skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I exchange Instagram more than almost anything else these days. Second to that would be WhatsApp. Email or text would be the last resort. But please don't hand me an object, I have plenty and don't need any more.
It is an established fact that deforestation was the consecuence of coal mining. Britain consumed way more wood as tunnel/mining frame than as firewood.

It was known and used, just that there wasn't enough incentive for massive extraction so it wasn't searched. It's population growth and in conjonction with it urbanisation, electrification and railroads that lead to the search of more efficient energy source.

Nothing really prevented people from using coal earlier and they did but keep in mind that town where smaller and people scattered about in lots of smal villages. It was easier to collect wood.

Remember that by the end of 18h century, only a handful of cities barely reach a million inhabitant.
Well, "talolla" can actually mean "at the house" or "the house has", depending on context. "On the house" would usually add "on top" or "talon päällä", or possibly "on the roof of" or "talon katolla". In theory you're right, but in practice the clarification is added. If it was table (pöytä) it would be correct and common
Mobile data usage costs?
There's one reason (of many) that Japanese still uses kanji: it has a lot of homophones due to the lack of different sounds in the language (relative to Mandarin, which still has a lot of homophones). Even more, it has pitch intonation which differs the meaning of words. The simplicity of the sounds and grammar belies the difficulty of the language. There have been movements to try and romanize the Japanese language, and for the most part, none have caught on.

Korean has a much simpler writing system, but similarly suffers from a lot of homophones, and in addition with no characters/kanji to differentiate them. Neither of these are magically simpler languages: like any language, there's a lot of legwork that goes into learning them, particularly if you come from a language with little in common

(Edit: I'm not a linguist, I just happen to like both of these languages as a hobbyist; feel free to point out any inaccuracies)
Did Rome have the glassware technology for the kind of chemistry research that even renaissance-era alchemists were doing, much less Victorian scientists like Dalton?
You can create an effective vacuum in a glass tube by filling it with mercury, inverting it, then heating the tube and pinching it off. This is all low tech.

BTW, Edison discovered vacuum tubes by playing around adding extra electrodes in his light bulbs. But he didn't realize what he'd discovered, and it went nowhere with him.
Probably not what you're thinking about, but book three or four in the Ender's Game series (Orson Scott Card) has a community of very OCD people (women?), which are revered as being holy. During the book it is discovered that the cause is genetic, not from the divine. A cure is developed, which almost all of the community take, but the head priestess refuses to get the cure, insisting on believing that she is divinely touched and remaining enslaved to OCD compulsions.
Still waiting for them to replace the desktop app on macOS with an Electron app. The fact that no mobile/desktop client for Outlook doesn't have the like feature like Outlook Web is frustrating.
There's an argument to be made that that isn't a true future tense, as it's not an inflected verb form. Thus English doesn't have a future tense in the same way it has a past tense (-ed for regular verbs) or a present tense (-s for third person singular verbs), .i. marked by inflection of a verb. Instead, it uses an auxiliary verb to express the future. Now, whether that counts as 'tense' or not is a matter for linguistic debate.
moo.com, mentioned a few times here, has decent prices and good options.
Ask HN: Boring but important tech no one is working on?
In the 2020s most old generation people are retiring and not only the replacement generations smaller but there is gap in generational knowledge transfer. What do you think is important tech out there in which are we are losing our collective knowledge and hard won wisdom?
It's not that bad, most sequences of kanji have just a single (common) way to pronounce them.

Although some sequences are completely new, so you need to figure out which word ends where.

And the most commonly used kanji also have the highest number of different pronunciations, sometimes in several ways that are impossible to tell apart grammatically (or even semantically, obviously this is almost never annotated, because adding the pronunciation is for words the author thinks you don't know, even when the pronunciation is entirely unambiguous*)

*: No I'm not bitter I had way too much trouble figuring out how to annotate Japanese text with the pronunciation to make it vaguely readable, why do you ask?
I'm not all that against it, Finnish is quite beautiful. Practically, however, it is too late. English is already the de facto international language with 1.5B speakers and is the most spoken language on the planet followed by Mandarin with 1.3B speakers. I suspect English's international popularity is mostly due to two factors, namely, 17th century British imperialism and that English has been the international language of aviation since the 1950's.
They didn't imply that there was a proper way to run Twitter (they stated Musk was unfit to run Twitter without addressing whether anyone was more fit), and if it did it wouldn't have been disingenuous. It is not disingenuous to believe there is a proper way to run Twitter, that's just an opinion you may disagree with.
I read "House embryos" and was like, okay how far have we come?
I agree but maybe could have said it differently:

> The challenge I see with this solution is that private service providers have a very very strong incentive to get people to believe that this is the only solution: it's hard to compete with an effective monopoly.
But still, there's "minimal required knowledge".
I don't think there is validity to that though I do appreciate the humor and sentiment. A book can be copy-written sure but many have re-created the spec and dictionary.

Recreating a spec is the entire idea of teaching something from scratch. It's too fundamental for law like that. Unless you know examples of actual legal threats and aggressive positioning, maybe like what happened around Lojban.
Reminds me a bit about the screamer serie.
Most hardware is not field-programmable. You can't update a CPU's DDR3 PHY to DDR4, or switch to DDR3L if your needs change.

The single-purpose nature of ASICs and hardware blocks is what makes them fast and power-efficient.
Not having a future tense is an advantage, not a disadvantage.

There's no reason that something happening in the future needs to be encoded with weird grammar/verb conjugation. It's simpler to denote something happening in the future with a phrase describing when it happens, which often needs to be included anyway. Fewer tenses means less to learn.

'I go tomorrow' vs. 'I will go tomorrow'

'I go later' vs. 'I will go later'

Note that I don't speak Japanese. I'm basing this off of my very limited understanding of how Mandarin denotes the future. It's very possible I misunderstood what you mean by "no future tense".
By culture I meant largely what what was discussed in the OP, but also the gender gap and resulting slant towards males in the CS field. Though I suppose the racial gap would also apply.

I did not mean to get into an argument on particulars of whether it’s possible for talent to break through regardless of obstacles (a high rejection rate as discussed in OP, for example), as I figured you had personal reasons for your stance about the potential for talent to break through. I didn’t feel it was right or justified to say you were wrong. You may very well be right, and a part of me hopes you are. I just felt your argument as posted wasn’t strong.

Ultimately what I’m saying is that we don’t have a reliable model (as used in social science) to determine what makes high achievements possible.

I tend not to be fatalist about social systems always determining the outcomes of individuals, I think individuals can transcend them and break through the average result, and we have examples of this such as yourself.

I am a white cis male but the son of a single mother / school teacher and first generation immigrant, and through a mix of luck, privilege and skill had success beyond what was expected of me.

I think breaking through class barriers is doable but I’m not sure if there’s a way to model how to make it repeatable. Even “talent” is a nebulous term, something that arguably is rare but is also not measurable. Maybe it’s not rare?

Mainly I wonder if some folks with great talent get stopped along the way, and what can be done about it. I liken it to random extrinsic events - just as a a car accident cuts a life short, a person with the wrong PhD advisor or boss can be disillusioned or outcast, or worse. Just as car accident rates can be mitigated, what can we do to help nurture people of all walks of life in STEM?
I'm not discounting that the GC had an overwhelming amount of work to do.

My comment wasn't intended to convey that the go gc is somehow more efficient, but rather that I'm thankful for the tradeoffs they've made prioritizing latency and responsiveness, and minimizing the STW phase. I can see how I didn't give enough context for it to be interpreted correctly.

It's been my experience that with larger STW pauses, you wind up with other effects -- to the outside observer it's impossible to tell if the service is even available or not. You could argue that if you're thrashing memory that hard, no, it's not available. In general though, it makes for higher variance in latency distributions.

> Writing databases is hard. And actually the various JVM's GCs are top knotch and have had hundreds of thousands of engineering hours put into perfecting them for various workloads.

no doubt on both accounts. again, thankful for the design tradeoffs.

> Still, these days I'm glad not to be near it and I work in Rust or C++.

For anything that really needs to be very consistent, or have full control execution, I don't blame you. Cassandra is a prime example of what happens when you don't have that full control.
But our sensitivity to temperature doesn't decrease with age, if anything the opposite... even if that's more obvious with ambient rather than tactile temperature (which I'd imagine are processed quite differently by our nervous systems).
go = infinitive

going = present

gone = preterite

No future tense there.

You're using "will" as an auxiliary verb to talk about the future. It accomplishes the same thing as a present tense, but it is not the same thing.
English has basically most (all?) the tenses that a language like French has but may lean on pairing the verb with additional words. (Though it's been way too long since I studied French to even remember the names for all these tenses much less the French forms.)
Ask HN: Did anyone here with normal-to-low levels of energy has had success?
I'm wondering if it's possible to successfully strike on my own, as say a startup founder or an indie gamedev, if my body is just not compatible with working 60 hours per week, as is advocated by the likes of Jon Blow or John Carmack. Did anyone here accomplish anything hard, while only being able to work for say 20-25 hours per week? BTW I'm not interested in accomplishments while working for someone else (i.e. in a job), as I've had career success already and know that it can be done under such limitations.
At this point, why even use Heroku? I'd be looking to migrate away as fast as possible after all the recent events in the past few years.
No wonder we're running out of IPv4 addresses.
This is why I think Disney should buy EA. ESPN is feeling a ton of competition from other streaming/entertainment companies bidding for sports streaming rights. Making it unappealing to buy an ESPN+ subscription.

If they buy EA and bundle their sports games with ESPN+ and ESPN branding. They might have more strength in the bidding wars. It would make subbing to ESPN+ worth it because they now would include the games.

EA also works on Star Wars games. They get popular games like Sims and Apex Legends.

They would also get access to the Frostbite engine, and game engines rendering on a large LED screen seem to the better than green screens in visual effects.
Here are the official FIDE anti-doping regulations, which include the justification https://old.fide.com/fide/fide-anti-doping-regulations.html

Tl;dr: They use the world anti-doping agency list.
Openship – order management system that lets you fulfill from anywhere
Who charges when they have no customers? Who do they charge to?
If I was someone who would look into systems for less-than-usual purposes, I would start looking at those data-collection apis and processing pipeline, I bet there's a lot of shallow validations and lack of limits

It would be fun to see how many phone numbers would fb be happy to import as an example.
English uses an auxiliary word (will) to express things happening in the future rather than having a distinct future tense.
> If you literally killed and deleted all cows from the planet, you’d get a slight delay in global warming, but wouldn’t solve it.

Sounds amazing then, let's do it

Why would we care for single perfect solutions rather than many small imperfect ones?

If anything this would buy us time, that to me sounds amazing
Spoken Mandarin would be a great basis for a logical world language. Although it shares roughly zero words in common with English or other European languages (aside from the occasional loan word, like coffee or sofa), the language itself is concise, expressive and grammatically simple: no conjugation, no inflection, consistent pronunciation and minimal “politeness”. The only ”weird” parts are tonality and those darned counting words.

Too bad the written language is a disaster for learners. 10000 unique characters to learn (30000 for literary fluency), and inconsistent and often unpredictable pronunciation.
https://pulppantry.com/
GraphGuard Proxy – A GraphQL Firewall
A high performance GraphQL proxy that allows you to define a whitelist of queries that you explicitly allow to protect your GraphQL API from malicious queries with undefined complexity.
I forgot to include a link to blog post that demonstrates the ease, simplicity, beauty and clear logic of Finnish, so here you go.

https://depressingfinland.tumblr.com/post/65222506844/what-d...
> ... next to no demand for a RISC-V based desktop computer ..

One thing that RISC-V enables is open source hardware CPUs. There are quite a few people who're upset by stuff like the Intel Management Engine IME making them distrust their personal computer.

These folks don't really have any options that fit their criteria right now.

Some RISC-V CPU could fit in there.
Absolutely great fit to my interests, but can I download this in any format? I can not really read if the lines use to render slower than I use to read and no ability to fast scroll as I can do with a real paper book.
For profit healthcare just means doctors have no incentive to cure diseases and just charge for ongoing therapy that treats symptoms instead.
This may not be the type of answer you're looking for but near me insurance companies (AmFam, Sentry, etc) pay extremely well for the area and pay big money to purchase startups
Have you considered that the notebook is an evolution of a repl, with improved visualization and feedback, for for analysis-heavy work? The problem starts when notebooks are used for development and production.
They know the truth. It can be competent if the citizenry good it accountable to being competent. The myth is that the disinterested citizen isn't responsible, and it's socially acceptable to shift the blame away from themselves.
Ahyes forgot about that.

Just to continue the explainer, vowel harmony means that “in the house” is “talossa” but “in the forest” is “metsässä”. Notice that it’s “-ssä” and not “-ssa”. This depends on which vowels are in the root. There’s two groups of vowels and Finnish words helpfully never mix the two in a single (non compound) word.

In other words, “vowel harmony” sounds fancy, but it’s a single

if root.match(/a|u|o/) then “ssa” else “ssä”
I agree. I am in an entry level position right now and not making much, but I am hoping to push past that before long and make more. However, parent, teachers, relatives, everyone all said the same thing. "go to college, you you will make lots of money!" Turns out, that was a gross oversimplification and a CS degree doesn't automatically make money. You have to have a mix of experience and solid projects under your belt, and if you don't have those then you will suffer a lower paycheck for it.

Personally, I am tired of the rhetoric that "kids are too entitled! They expect MONEY when they graduate?" when that is exactly what everyone tells you practically from birth. If I have kids, I am going to try and make sure that going to college is an educated decision, and not some place they feel they absolutely need to go.
It wasn't about pure fighting ability. Germany overextended their supply by moving into the USSR which weakened them

But this is all beside the point of extreme nationalism being a bad thing
> Apparently it's not as bad as they say.

Clearly that's because he had the good sense not to put it near a spectrometer.
There are videos that went "viral" a few months back of the Lego archives which are fun to watch. Lego has tried to archive at least one of every set they ever produced and store it in a small library in Denmark. Those videos are fun to watch people nerd out about all the history there. The video I recall watching was a car blogger who got to point out the entire history of Lego's car partnerships.

One of the companies I worked for the building I was in was many states over from the company headquarters but was also one of the biggest warehouse buildings the company owned so it had a sizeable chunk of the company's archives. A lot of key pieces were put out on display in the entry space by the main entrance as a small mini-museum of company history. For some training work a couple team members and I had a reason (I forget exactly what) to visit some of the deeper archives. The company's real history only started in the 1990s, so even the deeper archives weren't all that deep, but still an interesting dive through hardware history (in this case of credit card payment processing equipment). (The mini-museum claimed some vague connections to a few more decades of history of the credit card industry as a whole, but that was a bit of bravado and salesmanship of indirect associations more than direct history experienced by the company itself.)
I thought France was better off than most of the EU when it comes to energy, it didn't scuttle all its reactors like Germany?
The reason why bookmarks suck is the same as why a significant percentage of web users struggle with tab overload.

The mainstream vendors became extremely conservative about introducing bigger UI changes and generally innovating on user experience (because of the sheer number and diversity of users as well as classic enterprise internal MO).

That’s why we’re still stuck in the 90’s paradigm of browsing web documents where today the browser is also proto-OS running web applications and a data pre-processor (used to retreve+download from Net into local apps or to upload+classify from local apps to Net).

Even though it’s technically possible to save multiple tabs as bookmarks and reopen multiple bookmarks as tabs (with a single action), very few people do.

My theory is that they became obsolete because:
1. The bookmarks bar is very limited with active real estate and quickly becomes crammed, and thus useless for long-term use which begets large quantities of data
2. To search bookmarks you need to open Bookmarks Manager which is too cumbersome even for occasional searches (most users probably don’t even know about it)
3. Editing and maintaining them is also cumbersome due to a lack of proper tools (batch operations, quick preview, etc)
4. The older the links, the harder it is to remember names and keywords, and our visual memory is often the most reliable point of reference
5. Even if the person is willing to put in the effort to deal with #3 and #4, once saved links tend to become forgotten about because #1 and #2 and the vicious cycle of deprecation is complete

That’s why most people use the bookmarks bar as a quick launcher pad for frequently used bookmarks.

The Read Later services and native features are great for articles but not for general bookmarks that are not long-form reading. Equally, full-text carbon copy clippers such as Notion, Raindrops, Evernote, etc. are not ideal for bookmarks for the same reason. Not to mention such solutions can only save pages one-by-one (instead of in batch), and can’t open multiple links at the same time — both needed to easily and quickly switch between different tasks/contexts.

Without being able to easily save and organise large quantities of (useful) links, people resort to leaving them open until they are able to process them, contributing to a pervasive issue of tab-hoarding.

Without being able to (auto)save sessions/tabs, people end up losing a lot of valuable references. The browser is the only (major) app in a modern stack that doesn’t save work and doesn’t enable you to reopen previous work.

You can only undo recently closed tabs and recover the last state of the browser if it crashes. But you can’t save and close an online shopping session in the middle, only to reopen and pick up where you left off several days later. Why not?

Shameless plug… this is precisely why we’ve developed Tablerone: https://tabler.one/
It has been many years, but concilium plebis made plebiscita that were legally binding for all citizens if I recall. Servius Tullius had also given the vote to others not of the original founding tribes.

I do believe you are correct about the Athens origin of the clay shards though. The subject of exile was confused with the story of Cicero, who was a character who traveled an awful lot. ;)
Acquainted :) Though perhaps they are used as part of the Swedish justice system?
One annoying thing about Finnish is that you have to say the whole year, no shortcuts. 1975 is "one thousand, nine hundred and seventy five" None of this nineteen-seventy-five efficiency nonsense. And, of course, you have to say it in Finnish numerals which are all looooong: vuosi yksi-tuhat-yhdeksänsataa-seitsemänkymmentä-viisi

Saatanan kyrpä, kun saavun numeron loppuun, en muista vitun alkun.
A simple web search can bring you to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusional_language

>Another illustration of fusionality is the Latin word bonus ("good"). The ending -us denotes masculine gender, nominative case, and singular number. Changing any one of these features requires replacing the suffix -us with a different one. In the form bonum, the ending -um denotes masculine accusative singular, neuter accusative singular, or neuter nominative singular.
So I've heard. But I don't really care. I'm single. My current salary is enough to pay my mortgage, all my bills, all my student loans, my food bill, etc. and still have enough to not only save, but donate. I give a minimum of $1,200 to St. Jude's every year, plus assorted charities and even random Twitch streamers who make music if I like what they do and they seem like decent people. In other words, despite everyone saying "you should try to get more money!", I'm currently making enough that I'm literally giving large amounts of it away to people who need it more than me.

TL;DR: I don't care about making "as much money as possible". I only care about making enough money to survive comfortably and help others when I can, which I'm already doing. In fact, I'm currently working towards switching careers, and in the process I'm more than willing to take a pay cut if the new job is more fulfilling; I can afford to.
Rome is also the author's specialization as a historian, so it's a natural area for them to focus on.