skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try Ferrochel! Normal ferrous sulfate absolutely destroys my stomach and gives me tarry shits but I can take Ferrochel on an empty stomach without any side effects.
not a response to the question but... actually replacing an usage usually change this usage, but the effect on demand when thoses are primary ressources is'nt linked to this change. coal for exemple is a good source of synthetic fuel (fischer-tropsch process) and 1/6 of actual chinese fuel source or the wood demand exploded with coal usage, for mining it, before surface mining. just to point out that there is mostly no such thing as "energy transitionning" in the humain history, it's a cumulative process.
Well that's just disappointing. There is no car and it's all just smoke and mirrors to subject you to things like a timeshare promo and harvest your data? That's not even a good scam! It's just like countless others. The only creativity is the car and its not even theirs its just a loaner from some random dealership.
(Ignoring, as someone else already pointed out, that this is PDFs with images and scans probably, not just plain text... I got curious and did some napkin math about your claim)

The top ten countries average north of a hundred thousand books per year each[1], so let's say a million books per year globally because I haven't got the time to extract the numbers and sum them all up exactly. It probably wasn't as much fifty years ago, but we're also completely ignoring the Internet which is way bigger because of user-contributed content (not to mention things like newspapers, meeting notes, etc.), so let's say this was the case for the past fifty years. That's fifty million books. Average book has 85k words[2], and a word is like 5 characters on average. Not all countries write in English, especially some big ones like India and China, so we could probably double it on a global scale but let's go for a conservative 7.5 bytes per word and add a byte for the space (I'm ignoring other punctuation). That comes out to 8.5×85e3×1e6 which is less than a gigabyte and uncompressed. Decent compression iirc makes it a fifth of the size, so 145MB compressed.

I've still got to be an order of magnitude off because we write a whole lot more than just books (and even if we were just looking at books: there are also book revisions, drafts, etc. I'm just counting the published words), but that's still less than expected.

In conclusion, it comes out to about 1/50'000th of 7TB compressed, which I would say lends some credence to the claim—even if I feel like I must have made a mistake somewhere because 145MB for ~all books of the past 50 years from all countries seems quite little.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_published_per_country_pe...

[2] a few sources on ddg, e.g. https://www.tckpublishing.com/how-long-should-a-book-be/
The food at terminal C at EWR post renovation is perfectly fine, if ridiculously expensive. Terminal A sucks though. Can't say anything about B, I've only used EWR for domestic travel.
>For instance, you should NEVER be allowed to use it for fashion, consumer electronics, and other now essential goods.

So what's left? Cars and houses?
> This doesn't explain why PWAs are still a rarity on Android though. You'd think that the ability to target both desktop (web) and Android (web/PWA) would've attracted more developer interest.

I can only guess, PWAs are like the hidden nugget of gold that devs poop on because it doesn't fit their preferred tools or experience or something.

The other reason that comes to mind is it is much easier to sneak in dark patterns of data collection and spying with native. Web is expected to degrade gracefully when denied permissions.

> PWAs/web was immediately discarded as an option because we didn't believe we could deliver the level of UX excellence we're targeting.

Seems odd. Web interfaces are very very good for pretty much any information display. They have their limits too. But unless you have a specific requirement that actually hits those limits this particular reason seems hollow to me.

> Nor did we believe that PWAs would be any easier to develop and maintain than two native apps.

This one is, frankly, deluded. Both app routes have significantly more upkeep than web. API churn and app store processes come first to mind. Not to mention three code bases vs one that could also be your website, which you need anyway.

> We're still considering React, but I feel like we're inevitability going to end up building a full native experience.

> Generally speaking, I feel that PWAs and the web have a long way to go in terms of tooling

Wow, I doubt you have any real experience with react native tooling, which is infinitely worse that web tooling. And even tries ( poorly) to replicate web tooling.

Seriously, a platform that comes with full debugging suite in "developer tools" in the browser has no equal in any systems I've built before. How many runtimes can you name that come bundled with full dev and inspection tools? Nicely separated out layout, code, and network. You can sit down to any dev, QA, or customer system and have the full inspection suite at your finger tips.

There seems to be a heavy pro native bias. Don't get me wrong, there are reasons to pick native, but I see very few people laying out good analysis behind their choices. Oh-well, competitive advantages for me.
If it's legal, it seems like every business would do this. Your bank, the local McDonalds when you install their app, Uber & Lyft, every e-commerce site would bury in the terms & conditions, etc.
Whoopsie you said yes once upon a time, looks like you've irrevocably consented to any and all futures interactions!
I don't think Webpack is designed for that use case, it is pretty apples and oranges
I wonder how much money these scams net.

Even if this outfit is fully owned and operated by a scuzzy timeshare company, do they really make enough money to justify the $1500/~=22 marks?

The article only mentions people being contacted by the timeshare company, but I wonder if they might sell the info as a secondary revenue stream, especially given the waiver which claims to override federal do-not-call lists.

How much would one packet of contact info+metadata sell for, if the subject has signed on to be contacted by advertisers?
NetGuard is on-device, can't get much more 'self-hosted' than that.
Can PiHole filter per-app though? I wouldn't have thought so. NG can and it's the main reason I use it.
Many countries used to be > 70% coal and are less now. Can you explain how that's somehow impossible to do in the remaining countries?
"Braid" has that kind of collision.
> If you choose

Yeah and how much is it really a choice? Either you do this or you don't have access to <games or features of games> , but it's still "your choice". Shady as fuck and clearly not a 'choice'. Weasel words.
Circle parental controls with their box. Xfinity has their own skydog software.
Horo Timer Educates Users
The whole not using the jetway thing in Germany blows my mind. I flew Lufthansa SEA-FRA in 2019, and the fully packed 747 had to walk onto the ramp, and load up into buses to get to the terminal. Outrageous. The only time I've ever done that in NA is flying at places like CAK in a micro regional jet.
How come? Fewer markets?
Why is this a relevant factor? With a credit card you have a 3-4 week grace period to pay the bill. If you get paid every 2 weeks/twice a month then the due date is never more than a week away from your last paycheck.
> How much would one packet of contact info+metadata sell for, if the subject has signed on to be contacted by advertisers?

LendingTree.com was charging $70 per "lead", this was 2018 or so, not sure how prices have changed since then. However this was on the high end, zillow.com, also sold leads but for quite a bit lower (although you got what you paid for).
I first learned about Pozidriv in the early 80's. HP, Agilent, Keysight use Pozidrive screws in all of their equipment. You might be able to get away with using a #2 Phillips, but you also might strip the screw head while trying.
> to read about what Vite is and what it does.

This is actually my main complaint. I read everything on the landing page and Getting Started page and still have literally zero idea what Vite does.
For individuals with certain auto-immune diseases (like rheumatoid arthritis), the medication they're on can also interfere with b12 absorption - such as methotrexate.
This is a possible consequence of what you mention regarding absorption digestively. Injections are a solution but are not always accessible in every country - in the UK they are extremely hesitant to permit b12 injections, for whatever reason.
How did timeshares become so deeply associated with slimy sales tactics?
> This also means that if your internal SSD is hosed, so is your Mac. Enjoy!

Yup, cause the flash controller is on the SoC, the actual hard drive is just flash chips.
> Screenshots/recording should have been on the board from day one and they could have gotten to standardizing on how to handle them in oh 2013-2015?

I agree that Wayland's development has taken far too long and the transition has been rocky. But what development team couldn't use more funding? Ubuntu throwing a tantrum after the ecosystem rejected Mir and not contributing to Wayland certainly didn't help.

> What other OS makes you think about display servers?

I am sympathetic to arguments that Wayland/Weston could provide more functionality out-of-the-box. The bazaar's fragmented mess of "desktop environments" is certainly not a strength compared to what the Cathedrals have produced. But Linux's uniquely modular GUI stack necessitates coordination across lots of projects to develop and adopt standards.

But not doing anything and sticking with X11 would have condemned us to being stuck with an insecure, buggy, and visually glitchy mess forever.

> Red Hat doesn't believe in the Linux ecosystem

I have my qualms with Red Hat too, but my point was that Wayland was created by Xorg developers because they tried and failed to make X11 competitive. Seriously, just go watch this XFree86/Xorg/Wayland developer's talk [1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44
Ask HN: Best online CS BS for people with disability
I struggle a bit with depression and anxiety. The last couple years I have had to drop out due to these issues. I was wondering if are there any CS Programs in the USA which have a great disability office or general student support.
So far I looked into Western Governors University. Supposedly it has a self paced program which I think might find helpful. I also looked at Oregon State University's program it was rated well on college rating sites and they offer counseling and life coaching for students.
Would you have any suggestions?
No, I'm not talking about how best to set up the model. I'm saying that complicated neural network models have no track record of yielding reliable insights about social phenomena. They are untested. Any insights they supposedly provide must be verified by a human analyst checking the data to see if it really looks like the model says.

This isn't a new or surprising principle, and it also applies to much simpler models. Any scientist knows that, if you fit a line to data, you better plot the data with the line before you make any big claims about what that line tells you about the world, because the data underlying that fit could look lots of completely different ways with different implications [1]. These authors did the equivalent of fitting the line and telling us all about its formula and the big implications of the formula without ever plotting it with the data.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe's_quartet
It's not about starting company - in the literal sense as you write, because this is just an entry at some register somewhere.

Depending on the EU country, the experience may be nerve wrecking and some institutions treat you as a criminal for dearing to start your own business (typically in Eastern Europe). There is a lot of crabs in the bucket mentality from the communist times.

Then you have extremely complex legislation that is full of traps. Oh you forgot to send that form declaring something you thought irrelevant and nobody told you about? Here is the fine for you.

I know a couple of people who ended up with life changing financial troubles because their accountant messed something up, and not because their business was going bad.

Then you get the cliques and corruption in the cities. Your business is doing very well and you forgot to buy a dinner to a local politician? Too bad you would have learned his nephew has exactly the same business idea as yours. Month later your business is swarmed by all sorts of inspections from various government bodies. You can't do business and your customers think something is up with you and they no longer come.
You end up having mental health problems and closing the business with debt.

Six months later your former clients call you to say that politicians nephew runs exactly the same business as you had in the office building you had rented.
Politician's nephew offers you a job and you take it, because you are in debt.

This is how things work in Europe.
It’s stateful.

Specifically, if a plain router stops working, BGP will route around it, and all you did was drop packets. If NAT stops working, you don’t just drop packets, you drop whole connections. Applications don’t tend to tolerate dropped connections as well as they tolerate dropped packets.
More like an ad company driven by dark patterns that needs to pretend being good and nice and innovative as otherwise it will lose goodwill just like Facebook did.
It took me well over an hour to get through passport control in Paris CDG. And that was not even entering Schengen but leaving
That's fine, I hadn't even gotten around to adopting GTK4 yet.

> extant issues of Wayland clients and compositors have no bearing with whether GTK5 should drop the X11 backend; file bugs for toolkits, compositors, and the protocols...

Ah yes, that does seem like a sane way to address concerns with dropping Xorg entirely. Even the Titanic shipped with lifeboats, they'd be wise to have a backup in case their "unsinkable" window server breaks on many people's configurations.
Unfortunately that sentiment is just backend developer elitism. The DOM, frontend state, backend state, and networking end up creating considerable complexity once you start creating more dynamic web applications.
The biggest thing for me was that I needed to use subdomains. I needed to test a dependency that let the consumer pass in a domain, but no path. Subdomains fit the bill for that. It's the only thing I can think of offhand :-)

If you'd like, feel free to email me at contact@responsecodes.xyz and we can collab
The 22 marks was in an hour and the $1.5k was rental for a whole day.
> do they really make enough money to justify the $1500/~=22 marks

I was wondering the same, but one thing that helps the math in their favor a bit was that the 22 was in one hour on a weekday afternoon. I imagine it’s higher on weekends and evenings.
If I came and gave a technical talk, and got asked a completely irrelevant question like this, I would try very hard to dismiss it.

"Disagree. There was no war."
An 80% true statement that sets the tone followed by a deeper explanation is fine. What is currently there tells us 0% about what Vite does.
Same, I've read Siddhartha once a year for the past 15 years at least. The river always has something to say.
I’m not sure, but here’s one more data point. I have some acquaintances in Vietnam who sell timeshares there. Their practices are equally shady.
That would paint a huge red target mark on filecoin's back, given that they raised over a quarter-billion. They would take it down faster than you can have an 8TB HDD shipped to you.
I'm missing some context here. What's this actually for? Are they talking about eugenics? Or like, making hypoallergenic dogs?

If it's for eugenics I'm done with HN.
I’m pretty sure filling out a form with your phone number and a granted permission with that wording does override dnc lists, but you can reverse it again when they call.
People complain that Safari is a terrible web citizen. Here I go to this website, with Safari and my trusty ad blocker extension, and the page keeps reloading endlessly. Who’s to blame? The crappy website, Safari, or its extension?
The tracks to Ottawa and Montreal are getting updated. The problem is that Via only owns a small portion of the route and is at the mercies of freight traffic. The new dedicated tracks will solve this. Still not high speed though.
Because the fundamental economics of time shares are a scam. They are pitched as "ownership" but what they really are are perpetual rental contracts with no way out. (The rent is called "maintenance fees" but it doesn't matter what label you attach to it. It's a sum of money that you are obligated to pay year after year after year. If it quacks like rent...) And you even have to pay a hefty sum up front for the privilege of being obligated to rent a place once a year forever.
Betteridges law applies.
Unfortunately (as I learned from a commenter on this very website!) the paradox is easily explicable with classical EM wave mechanics unless you're firing & detecting single photons. This is the case with basically all quantum phenomena.
You also tend to get paid more for that level of work
Have a bunch of geographically clustered terminals with no ability to walk between them
At airports that do this I find it’s more common when US TSA adopts a rule first that people don’t want to subject all air passengers to. It was really common to have gate lines back when the US introduced that 3 oz bottle max.
If there is no way to decline after viewing the terms, then it is not legal. It would be considered a contract of adhesion.
SF rules fourplexes, rent control, slightly bigger than a single-family
Another Update on the Bagel Language
Well,loading the page on Safari Mac with 1Blocker has no problems at all.
There are other equally shady fronts for this activity. I made the mistake of giving my name and number a person running one of those "raffles" at an NHL arena. I was deluged with time share spam calls for weeks afterwards. I should've known better as the team owner made his money marketing for AOL.
HTMX is pretty interesting to me for this reason. It's still a typescript wrapper but damn is it small.
Sigh, yet another effort to design the best fastener head to save us all from the existing ones, once again by those who have apparently never researched the joys and superiority of the Robertson. Lather, rinse, repeat.

https://wikiless.org/wiki/Robertson_screw
page keeps reloading likely means the webpage is crashing, which is Safari’s fault
I agree! I can't imagine such a thing hasn't been proposed, as it is required by accessibility software.
I’m starting to think the deep dive is itself a problem, for reasons of Kernighan’s Law. Stepping away and thinking about other things has helped me find solutions when simply thinking harder about it has not.

Probably because as part of spinning back up I have to summarize for myself where I think I was, and the summary frequently contains the hint I missed. It’s not quite rubber ducking without the duck, and with more time to help others.
No experiment that could test what is called string theory is known of. So, it is still a speculation, not properly a theory. But it is an extraordinarily detailed speculation. Progress is measured by discovering details that imply or contradict current theory, relying on the "correspondence principle".

If tests for it are ever devised, and it survives, it will be a "Grand Unified Theory" that encompasses general relativity and quantum mechanics, the way those do Newtonian mechanics. Theory is the end state, not the beginning.

In between speculation and theory is hypothesis, a treatment of actual evidence that does not fit into, or anyway is not covered by, the currently favored theory, which has come to be called the Standard Model. This has happened in quantum physics many times, and the theory ends up altered to fit, getting a little more complicated each time. It has lately been hard to find anything new that the Standard Model doesn't get right. Lately, people complain that its numbers are arbitrary and not esthetically pleasing.

But the Standard Model has long been known to be incompatible with General Relativity. So far we have not found cracks in either one. Chances are it will be centuries before we could properly test a grand synthesis, if we could invent one. "String theory" might hold the outlines of such a synthesis, or might be just a mathematical oddity with curiously physical qualities, a model of a possible universe that does not happen to match ours. Even our great-grandchildren will most likely never know.
I’m not sure why everyone compares frontends to backends as if they are exactly the same. Like it or not, JavaScript has effectively become the de-facto way to build interactive UIs, and backend technologies fill a completely different space.

It’s more helpful to compare JavaScript to other UI technologies, like Swift UI, Android, Java Swing (ew), and other lower level GUI frameworks. In this case, I think the Dev Ex/quality that JavaScript produces is quite high, and good the speed at which you can do cross platform and web development is immense. Hell, you can even share code between frontend and backend. Good luck doing that with another technology.

I will probably get flamed for saying this, but I also think backend is easy. Backends are typically not stateful, and therefore feel like functional programming. You send an input and get an output. Compare that to interactive UIs which need to act as a long lived lifecycle with various state, and it’s clear why frontends are more complex.
Hilariously I came across that one as well as a good 'WTF' example.

That said - I feel for some of these dudes just wanting to make a framework, struggling a bit with the 'communication' part.
Until a blind person contacts your support team to tell them your website/webapp is not working with their screen reader.
Yikes! I'm glad I grabbed some JIS drivers a few years ago. I've repaired multiple Nikon and Canon cameras and they're loaded with JIS screws (which is to be expected, really).
Timeshares are implicated in so many unethical scams and schemes that at this point I think we should just outlaw them entirely.
That's still very generic so as to be almost no information.

Imagine if python's homepage had no code samples at all, and the getting started page said "Python is a programming language for high productivity".
Oh, I misread. Sounds like a good scam, if aninteger's $70/lead number is accurate.
Decreasing population density means longer trips to the supermarket to get all the other things that people need. You’d save more carbon by getting rid of back yards, having high density housing, and having people walk to the shops.
Uber's IPO prospectus pretty much says they'd only be profitable if they can achieve a global monopoly to charge their own prices, and/or hope that driverless cars become ubiquitous soon. So this isn't too surprising, and also the status quo for most startups to burn investor cash ad-infinitum until they reach the theoretical gold at the end of the rainbow.
I was on work travel last week. No Uber from the airport - three cancelations then I caught a Lyft. It was over $500 for a 50 mi ride to a neighboring city which I was mostly looking at out of curiosity. My friend was recently held up (well, attempted) by an Uber driver in Nashville who had canceled last second so he could not even find who the driver was to file a complaint.

It seems like the former gap in user experience between Uber and taxis has largely vanished. This may partly be reflective of the great resignation as well: a lot of people who are working have still just given up.
If the official homepage of something doesn't tell you what it is, where are you supposed to obtain that inforation?