skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know that wealth tends to follow a Pareto distribution historically, this is the qualitative fact. My impression is honestly that this is a function of some people being able to earn a return on money more easily than other people. The poor can make better use of fifty dollars than a millionaire, a millionaire can take better advantage of a fifty thousand dollars than a billionaire, and a billionaire can make better use of 50 million dollars than the poor or millionaires. So things eventually reach some sort of equilibrium as it's self-correcting, somebody who uses money badly gets overcome by somebody who uses it well.

Right now I think that equilibrium is out of sorts because I think it's almost self-evident how much somebody poor could do with a thousand dollars, whereas a company like Berkshire Hathaway right now is at such a loss as to what to invest in that they're literally just sitting on cash when they get it. There's are exceptions but I see too much of this these days. Wealth also isn't distributed like a Pareto distribution, it's too top-sided to follow the distribution perfectly, and if history repeats itself we will see that unravel. I expect the top to fall more than I expect the bottom to rise though.
I didn't see much of it (I don't have a twitter account), but what I did see already had distortions.

"Black carbon": starship uses methane, very little black carbon produced.

5000 tons of aluminum in the atmosphere is trivial compared to meteorite dust.
Keyword there is "slightly".
Why the presupposition that these aliens are more rational than us? Presumably they would be just as vulnerable to their evolved behaviour and inertia of historical decision making as we are.
yeah people say perl is write only but I guarantee it's less write only than that awk incantation
that's pretty fundamentally incompatible with the scrolling model of the web

It isn’t though. If browsers supported overflowing text into a “next” container (defined via hierarchy, selectors, whatever), designers could just design repeating pages of layouts like they usually do with full-height marketing stripes.
Why is it illogical to have Sunday be the first day of the week? Maybe Saturday is logically the first day of the week since nobody in their right minds would want a work day (assuming a 5 day work
Week) to be the first day. Like eating dessert first, starting the week with a day off just makes logical sense.
> I love when someone pushes a bullshit narrative so hard they shoot themselves in the foot

Projecting much? You were the one saying don’t trust the CIA (except this CIA doctor). Definitely seems consistent.
> Meanwhile, in the UK, you can go to Stalybridge on the outskirts of Manchester and ask the ticket office for a return ticket from Edinburgh Haymarket to Bury St Edmunds and they won't bat an eyelid even though it covers God knows how many potential operators.

You can even get a ticket to Ryde, Isle of Wight and get the Ferry ticket included too.
(Honest question) what do you feel that your comment added to the one above it?

Are you suggesting that "dumb verbose code" might not be legible (I suppose that's technically possible, but seems unlikely to happen by accident)?

Or are you implying that Perl consists of "hieroglyphics" and so is not a suitable language for writing legible code? This, I think, would miss the point - deepsun was saying that, in both Perl and in awk, readers prefer legible code over cleverness - to claim that Perl cannot be legible at _all_ requires a little more justification, and would probably be disputed on the grounds that familiarity with a language's conventions is often a prerequisite for legibility.
If we think of it like iterators in C++, though, begin() is Monday, and end() is the next Monday.
Silly reason, but I like that Sunday being the first day keeps the week symmetric. You have the first and last day of the week being days off (in most places), and you have Wednesday in the middle. It's not very logical, but neither is any part of our calendar system.
Especially the dead authors who’s great-grandchildren might have to go four years instead of three between trading in the Mercedes.

Keeps me up at night…
Because it is not intended for dense populated areas. The point of Starlink is to serve the underserved.
Unix time doesn’t include leap seconds.
The question I prefer to ask is “how much functionality can I comprehend in a given amount of time” rather than “how many lines of code can I comprehend in a given amount of time”.
(Opinions are my own)

Google uses absl::Status / absl::StatusOr as a replacement for what people would usually use exceptions for.

The benefits:

1. As an end user of a large library I can tell you exactly which calls are "guaranteed" to succeed without learning anything else about the code.

2. It is impossible to ignore a Status/StatusOr which makes it impossible to ignore a failure. You have to explicitly ignore the return value which is easy to spot in code review.

3. You can return your exception across RPC an boundary with added detail so if a caller of your service.

4. You can (very easily) enrich the Status with metadata at every single point. So much so that it is very common.

5. You can enrich the way "exceptions" works in a way that makes sense for your company by changing the structure of Status.

Cons:

1. It is more unnatural than dedicated syntax like try/catch.

2. You can't bubble exceptions up the stack automatically so there are macros that do this for you (https://cs.opensource.google/search?q=ASSIGN_OR_RETURN&sq=)
You're presuming the outcome of the charge. DAs often don't prosecute because the arrest or paperwork is deficient and the case won't stand up in court.
Should you take this sort of advice from someone using block quotes for explanatory sections?

That oddity aside, seems the explanation didn't start 101 enough for me - I've not come across `main` before! Though it's not at all new: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ma...
You’re in an oversubscribed area, it’s that simple. That’s not going to change until they either get more sats up there or people in your area cancel service.
I met a guy in a pub once who had invented a new type of truck. I'm not a skater so I didn't totally understand the significance, but somehow it could flip 180 degrees while being ridden. Apparently this opened up new kinds of tricks.

He had patented it at vast expense and was in discussions with a couple of big retailers, and manufacturers.

This was late 2000s. I wonder sometimes if anything came of it.
The story begins with aliens landing in New Jersey, and describes the calendar most commonly used there.
They also chase VC money but yeah.

They usually go for the least plausible business models for some reason
Or a used ARM Chromebook. An Asus C100P in good nick is still quite nice IMO, aside from the lack of updates.
One issue I've encountered in the past when using text formatted with hard wrapping with non-technical people is that presenting the information usually goes fine, but when they want to edit the text a bunch of headaches ensue, since they don't use editors that reflow line endings or maintain spacing that would only be clearly visible in a monospace context.
The article notes that the handwriting and scribbles look quite similar.
Thanks for the update. The Dusseldorf and Cologne route monthly price seems to have risen quite high.

Here are the 2022 prices for the UK. The Liverpool to Manchester route price has dropped:

- UK: Luton to London St. Pancras (35 miles) | Monthly ticket cost: £387 (2017) | £452.80 (2022)

- UK: Liverpool Lime Street to Manchester Piccadilly (32 miles) | Monthly season ticket cost: £292 (2017) | £234.70 (2022)
Not only it is possible, it is routinely done. At $WORK we have libraries that are use std=20 features in its implementation and only expose a c++=14 interface because that's what expected by our clients.

It is mildly painful, bit not more painful than restricting to c++14.
pidigits and regex-redux explicitly allow use of C libraries.
Sure but I think we went too far. Current copyright protections are aimed squarely at keeping corporate profits, with insanely long protection periods that in most cases end up profiting the company insanely more than the author.

Similarly with patents stifling innovation, especially in industries moving way faster than patent protection and patenting trivial things just so they can "gotcha" the competition (or just patent troll).
I'm honestly not sure what "bike shedding" is but numerical values for days of the week very much count when building any software containing calendars (or any dates really) to make sure it works properly in different geographic regions.
"That will just not happen outside of how it has happened with most books ever written and happens with most books being written today."

There, fixed that for you.
So, for comparison - in Poland we use

- 24 hour clock

- days of the week are called "after not working day", "second day", "middle day", "fourth day", "fifth day", "sabbath", "not working day"

- months are mostly named from the agricultural/weather phenomena "wood cutting month", "strong cold month", "Mars month", "flowers month", "Mai month", "red pigment larvae month", "linden trees month", "sickle month", "heather month", "chaff month", "falling leaves month", "frozen ground month"

Dates are written dd-mm-yyyy or yyyy-mm-dd (less often).

The rest is as bad as in USA.
There’s still ambiguity in verbal language. On Sunday, if someone messages you “let’s do this next week” - do they mean “in the next 6 days” or “after 7 days from now”?
It's biblical. Saturday is the sabbath, the 7th day rest day, which would make sunday the first day. Later, christians decided to hold mass on sunday instead, because it was when Jesus resurrected. Eventually you end up with saturday and sunday as rest days, even though one is biblically the first and one is biblically the last day of the week. But both are the "weekend".
Sunday being the first day of the week came long (as in thousands of years) before the weekend was invented (which is a very recent development).
A moon base please.
Should be added to the LAION dataset. They already have lots of books.
Weekends? Weekends are... the ... ends of the week. When you build a bookshelf, do you do:

<stack of bricks> <book> <book> <book> <book> <book> <stack of bricks>

or do you do:

<book> <book> <book> <book> <book> <stack of bricks> <stack of bricks>
To me, it seems the strongest complaint of the article is that these men have a stable support network of friends and help each other.

Shouldn't that be equally the case with women?

Apart from that, yes, Musk did childish jokes on Twitter, but that's hardly news I guess?

And why is it a problem if Zuckerberg tries to present himself as old-school masculine? He's old, married, and a dad now.
Surprising absolutely no one who understands networking.

The ludicrously high speeds that were praised during the limited beta really seem like they were designed to be a bait and switch to get people on board with completely unrealistic expectations for a full fledged satellite internet service.
When a foreign government is suspected of dismembering a US resident it has more geo-political implications. Despite the fact that every grusome crime deserves equal treatment from the justice system.
Revenue neutral carbon tax with dividend, definitely punishes the rich, poor could end up ahead, and should let the market sort out what to incentivize.
This is certainly impressive, thanks!
Based on the fashion and film grain, that picture is probably 30 years old. I lived in Tokyo recently, for 5 years, and saw this maybe 3 times, all at special occasions, such as on the way to a large fireworks festival. I've experienced train pushers in Vancouver during the 2010 Olympics, too. Yes, many trains are uncomfortably crowded at rush hour but I've experienced the same in Europe. Maybe slightly worse in Europe, because at least the train tends to be on time and the ticket machines and turnstiles always work in Japan.
Thanks for the pictures, that was useful. I feel like I might be part of a microscopic minority, but I'm always looking for a pocket-able Linux box with as good as possible keyboard. My current best is a GPD Pocket 2, but it's stretching the "pocket" aspect and battery life isn't amazing. I'd love to see a modern version of the Jornada 690 (notably better display).

The MNT Pocket Reform is an interesting option, but the current design is far too thick for a daily spot in my pocket.
> The reason why the fear is irrational is that the digital mode of distribution is actually constrained by the inherent ability of people to consume new information. You can read only so fast, so it makes no difference if you have 1 million different books "stolen" on your computer. Most of them would have never been read or even opened.

It's not. They want you to pay them for the book instead of just getting it for free.
Tell HN: My Hacker News app (HACK) is sort of broken this afternoon
I am the developer for HACK, a hacker news app on iOS, iPadOS, MacOS and Android.

As of this afternoon, I received lots of emails reporting a bug in the app where:

1. Tapping on a story was taking to the link for the story instead of the comments. There was no way to access the comments.

2. All stories showed "now" as the time posted instead of the correct time.

3. Threads didn't display the title for the parent post.

This occurred due to Hacker News making some changes to its website's HTML today.

Since the Hacker News API is pretty much useless (it's a read only API and doesn't allow voting, favoriting, commenting etc. Also very hard to work with), my app relies on the website which it parses to get the content. It does the parsing using XPath. Due to the changes in the HTML, the XPath in the app were no longer valid.

I have already submitted an update to Apple and the Play Store for fixing this bug. Hoping to have it approved soon (hopefully sometime tonight/tomorrow).

I am really sorry about the inconvenience to all the users who rely on my app.

The apps are:

https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/hack-for-hacker-news-reader/id1464477788

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pranapps.hack

Feel free to ask questions. Thanks.
pity the right wing polemicist, newest victim needing protected status under the law, and their need to violate the first amendment of the united states by needing compelled speech to foment their fascist blather. So very like Rosa Parks, women, and the elderly.
> everyone agrees

Not everyone, Israel has has Friday and Saturday off.
If you compiled me, you'd know that you are a type who I respect ;)

I think you're right on many counts, and I appreciate the effort you took to see what TS could do for this kind of project.

If you create an issue on the repo, I can notify you if I make an attempt at using TypeScript to maintain it, in a branch at least. No guarantees, but I've considered it before, and it'd be worth my time once I have some to allocate.
Neal Stephenson’s Lamina Drops White Paper on Building the Open Metaverse
why do you assume GP is talking about general users? as you point out, this is HN: it’s reasonable to think that most comments here are written for that mostly-tech-literate HN audience, unless they state otherwise, no?
The usual form of the metaphor is "a crab bucket".

The mental image this is meant to evoke is that if one crab attempts to escape the bucket by climbing the side, then others will grab it, and their weight will pull it back down. So no crab escapes the bucket.

A metaphor for unconstructive criticism or obstruction that squashes attempts at betterment.
Right, I (in the US) always figured "end" in the word "weekend" was akin to the two ends of a line segment, the two ends of a bar, etc.

To instead think of "end" in the word "weekend" as the opposite of "start" is to use a completely different definition of the word "end".

I wonder if "weekend" therefore has two definitions, given the split dependency.
That the as actually not conforming. It was made conforming in c++11 because it was pointless to have the standard say something that all major implementations would ignore.
It doesn't make sense to lose money on every rocket launch but make it up in volume. It's more accurate to say that reusable rockets and a LEO satellite constellation can form a mutually-reinforcing flywheel that will lower costs for the eventual Martian fleet.
Download only for sampling, buy for serious use.
Show HN: Agnostic JavaScript two-way data binding lib (7KBtyes)
That was at 10 MB per book, but that seems pretty high. Looking at the most popular books at Project Gutenberg suggests that 0.5 to 1.5 MB is where most fall.
Designing a well-fitting system of units is not hard given all the experience we have already. Units of time are the trickiest due to natural cycles, but there are ways to minimize the irregularity.

The problem is getting that design adopted by everyone.
How exactly does the jump bar affect impact resistance? Distributing the force evenly I assume?
Tech is the only industry that asks this of it’s users, it’s just laziness on the developers part. People needing to know about hashing in order to save photos would be like people needing to know what refrigerant their A/C uses in order to keep cool.

Can you? Sure. Are their weird edge cases where it’s mildly helpful to know as opposed to having to ask someone? Debatably. Should you need to in order to not have things break for no reason? Absolutely not.
> even if it would be possible to buy that same ticket from a machine at the station or in-person at a ticket office and it would be perfectly valid for said service.

You can also buy a ticket which is nominally for a different train online, which will still be valid so long as it's not an advance ticket. But I agree this has bad UX.
That sounds quite sensible. From memory, our (en_GB) weekdays are named like this:

Monday -> Moon day

Tuesday -> Tiw's day (Norse)

Wednesday -> Woden's day (Norse - Odin - chief god, one eye, two ravens)

Thursday -> Thor's day (Norse - god with a massive hammer)
Friday -> Freya's day (Norse, rode a chariot drawn by cats)

Saturday -> Saturn's day (Roman, also: Saturnalia is the winter festival that eventually became Christmas)

Sunday -> Sun day
Ask HN: What is the best source of documentation for Awk?
Yeah, I played around with a decimal time: https://kybernetikos.github.io/UIT/ but eventually realised that my seconds, minutes and hour equivalents were just names for some of the decimal places of the Julian day number.
The median should probably be used - the trains are much more likely to be used by people at the lower end of the wage scale. Charles may live in London and make ungodly income, but he’s unlikely to be found on the train.
Except a few results down the page there's an article that links a bunch of studies that claim the studies your article quotes are faulty:

https://intaction.org/circumcision-hiv-a-dangerous-mistake/

https://www.aidsmap.com/news/aug-2012/male-circumcision-may-...

https://www.aidsmap.com/news/feb-2013/circumcision-makes-no-...

https://web.archive.org/web/20210509203032/https://www.monit...

Which by the way would invalidate the CDC's encouragement of circumcision since that advice is based on the three studies your article a few comments up quotes:

"The guidelines point to research, much of it done in sub-Saharan Africa, showing that circumcision reduces the transmission of STDs, including HIV and the human papillomavirus, which can cause cancer."
My recommendation is First You Write a Sentence. by Joe Moran. It feels like a recent classic and I re-read chapters all the time.
Numerous French nuclear plants are past due date but their lifespans have been extended beyond their expected lifespans for what looks to me like political and economic reasons - instead of building new ones in time to handle the transition.

I do not know what the intersection is with the set of reactors that had to be shut down. One must understand that EDF is under immense pressure as an underfunded public provider, as it is forced to comply with price regulations (out of its own pockets as the government owes it a lot of money that curiously fails to be paid back), provides electricity at a discount to other European countries - someone has to compensate for Germany's plant closures - and private providers - which do not produce anyhting, they buy power at a discount from EDF then resell it to French people at a markup et voilà. EDF is also bound by law to buy solar energy produced by homes for a higher price than they end up selling it later on.

Basically my argument is that this might have less to do with the reliability of nuclear energy and more with how the EU, the govt and private parties rip EDF off while leaving it with no option as to what to do with its aging nuclear park.
Why can’t it be both? It absorbs excess capacity, allowing spacex to expand their capacity and achieve economies of scale that are unmatched in the modern world of rocketry while also setting up an exciting new revenue stream that will move them away from relying on government contracts. It also helps them win support from republicans as it serves rural communities and is an example of business innovation that the GOP can support which should help them win more govt contracts. Lots of win-win-win opportunities here
HN is the absolute worst place to recruit given the bias against crypto here. But I’ll flip it around and say many startups in all manner of verticals are shaky - Fast.com, innumerable food delivery and fintech, “AI for XYZ” etc. etc.

One thing you can use to differentiate firms is the team, the founders, the funders. My company is backed by Point72 / Steve Cohen which does a lot more due diligence than most other firms. YMMV however - I myself would never work for adtech given my distaste. But a lot of HNers love certain FAANGs that data mine you and your children to sell you crap you don’t need. But many choose to disregard their morals and dismount their high horse when $$$ is involved.
The concept of weekend is quite a recent development.

https://youtu.be/zhfpBW-nUWk

The concept of Sunday as the first day of the week dates back thousands of years.
Why? One word: weekEND
Seems unlikely Dropbox would be immune from some sort of issue like this. Probably best to have your photos in storage somewhere else (ideally both locally and off-site).
The title fails to mention that the experts in question were astrologists.

Not astrophysicists.

/jk
The challenge to that scenario, is that there's no way to know if the bloody fingerprints are from Zodiac's hand.

So if the fingerprints from the military don't match, it doesn't actually eliminate Doerr because we don't know for a fact who the fingerprints from the cab belong to (even if it seems most likely it's from Zodiac). For all we know Zodiac staged the prints in one manner or another.
That's just weird way of saying that writing pays shit for vast majority of writers.
Someone was telling me that the killer’s real identity is
George Hodel, and Hodel’s son wrote a book about it. They seemed to have a lot of good pieces that fit together.
On User Intent
They had the boots, and meant to put them on the ground. But Fred Haise would have suffered more terribly.
I'm not sure I understood the point you tried to make

Nevertheless, I have a solid understanding on all the things you mentioned and if you need help give me a holler because my rates are fair and I'm open to opportunities
Even now, very little to no science based decision are being made and reporting of test data has all but stopped; would not even be surprised to learn that the reporting of other data, for example deaths, is intentionally being “shaped” to fit the desired narrative.
A funny quirk of the UK train system is that if you know what you are doing you can get first class upgrade for I think it was £5 on some of the major routes like Edinburgh to London, The author talks about the price differences with advance tickets so it seems like they did their research and didnt necessarily travel expensively
That's way more comprehensible and maintainable.