skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you explain what in the Wikipedia page you linked to substantiates the 60% vs 10% claim? I’m just not seeing it.
Remove software patents and we'll have megacorps absorbing smaller businesses for free through theft of IP instead of acquisitions, and all the antitrust protection (as limited as it may be) instantly evaporates.
Yeah if you spend all your time on startup and not with your girlfriend you wont be getting kids either. ;-)
> who goes to a traditional coffee shop on a normal occasion

There’s like 3 on the way to the station, presumably some people go there on the regular.
>In the most desirable areas you can literally do nothing as a landlord and raise rents almost perpetually.

You can also do literally nothing even if you want to because of zoning. Remove all the market distortions and watch rental prices drop.

Call a contractor and see how much they charge for permitted work.
Considering that France has been increasing the amount of nuclear in their mix, I think it's worth discussing nuclear for Germany and renewable for France.
This is a failure of your office, not of the logistics network. The bananas arrive just fine, why does your office stock so many they go bad?

I eat plenty banana and almost never throw any away. And when I do, the reason is never "because I didn't eat it in time".
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I have a Lodge skillet I’ve been using and seasoning for a decade+ with a simple technique: After use, rinse, lightly scrub, with water and a little dish soap (basically what comes out of one squeeze of a sponge). Towel dry, apply a thin layer of canola oil over the cooking surface with a paper towel. Throw on medium heat over the stove for ~5 minutes. Done.

I can pour maple syrup over salmon at high heat in that pan and it doesn’t stick. Not something you can do with stainless.
Its probably biggest environmental catastrophy in Europe after chernobyl, and the best of all polish goverment officials said on wednesday: "Everything is fine, you can go swim in the river and catch fish" and 2 days later they revert it all and send warnings to all people living near the river and this proceder was going on for at least 2 weeks.
Some people invest in cities with falling house prices. They could be long-term speculators or more likely are landlords who expect the property to cash flow more than a property in an in-demand city. Generally the slower the asset price growth of a property the larger the margins on rent. You trade cash in the future upon sale for cash now from rent.

The thing that can really crater a housing market is a departure of jobs from an area.
What if water were public for individual consumers but private for corporations?
> more specific than a casserole in French.

It's rather that they are false-friends: a french « casserole » is an english ‶sauce pan″ (the most vanilla cookware, a metal pot with a handle).

A cocote has typically more heat inertia (made of thick casted iron), is larger (so you can cook large pieces of meat in it) and thus far less handy.
what do you think the feasibility of making the laws a whitelist rather than a blacklist would be? they did it with drugs in the UK
Germany buys natural gas (and Oil, Coal) from Russia. That's mostly used in heating and industry production. There are some gas power plants, often also producing heat.

Nuclear power plants are mostly only used for electricity production.

The "light" is less of a problem, the real problem is "heating". Homes often use natural gas for heating, warm water and cooking.

Btw., there is a large dependence on Russia for Uranium: https://www.intellinews.com/radioactive-central-europe-remai...

Even the US buys from Russia.
It's pretty common for the Arctic and the Antarctic to have higher levels of such contamination as water cycles upwards/downwards from the Equator, compounds as it moves along, and then gets trapped in the ice.
Very much agree, having kids has totally changed the way I work. I definitely have less time to do side projects and have to heavily coordinate with my wife when I want to work on a side project.

On the other hand I have had the experience that I am much more focused when I have the time as it has become more precious in a way. My motivation to create something new that could potentially benefit my children is also much higher. Just have to be careful not to convert motivation to self-pressure. It can be a thin line sometimes.
You misinterpret the spirit of the quote. What it means is the following.

> Having very good research is a necessary condition to succeed in academia, but it is not sufficient.

The reason why this is emphasized to starting academics is that many naively believe the system is purely meritocratic and that their work will speak for itself. This is borne out of an ignorance of how fundamentally important it is to communicate the importance of your work to others.

The reality is that there is a total glut of research. Even the best do not have time to sift through all recent results in their broader field. Even if they scan abstracts, understanding the true value of results is a hard process that takes time. The most effective way to understand value of research is to interrogate the researcher directly (e.g., in a seminar talk). Thus, self-advertisement through seminar talks and other modes is crucial to getting your message out. Otherwise you will wilt into obscurity.

I can assure you, the space for some sort of corporate style huckster selling poor research with flashy branding in pure math is very small. This stuff is not easy to fake.
Hotlink prevention is not a new practice
Interesting article, but mostly irrelevant to startups. It’s basically a series of guardrails/habits that big companies need to use to eke out some progress when default mode is to not do anything.
Wat? Is this skipping the real world of every condominium building apartment owner paying a maintenance fee and having a say in where/how the money gets allocated?

When you rent, you just give the power of choice away and have misaligned incentives (when you own, you give more of a shit than when you are merely extracting profit)
This is an exaggeration, of course. The EPA guideline of 70 ppt for PFAS is probably just too low compared to other standards. For example, a Canadian guideline suggests an MAC of 200 ppt for PFOA, and 600 ppt for PFOS. These are the most common PFAS. Also, these are based on a lifetime exposure, and short term exposure to these amounts is probably not particularly harmful.

Additionally, even in the US, the guidelines by the individual states vary between 13 to 1000 ppt. [2]

[1]: https://www.canada.ca/en/services/health/publications/health...

[2]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41370-018-0099-9
If investors are investing in apartments for people to live in there is no problem.

If investors are investing in land and leaving it empty waiting for the local city to build valuable infrastructure around them before they sell it, that's a major problem.

A land value tax will see the former do better and the later to do much worse.
that would be almost impossible to control for
Is rainwater actually unsafe to drink, or did someone just change a number in a spreadsheet?

Both can be true.
If subprime was heart of 2008 financial turmoil, future crisis may centre on private markets. Investors have ploughed c. $9.8tn into opaque, unlisted equity, private credit & early stage/venture funding. Could this blow up? Is their enough leverage?
It's all-or-nothing (if you have to keep your job to pay the bills so be it) otherwise the forces who want to hold you back will be too strong.

You will most notably see it in your own social circle or family. People will put a spoke in your wheel in crucial moments or as soon as you want to take off. If you have not a strong will to move forward this will get you.

Even little and well-meant stuff like "you need a break", "you need sleep" or "you need a balanced life" are ways of them(and also yourself) to sabotage your efforts.

Depression is the result of lack of progress/purpose and not of too much work or lack of sleep. Therefore the best it to optimize always with the goal in mind.
You don't even have to removal all of them; just make it so you can't use all of them.

You're depreciating your asset? You don't get to depreciate, and deduct repair/maintenance costs.

You're depreciating? You don't get to 1031 the asset as well (and avoid recapture).

Regarding government back loans, I think you're right, ish. It's very weird that it's a thing at all, and that you can use subsidized loans for up to 4 unit properties. BUT I do believe this availability has been an on-ramp to a career in real estate, and a wealth building mechanism, for many, many previously-disadvantaged people. It's definitely been bastardized into something else over the last decade.

That aside though, individuals are limited to a maximum of 10 government-backed morgages, and it becomes much more difficult to qualify for new ones after 4. While yes, that sounds like a lot, large real estate companies that are managing 10s of thousands of units are not utilizing these programs, and eliminating them would serve only to limit the "mom and pop landlords" that, frankly, tend to offer a lot more flexibility for tenants than large management companies do.
Except multi language users who have to switch keyboard languages frequently. In some keyboard layouts extra characters are mapped to number row, so having extra numbers nearby saves more time than switching layouts. I also find numpad to be very useful when working with {favorite spreadsheet application}.
I’d love to hear more about this. What happened to this guy and the debugger?

I’m guessing he got fired and moved to a cabin in the woods. No way talent of that level can exist in a corporate environment too long. Too much jealousy, etc and the higher ups usually can’t stand someone who won’t play by their rules even if the results speak for themselves.

Hope I’m wrong.
Housing reverts to the mean. Get a really good recession, and houses become viably priced again, even in inflation terms.

You can thank the Fed for the 12 glib years - their actions have these side effects.
Sometime back one of mentors mentioned about https://theenergyproject.com/. I haven't gone through the program myself but the way he summarized is, important aspect of managing your work is also managing your energy levels through the day/week/year. Identify the work which requires more energy(mental/physical) and get that done first. Later on identify the things which give you more motivation or joy which in turn provide more energy. These could include going out for a walk or having 1:1 or having conversation with someone. Again this will vary depending on if you are introvert or extrovert.
Leaded gasoline and a few others seemed really unsafe at the time of introduction.
This is a problem every activist dealing with baised judiciary faces. And there are biases - they don't get reported because it puts a dent into our faith in this institution - but they exist. And if you see them you will forever lose faith in not only the judiciary but the other institution that does have an impact on it.

It is the media. Judiciary is obsessed with appearences. That is all they care about. A decision that looks unjust can have people revolting, and that is the failure of the institution. So they follow media like crazy celebrities.

And so you have plant articles in media that these judges read. It takes time and effort but that is how you bring change.
> I can't imagine I'd be very happy about that as a cafe owner

I kinda imagine most owners will find the book, learn it’s about kissaten, think that’s vaguely amusing, and then wonder mostly about how they’re going to return it to the crazy gaijin that left it behind.
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Right there will never be something good enough. They want an amazing hotel they can shoot up and congregate and party in with all of their druggie friends.

It’s totally reasonable to expect a bare minimum of compliance in order to get taxpayer funded housing. I don’t know if you have friends or family who are heroin addicts but I can promise you they are not pleasant people to be around, especially when they start stealing to fund their habit.
His video on driving his inflatable car on a lake is just beautiful. I've watched it a few times, now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMEtX0duGUg
Nice to see so many bugfixes and improvements each week, but it will be a while while they all will reach end user.
When you think “power plant disaster”, what power plant instantly comes to mind? It’s a powerful “brand” that is quite difficult to displace in people’s minds. That is the problem to solve.
Great question! The studies do consider the spatio-temporal distribution of generation and demand. Here's a recent paper [1] that develops roadmaps for 145 countries and has infographics with links to additional resources.

I found the source code for the LOADMATCH model [2] used in the studies which can run on a laptop. You can email Mark about data, source code for the GATOR-GCMOM model [3], and advice on running it.

And here's a talk [4] he gave on the topic at NASA Ames Research Center a few years back.

[1] https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/WWS-...

[2] https://github.com/mzjacobson/Public/blob/main/powerworld.f

[3] https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/GATOR/GATOR-GCM...

[4] https://youtu.be/espLfnvuYps
But that includes CC debt that’s paid off every month which really shouldn’t count. The amount of debt isn’t interesting, it’s the amount of interest paid on consumer debt that would indicate it’s real value to the economy.

I think the parent is saying that they lose because it’s their tax dollars going to clean up semi purposeful financial irresponsibility. However, such a bailout would essentially be a wealth transfer to people who used BNPL services which is decidedly not rich people or businesses so I wouldn’t be all that angry.
What's the latest science on whether more iron is a good thing?

If a person is already near optimal iron levels, could cast iron push them over into just a bit unhealthy territory? Maybe not enough that people complain, but what would a sensitive study show?
An underrated John Carmack factoid is how he leveraged ultra-premium workstations (several years ahead of the rest of the market) in order to create the Doom & Quake series[1]. In 1991, before embarking to work on his early FPS game titles, John Carmack spent $11,000 ($23,219.85 inflation-adjusted) on a NeXT workstation. The story of his purchase is chronicled in Masters of Doom:

> On a cold winter day, Carmack laced up his shoes, slipped on his jacket, and headed out into the Madison snow. The town was blanketed in the stuff, cars caked in frost, trees dangling ice. Carmack endured the chill because he had no car; he'd sold the MGB long before. It was easy enough for him to shut out the weather, just like he could, when necessary, shut Tom and Romero's antics out of his mind. He was on a mission.

> Carmack stepped into the local bank and requested a cashier's check for $11,000 [$23,219.85 inflation-adjusted]. The money was for a NeXT computer, the latest machine from Steve Jobs, cocreator of Apple. The NeXT, a stealth black cube, surpassed the promise of Jobs's earlier machines by incorporating NeXTSTEP, a powerful system tailor-made for custom software development. The market for PCs and games was exploding, and this was the perfect tool to create more dynamic titles for the increasingly viable gaming platform. It was the ultimate Christmas present for the ultimate in young graphics programmers, Carmack. – Masters of Doom, pg. 93

Carmack also shelled out $10K to use the world's first 1080p monitor, which he used to create Quake I, Quake II, & Quake III:

> [In] 1995, Carmack spent $9,995 on one the first 1080p monitors: the Intergraph Interview 28hd96. This monitor was gigantic, but the extra screen space and image quality surely came in handy during the creation of the Quake trilogy. It provided a 28" screen with 1920x1080 @ 85Hz, a resolution not unheard of on today's hardware. Essentially, Carmack was able to trade $9,995 of 1995 money for a monitor that put him decades into the future.

[1] https://simulavr.com/blog/paying-for-productivity/
Onkalo in Finland is not 30km deep, which none have achieved anywhere.

But Onkalo is one of the few actually built long term nuclear waste storage locations anywhere.

It is for domestic nuclear waste only.
There is no desire to become the international dumping ground for nuclear waste.

Tbh I believe the waste should be reprosessed as fuel and burnt in reactors instead of burial.

But non-proliferation things make that impossible.
Google meet has jamboard integration for whiteboarding.
> It’s cheaper for Britain to send its shellfish to China to be de-shelled by hand, then send it back than it is to pay some folks to do it in the UK

This is a tiny fraction of a much bigger picture. The shellfish do not get their own private ship. It's cheap because the UK is already importing so much that when the ships return to China empty, they might as well pick up some shellfish on their way home. Then, the de-shelled shellfish is valuable enough to get a spot on the next full ship heading out again.

Not nearly as crazy sounding.
The Greens predate Chernobyl by about a decade and came from the anti-nuke/war/nuclear environmentalists groups, but the dogmatic anti-war part was dropped by the end of the 90s (Kosovo). Since then the Greens have been somewhat "hawkish" (to borrow an US term) on illiberal states and such.
Teams made me love Slack, it is incredible how bad it is.
If the water is unsafe (although there can be different level of being "unsafe"), then I would expect this would be bad for anyone (animals (including humans and nonhumans), plants; some might be more impacted than others). But even if it is only partially unsafe still it should still be reduced and eliminated to make it not unsafe like that. I do not know how to fix, other than possibly to reduce adding more PFAS, but maybe there is some. I do not know if lawsuits are the way to do it, but even if it is, it will not alone be the way to be done, I think. Stop making such chemicals which are potentially unsafe, don't do things bad just so that you can earn too much money (they say love of money is the root of all evil, and I think so; that is what they see anywhere), etc.
Kind of like most people understand that nuclear powered rockets and planes are a bad idea?

I have a hard time seeing how crypto-commodity projects, with their near the extreme libertarian beliefs, will jive with society's expectations around money and assets. That being said, there will be a few things that come out of the space, like formal verification, that will be incorporated into other software.
Speculative market can't change the price of food that has short expiry and long manufacturing time.
Nonstick pans are a negligible source of PFAS compared to various plastic products. For example some paper bowls are 25% PFAS.
In Canada we don’t have 30 year fixed mortgages, the longest I have heard of anyone getting is 7 years and that’s me. Despite not having cost certainty in the long term we have the same property market issues as every other desirable place to live.
> What makes you think Smalltalk was sold on the basis of runtime performance?

Nothing, because I never said anything of the sort.

What I did say was that Smalltalk has always been very slow compared to other languages. It was true decades ago, it's still true today.
Sometimes I wonder if we are rolling dice with synthetic substances life never had contact in billions years since it's origins until one of them gives us a Children of Men scenario.
> What I don’t understand is how those two incidents are even relevant. Chernobyl happened because of a faulty design + mismanagement and Fukushima was located on a region prone to earthquakes/tsunami’s caused by earthquakes.

To use an old phrase, shit happens. When it happens where a Nuclear Power Plant is, the happening continues for a very, very long time. That kind of liability is not worth the risk and of course there are other power solutions than the fossil/fuel nuclear divide.
It will filter about 95%.
boost shared_ptr has been around since 2001. ZeroMQ was started in 2007.
Routing tables need to be limited in size in order for hardware to decide where to route packets fast enough. In the past hardware was more cpu and memory bound than the present.
You can only do teaching but it’s a different career path entirely. Some people don’t like it because you lose out on power and tenure.
It is copyright law, not patent law, which prevents the scenario you describe.

Patents are useless to small businesses unless you are in the business of patent-trolling. Try to sue a big corporation and they will just countersue.
Good to know, all this does for me is cross off Lenovo from vendors I will look at when I need a brand new system. The list is getting rather small these days.
Thing is, it won't even be possible to demonstrate that unsafety on a low scale. I think we should just accept the risk. It will happen once in a while. We will adapt.
You could use it for both gopher[0]/gemini[1] as well.

[0]: https://git.scuttlebot.io/%25n7g%2BJlKZjPV6CRfSQL5YUWk%2BxYg...

[1]: https://git.scuttlebot.io/%25V0D7DtSnZyyAp1NbgOJF2ZAFMeUy9eX...

The sad thing is having a pure web browser that intermixes correctly, perhaps something that uses tabbed, surf, and a dillo/luakit based thing for true "browser" support, browser in this case meaning: "supports more than http/https/html".
It was probably a good abstraction for its time. The driver for the particular terminal was abstracted away in the OS, meaning that programs only had to handle a pre-defined set of signals and IO.

It is, however, a needlessly complex abstraction as of now. The lack of a real terminal device means that the OS maintains such pseudo devices for the sole purpose of being able to spawn multiple virtual terminals.
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3. Use your browser built-in print function to export the document. Ctrl + P , save as PDF. (https://twitter.com/rtnF14/status/1558495754230333440?s=20&t...)

Notes :

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> We keep repeating the pattern of scaling some technical innovation
up to all of society, and then years later discovering that it was
really harmful.

You missed the problematic last step.

We take technical innovations to a societal scale, discover a really
harmful effect, and then stubbornly do the square root of bugger-all
about it.

It's expected that harms, especially through complex side-effects take
time to emerge. We can't see the future, nor can we exhaustively test
everything in advance.

The problem comes with the response. A certain amount of market
inertia is to be expected. Recalling and replacing products is expensive.

But what is absolutely inexcusable, and ripe for immediate radical
global action to address [1], is the disgraceful, blatantly criminal
behaviour of large corporations who move to suppress science, discredit
researchers, silence critics and bury bad news.

Many problems concerning at-scale blow-back turn out to have been known
about decades in advance of their impact.

[1] https://goodmenproject.com/the-good-life/the-corporate-death...

EDIT: A better link on the idea of the "corporate death penalty"
(actually quite a good read in itself) [2]

[2] https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/01/08/its-time-bring...
Dealing with it with FIFO is better than not dealing with it.

Yet we have a few billion people on the earth. I think we can spare a few thinking about other problems.
I cook on my grandma's pan, and I can confirm, it outlasted the 20 or so pans I used growing up.

Cast iron is forever.