skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1000 years is a pretty long time. Looking at literature from the 11 century, Beowulf is the only thing that stands out as still having any impact and continuing to be adapted and widely read today.

Information storage and transmission over the next 1000 years should be quite a bit better, so more work will survive and have a shot at continuing relevance, and Lord of the Rings certainly has a shot, provided epic fantasy keeps its popularity as a genre. Being fairly foundational is likely to keep it important to the genre to the point that I think we're just asking if humans in that future will still care to experience these kinds of stories at all, but you are pushing the point at which all that tends to still be read that far into the future are national foundation myths and religious scripture.

It'll definitely last more than a century, though. The Hobbit was published in 1937. A century is only another 15 years away.
Well it depends a lot on context I suppose. I thought it insensitive because it could come across as "I know you've just said you're going to lay a bunch of folks off, but since I'm on the lifeboat, can we talk a little bit about my time off..."
That can work, if the scheme is (a) fair, and (b) transparent. I.e. something like "this is the formula we apply to the quarterly report to get everyone's bonuses".

Anything else just ends up being a lottery that helps no-one.
Of course it does. It always did at least at the margins.
I am not familiar with any details, but the haskellians seem to still be working with STM. At least there are a bunch on talks online about it.

I had spent most of the 90s working with transactional systems and while they are useful and powerful, they aren't magic and require awareness to keep from making errors. Joe Duffy wasn't wrong when he says those problems are well known. The solutions normally are either Don't Do That Then, or managing the policy details and logic yourself, which wasn't giving them the easy concurrency they were trying for.

Edit: He has a followup post at http://joeduffyblog.com/2010/05/16/more-thoughts-on-transact...
That is only true because of our current tools and capabilities. With improved manufacturing techniques and AlphaFold++ I think biologics will dominate. Even still, there are ~2000 approved biologics [0].

[0] - https://purplebooksearch.fda.gov/advanced-search
I think this is part of it. I don't think people (in real life, not in magazines) cared as much whether something "went with" the rest of the room. Like, I'm sure some people did, but it wasn't a normal thing for middle class folks to care much about, as far as trying to make their own house look that way.

There's, relatedly, probably some effect from all those home makeover & house-buying shows, which constantly push "any 'weird' color is bad, and any room without great color coordination is bad, and it's not OK not to mind it". There's a Mitchell and Webb sketch about this, in which two home-buyers on such a show are presented a bathroom with avocado fixtures, and the host berates them over multiple takes because their initial reaction isn't as negative as it ought to be. Fiction, but there's definitely a kind of same-ness to people's reactions to any but a few acceptable colors on those shows.
depends what was in the books, many "woke" books are just inappropriate for kids.
Yeah I realized I was "built for" it when I discovered it pays six figures without a college degree or a background check.
Yes, but the bill is subsidies for actual manufacturing and fabrication companies.
Methane leaks speed up climate change
Maybe, but I don't know see an obvious causal link between that and the quality of the answers and questions.
Did you really go and stalk this person's profile to show it's OK for them to lose their money?

> > Why is my Internet connection through xfinity wifi HOTSPOT is now filtered by Open DNS?

Is this your proof of them being sketchy?

Shame on you. I hope never to do business with you.
We actually didn't need the money (we're cashflow-positive). In fact, we haven't touched the money from our Series B (in 2020) nor our Series C (in 2021). But raising money is helpful because a) it gets prospective customers interested in the product (oh, X company raised, let me check out what their product does), b) it gets prospective employees interested, c) it allows people externally to see that the company is making progress rapidly (I wish we could post revenue metrics here, but I... think that's a bad idea?), and d) we sold very little in this round (1.4%, so there is minimal dilution to employees), for those advantages.

TBH, fundraising is kind of like charades: it's a way to signal you are doing well, without telling people your private company metrics. I wish we never needed to fundraise, and could just focus on building great products and working with customers instead. :)
Oil is the textbook commodity and the expected profit margin on commodities is ~zero. That's the nature of a commodity: a good so interchangeable, with so many competing producers, that the profit margins are inevitably minimized.
In some states it is always landslide win for one party, basically a one party system for some districts because the other side is always too extreme. People can vote for the guy they like the least for president and the guy they like the most for legislative seats because they address issues most relevant to their district.
This stuff is part of why I love this website! You’ll always, _ALWAYS_ find folks that will inexplicably carry water for any large corporation (for example, Chevron) and due to the way the rules are structured, you’re explicitly not allowed to poke at them about it. You can’t even bring up the content of the rule without breaking the rule in this case!

Anyway, to more directly address your point: The person you’re responding to might likely respond in the affirmative to your question, though I’ve never seen anyone actually explain how house arrest in the US makes any sense in this case.
> the original project leaders will be excised entirely and replaced with his friends, and they'll be selling the bible next year

This is a great example of a major flaw in DAOs - crypto has no power over meatspace. You can write all the smart contracts in the world, and they can even be bug-free, but none of that matters when the point of the DAO involves a physical object that's in someone's physical possession. That's when you actually need people you can trust, and a legal system if they let you down.
Among other things, that profit owes to the fact that the price for their product was substantially higher at sale time than at the time when they bought their inputs. If your issue is that someone made a profit, then you want the market price to be lower.

I personally don't think mandating all actors to altruistically abstain from transacting at market price would be a sound policy, but that seems to be what liberals want.
I think this negativity is uncalled for. They said that they do their best, sometimes there are mistakes on their end that they try to fix, and sometimes the person complaining is lying or leaving out details that would explain the situation. If you've ever dealt with people, you would know that they often "forget" things or downplay things that would make them look bad.
So can I borrow it for four months? I’ll invest it and give it back but I’ll keep the interest. Oh by the way inflation will have devalued it. Sorry about that.

Won’t make any difference to you as your business is robust, right?
Thanks for sharing, I'll check these out!
A normal forum would be better in most ways.
Yes, they do. They control things like this.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/24/biden-administration-pausing...

We could drill our away out of this problem, but we are not, because the the biden administration is being held hostage by the progressive left. And before you start calling me a republican, im not one, but this is just a really stupid idea because it's decisions like this that will cause republicans to be elected in 2022 and 2024 - the american public isnt going to take higher gas prices for the team to fight climate change at this point, they are going to vote people into office that will lower them. biden doesnt realize this because he is surrounded by people that think a like and are too rich to be unaffected by inflation, or he doesnt care -- either way, it
s a bad position
Possibly the most uncharitable headline achievable considering the actuality:

"Meta is asking its oversight board to weigh whether the "current COVID-19 misinformation policy is still appropriate" now that "extraordinary circumstances at the onset of the pandemic" have passed"
The ribbons and helices you see in those pictures are abstract representations of the underlying positions of specific arrangements of carbon atoms along the backbone.

There are tools such as DSSP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSSP_(hydrogen_bond_estimation... which will take out the 3d structure determined by crystallography and spit out hte ribbons and helices- for example, for helices, you can see a specific arrangement of carbons along the protein's backbone in 3d space (each carbon interacts with a carbon 4 amino acids down the chain).

Protein motion at room temperature varies depending on the protein- some proteins are rocks that stay pretty much in the same single conformation forever once they fold, while others do thrash around wildly and others undergo complex, whole-structure rearrangements that almost seem magical if you try to think about them using normal physics/mechanical rules.

Having a magical machine that could output the full manifold of a protein during the folding process at subatomic resolution would be really nice! but there would be a lot of data to process.
On the topic of Windows 95 UI clones... If you go one minor version back from your experience, RedHat 5.0 actually shipped with FVWM95* as its default desktop and it was fugly:

http://toastytech.com/guis/x.html

* FVWM, with an unholy patchset to drag it kicking and screaming into kinda-sorta resembling Windows 95
the first two points really don’t help the credibility of this theory. it does actually get better after that
I always loved Bombadil. A discordant note among wizards of great power and elves of slender form and perhaps a metaphor for Nature itself, but I also have enjoyed a lot this take on the character.
Did you use a configuration management system like Puppet or Chef, or did you roll your own with scripts?
I can attest to this.

The small company I was working for got card tested (scammers use hundreds of stolen cards to see if they work). I called customer support and talked with a human on a Friday night at 8pm for 15 minutes about our options. 2-3 days later, I chatted with someone from the fraud team.

I was surprised by the high touch service even though didn't have a lot of volume (new account w/ less than $10k of transactions).
Thank you, this gave me a lot to think about.

This feels like a strong claim given the source:

> Medical personnel at hospitals and clinics across the city were informed to only report suspect cases if they were linked to the market. These details have been publicly confirmed (see above)

Source: https://archive.ph/iMQVD

Their sources are:

> Liu Yue ( pseudonym at the request of the interviewee ), director of the emergency department of a tertiary hospital in Wuhan, told reporters that after the New Year's Day holiday, the hospital held a meeting, and the director of the department attended the meeting. The hospital leaders verbally conveyed to them a "reporting standard" for "unknown viral pneumonia"."

> Li Xia ( pseudonym ) , director of the emergency department of another tertiary hospital , also confirmed to reporters that on January 3, the hospital held a similar meeting.

> "The leadership of the hospital requires that this reporting standard can only be communicated through face-to-face, telephone, or WeChat voice." Li Xia said.

This is a strong claim. Is it true? Is there any evidence for this other than two pseudonymous reports?
I once was leaving my work studio space in north Brooklyn and there was a pretty large shoot happening a block away. I had my headphones on and was going to a bodega on the corner before heading home, not really paying attention to the shoot itself because you sort of get desensitized to it living in NYC.

As I'm walking all of a sudden I notice that J Lo was a few feet from me with cameras on her, clearly in the middle of a scene they were actively filming. I play it cool and walk into the bodega, where the film monitors were setup and people were watching the live feed. Some guy -- I read him as the DP -- goes "hey nice work, you're background?" to which I respond "oh, no man, I'm just buying something". They shut the whole scene down, because clearly I had no contract and ruined the shot, and as I walk out of the bodega J Lo is just looking at me smiling.

Some PA totally got fired that day.
We’re facing climate change induced economic collapse in a few decades. Zero of the 17 goals are achievable if we don’t solve that problem.

If the UN claims it can’t see that, it is because it is bought off.
The ornithologist is a scientist. They do not control what the birds do, they study what the birds do. The birds make the decisions.

Miguel started the GNOME project (with, obviously, lots of similar involvement from other people). He is closer to a manager, ie, a person making the decisions. He can just say that the proposed article is nonsense and that is pretty significant evidence.

> he is also still a human being, and thus is subject to bias, deception, forgetfulness, mis-remembering, etc.

Microsoft threatening legal action is not the sort of thing that slips the mind.

> That's why if you want a real discussion it's useful to have evidence

The evidence is Miguel says it is nonsense. You can spill a lot of ink and not come up with anything half as convincing. Miguel's one line is more evidence of why GNOME acted as they did than the entire article managed to scrape together, unless Mr Liam on Linux happens to also be on the GNOME core dev team and I've just never heard of him. But I don't think he was. I doubt he was in the room or involved in any of the decisions.
> I still find it fascinating how confidently people are willing to
put out comments with all sorts of strongly worded claims about
things they are not knowledgeable on, that turn out to completely
wrong.

On the other hand I find it terrifying how many people will spend
their lives cowering in quiet ignorance never venturing anything, and
never learning anything, all for the fear of looking foolish.
http://web.archive.org/web/20220728124858/https://old.reddit...

For anyone who is looking for the original story, which has been removed
We probably should support that. What's happened is we initially built the feature for an on-prem customer and never bother supporting that for the cloud version (since anybody who wanted it would just use the on-prem version). Let me follow up with the team now and see how much work it would be to bring it to cloud. Thank you for the feedback!
>needs to recognize what I care about

"How does TikTok solve this in a way that the others do not?" I wonder.
"Ownership" is morphing into paying rent. all property is becoming more like "intellectual property" with both time components and a public interest.
Yes, social media is undermining democracy
> Stripe is developer centric.

What kind of excuse is that? I've seen so many small businesses using Stripe. I doubt all their owners are developers who are comfortable with Discord.
There was also a TV series with that premise in 2014, as a late plot twist. I guess naming it would spoil it.
maybe you can try Apache doris

https://github.com/apache/doris
https://doris.apache.org/
I think the fact that advanced features are available, but their existence doesn't impact most developers writing most apps, is a great thing. (Not that Swift - especially SwiftUI - is perfect.)
> about psychology as a science?

You can easily have the opposite point of view: The so called hard sciences deal with human concepts and not reality. An alien society would not have the same physic or math. Many concepts of our physic are a bit circular or need ad hoc parameters.

Kepler make a good model from data by Tycho Brahe. Newton made an even larger model from Kepler's laws, yet it's only a model. Einstein... you get it. Without Tycho Brahe all the rest would be simply speculations. Without Michael Faraday, would we have Maxwell, and Heaviside?

The Romans did not liked math, and the Bantu migration did not even used writing scripts as we know them. Gengis Khan was able to conquer and create the greatest empire of the world and Mongols of that time used little scripts.

The so called human sciences on contrary deal with reality, it's incredibly complex. There is no real way for us to understand the complexity of reality.
I have fond memories of many 2600 titles that are contenders for the title of “worst video game”: E.T., Superman, and Pac-Man

Not to get all grumpy old man, but the alternative was pumping quarters into one of two machines at the local ice cream parlor or begging my parents to endure Chuck E. Cheese.

The reality is that these games were entertaining and a reasonable substitute for goods that were economically out of reach.
Seal Video/Audio Downloader for Android
George Martin was still publishing his blog there until pretty recently, so that forced it to stay in somewhat of the public eye as the only place to get any official updates on when Winds of Winter might finally be published.
I’m sure both oil refinery executives and the executive branch of the us government wish that they did have that much control over gas prices. The reality is that gas prices are set by market mechanisms of an international commodity. Gas costs what it costs.
Has that been the definition, or has that just been your understanding, which may have been wrong? Has there really been a redefinition?

I mean, if we just take Wikipedia as a gauge, they have defined it according to the NBER, dating back to 2008 [1].

A recession is a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales.

There does appear to be a recent, ad-hoc redefinition edit battle going on [2][3], but it's to redefine it as you are saying here rather than accepting what has been there for over a decade... apparently for the purpose of using it as a political cudgel [4]. Maybe not so Orwellian, just a misconception.

[1] https://www.nber.org/news/business-cycle-dating-committee-an...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Recession&diff=pr...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Recession

[4] https://twitter.com/RepublicanStudy/status/15516279756401909...
Right, but that just emphasizes the parent comment: if there’s nothing to disturb your sleep, why would you wake up to notice the train isn’t moving.
You're evading the question. When you ask me to explain my reasoning I would normally expect you to do the same. Or just say you don't care enough to properly reply, that's also fine by me. Now you spin it back to me by implying I am some sort of idiot instead, which is not very nice.
Gasoline was expensive before the war.
Sharing Online Content – Even Without Reading It – Inflates Subjective Knowledge
hilarious seeing the definition for recession change in real time, after it being "2 straight quarters of negative growth" for my entire life
That definition was only ever a rule of thumb. The fact is, you can't define it. It's like setting a temperature that is officially "cold". The current economic indicators are almost completely unprecedented in the growth is weak, inflation is very high and yet employment remains historically strong. As much as GDP represents the broadest indicator of economic health, if you're looking for a headline to apply to the masses, it's going to be when we see broad-based negative wealth effects in which case inflation and employment/wages are the most important indicators and they're flying in opposite directions right now. Declaring that this is or isn't a recession is essentially irrelevant. It's officially cold when you feel cold.
Scan of the Month: Drug Delivery Devices
20-30 years is optimistic IMHO. We're still a huge technological breakthrough in batteries away for large-scale, high-capacity energy storage to be viable.

It might happen, but the technology still isn't there, yet we're going all in on renewables, especially in countries like Germany and Italy where nuclear is politically toxic.
Why? The article said he's been using the service for 15 years. At some point you just fall into a groove. Just like frequent fliers that zonk out before the plane takes off, and wake up upon landing.
Clickhouse, trino, kylin, bigquery, snowflake, plenty of competitors.

Having worked in the space for a few years, druid is very fast when you know exactly what you're doing. Until you reach that point, you're going to have a bad time. And if you try to run it yourself under kubernetes you're going to have a really bad bad time. Druid is amazingly fast, but no development effort is going into making it easier to run.
I read the abstract and skimmed the paper :).
I'm reading HN because of the top 5%ile original thought leaders and ideas that I still get out from them.

The FB discussion isn't about anti-capitalism. It is the general theme of HN.

Like most HNers you are lacking imagination in what VR will do. Just like everyone who poo-poo'ed what is possible from Computers, Internet, Mobile Phones.

Yeah before iPhones, we already played with Palm Pilots and Microsoft CE hand held devices.

End users are all of humanity (minus some stubborn Luddites. But you never invest / build strategy around luddites)

If VR helps you master skills better, help firms to be more productive, that in itself is a good enough use case for everyone to use VR

The fact that VR systems can provide experiences closer to reality means the applications are boundless.
Build2 0.15.0 Released
Good thing about finally converging on some sort of standard means tools become more interoperable:

Another good tool (which was endorsed by the PyPA) is Hatch - https://hatch.pypa.io/latest/environment/

I currently use PDM because it supports conda virtual environments for isolation, but am keeping an eye on Hatch.
>>Color is an experience.

And where is your experience outside your mind?
Whatever they are, where are qualia outside the model of your world?
Where is your pain whe you get beaten up?
Well, I've definitely worked with people who are not built for it. They're genuinely trying but... they're never going to get there.
I tend to agree with astrange's comment about VentureBeat specifically, but let's be honest here, we're not lacking in internet randos who spend too much time playing videogames, telling you whether you should or not buy a videogame.

It's totally OK that someone is focusing on the industry news and not consumer reviews; and when he gets drafted into playing something (because you don't send your whole damn staff from CA to Köln to ingest what's 99% ignorable media blitz) and he sucks at it it's fine to take some time to point and laugh, but it says absolutely nothing about the greater state of games journalism.
And what does any of that have to do with Elon, Doge, Hashcat, OpenDNS, BTC, or hacking a phone? How could any of those reddit posts be relevant?
As someone who is profoundly uncomfortable in economy seats, but doesn't feel rich enough for upgrades most of the time, this sounds like my nightmare.