skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it would've been the same thing with IRC. Worse even, since that has no history (by default).
Instead of attacking people in this manner . Provide sources to prove your point this isn't Facebook .
No new services are needed for this. I have been part of many of these over the years.

I let them grow organically.

I am in many Discord servers and Slack channels, and forums hosted on Discourse.

Whenever someone or I want to go through a MOOC in a cohort, or read and code through a book, or work on a project, we just make a post on the forums, and interested people let the poster know that they would like to take part.

A new channel is created in Discord, Slack or a new server- sometimes a Telegram channel.

And we go from there.

More than 70% people drop out in more than 90% cases.

But you would find at least 3-7 people for any endeavor.

This model is highly successful.
I think you're right, at least, that's consistent with Twitter's account of the "whirlwind bargaining session." What I said up there was 100% humor.

In all seriousness, I'm really hoping that Twitter takes Musk down a notch here, and most of the legal maneuvering has filled me with childish glee. Until today, that is. If the twitter board was aware of this, I'm not sure that even signing away diligence would get them off the hook. I'm not a lawyer, so I'm not really sure what to think here
Here in the Netherlands it’s most often cheaper to go by car. In addition the trains are horrible unreliable and stacked with people so odds of getting a seat are very small. I’m not sure how we got here.
Every part of that reply is wrong.
Will we ever learn ?
On a smaller scale, the Tagus-Segura water transfer project [0] in Spain is creating problems not only for Portugal who receives less water in the Tejo river, but also fueling unsustainable agriculture booms which in turn have created ecological disasters [1]

Often these water transfers introduce invasive species.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagus-Segura_Water_Transfer

[1] https://inspain.news/mar-menor-is-victim-of-water-diversion-...

(THE TAGUS-SEGURA WATER TRANSFER Lessons from the past (pdf))

[2]
http://d2ouvy59p0dg6k.cloudfront.net/downloads/tagusseguratr...
Thanks for the tip. I've been on the internet for nearly 30 years, used Google since inception, and this is the first time I've heard of Google Alerts or even knew it was a thing!
Genetic engineering may in fact be easier than achieving world peace, yes.
Assuming that our individual oerception of experience and agency applies analogously to this greater consciousness, then I suppose so, but I don't know if our narrow minds can comprehend or express the way it operates.
When answers become known, do they delete the corresponding articles?
like everything in the world of fitness...it depends.

gym time == me time. i don't want to socialize or talk to anyone. i learned the big three from reading Starting Strength and a really nice coworker but learned very quickly that i can't stand talking to people while at the gym because i'm already stressed about my lack of free time. PTs would not work for me. i use books + reddit when i need help with programming.

my wife, on the other hand, really loves the social component of working out. she didn't work out with any regularity until she discovered spin classes. she's gone once, sometimes twice, per day, almost every day, for months now. she has favorite instructors for sure.

others i've known have found great success with a trainer.

just gotta experiment. incorporating fitness and a healthy lifestyle takes lots of trial and error, but feels amazing once you get there.
Share of companies that have taken a public stance on social issues since 2020
I guess the issue is that visually we can scan a page and and experience many things at once. Also, there are many ways to move the mouse cursor from one position to the next. There is a lot to work with.

I am wondering whether there are similar mechanisms for non-visual, non-mouse contexts. I don't think the solution is to add an endless stream of background noises to our websites. I fear the article is correct when it says:

> This leaves the entire burden of branding on voice & tone alone.
I think it's plausible that there are types of spam Google can't fight against, but this ought to be possible (which supports the "malice" theory).
This is not so much different from Teslas crashing.
Not as a matter of policy, no.
Why do we need high energy density? Are you imagining a future society with much higher energy use?
If you starve your microbiome of sugar, then certain bacteria will die or go dormant.

Notwithstanding how you, or I, define “you”, once that change is made to your microbiome, you won’t find that coke to be very pleasurable.

I don’t think it’s about being less valid, but if you were to find out you were not making decisions for yourself rather someone or something else was controlling your decision making processes, would you make simple changes to take back control?
Let’s cite this kind of stuff.
Yup. To my surprise xz -1 is faster and compresses better than gzip -6, the default setting. Guess what I'm using now? I'll use zstd when the GNU tar in my distribution supports it directly without resorting to pipes and shell magic. It would be nice if one could specify the compression level on the GNU tar command line. BSD tar already does all of the above.
You've clearly never heard of Action Park, though not quite 1%.
much MUCH easier said than done, but i generally agree
(I'm discovering I'm more ignorant than I thought.) How would some want to change those definitions?
Yes, I also (vaguely) remember an ELinks branch with some kind of command line. I think I even tried to build it, but it felt too experimental for comfortable usage. Still a good effort, though.

I started to look into Links and ELinks again after reading (and upvoting :) many of your previous comments. I also got really curious about netcat. HTTPS won't work directly, but has anybody ever written a rudimentary, less/more-like front-end to actually browse the web while relying on netcat?

The way you separate browsing into different steps is really inspiring to me, thanks for sharing. Like, you're actually using the web in such a modular way. I'm afraid I won't be capable enough to replicate any of this for my needs (I'm a more of a hobbyist with a soft spot for lean, terminal- and text-based workflows, and abusing an old Dell Mini 9 in framebuffer mode as my main machine). But it does get me thinking, heavily, again. Watching a screencast of you "browsing" the web with your helper tools would be interesting.

I suppose with all these hand-tailored helpers, using the internet is a much more "focused" experience: looking for specific things vs the aimless browsing that contemporary tabbed browsers encourage. Easier to leave the internet alone when you rely on those narrowly focused tools, I guess.

As for lean browsers, Dillo with FLTK was also an extremely enjoyable experience under X. Really easy to switch off CSS, a nice config file for hand-tailoring search agents, etc. Using Dillo was when I first realized that I don't need to know how the website was intended to look like by the author. I'm fine with just rendering the body text with a tolerable, consistent font face.

It almost feels like that in 2022, the major thing why regular people need to update their systems is because the web browser "doesn't work". But, end of rant.
As usual, economically irresponsible countries introduce "free" stuff.

And who pays? How about the EU countries that support them? Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, and more.

Nothing is free.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/spain-leads-eu-pandemic...
I just did a quick test with a copy of GNU M4, which is reasonably representative of a source code archive.

$ time xz -9k m4-1.4.19.tar
real 0m2.928s
user 0m2.871s
sys 0m0.056s
$ time zstd -19 m4-1.4.19.tar
real 0m3.411s
user 0m3.380s
sys 0m0.032s
$ ls -l m4-1.4.19.tar*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 john john 14837760 Jul 24 14:40 m4-1.4.19.tar
-rw-rw-r-- 1 john john 1674612 Jul 24 14:40 m4-1.4.19.tar.xz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 john john 1726155 Jul 24 14:40 m4-1.4.19.tar.zst

In this test, XZ was both faster and had better compression than Zstd.
"Think of the children" when used as an expression refers to the situation in which children are used as an excuse to implement rules which would be otherwise unpalatable. Not every case of protecting kids is a "think of the children" situation.
Yes! Personally I always select to purchase food with the least fake stuff in it, be it fake taste, fake color, or unnecessary preservative.
That could explain Elon Musk’s sudden reversal. I don’t understand his motives for proposing-then-withdrawing (the other theory is that the market crashed and he wanted to halve the price, but he’s a senior, anyone could have guessed that the market was on a downwards trend; another theory is that he didn’t expect such opposition and withdrew seeing that he was seen as the bad guy).
This is such an insane comment. Yes, trains in the Netherlands could be better, but they're still world class. Nothing unreliable about them, and they're definitely not packed.

I don't know if you just don't have perspective, or if your comment is a joke and I just didn't get it.
For a while they had a better selection, better return policy, and "free two day shipping" which combined blew any other online or offline retail operation I was aware of out of the water in terms of the complete customer experience (excluding certain niches like pharmacy or luxury that they weren't really participating in).

Since then, the others have caught up and they have stagnated. I'm starting to look elsewhere more often but habits do change slowly. I hate to say it but I don't think too hard when I need the little odds and ends Amazon is still pretty good at delivering.
Is it feasibly priced? Often enough APIs from big walled services don't seem to be any more than something to point towards when regulators raise concerns about market dominance.
In the time you've spent arguing about Vercel on here you could have actually tried it out and then you'd actually have your own opinion based on genuine experience.

I've used AWS Lambda professionally for years, Vercel is a totally different beast. I recently span-up a hobby project recently on Vercel rather than AWS Lambda (using Serverless Framework) to try out next.js and it took about 10 minutes to get it working whereas AWS Lambda would have taken a lot longer.
In fact, it's the same country and the same establishment. While Chernobyl is currently, as everybody knows, Ukrainian territory - at the time it was the territory of the USSR, and the dominating culture was Soviet - which despite being theoretically "internationalist" actually meant "Russian Imperial". People who made decisions there may have been born anywhere, but they all spoke Russian, and they all looked to Moscow for authority. And the establishment largely did not change in Russia since then - while some people went away, naturally or forcefully, and some new people came in, the new people now in Russia were largely parts of the same establishment as in the USSR - they just went up a number of rungs on the ladder when the top elites had to retire. The classic case is Putin - who is ex-KGB - but if you look at his team, you'll see most of them have roots in the old establishment or have been brought in by the people from the old establishment. In contrast to Ukraine, where old elites largely lost power (new ones are far from perfect either, but that's a topic for another day) and have been replaced, in Russia this replacement never really happened - and that may be a good key to why what is happening now is happening.
This is the correct approach. You buy what gives the best value for money and allows you to run the software you need. Fan boyism is not universal, most people outside tech just buy what they need regardless whose cpu is inside.
Ford's answer to EV supply chain hell: Cheaper batteries
I totally agree in the long term for space travel. But for our current energy use, it could be useless if it costs even a little bit too much. Kind of like solar concentrators are worthless because PV got too cheap.
No, the law does not require the Content ID system. Other platforms don’t have it and they’re fine. I took down a content stealing TikTok account with DMCA just two weeks ago.
Sure, if you look at the Pareto frontier for xz and zstd, zstd does not seem like a “replacement” for xz. It’s not a replacement for PPMd.

The problem is that xz has kind of horrible performance when you crank it up to the high settings. On the medium settings, you can get the same ratio for much, much less CPU (round-trip) by switching to zstd.

YMMV, use your own corpus and CPU to test it.
WordPress.com Reverts Its Pricing Experiment
What if you stay put then use the extra two years to apply to top colleges for a MS? The age won't be an issue at all, but your first two years might be boring if you have to repeat classes!
The article is about usage of xz for long term archival, so transport is not relevant, the concern seems to be bitrot and forward compatibility.

Storage with integrity checking would be the solution to bitrot, but TFA also seems concerned with "how do you unarchive/recover a random file you found?" which seems a somewhat valid concern.

And xz does have support for integrity checking, so it seems reasonable to have a discussion on whether that is a good support, rather than on whether it should be there at all.
This videogame review from a YouTube channel called Warlockracy is actually also a really interesting perspective on at least some aspects of Russian subcultures and their prominence, I found it a surprisingly insightful social commentary wrapped up in an entertaining vid.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ_PiXLVaJ8 (~45mins)

The second video is more serious but also rather interesting (clips from it became very popular at the beginning of the Russian invasion into Ukraine). It is a lecture from a Finnish University Professor whom spent most of his career in Intelligence specializing in Russian relations and now teaches intelligence and security. He talks extensively about the corruption hierarchies in Russia as well as Putin and Propaganda, well worth a watch (and more recent videos have been released since found on the same channel).

2. https://youtu.be/kF9KretXqJw (~60mins)

Operating under the assumption that the video isn't misrepresenting the cultural aspects of Russia I think we would both be surprised at how "cartoonish" things can be.
Exactly. The State cannot generate wealth itself. The State, through its representatives (aka Politicians) take people money's by force to do such stuff.. unbelievable.
> Imagining that somehow fusion is going to a) work, b) be cheap (fuel cost is only 5% of total nuclear fission cost so who cares), and c) not have the same stigma as fission is kind of weird in my mind.

The cost of fission comes doubly from the nuclear proliferation risk and the safety risk, neither of which apply at all to fusion. The levels of radioactive waste produced is at basically the same levels as medical practices.

> Plutonium is made by irradiating natural uranium from the dirt with neutrons. Practical fusion reactors have lots of neutrons. Really high energy ones too.

In that case you're intentionally trying to irradiate something, you can do the opposite and engineer for things to not be irradiated, and even then it tends to be long lived low radiation isotopes.
ESP32 as Professional Grade Industry 4.0 Device (2017)
Discussion relating to the original announcement back in April:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30894980
Checking in on competitors is one thing, monitoring their every move seems borderline obsessive to the point you're not focusing on your own product roadmap.

I wouldn't want Google alerts about competition. That feels like paranoia.

edit: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1109220781035307009
Thiel being the bad guy in the Gawker v. Thiel situation requires a hell of a lot of contortionist thinking or just blind hatred for rich people.
Howdy jmillikin.

That is a very small file.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25455846#:~:text=xz%20o....

> xz on highest (normal) compression level easily beats the compression ratio of zstd on highest compression level (--ultra -22) on any data I've tested. However with xz reading the compressed files easily becomes a bottleneck, zstd has great read speeds regardless of compression ratio
But that's not the point made in the article. Is this the reason apple arm laptops don't show up in comparisons?
I miss the OG Deadspin while simultaneously denouncing what they did to Thiel. That crossed the rubicon.
Awesome investigation and breakdown.
Well, the little tigers can be dangerous and hold pathogenic bacteria in their little claws.
You'd be nervous too if that thing could claw at your eye
at any moment. Plus they could carry toxoplasmosis and tons of infections picked up from street animals.
For easy queries DDG seems to be better at showing the primary source. For more complex stuff I still find Google much better - often enough the right result, which is ranked highly on Google, can't be found at all with DDG.
To some degree, that doesn't matter. An underlying feature of a competent approach to safety in design is that the design must take maximal ownership of eliminating risk to all people in all scenarios that can be reasonably expected to result from the design.

The moment Telsa set expectations by proclaiming it as autopilot, they took the corresponding responsiblity to make sure it did not generate any scenarios which were unsafe. The moment they implemented features that allowed the attention of drivers to drift more than standard driving, they also took responsibility to make sure that the drifting attention of drivers did not place the system in an unsafe state.

This same issue applies to touch-screen interfaces in modern cars. Drivers could always stare down at their radio when there were tactile knobs and dials, but touch-screen interfaces now expect that because they've eliminated tactile feedback. Telling drivers 'just don't look down' misses the point, because it's the responisbility of the car manufacturer to not create a system where that added safety risk is not controlled appropriately.
I used to spend a ton of time in the Xaos program poking around the Burning Ship. You could middle-click and it would make a Julia set based on the point you clicked, and you could find some amazing stuff in the rigging of the ship.
It's perfectly OK to mistake a subjective preference as objective user friendliness its most people's definition of the term. What is negative is to confuse disagreement with your preference with being unreasonable.

> People who hate on it just have some historical gripe with it, I feel like.

The way it handles virtual desktops with multiple monitors out of the box poorly thought out. With 3 monitors having changing workspaces only effect the primary monitor is very poor user experience. that leaves virtually pun intended without the affordance of virtual desktops at all.

There is a setting to expand virtual desktops to all monitors and now you no longer have to dig through something that looks like the windows registry to enable it which is indeed a nice upgrade but it misses the vastly superior third option of being able to independently switch each monitor.

An obvious affordance instead of digging through a settings menu would be a little iconic padlock beside a representation of the virtual desktop switcher that when unlocked enables you to manually switch a singular monitor or when by default locked allows the monitor to change with every other monitor.

Trivially enables not only all 3 possible workflows but allows one to discover this organically at the cost of a small amount of screen real estate.

This is a singular issue but their entire history is rife not merely with subjective differences in user preference but objectively bad design.
Can you support your allegations with evidence?

The EU already has a lot of regulations in place that particularly hurt EU companies. GDPR for example is good for citizens but requires extra effort by companies. Small US companies can ignore it until they are big enough to expand into the EU market but small EU companies need to follow the law from the start.
Does anyone have an idea of what 'Unknown' implies for OS market share? In some areas it has a 11% market share.
Sure thing but it's good to have at least a little something to prevent too much refactoring later.
I'm not sure that's true. Does it matter where the money comes from?

I think what gets missed is the market signal or imperative to respond to that signal. But then, I'll make the uninformed assertion that private rail companies aren't that good at that anyway, and/or the industry doesn't lend itself well to that.

And if rail was "free" I'd definitely use it more. It's not necessarily about the money, although that matters, it's the freedom to "just go" (ignoring there'd probably still need to be a booking system due to high demand)
Why not just use a regular humidifier? Evaporative humidifiers are just a fan with a special filter that's good at absorbing water and has a very high surface area so it also evaporates quickly.
> His critique of DT fusion is still worth reading. The big issue, the lousy volumetric power density of DT fusion reactors compared to fission reactors, is still a huge albatross around the necks of all these private DT efforts.

That was largely a product of the times, before high magnetic fields could be achieved. ITER has all those problems, but newer ideas do not.
The small teams aspect was interesting to me, I presume there are also some trade offs with large teams
Feasible for my personal use. 100 free daily quota. 1000 calls per 5$. I'm not affiliated with Google.
Pretty much the core of the issue. Shouldn't it be possible to, somewhat reliably, filter out all commercial content? That would probably increase the average result quality by a lot.
I built up Kagi's team and initial infrastructure in Crystal, and though I'm no longer with them I will say they are chugging along.
Yeah they have version histories built in.
My point is that NO CONTRACT perfectly spells out every detail => this argument can be used to null any contract => weak legal reasoning. A buyer could make up any sort of nonsense to escape a contract, like (to pick a random example) arguing that a certain social media site has x% fake accounts.

Far stronger reasoning (for example) is that a contract must spell out time, which is a special property of contracts because (for example) 1000000 years is virtually never an acceptable period for which to fulfill on your end of a contract.
When I hear of some new promising technology - a battery for example, search for it in Google News, setup an alert, and then forget about it.

I got this tip from someone on HN, I wish I remember who, but it's been great: I'm able to ignore 99% of the newly hyped technology without missing out.

I use it for new promising medical treatments as well.
Hey man I just been using Hack for iOS lately. Please don’t update to Flutter. I’m an iOS dev too and the performance is just not that good.
If you're on a $2/mo shared host I'm sure 50 visits in a short enough period is enough to toast the server for a bit.

Front-page HN articles can result in tens of thousands of unique visits[0] and several hundred simultaneous users. It's not hard to see how 200-300 can throttle an otherwise unoptimized site.

[0] https://medium.com/@ketacode/the-impact-of-appearing-on-hns-...
Are the Google crawling bots using similar IP ranges than Google Cloud?
The reason the Tokyo transit system is so good is that the government built all the infrastructure up until the 80s, then private companies came in and reaped the profits. It's a product of planning, and of government infrastructure and spending, not of private competition.

In fact, JR these days makes money by buying up real estate, building a station, and seeing land value skyrocket.