skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a good point. I think shittier vs. better is largely a matter of subjective personal preference. And I would kind of agree that they were better before every red cent was squeezed out of the consumer. However, that's speaking to the experience. But in terms of facilities, I think things are better now; paved parking lots over dirt parking lots, padded seats over concrete benches, individual urinals with stall dividers over troughs, etc.... Using Disney as an example (I've never been), I'm sure that the facilities and hardware of the park today are way above where they were decades ago (even if the experience is arguably much worse).
Not de facto as in universally (or even primarily) used. De facto as in "the language of GNOME", i.e. one built for and used by GNOME as a first class citizen.
Does this mean you’re surprised there are queer people on hn? Or that queer people are willing to talk about “queer stuff” on hn?

Edited for clarity
While I completely get being in control of your feeds, from rolling your own to understanding how & why the feeds you subscribe to work — also feel like it’s just as important to be aware of significant topics and beliefs that are not in your feeds.

Case in point, as another commenter pointed out — it appears the OP feels GAB, commonly viewed as a far-right social media platform, should be listed as one of a handful of default sources.

World needs more systems that actually reflect how the user fits into the world, allows people to understand differences and find shared beliefs — not systems that create information bubbles, enable isolation, and increase the likelihood of extremists.
Exactly, algorithmic feeds as a whole are the problem.

I wrote about this on my blog [0], but in a nutshell they slow you down, take you in unwanted directions and encourage consumption over action.

[0] https://suketk.com/feeds-considered-harmful
I know it’s not an ideal source, but search Reddit’s legal advice subreddit sometime. There’s constant posts of people getting eviction notices because their conservative landlord saw them bring home a partner they didn’t approve of.
Last time people were nickel and dimming how many beers a minimum wage worker would get to bring on their camping trip, to prove that it was still affordable I guess, and not that they would need to save up for a month to go on it, and you know ignoring that maybe he might want to take a friend.
I would have guessed local outlier conditions with a bit of padding rather than averages, but I suppose those latent optimizations get progressively more expensive.
REST has come to mean non-REST the same way "literally" has come to mean "figuratively".
No. Thrusting the "intuitive" way will indeed bring you closer to your target in the short term. Over time (specifically, enough time to be an appreciable fraction of the orbital period) the difference in speed will cause you to drift into a higher or lower orbit, but at low speeds and low distances this effect is tiny, and you can easily compensate for it by thrusting radially.

See this Space.SE post: https://space.stackexchange.com/q/44622

Or just play KSP :)
US is quite diverse with Twitter. Which is let’s say… not so popular in many other markets.
> This is a form of progressive pricing that allows the team to charge people who are price insensitive more while still being affordable.

Is it not dystopian that we live in a world where a working class family can't take their kids to a baseball game and buy them a hotdog and a pop.
Ask HN: Should HN's title character limit be expanded from 100 to 150?
I often struggle to post news articles with the original title because they exceed HN's 100 character limit. Asking questions can also be difficult. Raising the limit to 150 would be much appreciated.
> 5x overbuild won't be enough, as I mentioned elsewhere at least in TX its not unusual for the wind to be producing at less than 15% of rated capacity. Particularly in the winter/summer when the energy load is at its highest.

Unless TX has a median load factor of 100% (in which case, wow), 5x overbuilding on top of median load factor definitely works in the case you describe.

As far as I know, the typical wind average load factor is 33%. So over-scaling by 5x of that would mean that 7% is still enough to provide. Granted, that's not a very large margin to the 8% you mention, but Europe is bigger than Texas, so it's less likely to have such a low-wind event.
Possibly. It's not uncommon for folks to use gay to mean queer/LGBTQ and unintentionally exclude folks. It's a holdover from earlier gay rights and gay liberation movements. The history there is complicated.

You also see folks specifically omit the T these days (LBG) to specifically include trans folks.

To be clear, the OP sounds like they are a good person and I'm not accusing them of anything negative! Just noting that some folks might interpret the URL differently than intended.
Americans pick and choose which media to listen to. And the media across the spectrum is aligned on one thing: China Bad, US Good. However, if you listen to NPR, it _does_ matter that we're locking up immigrants in the South. But did you hear that NPR story about Uyghur genocide? Then you look for other non-American affiliated publications on the matter and they are slim pickings. Why does the United States focus so much on China? And yeah, it's mostly to manufacture consent.
.tk and .ovh
Well, crimes should not go unpunished, and if we can, revert the wrongdoing.

What are US or Europe citizens, NGOs and governments doing to restate their forests to, at least, their pre-industrial magnitude? Recover your environments before lecturing and chastising us third world humans.
https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2007-02-21
Implementing a Toy Optimizer
They probably use a different ~~tarmac~~ material composition for the runway.
I am from the Denver region and from personal experience I know the area has a lot of Bentonite clays [0] which can expand as water is absorbed and contract as it dries. My neighborhood was built on land with a lot of this clay and our streets are wavy and our driveways are cracked to hell. I imagine they deal with similar issues at DIA.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentonite
But are the people who are buying the big SUVs in an arms race against Semis/Big Pick ups? Everybody knows their cars can't compete in size compared to Semis/Big pick ups. I believe their arm races are against other consumers who are driving big SUVs. They're looking to have the biggest SUVs on regular roads (outside the highway).
Still no official workflow repo? :(
Law Enforcement and the Challenge of Deepfakes
I can imagine outcry if India banned Facebook :D but they banned TikTok, so maybe FB time will come too.
Show HN: Made a website that shows the latest version of Jetpack Compose
It's not just an "appeal", it's a "belief". Not based in fact or logic but in faith. They seem to think that if scientists said it, it must be real, and anyone that tries to say otherwise is just wrong.
Wind capacity regularly drops below 10% in Poland.
https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/PL
"If you're solving a real problem people will not have an issue paying you"

The counter to this is you don't know at the outset:

- whether you have identified a real problem

- whether you are solving the problem the right way

- whether the amount the buyers are willing to pay aligns with how much you need to earn for solving the problem

- how many actual (vs potential) buyers there are for a solution to this problem

- how difficult (read: expensive) it is to find people with this problem and make them aware of your solution

- how quickly a better-funded company will come in and offer a better (in some way) alternative

- how much you like (dislike) working with the median purchaser of your solution

- how much enjoyment you personally derive from providing this solution

- etc.

All of these lead to the realization that it might be possible to struggle it out with a given niche, but it might not be the best course of action for you personally.
FrostDB in Prometheus – Winter is coming
I'm kind of sad that MD didn't get more broadly adopted. Had MD data been more of a thing and allow for more flexibility (no dedicated audio and data discs), MD would probably have been everywhere.
Funny one. I've met IRL a guy who I've been playing Minecraft with on a private server for years recently.

I was driving near his area so I took a detour, visited him home and we chatted for like an hour.

We totally forgot to exchange real names :)
Thank you For the point. I’ve tried to mix up the sources with alternative media and there’s a 33% of randomness (still with engagement but all engagement not just what you have frequency with) I could try seeing how to experiment with adding topics that are completely outside your engagement I think I would find that useful as well.
> But I'm at a point where I have more money than time for this.

Sorry I'm not trying to stalk you across multiple threads, but this made me wonder if there's a market for contract SREs. Like you own a car but you take it for oil changes and tune-ups, you own a server but some admins SSH into it here and there when it needs fixing (puts an emphasis on encryption, maybe). I think it hasn't happened because there's not a huge difference between this and purchasing hosted services, but, maybe it's an interesting slightly different option.
My last experience in mobile dev was that everyone wanted everything to look like Material UI everywhere, because that's what was trendy on the Web. And that even Android had, bizarrely, pretty poor support for Material compared with the Web, so it ended up being a huge pain on both mobile platforms. I guess it's like how you used to have to call out to JavaScript on Android to get a decent Google Maps address & location library because the Web versions were better than the native Android one, which made no damn sense but seems to be part of a pattern with Google of treating their own mobile OS as a second class citizen compared to the Web.
Can confirm. I've definitely bought some high end dice found on reddit/etsy. Helped there was a big DnD comeback after S1 of Stranger Things.
I vastly prefer functional programming to OOP. But I find my use of `class` in JS increasing for two reasons orthogonal to the paradigm distinction:

1. Particularly in pure JS projects which either haven’t yet or won’t migrate to TypeScript, classes are an excellent way to define data types. They needn’t be stateful, they can be used just like POJOs in otherwise pure functional code. But their shape is clear (or can/should be), and can be used as both types and runtime references without a lot of ceremony.

2. Classes, when they have a clear shape, are great for performance-sensitive code. POJOs can achieve this, but it’s frequently all too easy for their shape to evolve as a codebase is in maintenance. And that can cause hard to find performance regressions.
I am not writing from an American perspective, this is true in European media as well. In any case, you’d think that an accident releasing radionuclides all over Europe would be a better example of the dangers of nuclear than a security system shutting down a reactor as expected in case of emergency. It’s all academic anyway, these discussions are not exactly rational.
"The best thing we can do today to JavaScript is to retire it."

I think that's a pretty interesting statement from somebody like Douglas Crockford. Not disagreeing; but still ...

I think there are two ways of looking at recent changes in Javascript. Either it's progress or it's just not enough progress. I think what he is saying here is that there it has too much baggage and that there are newer and more interesting languages now. That's not such a strange thing to say for somebody that has been involved with trying to create new languages.

My personal view is that browser Javascript is mostly a compilation target these days, including for Javascript itself, and that we now have a better compilation target in the form of WASM that is less awkward to target for a lot of languages as well. The question is what languages people will be using in the next years that target that. I'd say there are some interesting alternatives to choose from already and there are likely to be more in the next few years.
One downside to a Git repo is that it doesn't have an easy-to-use mobile app like Google Keep or Apple Notes.
They aren't providing housing, merely connecting people to find common housing. By your logic, craigslist would have been crushed ages ago.
Honestly, this has been one of the hidden gems that gets so many people to stick with our service Murmel (https://murmel.social). We support RSS feeds everywhere.

It wasn't long before people discovered that and began using our service to deliver relevant stories to their Slack teams and stakeholders. As the author says, RSS is the closest thing to an open MVP-style API that "just works," and hasn't been plagued by a company's closed garden rules.

I am wondering, what else could one use RSS for.

Long live RSS!
Backward compatibility works the other way: new compilers can still compile old code.
I can't explain why I thought MiniDisc was such a cool format. Maybe it was just its appearance in the Matrix. Maybe it was the Japanese "strangeness" of the format, and the difficulty of getting one in the United States.

I was finally able to afford one near the end of the format's life, around the time that MP3 players were becoming endemic. I honestly couldn't make any case for why it was better, and it was significantly less convenient. But I still loved using it.

I need to dig through my "big attic box of outdated electronics" and see if I can still dig it up and see if it works.

I recently imported a Japanese Kei (mini) Truck. A minidisc stereo would be a great theme-appropriate fit for it, if I can find one at a reasonable price.
There isn't, at all, and there never will be.

It's on you to go sniff the butt of the journal that publishes a research article and see if they're legit. You're also on the hook for seeing if there have been any retractions, letters of concern, articles in reply, and who if anyone cited the thing you're reading.

Some journals offer tools specific to themselves to help you with some of this, and there are a few non-journal services that can help you get some of this information across journals (google scholar, pubmed, etc...) but they're scattershot and discipline specific.
Not exactly. What is happening now wasn't the reality in Brazil for some time before. Things were getting better.
There’s no way to run a service like this without it turning into a hookup site. I would never trust a room here. Too many predators.
You have a LOT more legal latitude in selecting a roommate than selecting a tenant. Landlords have limited ability to choose tenants, but you are free to choose what roommates you want.
I know it's a cliché to blame all the world's problems on wealth inequality, and that a lot of accusations of wealth-inequality-problems can be reasonably blamed on other things...

But this one is definitely wealth inequality. They're probably making over half their revenue on "whales" that make up only 10% of their audience, but they don't want to ignore the rest of their audience because (1) they need to continuously convert casuals into whales or their audience will eventually just die off (2) word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing, and there just aren't enough whales out there to keep something like MLB going all on their own.
It's like Debeers and their practice of hoarding diamonds to artificially inflate their value.

"If the college isn't accredited it's no good" is such "common knowledge" that even saying it out loud feels foolish, but overlooks that the education is what's most important, followed by the social contacts that you make along the way.

If a non-accredited college offered more rigorous education and produced superior students at a fraction of the cost than the average state college, then why should a handful of fuddie-duddies with no incentive to investigate get to decide that the college is worthless?

Of course, it's easy to envision a competent college, where hard science, math, history and arts are taught by talented educators adhering to a rigorous syllabus, but implementing it and preventing students from cheating their way through and mucking the whole system up is a different story altogether.
Oh wow, I like this!

Question: if I want to go back and change my selections from the first question about what I normally listen to, how do I do that?
I really don't see that. At the very start they say

> That said, our experience, use cases, and needs are clearly not those of every user. We aren’t pushing to directly build consensus on these points. Rather, this is presented as a vehicle to advertise our needs from C++ as a high-performance systems language.

The point of the non-goals is simply stating things they don't care about, which is pretty reasonable. After all, it's easy to say what you want, but what are you willing to give up for it?
It was installing a well-known blogging platform. Something the team had already done before, and sounded simple, only turning into something gnarly. The trouble started with the host running on Debian, with Apache (without mod_php), so now you got a choice of fastcgi or try to force Docker on there … there are no docs for that weird combination.

You only have 30 mins. No one had ever completed it in that time, and finishing it in 30 mins was not the point. The observer can take in all sorts of things, from ability to problem solve, to how one handles the time pressure.

The point isn’t this specific combination of tech (it does not have to be a blog or an installation task), but that someone in devops will run into obscure things as a matter of course.
Elegant and Performant Recursion in Rust
This is a post about writing elegant and performant recursive algorithms in Rust. It makes heavy use of a pattern from Haskell called recursion schemes, but you don't need to know anything about that; it's just an implementation detail. Instead, as motivation, I have benchmarks showing a 14-34% improvement over the typical boxed pointer representation of recursive data structures in Rust.
There is already a standard called JSON RPC and it is not RESTful at all. RESTful means you are using HTTP verbs to convey some information. This is a “mostly stupid” idea, but it has caught on. RESTful is an now industry buzzword. So this is what the pragmatics implement.

We may as well have a debate on what object oriented really means before implementing something, but again, the pragmatic will just create a structure that is broadly recognizable as object oriented.
So... Where do we get 45 million plug-in heaters? And to replace a 20kW gas heater you'll need _slightly_ more than 1 1.5kW plug-in heater.

Yes.. it's a component. Yes I'm sure it will be employed. Yes it will stress the electric grid (but there is much more flexibility available). But it's not the solution to the majority of gas heating, because there simply isn't the capacity to get the required amount of hardware in the available time.
Ah, the imperialist approach.
For a system that is a providing an object storage service how else are you going to use it?
We had started using it when it was Apache2 and then we got stuck. Might as well just make it into a paid product/service and not play the open source card and earn creds from community.
Not really free in the long run:

> users can take out the .tk domain for free for 12 months, before then having to pay a small subscription fee.

Source: https://www.ionos.com/digitalguide/domains/domain-news/the-t...
What's your point? If something works for the purposes of UI, it doesn't mean it is good for an API.
First, as others have pointed out, Nukes can be throttled, they don't tend to be because its not economically efficient (basically the entire cost is front loaded in the construction).

But there is a _HUGE_ difference between simply not having the capacity because the wind isn't blowing, and having to predict 12-24 hours in advance what the energy load is going to be. In the latter case its entirely possible to spin a nuke or coal plant up in anticipation of the need.

Plus, if you overbuilt nukes, and could guarantee a consistent energy overproduction then you could build all kinds of energy soaking plants, to say desalinate sea water, produce various liquid fuels, etc as well as drive the acceptance of electric cars with free night/weekend charging schedules.

This is actually one of my issues with the Biden administrations "we need more charging" stations drive recently. Charging stations are a problem that will fix themselves when people can look at electric cars and actually say "i'm not driving a coal burner around" and its a no brainier to charge this thing vs buying gas. Until recently that calculation isn't clear, your playing around the edges with the numbers, and the best cases aren't even 2x. Continent wide off peak free and clean electricity for charging makes it obvious which is better. When that happens gas stations will scramble to install charging.
https://www.networkrail.co.uk/stories/why-rails-buckle-in-br... says “rail can actually be up to 20 degrees higher.” and “For some of our track, such high temperatures are more than our track is designed to cope with”, so it depends on the track, but can be around 50°C.

A rail that’s in the shade for most of the day will get less hot, so I expect location also influences at what air temperature track will buckle.
Sure, but you can face the consequences with a higher development, or face them while also suffering from widespread poverty or malnourishment.
What that sounds a lot like to my ears is “white man’s burden”. I.e. we the developed world have a responsibility to control and parent the developing world because they can’t do it themselves.

I’m no expert in what’s happening on the ground in the amazon, but the story used to be clearing amazon to raise cattle to sell to mcdonalds. Idk if that’s still the case, but i’d be willing to bet that the thing driving deforestation is resource extraction for global markets.

It’s temping to try to police brazil’s extraction, but the far less paternalistic and colonial thing to do would be to police our own demand for what they’re cutting down the rainforest to provide.
Right. What would that ticket title even look like?
It blatantly violates many copyleft and attribution clauses in licenses. I think the objection is that it's illegal. At least, that's mine.
This is an interesting point. The system would likely require some kind of reputation score like ratings on other rental sites.
Two problems:

First, you need accurate, current location info on the carrier. That's not easy.

Second, you need something that can launch your cannonball. That's not easy, either, because if you're within cannonball range of a carrier, then you are within range of an enormous amount of return fire from the carrier strike group, and you're dead long before you get a chance to fire your cannonball.

The problem is getting current targeting information to a launcher that's 1000 miles away from the carrier, and then the carrier still moves enough to really matter during the time that your missile travels that 1000 miles.
A shame there’s no mod for this design challenge in KSP
Bootstrap 5.2.0
How is a site helping LGBTQ people discriminate against straight people?

It clearly states it is targeting people who want to live or post a LGTBQ+ friendly place.
Yea I’ve had this as well. I made a tool like this specifically for YouTube 2 years ago and almost gave up on it because I kept going back to the regular algorithm. Here I tried addressing that by pruning the algorithm more for discoverability across the web. Im exploring content I never would have found with the regular algorithm. But this is also why Im working to make it extensible so people can cater what they want to discover and not