skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Your logic doesn’t make sense to me. Pre-digital, a book could just be shared with a friend one at a time (unless you wanted to xerox the whole thing which I’ve seen but it’s always low quality).

Sure, but books also had a much higher value due to a relative lack of competitors. Books now have to compete with a plethora of free media available on YouTube, forums, blogs, etc.

Some of them may be of lower quality, but it's hard to beat free. Lots of us have taught ourselves skills via free resources that we probably would have had to pay for at one point.

It's much harder to charge for knowledge than it once was.
Yeah, the Cool Penis Club.
There's a difference between most important and existential.

If you truly believe the world will end unless you solve a specific problem. You should be highly motivated to solve that problem and willing to make even extreme sacrifices to get that done.

For instance I grew up in the Catholic church and knew plenty of single issue voters. Pro-life voters would vote for anyone, no matter how much they despised them or disagreed with all their other politics, as long as they promised to try to ban abortion.

I don't really see this on the climate change side. They say it's existential threat but they don't act like it.
Smart is how fast you think not how much you know. Tradition isn't smarter than you, it's the exact opposite - it's main feature is that it's VERY slow to adapt, to the point that some people still don't eat pigs millenia after we discovered how to do it safely, and other still bathe in "saint rivers" full of pollution and germs millenia after it ceased to be a net health benefit.

Tradition might in some cases be wiser than you, because it gathered the wisdom over a much longer period, no matter how inefficiently it did so. But the obvious solution is to do science to take the things that work, and throw the other things out. You need to challenge the traditions to do so.

Some conservatives admit that there are harmful traditions at least, but very few acknowledge the opportunity cost of not figuring out why the traditions that are beneficial - developed in the first place. For example maybe the knowledge of the substances that manioc processing removes would be beneficial for drug development or some other uses? By keeping the tradition sacred we will likely never discover that, even if we save a few lives initially. Or maybe there's a way to grow manioc that doesn't need all the processing steps?
Even if you think money the only way to organize future production, it is easy to recognize that the added value is not worth 55% of the production. But that's what the split is right now.
Guess what we find in books? (2016)
A million copies of a 10MB PDF is 10 terabytes. A gigabit internet connection could serve that in 22 hours. Pretty straightforward to do that.
> People who spend more time outdoors tend to die younger.

Source for this? Searching for the claim only turned up results saying more time outdoors is associated with better long-term health outcomes.

Also: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/heres-something-unexpect...
Somehow I didn't realize that Deuter is a backpack manufacturer.
> Makes bollocks sense, otherwise. And also, tbh.

Someone with this many awkwardly structured fragments shouldn’t be giving grammar advice. And also, tbh.
It is not a replacement, it is a staging ground and annex.
It has definitely been a trend at the public entity where she works. When full time employees leave/retire, two part-time positions are created to replace that person instead of hiring one full-time employee.
Yes is it bad? What's wrong with it? I'm sort of a crypto Noob but have been really enjoying it.
Please post a link.
For peak load, yes, but base load has a lot of nuclear.
I find the idea of old photo/data degradation strangely comforting. Even digital data seems to be unable to escape the law of entropy (don't mention the black holes).
On another note; if corrupting data/photos was a wide occurrence now wouldn't we have heard about it in a big way?
Then how can systems design help us predict changes?

If we don’t know why a particular model emerged, all changes are “turn back to chaos, see results”.
Doesn't surprise me in the slightest. I know a whole community of civillians who're assaulted with microwave weapons daily.

𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱.

Here's a retired Royal Navy radiological weapons expert explaining how it's been used on foreign adversaries since the 60s:

https://youtu.be/z99_SzoXZdY

Full video:
https://youtu.be/v5Tn89I7uic
Aliens are likely to view 12 or 60 as prettier numbers than 10 or 100. Try writing the multiplication tables in base 12 and you'll see how much nicer they are.
Yes, it's very strange that the English measure their weight in stone and pounds and their beer in pints.
That's "just" bad engineering management.

This IMO most likely fictional story (have a look at the index of posts) is about someone who was caught "red-handed" working for a "side job" while also working at Google.
I think a big part of the argument for Universal Basic Income etc is that you can make a meager living doing just that. You could make an argument that UBI and free information would go well hand in hand.
before we get through "daylight savings time" they will just step on us
Scholz is the sort of sanctimonious anti-personality who couldn't close a door, let alone a deal!
In short, no.

But then, it's hard to find good programmers for any language, so C++ isn't really any worse off here, and better off than some in that at least there's a bunch of candidates to pick from.
It was the Romans who inserted a leap month inside February between the 23rd and 24th. Since the two consuls ruled on alternating months, adding an extra month after February would give one consul one more ruling month, making it somewhat unfair. Since leap years were handled irregularly back then, they were leap months, not leap days.

The Julian calendar introduced the leap day instead, and maintained it in February as originally, and introduced it every 4 years (except years dividable by 100).

This is also around the same time that July and August were named to their current names (named after Caesar and Augustus). Before that, they had had names equal to fifth and sixth month, respectively, like September comes from seventh.
> they were put in charge because it was a suspected terrorist attack.

Good thing the US government doesn't have a long history of using terrorism as an excuse to expand its own power beyond all reasonable limits.

Oh wait...
The same argument works for HN comments.
To bring this out of the abstract, take something like feminism. First wave had it right, in my opinion, by focusing on liberation. Women weren't free to choose their own paths, and conservatism was the over bearing force in creating this problem. The aim of liberation was to free what arbitrary constraints were put on women simply due to tradition or presumption.

Modern feminism, however, focuses on equality rather than liberation. It feels comfortable to assert that if women were truly liberated, they would be equal, and would be equally represented as software engineers, and plumbers, and truck drivers, etc. This is, in contrast, a failure of progressivism. It assumes that no traditions or gender roles had any basis in preferences that need not be equally distributed between sexes.

TL;DR Virtue of the Mean every time
Not looking forward to telling them that we named our home planet planet dirt
I'm always amused by the fantasy that aliens are more likely to be rational and have far less convoluted systems than we do.

It's some manner of borderline religious, faith-based notion about the assumed nature of aliens. People seem to get quite upset if you intrude on their fantasy about what aliens must surely be like (not like us, far better than us; humans are the primitive dredge of the universe basically). Despite the fact that there's no evidence to support either side of the premise, so it ends up revealing what the person thinks about themselves (self-hate) and humanity generally more than anything else.

And if you really want to see their heads explode, suggest the notion that the odds - as far as we know - are just as good that humans are the most advanced beings in the universe as not; and the odds are just as good that we're the very first spacefaring beings in the universe rather than the zillionth.
Europe is saving its non-gas power generation for when they lose gas access.. That seems like an ok approach
The issue here is that Switzerland does not have any large gas storage in its borders and has for a while been paying other countries for storage. They need to make sure that gas still belongs to Switzerland when it comes down to the wire.
I got it second-hand in late 2020, so that about pans out.
That is a pretty bold statement and sufficiently generic that examples can be offered to prove it wrong. Common sense sense says to not just run into a speeding car. Are there experiments proving that wrong? I am trying to be reasonable, but it starts with OP presenting an idea that is not so easily countered.
As far as I know, that's actually used, when something starts in the "old" day and continues into the "new" day.
No, all I'm saying is that, as I see it, (a) it wasn't causing enough harm (if any at all) to warrant deprecation, and (b) that removing it doesn't deliver any worthwhile benefit either.
How New Are Yann LeCun’s “New” Ideas?
Russia is in no shape to attack anybody right now. And industrial production doesn’t really have anything to do with any hypothetical acts of war. The fact is simply that the industry is vital to keeping the economy running, while rolling blackouts in homes are in the end merely an inconvenience.
This site really isn't news for hackers, either...
It’s more than just 25, they often go to 29, to indicate 5am. They do this to make it clear that it is an overnight service starting in one calendar day and terminating in another. It’s not just a simple substitute for “1 am”.
When I lived in the UK, I thought 30 minute delays two days per week were the worst thing ever.

After living in Germany... British railways seem like an enterprise level SLA.

Tickets with a short expiration time (2 hours... why?), hour(s) long delays, sudden last minute platform changes (you need to use the underground passage full of people), trains just disappearing off the screen with no notice after being delayed several times (I mean, come on!), incredibly rude controllers who just seem like they really want to throw you in prison for not having a ticket (oh yeah, that's a thing, take that Brits!), shoddy rail and frequent stops in the middle of nowhere (or 100 meters from your station), trains that make the Pacers seem like Cadillacs (OK that was one time, not sure where they pulled that pos from)...

I kinda see why Germans hate Deutsche Bahn :D
There is a Bridge if you want to download emails. I am not sure if it’s a full substitute for SMTP/IMAP though.
While we're asking for tool tips: does anyone know of a tool that will cache/index web pages as the user browses, so that it can be searched/viewed offline later?
Most commercial neon production is hidden as it's installed within 'channel' letters (shaped aluminum sheet metal) that comprise signage for stores outside strip malls.

I would be surprised if store owners willingly replace those with LEDs due to the longevity of well made neon, which is easily 10 to 20 years.
A good way to know whether a month has 31 days is by counting the knuckles and gaps between knuckles. "Landing" on a knuckle means that month is 31 days. So,

Pointer finger knuckle = January = 31 days

Between pointer/middle = Feb != 31 days

Middle finger knuckle = March = 31 days

And so on, just looping back to the first knuckle when you get past the pinky knuckle.
My guess? Less than the number of finger I have.
Having both traveled across the country and throughout Greater London on trains, it is actually really convenient. London is its own kind of beast with the tube/overground, but throughout the rest of the country its definitely pleasant. Going through London during peak hours, dealing with trains randomly stopping midway through a journey with a packed carriage, dealing with anti-social teens, or traveling in the middle of summer in the tube isn't super fun. But on the other hand, going through the countryside on a long distance train like going up to Scotland is great; I basically just watched the views go by for 4 or so hours.

That all being said, I can totally see daily commuting by train being the absolutely most miserable thing.
They do fine ? More than Half american is diabetic... 93% of US citizen has metabolic disorder, ...40% of western world is diabetic But they do fine. :)
That 843-page badonkadonk manual is a revelation! Thanks.
The point of the watch is not needing to bring you phone...
Can you share some specifics on the setup? Trying to do something similar. Haven’t tried it yet, but MacOS can create encrypted “sparse images”, which can be mounted and contain files. I’d like find to a better way, especially something that could stand the test of some time (10 years seems reasonable).
I follow about 80 people on Twitter and Foone usually takes up more than half of my feed :D
I feel that large text with large line heights makes small pieces of text (maybe a couple paragraphs maximum) easier to read, but makes comprehension of a larger piece of text more difficult. It makes you loose overview of the larger structure.

It's very well possible that it's all different for different people, but I much prefer having a larger piece of text in view; smaller font, smaller margins and smaller line height all help with that. Longer lines of text too. All within reason, of course.

You know how books for children have ridiculously large fonts and spacing, in stark contrast with (most) books for grown ups? It seems there is a trend now to make websites look like the books I had when I was just a little kid. I don't like it.
Probably increases male aggression as well.
I don’t understand why people seem to think that having a monetary incentive to do something taints it somehow. Rewarding good behavior is half of justice. If someone writes books that many people really like, they’re doing a good deed and in my view should be rewarded.

Another thing you might find in your dreams is a world where people can live a comfortable life without working. I’d like that world, and I’m sure a lot of good art, music, blog posts, etc. would come from it. But I don’t see why you’d actively want people who produce those things to not be rewarded for it.
This is normal. I found out that Google Photos has limited reliability. My 2007 photo was garbaged into a lower resolution. I have since recovered from the original drive. Back then Google Photos gave an option to store in lower res but still sufficient high quality or original quality. Don't trust either. Lesson: backup to your media you own or print it.
well and good. the issue I have is that when no one can be found that knows anything about why it was put there in the first place. every day I have to climb over that damn fence to get groceries. at what point do we tear it down to see what happens?

in software, I would rather tear it down and find out what it was there for. most developers I've worked with in the past couple decades operate in an atmosphere of constant fear and would never consider doing that. even if the cost of putting it back is zero. better to climb over it every day than risk introducing some unknown inconsistency.

maybe we'd be better engineers if we actually learned about the systems we're using.
I agree with your assessment. It was a thought experiment on my part. A more practical suggestion is lowering the bar for blocking M&A's
I guess we are the hole in the "Swiss Cheese" or for non-Americans; Emmentaler that is Europe.
> straw-clutching

If that's how you characterize the plaintiff's recent acquisition of Navy radar tapes (previously seized by the FBI) that show a missile hitting the plane and then spiraling away I have to seriously question your ability to objectively evaluate the facts of the case.
October, for Octogon, meaning the 8th month, is the 10th month.

And Dec for 10 meaning December is the 12th Month. Going by the Roman system, March is the 1st month bu we've decided to make it the 3rd month today and offset everything else.
On the Team as a System
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It seems like you're using a different definition of "better" than the article author or most of the people responding to your comment. You seem to treat things as a binary – as though the headline is only justified if it can take a non-writer and turn them into a writer. And in that light, your criticism makes sense: reading an article isn't going to do the job without passion and a certain latent capability.

But I'd suggest that others mean "better" in the relative sense of "greater than" or "more" and mean it to refer to skill or dexterity of a sort. If someone has a certain degree of skill or dexterity – the degree that makes them a member of the article's target audience – then, the author is claiming, they can increase their skill by engaging with the recommended material. And I'm curious whether you disagree with that position.

If you agree with it, this might just be a case where people are talking past each other based on different definitions, despite agreeing about the substance of the article.
Circumstantial evidence is still evidence, evidence by implication. Direct evidence is that which is directly asserted, like eyewitness statements, recordings, or recovered items.

Almost all of the evidence the NTSB accumulated for TWA 800 is circumstantial evidence, apart from things like the flight recorders, the eyewitness statements and physically recovering the aircraft. Even the proverbial phrase "smoking gun" would be circumstantial evidence of a murder, not direct proof.

The NTSB's circumstantial evidence is quite thorough, including literal experiments the Board performed. It's mostly quite strong, and it explains the nearly-irrefutable direct evidence (e.g. cockpit recordings, the state of the recovered instruments at the time of the accident).

Also, direct evidence can sometimes be the most unreliable. Eyewitness statements, for example, are notoriously flawed, as our memories are not perfect hard disk dumps, but are malleable. Even in this case, it's possible that the FBI & CIA or even the NTSB itself "poisoned" the direct testimony of the hundreds witnesses on shore, at sea or even in the air. (My own bias is that I have much more respect for NTSB investigators.)

The NTSB's report is nearly persuasive to me, other than the ignition source. Regardless, I do think the NTSB's recommendations & subsequent FAA action have made air travel safer as a result of their work (again, almost all of it circumstantial).
> Zuck likes to wrestle with his buddies?

So what? Sports are evil now?

> Elon thinks he’s above the law?

If he rejected the court as a scam, you could make that argument. Merely being taken to court is not claiming to be above the law.

> Andreessen trusted that entrepreneur with how much money?

As he made a ton of money for his initial investors. Just sucks to be the one holding the bag at the end. I would happily get in on the ground floor of a scam too.
>The old SAS Survival Handbook (by John Wiseman) contains the advice that if you feel any “tingle” in a thunderstorm, get on the ground, preferably hitting the ground with your hands/arms first. I wonder how much it’s based on anything that helps in real life.

Well, hitting the ground with your face first would be unpleasant

> (Stretching out arms sounds strange, don’t you want to minimize your reach of contact points with the ground, considering how many V/m there will be if lightning strikes close to you?)

I'm guessing it's to basically try to be as flat as possible, covering head would make you be overall higher off the ground

Most of the advice I've seen pretty much goes by "just try to be least conductive target around"
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/800087.802798
[insert Sean Bean “One does not simply read to become…” meme]

I don’t make a living as a writer but writing has made my living. Here’s my advice to improve as a writer in general, not as a writer of a specific genre or purpose, and not to improve a specific piece of writing.

0. All advice needs salt.

1. Recognize that all writing is personal and all reading is subjective. No one has a perfect lens. Be willing to be wrong. Even if you’re right, guaranteed someone else thinks you’re wrong.

2. Are you writing to be authentic or writing to be popular? Writing to persuade or to inspire? To amuse or confront? All of those may be in conflict at times. Recognize and accept the conflict, then make your choices in peace. See rule #1.

3. Everyone loves simple language.

4. But try not to be bland. This is the value of rhythm, voice, word choice, tropes and schemes, idioms, patterns, and so on.

5. There really is something to copying other people’s writing as a way of finding your own writing voice. So you need to read widely to find people worth copying. In general, avoid the angry advice writers.

6. Practice. Click the Publish button once in a while. You don’t end up pitching for the Yankees by reading about baseball.

7. Writing is pretty fantastic, isn’t it?

8. Language evolves. Just like foxes and toaster ovens. Accept it. Thank people for their critique of your apparent misuse of language and then please continue challenging the rules.

9.

10. Leave something to the imagination. Think of it like an offering to the gods.

11. No one cares about your writing as much as you do. See rule #1.
If I Ran Movie Theaters, Here's What I'd Do [video]
I dislike how vague the term 'banned book' is. In the U.S., are there any books that are really banned, e.g. unable to be sold, purchased, possessed? My understanding is that a 'banned book' means that it's a book that's unable to be used in some (federal, state, local) government-funded capacity, like public school or public libraries.

Some printed media, explicit pornographic material for example, probably shouldn't be in a public school. Most of these 'banned books' aren't so explicit, but many parents don't want their taxes to be put towards exposing children to ideas that they don't agree with. This isn't necessarily right, but I think it is understandable, especially in more conservative states like Texas.

I personally feel that information (including books) should be open and free, but the majority of Texans (and people, really) probably don't hold that view.
The metric "interface" has nice "round" numbers, but the implementation idk:

"In the SI, the standard metre is defined as exactly 1/299,792,458 of the distance that light travels in a second."

"The kilogram was originally defined as the mass of one cubic decimetre of water at 4 °C, standardized as the mass of a man-made artefact of platinum-iridium held in a laboratory in France, which was used until a new definition was introduced in May 2019. Replicas made in 1879 at the time of the artefact's fabrication and distributed to signatories of the Metre Convention serve as de facto standards of mass in those countries. Additional replicas have been fabricated since as additional countries have joined the convention. The replicas were subject to periodic validation by comparison to the original, called the IPK. It became apparent that either the IPK or the replicas or both were deteriorating, and are no longer comparable: they had diverged by 50 μg since fabrication, so figuratively, the accuracy of the kilogram was no better than 5 parts in a hundred million or a proportion of 5x10−8:1. The accepted redefinition of SI base units replaced the IPK with an exact definition of the Planck constant, which defines the kilogram in terms of the second and metre."