for many compounds either because of ethical reasons or because it would take far too long and would in the mean time impede progress significantly.

Take plastics for example, they're as acutely non-toxic as you can get you're not having any readily measurable adverse health outcomes from handling it, touching it, and even consuming foods directly in contact with it. And yet there are still things we would have missed even if we adopted this whitelisting approach. We would have never captured the problem of microplastics that we see today, the mechanical and chemical breakdown of plastics in the environment leading to far higher consumption and presence of it in our bodies could not have realistically been studied or predicted even if we took a whitelisting approach.

Now you have to consider what the effects of whitelisting everything would mean for productivity and progress. Imagine how much more everyday things would cost if plastics had to be whitelisted before being allowed in any products. Even now knowing about the existence of microplastics, it isn't clear that the effects they have decisively outweigh the benefits of plastics.
The first know case of smallpox in Mexico was in 1520. It's REALLY unlikely that small pox reached anywhere near Tenochtitlan before Cortés, after all he arrived there in 1521, a mere 29 years after Columbus' initial landing. Cortés was part of the first wave of explorers in Mexico. Tenochtitlan was founded in the 1320, a full 500 years after the collapse of the Mayan city states. Teotihuacan which was near Tenochtitlan also collapsed during that period. When the Mexica arrived at lake Texcoco, there were already several thriving city states, that didn't collapse and two of them became part of the Triple Alliance with the Mexica.

I've never seen evidence of smallpox preceding the Spanish in Mexico, as it did above the RIo Grande.
It's configurable from within the browser, though it moves around a lot and has been getting hidden lately. I think default is based on the OS language, but of course that can vary between browsers and versions.
Sometimes the only way to improve something is for enough people to quit.

Sometimes the only way left to communicate a message is to burn something down.

It is always better to run an organization such that the above do not apply to it, particularly.
The tracking by just selecting is magic for me. Congrats
> Shotwell's email to staff also said, "Blanketing thousands of people across the company with repeated unsolicited emails and asking them to sign letters and fill out unsponsored surveys during the work day is not acceptable."
There can't be a more classical linux/developer response to a serious UI issue than "I just do this other repetitive manual task to solve the problem, don't see what the big deal is."
Pooping during delivery is a thing. So that's entirely believable.