skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think thats too draconian. It make sense to say, restrict acquiring a company if it has an effect on the competitive landscape, but not necessarily restrict buying companies totally.

Lets say I have a company and want to develop some capacity - I could start from scratch, or I could buy a company that already does it well. If everyone starts from scratch that would be a whole lot of society's resources spent doing repeat work, but it also represents an opportunity to learn new things and try new strategies.

hard to say if its a net good or bad. but restricting companies purchasing companies probably wont happen.
Thanks, never heard of them.

It could use a transcript, though.
You just kind of handwave the whole problem away. Why aren't authors paid for the work they do? You can that like it isn't true and that it cannot be true.

>You - and every other author - need a new framework to attract income. I have no idea what that would look like, or even if such a thing could exist.

So basically you're deciding the entire industry of book writing is broken and needs to be entirely re-created BUT you also don't know how or what it should even look like. But until then we should all just be okay with pirating the work of others and thereby robbing them of their means of living, because it has been decided that the old system is beyond functioning.
Like Europe, right? The continent which hasn't seen economic growth in 15 years and each subsequent generation sinks further closer to poverty?
Right, so we just need to burn natural gas to meet that new demand. We can get that from ... oh.
I think you intentionally overlooked my point.

I wasn't debating if these meters exist or not, it was that they were never used in Ontario.

Continuing your logic, did Canada ever use these "multiple-tariff" meters? If they did, what was the point of the light the OP mentioned?
From Schopenhauer's essay, "On reading and books":

> No literary quality can be attained by reading writers who possess it: be it, for example, persuasiveness, imagination, the gift of drawing comparisons, boldness or bitterness, brevity or grace, facility of expression or wit, unexpected contrasts, a laconic manner, naïveté, and the like. But if we are already gifted with these qualities—that is to say, if we possess them potentia—we can call them forth and bring them to consciousness; we can discern to what uses they are to be put; we can be strengthened in our inclination, nay, may have courage, to use them; we can judge by examples the effect of their application and so learn the correct use of them; and it is only after we have accomplished all this that we actu possess these qualities. This is the only way in which reading can form writing, since it teaches us the use to which we can put our own natural gifts; and in order to do this it must be taken for granted that these qualities are in us. Without them we learn nothing from reading but cold, dead mannerisms, and we become mere imitators.

Gutenberg link: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/11945/11945-h/11945-h.htm#li...
A reflection on hypothetical tactics of evil...

There was a time when I was pretty fearless about some things that seem right/just. I suspect it came from formative upbringing: that the person in front of you who needs help, is just something that you do -- this is your purpose in the moment. (Being in one's 20s, perhaps with judgment not yet fully developed, and not many data points, seems also good for fearlessness.)

Well, although I imagine that this thinking might have its moments, of the power of force of will, and of being on the right side of deity/universe/humanity, when others will instinctively join you, and you'll find a way or die trying... at some point, I realized that I'm actually not willing to incur the smackdown that can come from adversarial situations with the truly underhanded/evil.

The possibility of this Havana syndrome being an attack reminds me that I don't have the stomach for a lot of ways that I might help.

If my feelings are ordinary, I suppose that might make such an attack a very effective tactic of the evil: decimating/demoralizing staff who expected to function in a gentleperson's diplomatic/intel environment, or at a distance in some sense.
We’ve got plenty here in Spain would be happy to ship you a couple hundred thousand might help our budgets and reduce red tape at the same time over here.
The US was a net energy exporter in 2020 and 2021
Typhoon Noru: Evacuations in Philippines as explosive super typhoon nears
for starters, it's using an _inverted mouse_ by default, which has to be intentional to add to the ridiculousness of the entire experience

playing with a touch screen would be ez mode
In order to disagree or agree with your statement I would need some working definition of mini, micro, and mainframe.
Recoll?
Related:

Decimal Internet Time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32045573 - July 2022 (1 comment)

Swatch Internet Time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31642887 - June 2022 (2 comments)

Swatch Internet Time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29564119 - Dec 2021 (2 comments)

Swatch Internet Time (or .beat time) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26671343 - April 2021 (2 comments)

Swatch Internet Time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24348915 - Sept 2020 (2 comments)

Swatch Internet Time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22528768 - March 2020 (1 comment)

Swatch Internet Time (1998) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16307725 - Feb 2018 (78 comments)

Swatch Internet Time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7046178 - Jan 2014 (96 comments)

Ask HN: Why did this idea of Internet Time not work? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=520004 - March 2009 (28 comments)
> Quite simply, “that looks like a missile” and “that is a missile” are not the same. Especially from 20+ miles away.

It could be superman.
Economy 7 in the UK switches meters based on time of day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_7
> They wanted to have domestic and EU-pricing.

But would it be legal? That kind of protectionism would definitely run counter to the ideals if the EU common market.

It's hard to know what EU countries might do, but during covid the EU avoided protectionism when it came to vaccines.

Of course, it could be different this time.
Well, OK sure. I'm not the most effective communicator but in the end I'm still genuinely 'not getting it' though.

In my image you can see that either portrait or landscape orientation, there is considerable 'dead' area (edit: either side), by default, even if the text was many paragraphs long.

The usual solution is to smash "ctrl numpad +" four times til things fit perfectly at (usually) 150%. It's actually uncanny how I'll do this without even thinking while browsing.
Word Writer 6 Commodore 64 Source Code
That's not a UFO, that's an alien flying saucer. I'd recognize one anywhere.
If only many countries including the US had insisted on diversifying gas supplies for a decade+ ...

Similarly, look at the state of the Bundeswehr. All it can muster in terms of SPHs delivered to Ukraine is about 20 PzH2000. Great equipment, but just 20 pieces is very little. Again, if only someone (many someones) pointed out the insufficient spending on military...

On top of all of that Scholz is now suggesting that Germany should have a permanent seat on the UN Security Council. Like, lol. The SPD should really rebrand to Security Policy Disaster, though it's not just a single party problem.
We're pretty happy to accept "I pulled the trigger because I thought my life was in danger" as a reason to not punish someone for killing... many are happy with "I pulled the trigger because I thought my property was in danger". Some are even happy with "I pulled the trigger because they were threatening me for pointing a gun at them".

The reason for the trigger pull, it turns out, matters quite a bit to people.
I mean it is saddens me more, after same 2000 years, affording to buy a book is a problem in this society.
In my opinion, it does already, without needing much CSS except to limit pictures to the width of the viewable area (you can click on them and select "view picture" to zoom them, if desired). I rarely need to add my own CSS code to web pages that do not already have CSS; it is those that do, that I need to fix.

I made up a attribute feature="usercss" which is supposed to mean to use the user-specified CSS (or suitable defaults for semantic HTML) instead of this one, if the client supports that feature; it can also use the user-specified CSS (or suitable defaults) if the web page does not specify any CSS at all. As far as I know no browsers implement this, but some of the people making up some newer browsers (the less common ones) might consider to add such a feature when user-specified CSS is implemented.
ah, fair enough.. I gave up on trying to buy a PS5 about six months ago when I "won" the Newegg Shuffle and bought an RTX 3080 TI at a huge markup
It exists already, dependent on genre.

royalroad.com has thousands of stories in various subgenres of fantasy that are available for free.

The business model is, the author builds up a substantial number of pages/chapters, begins publishing on RR, when they reach a big enough readership they launch a patreon which is typically 20-50 pages ahead which their patreons can read.

Once they have a couple of books worth of material, they remove the first books worth of content from RR and publish it on Kindle Unlimited, which is an all you can read service for about $8 a month from amazon. They then move onto audible versions at a later date assuming all goes well. Physical books are a complete afterthought btw.

The readership doesn't care about typo's, grammer or editing or prose they just want the story.

I expect this will become a fairly standard model in multiple genres going forward.
The benefit is food security, which is not immediately apparent. When specific meats become temporarily unavailable due to a hurricane, extreme heat, or supply chain issues, the alternatives will magically taste better.
(Also a serious backpacker)

Keeping weight at shoulder height is substantially easier on smooth terrain. It’s a biomechanical fact that I also didn’t believe at first. The best way to illustrate this is to think about balancing a stick on end, its significantly easier to balance a yardstick than a ruler, likewise, it is much more difficult for your body to balance weight at your hips than at your neck because you get the advantage of leverage. The higher the weight is, the easier it is to stay “underneath” it.
> Exactly zero of whom have ever seen a missile before and would know what one looks like.

I'm very skeptical of these claims, but many, many people--including people on Long Island--have seen missiles.

I've seen many, and I've seen them get diverted out of the air by anti-missile systems, and I've seen them strike the ground near me. (This is all from spending at least 4 month/year in Israel over the past 59+ years.)
Then you release it, get modest praise and you've contributed to the future of humanity - which should be good enough for anyone.
Sure, if it was a patriot missile? And since it obviously hit the wrong target who says the range was long enough to reach engine burn out. The deniers here are just making shit up.

Sometimes the government and its contractors would do better to own their mistakes, take the financial hit, and move on. Yet here we are 25 years later still dealing with it and burning credibility.
People can set the exact width they're comfortable with by making the browser window the size they want. But the moment that max-width is added, the choice is removed.
This is no longer true for Series 8 and Ultra watches. What I’ve not found out is whether this true of any Apple Watch running watchOS 9 or just the latest models.
My wife does a photo book every year, combining the best of both our photos. It’s a bit of a chore, but I’m so glad she does it, they are so much nicer to browse through. The kids love looking at them all from time to time.
How to handle an engineer who lies about bugs
> It's not. It's a problem for all of us. High quality books are an asset for society, and we all should be interested in finding a solution.

That is a real problem, but copyright is not an attempt to solve that problem. Copyright is an attempt to limit the distribution of information throughout society, supposedly to make content creation more financially rewarding. Piracy, on the other hand, is an attempt to increase the distribution of information throughout society, and supposedly makes content creation less financially rewarding.

The problem you describe is real, but neither copyright systems nor piracy (at least according to the popular naive descriptions I provided) are an attempt to solve it. They’re both just choices about whether the distribution of information throughout society or the financial rewards for content creation are more important.
Stop calling copyright infringement 'piracy'.

Piracy is a violent penal crime that often results in murder and property theft. Copyright infringement we are talking about is just copying digits.
Goatse for dogs? That might get you arrested in quite a few places.
Honest question, do not want to insult anybody:
I've heard lots of times, that the reason why C++ sometimes is weird and complex, is because utter care is taking in maintaining backward compatibility. Sorry if I'm wrong, but I remember seeing a video about variable initialization, which showed many ways of initializing variables, and at the end, the excuse was "all because we have to maintain compatibility to C".
No my question, again, please do not think I'm insulting anybody:
This presentation seems to show the compatibility between most recent releases is not very good.
What am I missing here?
The lack of detailed reporting from Iran the past week is disturbing, to say the least.

Are there any (for the lack of a better word) "western" (I mean, I'd also trust, for example NHK, SBS, ABC Australia, etc) journalists from credible journalistic institutions on the ground in Iran?

I admit I'm ignorant to the limits of independent reporting I'm certain the government of Iran mandates.
The Day My Coworkers and I Chose Our Survival over Our Supervisor (2020)
No, the CIA was not wrong about Saddam.

It knew internally that the regime was not producing weapons, and communicated that clearly to Bush, repeatedly.

Bush decided that he could force the CIA to manufacture evidence, so he installed political operatives that forced the CIA author reports relying on a source they knew was lying.

The answer to both questions is that you need to accept that an intelligence agency is not a person nor an objective, fact-finding institution.

They are an organization created and dedicated to advancing the interests of their executives, in the case of the US the president.

They are not bound by objective truth, nor do they have any duty to be truthful to anyone besides the president. They’ve spied on congress, hacked the senate networks, and outright lied in televised sworn testimony to congress whenever they deem that democratic oversight is beneath them - and I’m talking about the CIA of the 2010’s, not to mention the pre-church 1970’s CIA which outright murdered Americans.

They are an organization that exists to serve the interests of a single person, the idea that what they say has any relation to objective reality is laughable. They’ll say and do whatever they think serves their interest, whether it is true or false is completely irrelevant to their process.

You cannot assume any information or evidence that has been touched by them to be true or false - their aim is to manufacture evidence for any reality they want, regardless of objective reality.
But there are APL, k, j and other array lang programs. You can't do as if those don't exist when talking about programming as a whole. Perl used to be pretty popular too.
One if the diagrams shows the heaviest weight AT the shoulders, not above.
Absolutely not. The single tanker load is the only binding agreement.
Would N5 ever be cheaper than N6?
Walter Mosley made an interesting observation about the writing process. When he rereads his first draft of a novel, he notes the places where the words go awry: where something is amiss; where a character seems shallow, poorly developed. (I'm just recalling this from memory.) Mosely simply notes those spots in the novel. And keeps reading. Right to the end. He says he finds that when he fixes those sections, that's when the writing starts to sparkle.

The book I read was Mosley, "This is the Year You Write Your Novel".

I guess his message is to not be aggrieved when one’s writing seems like sh*t. That observation might be the start of a good piece of writing.

Alternatively there's the quip of Oscar Wilde: “I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”
Ok but hear me out, what if we embed citations in the text, so there's like a colossal graph of publications, with regional distribution centers.
Possibly they live a lifestyle or have physical objects near or on them or live in a specific location that makes them more likely targets.
It’s an entirely adequate substitute if you don’t base your export dependent economy on cheap Russian gas, and heat your homes with it during winter at the same time, see: East Asia.

Never commit two crimes at the same time.
J2 (public sector) pays about 30% less than J1 (private sector), not including equity (which is kind of worthless now anyway).
We can have both! Wide containers with narrow line lengths.

We call them "columns" and they're part of CSS now.
no example screenshot or demo page? really?
There's no such thing as better writer. You either have passion and then use inspiration to fuel that passion or you don't. Not everyone is privileged to have higher-education or have the ability to learn the entire Oxford dictionary.

I've worked with editors at Fast Company, Entrepreneur, TheNextWeb and others, and I have not _ever_ tried to read a book to make myself a better writer. What does that even mean?

And on numerous occasions I have gotten away with submitting first drafts that get published "as is" without anyone telling me otherwise. Am I some omnipotent writer, or were the editors incompetent? I doubt it.

I think what a lot of people also don't understand about writing is that some of the best work out there (articles, books, etc.), for the person who put it out - it can be compared to having participated in a triathlon because it has THAT immense of an effect on your mental state of being.

Want to be a better writer? Find out what your passion is and write about that. No book and no order of semicolons is going to make you "better" unless what you write about is what lights the fire underneath your feet.
I use Android Studio on a ~weekly basis, and have tried to get into PyCharm many times. It's clear that the JetBrains team have a very different view of what UX is and should be than Apple and most developers targeting macOS.

The fact that JetBrains uses its own UI toolkit is the cause of a lot of the friction I experience, it's buggy on multi-monitor systems, focus works in a different way interrupting many micro-interactions. The pseudo-windows-in-a-window model feels wrong on macOS, it's the only application I know like it and it's a very Windows like model.

People value different things, and I know many get lots of value out of JetBrains products. I just suspect that most people working on a Mac because they like Macs will not align well with the JetBrains products.
The Six Mainframe Companies
I would highly recommend protonmail.

I am surprised with the top comments recommending fastmail. Is there any offering or feature I should know about with fastmail compared to protonmail premium?
A better society means greater financial stability for everybody, including the author. Maybe more indirectly than a check in your hand, but still.
I certainly didn't intentionally overlook anything. I took your "doesn't make sense" to mean that you were questioning the possibility of an "old" meter accounting for different electricity rates at different times. Since it seems that's not what you meant, I apologize for misunderstanding you.
Hi. I wrote the blog post here.

> Every time I hear someone advocating for mainframes, they always praise them

[1] I wasn't "advocating" anything. I was talking about how they've survived. They have survived. Whether it's under emulation doesn't matter: still being sold, still driving the same peripherals from the same software.

Their survival, thus far, is a fact. So the question I was trying to address was why.

That's not advocacy.

[2] If I were, which I wasn't -- It is pretty hard to advocate for anything without praising it. :-)

The points about performance others have answered very well.

> How is this _not_ a good thing??

"You can have good, fast, or cheap. Pick any two."

We have fast and cheap.

The end.

> people that like mainframes usually have some weird obsession with high level computing architectures

Um. Define what you mean by "high level architectures" here?
Writing a book takes a long time and will take even longer or never get finished at all if you also need to work at McDonald's to make rent and keep the electricity on.
Element-based selectors, setting the root font-size, mixed units, text color with no background color...I guess the assumption is that you won't add ANY other styling? Big headaches down the road if you do.
> Libraries license materials, and the license for a physical book will typically last as long as that book can be circulated(basically until it falls apart).

Libraries buy books, which are then covered by first sale doctrine. When a library book falls apart, the library may rebind it and continue lending it.
> Without authors getting paid for their work there won't be any books at all, except books from those authors who are willing to write them for free of charge.

You mean except for authors who are willing to write them without charging each reader for a copy.
Sorry but this is such an american trope, that people need to write themselves off to prove something to somebody or themselves (not sure what exactly, there are other ways to gain respect but maybe some folks struggle to find other, more effective means of deeper introspection).

Few times this has been mentioned by an american in some group of people somewhere I managed to be too, puzzled looks from all others followed (few times also from other americans). That's literally the only time I ever heard anybody mentioning wanting to write a book (well apart from doing children's book made just of illustrations from 1 german lady, but that ain't the same category, and she just went and did it by the time I met her and it was great).

That music making mentioned has much higher popularity, we all have been young and some still are in our hearts.

I don't think I am that much of an outlier, I've spent tons of time with folks from all continents, cultures and religions when backpacking, working, socializing in our tiny cosmopolitan metropole of Geneva. I don't want to state that nobody wants to write, but "huge percentage" is roughly in 1/2% if I am optimistic and take everybody that ever even fleetingly mentioned it by their word.

To me personally it just sounds like too much actual effort and self-torture for some at-best mediocre output. One can learn whole new sports, hobbies, do long adventures that will create tons of memories that will make you smile and have that distant look into past when you will be dying and remembering them... that's worth investing some time into, not 10 millionth average book
what to write to become a better writer
Wind, Sand and Stars just may be my 'Desert Island Book'. Probably not as well known in the English speaking world as it deserves to be.