skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2.5g means you weigh 2.5 times as much. So if you're 150lbs on Earth that means you'd weigh 375lbs on this new planet. Weighing 375lbs is certainly inconvenient, but it's not like habitation at 375lbs is impossible, especially if you have a scooter.

I wonder what happens if a human child grows up in a 2.5g environment. I imagine they grow up to be short, stocky, and extremely muscular.

Adaptation probably plays a big role here. If you give a 150lb person a suit that weighs 225 lbs and tell them to wear it all the time, they probably give up after a few days. But if you tell a 150lb person to eat more until they're 375lbs, their body has time to adapt.

Since the new planet is 100 light years away, even at the speed of light we're talking about a 100-year journey minimum. Maybe the generation ship used to make the journey could use artificial gravity to smoothly transition from 1g to 2.5g over the course of 100 years. Loading the ship with people who are stocky & muscular is another option.

I don't think living in enhanced gravity needs to be terrible. Astronauts have to exercise more in order to maintain fitness in low-gravity environments. It appears to follow that if you're living in an enhanced-gravity environment, you can get away with exercising a lot less and still maintain fitness :-)
Agree, though HN also clearly has the “Ask/Tell HN” if someone feels like taking about something and they’re by default down weighted vote wise, which to me says the posts linking to content should have substance.

For the people that read HN but don’t comment, please load/scan a link before upvoting. Not doing so will have a net negative impact on HN if enough people are not checking the links.
Handwritten thank you notes increase sales
That isn't apt, because removing Kiwi Farms from the Internet Archive doesn't remove it from existence.

Apt would be, should publishers have the right not to publish material like Mein Kampf, if they so choose, or does "free speech" now mean that all publishers must be forced to publish everything, however objectionable, if legal?
It's a sphere next to a point source of light.

So I'm gonna guess... half?
Mirroring the fact that the cephalopod eye doesn’t have a blind spot unlike the vertebrate one.
Yeah, beware of those who champion tort reform, they're just trying to make corporations legally untouchable
A specific window sometime between 2000 and 2010. And a majority of the US wasn't.

I've had the same conversation with old hippies about record stores and how you just don't appreciate the music when you can just find it online.

The point is that old people have rose tinted glasses to when they were finding out new things for the first time regardless of how good or bad it was.

My own take for the time was that we were starved for good video content which is why we focused on the much smaller and more easily compressible audio files.
Correction: This is not how you wish banks would work.
If this is a reasonable interpretation of "What does your company do to reduce cloud cost?" then the answer is:

The company I work at offers (in GCP and AWS) reserved-instance style discounts but without commitment; spot-instance management; cost analytics tools; and anomaly alerts. https://www.doit-intl.com/flexsave/
True if you count delivery, but the production efficiency is smaller

In the end, it all depends how those numbers compare
I'm working on tutorial on how to build a SaaS application from scratch with React (TypeScript) and Django (Python). During the course, you will learn how to build server uptime monitor.

It is different course, because you build real, working product. The service that you will build is available online at https://monitor-uptime.com Most of the React+Django tutorials create simple todos apps. In this tutorial, you build real product and deploy it to the cloud.

The course is in text-form (no videos). You need to know some basics of React and Django. I will not teach basics of TypeScript and Python. I will show you how to join both technologies and quickly develop a full application. The final code in deployed with docker-compose on AWS EC2 machine. I'm using niginx, PostgreSQL and Let's Encrypt in the docker-compose.

The course is not fully ready yet! That's why I offer 50% discount for early supporters.
#istandwithPutin is not a hashtag pro-ruZZian propaganda (or anybody else for that matter) uses, so i dont see how this comparison is even making sense except creating clickbait
The fundamental problem is, that captchas need to be generated - what you would need is a captcha generator generator.

That way, a human could figure out how the specifically generated generator works within a certain amount of shots, before it changes to a different sample of captcha generator.
I have an Outside In episode for you[0]. Turns out, the inhabitants of Rapa Nui didn't clear-cut the island to build the moai.

[0] https://www.nhpr.org/environment/2021-10-21/outside-in-rapa-...
Incredibly cool. I can't wait to put this on my Series 6.
The inflated prices do not result in supply shortages. The increased/altered demand during covid, combined with decreased supply due things like zero covid china policy, caused a shortage in the market. Price, naturally, increased in this environment to find a strike point where demand would be satisfied with available supply.
Put a 11g/100g or whatever it works out to on both of them (or some closeish but standardized ratio for the asparteme if it doesn't work out exact).
Except the little detail that there is very little NeXT on that wrist-sized box, other than Objective-C is still the main language.
Russia ( and USSR) signed all founding documents of NATO.

NATO is not the inciter, that's a Russian whataboutism to grab territory where gas was found ( Crimea)
var a, b = true; if (a!=b) console.assert(false, "unreachable");
That pun is so silly and childish that I can't see how could anyone take it as a serious attack on abused children. It's a pun that RMS came up with, the same way as some child, unaware of PC culture and consequences of joking about no-no topics in the modern world, would make it.

If you assume bad intentions, everyone in the world will have made a faux pas that can be perceived as offensive. I do not assume bad intentions in RMS's case - he has done so much good for the world, and such a person obviously cares about humans, including abused children. The fact that he made a pun about abused children doesn't bring harm to anyone.

If you asked him for serious thoughts on the topic of abused children, you would most likely receive a completely different response, one that you would probably like.
And yet people skip tons of routine checks because they cost too much.
What if you forget your credentials and the the money is still there, but can never be used?

Related question, can you pass the money to your relatives when you die?
If only there was a way to look at the alleged evidence...
To me, more important issue is allowing users to read, but not comment. Obviously everyone doesn’t have something meaningful to add to every topic, but if someone has read 100 articles and did add anything meaningful, something is wrong with HN.
And who believes that his colleagues’ health is their responsibility to the point of trying to change the culture.
Because it's not original license owner. They would have to provide licenses for everything used plus Apple may reject it just based on "not matching app guidelines". Apple banned even console emulators even tho technically there's nothing legally wrong with emulator on it's own, same for torrent downloaders, Kodi etc. If Apple have any doubts about legality of app they'll just ban it
I made Minecraft in Minecraft with redstone [video]
> The unnecessarily-long-for-debugging compilation times certainly put me off. I think I do like the semantics of Julia better than Python, but the compilation times is a deal-breaker for me. Perhaps I might make the switch once this gets fixed in the upcoming years :)

I like Julia, but this is a point of frustration for me as well. Compilation time is fine for smaller scripts. But whenever I've tried using more powerful packages such as the SciML ones (DifferentialEquations.jl, DiffEqFlux.jl, Symbolics.jl), the precompilation time during the edit/debug cycle can be excruciating. It's a shame because the SciML packages are so amazing.

I'm waiting until Julia's static compilation process improves and is standardized. On-the-fly compilation that disappears every time you close the REPL will never be fast enough to give users a good experience when working with highly complex code.

EDIT: Just to be clear, I'm overall confident that things will improve. The folks at Julia have already made good progress in reducing precompilation times from where they used to be. Looking forward to seeing further advancements in the future.
Your experience of 90s Linux is antiquated. If you find a pc that supports it (plenty of them), I promise Ubuntu isn’t the maintenance hole you dealt with long ago.
this is a very silly comparison, why not compare to the vikings then, or cavemen, how did they get their iPhones?
I think if he was denied access to his money at the bank branch, the bank wouldn't have honored his check. The opening deposit would probably not clear.
We don't do any cloud engineering ;)
I really like the concept of this, it's basically a step further on from SIPs (structural insulated panels) by having standard composable blocks. The things I think are particularly good:

- Standardising on screw pile foundations. Standard concrete foundations are often be about 30% of the build cost, with the quantity of earth removed and cement used it's a massive part of the carbon footprint of a home. For a "light weight" timber construction, screw piles are the future.

- Having services recesses and notches built into the panels, and there is no need to batten the internal walls for boarding. this will increase the speed of construction significantly.

- Being an "Open" standard allows any timber frame or prefab construction company to adopt it.

My one concern (I wouldn't go as far as criticism) is that the panels have a somewhat complex manufacturing process by having to be CNC machined. Realisticly they almost always will be, but I would have liked to see the panels designed to be constructed a little more simply - you will always have to make changes on site.

I wander why they went with ply over OSB, they have similar structural properties but OSB can be cheeper.
Oh now I'm actually curious, I have a weak spot for explanations that make surprising results seem inevitable.

Much better than articles that make stuff sound fancy to make it more convincing (e.g. I've seen articles that used $r^n \pi^(n/2) / \Gamma(n/2 + 1)$ instead of the more sensible 'volume of an n-sphere').
It is axiomatically true that a repeated event that carries non-zero probability for an adverse effect increases the cumulative probability of said adverse effect when it recurs.

I don't need to show any work since covid infection AND reinfection has already been proven beyond any doubt to have non-zero risk of adverse effects on those that don't die from the infection. So either provide proof that covid reinfection carries 0 risk of permanent sequelae or stop wasting my time with the ridiculous claim that reducing the number of times someone is getting reinfected has no health benefit.
You also have hard limits on the total weight of the container, which is why no one transports iron ore in containers.
Here in AU there are a few companies which let you pay any bill with crypto (ie; you send them crypto and they pay the bill using conventional means).

https://www.finder.com.au/crypto-bill-payments

There are probably equivalent companies in most markets.
The watch has similar specs to the first MacBook Pro from 2006!
I have really no opinion on any of this, but please realize there are more factors than health care on life expectancy.
What evolutionary changes would human beings need to adapt to 2.5g?
Something I've noticed with my nieces as they were in that age range was usage of social media. Maybe have a project where they build a chat application? Its kind of a universal communication tool that spans many industries and gives opportunities to exercise basic CompSci up to more advanced topics if they progress further. You could have a sample of exercises to choose from which interest anyone - coding how an emoji works and creating their own emoji perhaps.

To encourage better interactions in the classroom, award points to students for helping others (with guardrails against collusion). Maybe do guest spots in Math classes to maybe spark more interest, kids excelling in Math might like writing code to solve their homework.

Any historical perspectives should definitely include Ada Lovelace: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace
I used to use Araxis Merge [1] years ago and found it worked very well.

[1] https://www.araxis.com/merge/index.en
Why are you asking me when you could just google?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe...

Western Europe does better, Eastern Europe does worse. Pretty much as one would expect.

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Your prior "5 year cancer survival rate" was pretty random. The cherry picking of one favorable stat while ignoring the mountain of counterfactuals.

I was confused.

Then I spotted this.

https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/us-vs-europe-life-expectancy-...

Aha. Just another "libertarian" talking point. Good grief.
Seems like a decent use case for Postpilot’s handwritten notes. I wonder if those would be as effective?

[0] https://www.postpilot.com/
The old CUA, Windows 3.0 corner square has an oblong rectangle that represents the space bar (at least in my mind). Unless the window is a child window, in which case the shortcut is Alt-Hyphen[1], and I haven't used that shortcut in many years. The fashion for tabs has probably made that useless.

[1] http://www.robelle.com/smugbook/win3x.html
> The inflated prices do not result in supply shortages

it's assumed that the shortage here meant supply at (the previously) low prices. Some people are making do without whatever that they originally intended, or found a substitution that was cheaper (and likely at a lower quality).
Would You Go to the Job Centre or DMV in the Metaverse?
“Old growth” wood isn’t materially better for construction along most axes, and possibly all that matter (example: modern SPF is roughly as rot resistant as “old growth wood”, but we also have way better ways to keep it dry too). Construction requires straight-enough material with sufficient flex (compression strength is a gimme) that can effectively hold fasteners. The “crappy quick lumber” that old people complain about today is actually, genuinely fine for what it is intended to be used for and fifty years from now people will be complaining about what they can buy at Robo Home Depot with the same fervor that people complain about modern silvaculture today.
Related:

Facit Homes, Wikihouse, and the Plywood Frame - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27666320 - June 2021 (33 comments)

WikiHouse – Open source buildings and interiors for self-build - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13856917 - March 2017 (53 comments)

The WikiHouse chassis system [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13029982 - Nov 2016 (1 comment)

WikiHouse's DIY kits are the open-source way to build a house - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5768030 - May 2013 (3 comments)
Occam's razor is an entirely logical heuristic whereas confirmation bias is not. But it's good that you show so readily you have no grasp of even basic concepts.
One of these went up near me. Pretty cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfTkW87vmUQ
I'm kinda curious about this. Under the International Building Code, you can build wood frame buildings up to 6 storeys tall [0]. Granted, this is not actually wood frame construction, but I don't see why a building built this way would be any less structurally sound than a traditionally built wood frame building.

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[0]: https://seagatemasstimber.com/how-tall-are-tall-wood-buildin...
Nice response. Seems to mostly agree with OP. About the "long-for-debugging compilation times" argument, it is usually raised when running a fresh Julia session to test updated code. The expected workflow is actually more of keeping a single Julia session opened indefinitely and including updates in it. This workflow is enhanced further with Revise, and conceptually is similar to how people usually develop on MATLAB and R/RStudio. Python programmers will only really use this approach inside a Jupyter notebook.
Obviously the villain in this case is the one that surrounded a country with military force and tried to invade it and burning it to the ground in some areas.

Don't forget about all those displaced families too.
> Dart seems to be exclusively designed for one and only one thing: to power the Flutter framework.

This is a good thing and I wish more languages were aimed at one specific task and concentrate on doing that task well. While we love to hate on it, PHP also falls into this category. There have been efforts to make it a general purpose scripting language but at its heart it's a web scripting language that has difficulty being something else.
Thanks! Merged list of prev threads:

On Repl-Driven Programming (2020) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31277149 - May 2022 (52 comments)

Hell Is Other REPLs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28345617 - Aug 2021 (234 comments)

On Repl-Driven Programming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25620256 - Jan 2021 (206 comments)

What makes a good REPL? (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24588453 - Sept 2020 (27 comments)

What makes a good REPL? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15113170 - Aug 2017 (170 comments)
I guess the internet archive doesn’t take their mission of preserving the internet very seriously
It mentions 2 factors, both of which easily disprovable since excess deaths almost perfectly track case numbers and not vaccines administered and/or lockdown stringency. Better luck with your "it's complicated" bullsh*t next time.
I want to know unbillable time, because coordination overhead and other crap can grow and eat into productive time.

We put in sprints and standups (in a small co, With 2n projects) at one point, and tracking made us realize that this ceremony was costing us 15% of our time and maybe giving us 1% utility.
Another reason why not use stock ROM with tons of bloatware from manufacturer.

Samsung smartphones are good in terms of HW and custom ROM compatibilities. Terrible in OS and basically anything SW related.
Thicker legs
In fact the gaming company had already failed. They shut down the product and laid off employees, and offered to return the remaining money to their investors. The investors instead said keep it and try building something else.

It wasn't a random pivot either. Real-time multiplayer gaming and real-time group chat share a lot of the same characteristics. Discord has the exact same origin story.
It had air, water, game, forest, and immediately arable land (cleared by people who had died in imported pandemics). It even had gravity. What does Mars have besides caustic dirt?

We have no valid reason to assume a pregnancy could be carried to term in Mars gravity.
Yes. It is very clear. They have changed the license in the repository: https://github.com/akka/akka-http/commit/3e82a2811e853ece3b4...
VC-backed businesses being more rare than bootstrapped ones does not reduce the rarity of a successful bootstrapped business or the skill needed to create one.

To your parent's point, it is likely a rarer skill to successfully bootstrap businesses than to take venture capital. The difference is opportunity. A plumber in Oklahoma can bootstrap a successful plumbing business, but wouldn't be likely to get venture capital for such a business.
Has the sand issue been resolved? It'd been reported that we're running out of sand suitable for concrete.

Yes, I know, "Sand? Are you crazy? The world is full of sand!". But river-polished coarse sand is no good for concrete. It has to be of a particular size and roughness to be any use. And the easy sources had run out.

Sure, you could find a process to 'make sand'. But it by definition is more expensive than 'drive a truck to where the right kind is lying on the ground and load it up'. So the price of concrete went through the roof.

The 'age of concrete' may be over. So this issue may be moot.
Hi, I'm exactly in the same situation, bootstrapped saas (that I care a lot about!) at $15k mrr and getting vc offers. I'm 100% on prioritizing lifestyle and bootstrapping it all the way. Follow your gut, it's what's taken you this far.

I was recently recommended by more advanced bootstrappers to try to form a small closed mastermind (group of people with the same goals/values/stage in business). I suck at socializing but if you think it can help both of us to be in touch feel free to answer :)

Let's keep shipping!
Nice analogy, unfortunately that is not how electricity generation, consumption and grid management works.
So does that mean that the prices for such shipping is unlikely to drop in the short to medium term? Fuel prices don't look to be falling by much with the ukraine war, and personnel costs wouldn't drop until inflation drops.
This is essentially the cult of the individual in a nutshell. A well functioning society with a higher overall competence is more capable than one whose education system caters to a small minority of people who did calculus in elementary school.
> redesign cities so they're walkable and bikable and have good public transit (running on electricity of course), so people don't need cars

I think you underestimate how much people like their cars and aren't considering how unwilling people are to walk or bike when it's cold or hot out.

Public transit should be fixed though. Keep buses and their fixed route and schedule during rush hours and for the rest of the day have publicly funded ride-share type of service.
It might be more feasible to remove a big chunk of matter from the planet in question
HN completely random, yes there are patterns, but if you looked at 1000 articles that have been posted 5 or more times on HN you would see it’s completely random to if a topic get attention or not. Same with an emerging new story, multiple users will post it and frequently only after it’s posted a few times over hours or days does it get traction; and even then, there’s obviously a lot of posts that never get attention, but do elsewhere, but were within the scope of what’s on topic on HN.
Did your prices increase to maintain the profit per unit, or did your profit per unit increase / decrease after your price hikes?
> Historically the upper class in places like UK had private tutors.

Yes. As a fun aside, my understanding is that is the reason for a baffling (to people outside the UK) anomaly.

In the UK, if you there is a school you have to pay for (ie not a government school) that is called a public school. Everywhere else in the world that would be called a private school - a much more logical-sounding name.

The reason is that if in say the 15th century you were well off but weren't quite rich enough to pay for tutors for your children you might be able to send them to a public school (eg Eton college) instead. There were no government schools at the time, so schools that were open to the public were called public schools to differentiate from private tuition.
Ironically HighScalability
I found that highscalability.com is both non-secure and having DNS problems.
KYC is a pretty awful idea in general, applying it to even more locations is an even worse idea.
Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. “Well, I never!” said he. “I thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see that there was nothing in it after all.”

“I begin to think, Watson,” said Holmes, “that I make a mistake in explaining. ‘Omne ignotum pro magnifico,’ you know, and my poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I am so candid.

- "The Red Headed League", (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)