skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MiniDisc's killer was none other than Sony itself. Sony's own competing divisions hobbled, crippled, then killed the MiniDisc.

The first issue was cost of the media. MiniDiscs we're just never going to be as cheap to manufacture as CDs. So record companies would have far tighter margins on MiniDiscs than they would for the same album pressed on CD. Unsurprisingly not a lot of record companies bothered producing pre-recorded MiniDiscs outside Japan.

Without pre-recorded albums readily available the only way to get music onto a disc was to record it yourself. So you had your MD player that cost hundreds of dollars you had to plug into some other audio player to record music to take with you. There was no high speed dubbing unless you had an expensive console recorder so your hour long CD took an hour to copy to the MiniDisc.

As the 90s went on Sony also refused to allow MDs to connect to a PC. So you couldn't rip music off a CD (which Sony considered unforgivable piracy) to your PC and then digitally load onto your MiniDisc. That is until they relented and released the NetMD players. But those were crippled in that they would only encode low resolution files but padded them so you only got 80 minutes of play time on a disc (despite the low resolution allowing 160 minutes). Sony also didn't allow their MD data drives to write audio MDs. But no one even had those drives because they were stupid expensive.

All of this inconvenience was happening in a time when portable CD players were dropping in price (and getting audio buffers for skip protection) and coming standard in cars. CD-R drives were also coming down significantly in price along with CD-R media itself. So if you did want to make mixtapes or just make CDs from files you got from the budding MP3 scene you could do so cheaply. Sony was even themselves manufacturing these devices, the DiscMan was a really popular portable CD player!

The MiniDisc was essentially dead by the time the first portable MP3 players came out. Even the iPod wasn't competing against MiniDisc so much as it was CD players which by then added MP3 playback. The iPod didn't really take off until the third generation one was released in 2003.

I say all this loving the aesthetic of MiniDiscs. They look super cool and could have actually been an interesting technology. Unfortunately Sony really likes their proprietary media formats.
The problem with the evidence and research around the "plant based diet" is that there is an ulterior motive for most of the research (legitimate ethical concerns around meat eating) which taints a lot of the data.

For example, Dan Buettner (the author of Blue Zones) suggests that Okinawans eat a 98% plant based diet which is...I won't say "fraudulent" because I think it's possible it's an honest mistake but it's definitely not "correct" at all. It's based off of some sketchy anecdotal accounts of WWII starvation diets where the only ate potatoes. Western centenarian researchers and health gurus repeated that factoid a bunch and it became "the okinawan diet is basically a potato-heavy vegan diet" in some twisted game of telephone.

In actuality both modern and ancient Okinawans have the highest meat consumption in Japan. Lard is the go-to frying oil even for vegetable dishes. The largest proportion of calories come from animal products. The Okinawan diet is a high fat, high carb, moderately high meat diet whose main "secret" is conscious portion restriction (the local "eat until you are 80% full" mantra). They do eat plenty of fish too, just not as much as the mainlanders (the idea that the okinawan diet is low in fish is crazy because the okinawans have a super unique and proud local history of fishing and seafood foraging traditions).
Bungie sues serial Destiny 2 cheater who threatened employees
As someone who hangs out in /r/selfhosting a fair amount, I get what you mean. But I also see it used frequently in the vernacular to distinguish between a managed/hosted web service (which may simply be a web "application" as far as the user is concerned), and software you can run on your own machine. To extend your analogy, running Word locally is in some sense "selfhosted" as opposed to using Word Online in a browser. (Though I'd argue that this isn't a great example because of how much the Word desktop app increasingly uses cloud services in order to work.)

IMO, selfhosting here was descriptive in that the Chrome extension is storing all data and generating all recommendations locally, without the use of a managed service that would presumably be storing all of my history in someone's cloud instance. (I'm sure you're a great person, OP, but I wouldn't want to give you my entire browser history.)

Yes, it's shipped in the Chrome web store, so OP could theoretically ship different code than what's showing in the open-source repo, but you actually _can_ selfhost even "further" by building the extension yourself (even if installing unsigned extensions in Chrome is harder than ever, I think it's still possible, and certainly Edge still allows it via Developer Mode).
"The concept behind soft deletion is to make deletion safer, and reversible."

That's one part. The other part is that in many industries you have regulatory data retention and audit requirements. This is arguably the most valuable and common reason to perform Logical deletes.
"Just make an empty file there" is the opposite of a solution to it being confusing!
I just scanned the first few paragraphs, but saved this as I find it to be a great reminder. I try to read lists of the various human mis-perceptions periodically to build "muscle memory" into my consiousness. I first started looking into this about 10 years ago when I was baffled by the way people acted at work. Now that I realize that "rational" is not default behavior for most people I am way less confused in my daily life. Still amazed though. :)
The Chinese side of TikTok or the intl one?
I always assumed the creator of JSON was named Jason…
I never cherish when basic needs are handled by greedy capitalists no... Move fast and break things is fine when you develop a mobile app nobody gives a shit about, not when you can raise the heating cost of a family by a factor of 2 whenever you feel like your CEO needs a bonus
You know that is never coming back right? Safety standards do not allow vehicles of that size and profile.

There are multiple references to the 1st gen Tacomas in this thread and I'm having a hard time understanding why it keeps being brought up. It's a 20-25 year old vehicle
I had an argument with an old friend a bit ago over the efficacy and possible nth-order effects of publicly-funded "safe shoot-up sites" for drug addicts. my point was that lots of progressive liberal ideas about policy come from a place of feelings about what the "morally right" thing to is ("give homeless addicts a place to safely use drugs, to prevent spread of disease etc."), while not necessarily thinking through possible nth-order effects that could result from such policy decisions, specifically with regards to factors of human incentives and motivations ("if you provide a taxpayer-funded safe drug use facility, how will this affect inherently dangerous & self-destructive intravenous drug use in the long term? decrease it, keep it roughly the same, or increase it?"). as a means of arguing his position ("safe shoot-up facilities are good and effective"), he referred me to a nearly decade-old study that was done over the course of three years, and to him, that was slam dunk proof that his position was the better one. I pointed out the questionable research methods ("drug dealers in the area didn't report higher sales in the three years after opening the facility"), the length of the study (three years), and the time that has passed since the study (an additional seven years), and asked if maybe this was cause for at least further investigation, but to him, The Science Was Settled, someone did a research project and published the results in some journal, so That's That, Everything Is Good, Confirmed.

I want to stress here that in this instance I may still be fully in the wrong and he may in fact be correct with regards to our assessments of the overall situation—my point is merely that my friend took the mere existence of a research paper in a journal with findings that affirmed his beliefs as if it were Gospel, because it's a Study in a Scientific Journal, you see. never mind that social sciences are far more fuzzy than hard sciences, never mind the methods used in the study, never mind following up and seeing if anything changed in seven years. no, a Study in a Journal asserted that his Beliefs were Correct, so that might as well be a Science stone tablet with Science written on it that some Scientists were directly told by Science God from Science Heaven to write.

this friend is, of course, an atheist, basically an anti-theist really, and the degree of Faith he places in the Gospel of Science (even Social Science!!!) being comparable to that which adherents to conventional religion place upon their holy books remains completely lost on him.

I don't think this is a particularly uncommon way of thinking these days.
Yeah, we pregamed too. We had a shuttle, so no need to worry about endangering others.

The festival had a campsite too, which said "NO PILLS EXCEPT THOSE IN A PRESCRIPTION BOTTLE WITH MATCHING NAME" and about 100 other things they banned such as liquor. This being the first time I've been to an overnight rock fest, I obliged (other than taking some legal edibles).

I've never been more wrong in my life. The amount of hard liquor in the campground was astounding, and (no surprise) the amount of weed and plastic containers of alcohol snuck in was substantial, too.

They also banned moshing and crowdsurfing, per the signage around the festival. Almost every single band encouraged pits and crowdsurfing.
Ask HN: Why GPT-3 is capable to do few-shot/zero-shot learning?
Which part of Spain? On the Atlantic Spain, heavy rainfall can just be "Thursday".
> This is not relevant, again, unless it would be impractical to install more transmission lines.

It is very relevant, why should all the burden to fix all the worlds problems fall exclusively on Germany when Germany already has done so much and was literally the first to recognize the problem?

> The classification of "renewables" here is crafted to specifically exclude nuclear

Yes, because uranium is not a renewable resource, it's actually a very finite resource.

And if you want to see "wrong statistics" playing around with stuff like that, then you need to look at the UK who gets absurdly inflated "electricity from CO2 free sources" shares so it can act like its energy sector is renewable and sustainable, when it's really not.

> It's not Germany that is truly to blame. It's the anti-nuclear movement which is to blame

Just two paragraphs ago you were arguing for Germany to fix it, and now it's some "anti-nuclear movement to blame", all under a submission that comes from a rather questionable source, with its very own lobby, to begin with [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32153029
Part of it was likely media licensing, part of it was a lack of a liquid business model, and to that latter point, in some quarters it was said that after Twitter acquired it, it couldn't figure out how to monetize it, and it was expensive to maintain.
There is an entire document which explains why they can't use rust or zig.

The short version is that for their particular usecase they need really close ties to C++.

"Existing modern languages already provide an excellent developer experience: Go, Swift, Kotlin, Rust, and many more. Developers that can use one of these existing languages should. Unfortunately, the designs of these languages present significant barriers to adoption and migration from C++. These barriers range from changes in the idiomatic design of software to performance overhead."
Bigot : « one who regards or treats the members of a group (such as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance »

You are the only one here who believes you need to educate others and look down on them.

If you find people who like to be educated and lectured all day just because they live, then I have no problems with that.

But I will keep living with flat mates, not people whose whole lives revolve around lecturing other people.

As stated before, I am glad this project exists, so we can both segregate and live in different places.
This is so patently false it hurts to read. The city has an easy website explaining the rules[0], and the bike share system provides ebikes[1].

[0]: https://www.toronto.ca/services-payments/streets-parking-tra...

[1]: https://bikesharetoronto.com/e-bikes/
The crazy thing about the Disney cost... it doesn't include airfare or food, both of which can be EXPENSIVE. You could just about do a European vacation for a similar daily cost (albeit, you'd need to do a week+ to make the airfare cost work out).
> I still have some documented "route" to resource, but instead of mapping it trivially to URL (as done in "pseudo-REST"), client requests entry point, then goes through labelled hyperlinks and forms according to "route" to reach resource.

The basic idea is correct, the wording is not. Resources have identifiers, not routes. Hyperlinks have link relations, not labels.

> won't it add too much overhead

What overhead?
C++11 was where C++ lost me, and I went from saying I knew C/C++ to saying I know C.
>Being a Disney aficionado, I have to note: the price in the 60s was only to get in the park. You had to buy separate tickets for each attraction once you were in

The article literally covers this, both in their infographic for Disney, and in the paragraph preceding.

>(One important clarifying note: Back in 1960, you paid for the park admission ticket and the rides separately. We’ve combined those costs below.)

Maybe read the article before you comment about its faults...
Sf police don’t give a shit about stolen bikes. I saw a homeless guy pick up a bike (wheel locked to frame) prop it on a shopping cart and run away. Called the cops. They didn’t give a shit, belittled me and refused to come. You’ll note in the article that it’s impossible to get the police to show up even when there’s known stolen property inside and clear gps evidence.

sfpd doesn’t do anything about anything. Check out that great video of the cops rolling up on a burglary in progress. Perp comes out the door, gets in car and drives off. Cops do nothing.

When vigilantism is the only justice available you’re living in a failed state.
That's not what the report says; that's what you wish Mueller had written. But I think Mueller is capable of writing what he means.

And since you brought up prosecutors, let me ask the obvious question: why have none of the investigations against Trump resulted in charges?
The biggest economy on the planet? The most free country on the planet?
China uses coronavirus warning app to stifle dissent
Yep, we have an abstraction layer on top of the ORM to provide common queries. "Give me all X" will always return stuff not soft deleted. Data people also like to go diving through old data, and without getting into data warehousing and stuff like that, it's not too complex to support a single flag to enable us to keep old stuff.
Sure. I was just pointing it out for people wondering where this is on their car.
I'm not trying to be negative... The article claims the expected gain from this strategy is 2% but it's actually 0%. Plug in the numbers for all permutations of possible results if you don't believe me.

Starting with a dollar and betting half we get:

1 flip

H .5 gain

T -.5 loss

2 flips

H H = .5 + .75 = 1.25

H T = -.25

T H = -.25

T T = -.75

3 flips

H H H 1.125

H H T -1.125

H T H .75/2

H T T -(.75/2)

T T H .25/2

T T T -(.25/2)

T H H .75/2

T H T -(.75/2)

You can see the expected outcome, or average, is always 0, not .02 times the initial investment as this article claims to prove.

I'm not saying rebalancing is a bad investment strategy as it reduces volatility in favor of smaller gains, but it can't generate returns on zero growth assets like fair coin flips. The writer either doesn't understand that or is misleading the audience.

This is how inexperienced investors get lured into losing their life savings. It's not a joke.
I think the tricky part for them is that the hardware and the software need to be marketed differently in order for this to be legal. Out of the box, the comma 3 only functions as a dash cam. You need to personally load openpilot onto it. I guess it's not possible (or wise) to sell a self driving kit currently, but selling a dash cam that just so happens to work really well with openpilot is.
In my limited experience, soft deletion also has better prospects where partial indexes are involved, since it reduces the size of the index and reduces search and insert time a little bit. If soft deletes are rare, you aren't going to see much of a payback for your investment in code complexity.

And since you can never really be sure what you'll need 2 years from now, I imagine there are a lot of anecdotes out there of people who implemented it thinking it would be used a lot, and turned out to be wrong.
I think you may have missed the point a little bit. Being right, or feeling right, doesn't make ok to abuse the site. It makes it more important to follow the site guidelines, not less.

The way to "counter" a wrong view, or a view you feel is wrong, is with thoughtful discussion and good information. Pouring fuel and setting it on fire is not that.

Btw I posted lots of moderation replies in this thread, to people on both sides of the argument who were posting abusively. The community strongly expects us to be even-handed about that, no doubt including the vast majority of the users who agree with your positions. This is a basic principle and should be obvious.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The IH lightline range were pretty well all gasoline powered consumer level vehicles with an agricultural/offroad pedigree. The 345 v8 in a scout is the same engine as IH put in the big yellow school buses, tons of low end torque, if it wasn't for gravity they could climb just about anything. Very easy to work on with a few foibles. The IH full size truck division became Navistar and are a very different breed.

Those early beetles are basically a scirroco floorpan, watch out for the plastic waterpump blade...we had one where that failed with little noise or evidence until steam. Great cars though!
I think billions have been spent bridging the gap between “ideal” software and what businesses actually need. Access control is another thing I see developers wanting to simplify or push to implement later, but is actually a key feature.
The minidisc I had, and there were lots like them, had a stereo-in that automatically switched between line-level and mic-level. Really amazing considering how small those devices were, because the unit wasn't much bigger than the minidisc itself. The cheap units from Sony and Panasonic (etc) virtually always did this, even though lower budget ones without the recording facility were available. Really a genius move to put a stereo microphone preamplifier into such a tiny unit. The line/mic in was also an optical in at the same time.

"Abusing" headphones isn't really the right word to use – headphones and dynamic microphones are almost identical technology. One way, signals go in an drive the diaphragm into producing sound, the other way, audio hits the diaphragm and can then be amplified by a preamplifier, making a microphone. Hence it's really easy to put the earbuds into your ear and walk around recording, and when you play back it's like a perfect binaural recording of what your ears were hearing at the time. I've heard of those earbuds with microphones on the outside, that's a bit more pro.

Yes you're correct, smartphones can record really easily, there was just something really aesthetically pleasing about how the minidisc was a device just built to record and playback really well. It was a beautiful way of having a recording device, without the need for dongles or doodads like you need to do it well on a smartphone. I should have also made the point that a piece of technology being limited also encourages one to find ways of transcending the limitation and doing new things with it (see the Gescom album 'Minidisc' that was designed to be played on shuffle). Having a portable field recorder that was affordable to be a birthday or Christmas present endowed one with something more valuable than a mere smartphone with a recording app, for some reason.

P.s. try and record something at high volume, like a band playing, on your smartphone with the built-in microphone. You'll basically get a square-wave with interludes. The variable level of the mic preamp on the minidisc made it so you could make decent quality recordings of anything...
I’ve been planning to build this for mac/ios/ipad and have researched/used the foundations - let me know if I can reach out if you are interested in testing or giving feedback, unfortunately Android isn’t a priority as I’m solo indie and favor native
The smaller disc size than a CD. The built in protection for the disc (I had a shitty car at the time and I think discs got scratched up by the player itself, eventually they were all unplayable). Recording built in. It scratched all the itches of the early 1990s.

The devices themselves were pretty sexy too, portable, full featured.
Ask HN: What are the best public-code searching web apps today?
You can do a global code search in Github.com or in your search engine (Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, whatever). There are some language specific systems like Hoogle [0]. Maybe SourceGraph's global search engine [1] is ok too I have only tried their project-specific views.

What is the best hosted/free web app out there today that you use to do searches on code across one or multiple projects?

[0] https://hoogle.haskell.org/

[1] https://sourcegraph.com/search
I really don't see the point of all these mutually incompatible Markdown++ versions. When I outgrew Markdown's limitations, I switched to using AsciiDoc [0] for all my text writing needs and, so far, I've not found any kind of text formatting I need that it can't do 'out of the box'

[0] https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/syntax-quick-re...
Nuclear isn't directly an alternative to gas power. You've got the problem stated right in your comment: the constant output of nuclear is only part of generation needs.

Gas is different from nuclear in that it's easy to regulate the power generated, which is necessary to deal with demand spikes and generation dips (the latter due to wind/solar which may not always be available). Presumably Germany would only ever want to rely on gas for this purpose.

There are ways to adjust nuclear power output but they are quite expensive (on top of the fact that any nuclear power plant is already expensive).

To get rid of fossil fuel power plants you need to match their exceptional ability to regulate power generation levels. You could do this by using nuclear for base generation and supplementing renewables with storage techniques (e.g. pumped hydro storage), but nuclear is unfortunately not a "drop in" replacement on its own.
To each their own! I loved the county fair as a child. But I wasn't much of a Disney kid anyways (unless we count properties that have since been absorbed into the Disney IP universe).
> programming languages with few exception tend to reach, approach, or at least point toward their all-time peak market penetration around age 10

Notable exceptions from the links you've provided:

C#, Java, Go, PHP. All appear to have an upward trajectory today.

Javascript has also seen a similar penetration boost when nodejs came on the scene.

With rust looking to get integration both into the Linux kernel and GCC, that points to some pretty positive things for the language's penetration. Particular in the embedded world.
The lack of rain comes from the same climate emergency though, this has been confirmed scientifically as well.