skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, there were far fewer people who lived through it. From 3000 BC to 500 BC the global population went from 14 million to 100 million. Today there are just short of 8,000 million people, i.e. 80-570x as many. On the day Ur was founded, there were fewer people living on the entire planet than there are living in some modern cities. So in terms of the number of human stories being told, we are racing past the ancients at hundreds of times the rate. We have far more history per second than they do.
Came here to mention this podcast as well. By far one of my favorites, and I do think the Sumerian episode is one of the best.
It's not the morals I'm wondering about; it's the viability of the businesses. Investing in one of these companies is hoping you can cash out before the bubble pops. At least if you invest in a boring SaaS company, when the bubble pops, you might still have a boring SaaS company on the road to profitability.
That is correct. Which is why I don't give a fuck about the circumstances. I care about the risk to the organisation. And that is a tangible one. And it must be mitigated.
Already the world of founders, funding, and venture capital is full of incestuous relationships and shady dealings. I can’t imagine what happens when you combine that kind of capital with the utter shamelessness and obtuse financial engineering of the cryptocurrency space.
I found this nice enough to be worth of quote here:

"...And yet from the moment I sat down next to him I felt the force of his - there is no better word - dignity. Alfred seemed totally content within himself. He did not aim to please or play on your sympathy. He was not the homeless guy on the tube singing for a drink. Everything in Alfred's life was conducted on his own terms. In some sense he was a freer man than most...

...Despite outward appearances, Alfred lived a life of total self-sufficiency and order. He kept himself meticulously clean and groomed, using a nearby airport bathroom. He hung his freshly dry-cleaned clothes from the handle of a suitcase next to his bench. He always ate a MacDonald's egg and bacon croissant for breakfast and a McDonald's fish sandwich for dinner. (Perhaps one day McDonald's will have the wit to sign Alfred up for a celebrity endorsement.) He always left a tip. Alfred was not, to put it bluntly, a bum..."
Fortunately there's the Pushshift archive, which mitigates that somewhat - replace "reddit.com" in the URL with "unddit.com" or "reveddit.com", these sites will fill in removed comments from this archive.
I told my dad over a year ago that FTX buying stadium naming rights for a bunch of sports leagues (including one of our hometown teams) was like if there had been an Enron Stadium in 2000.
Probably rare but it happens.

I remember this was pretty big news when it happened:

https://nypost.com/2021/05/13/two-planes-collide-midair-in-c...

Edit: above link reports on midair collision of a Cirrus SR22 and a Swearingen Metroliner in May 2021.
Airplane crashes provide an excellent opportunity for failure analysis. IMHO its kind of a decent fit, but the final report will be a better fit.
No idea but I doubt they were bombing brown people and guarding Arab oil investments for profit, nor were they attempting coups in resource-rich countries. All that happens with my USD savings account.
Honestly it would have turned into something like Java if it had become popular in the industry. OOP and functional programming are really just different ways to encapsulate data and control dispatch. They don't change the fundamental nature of the work.

Ultimately what happened to Java was the same thing that would have happened to any other dominant language that the industry uses to build heavy duty enterprise software: stuff like ORM frameworks, data transfer objects, servlet containers, some kind of web integration like JSP, RPC frameworks, SOAP, REST, etc.

Would it be easier or better to do that stuff in Lisp? Maybe. But not by a huge amount. The beauty of the language would certainly end up being obscured by the boring, complex, practical work that we would all be doing with it. And most programmers would not be better than they are now -- instead they would force an imperative model on top of whatever substrate they are given, just like they do today.
If you’re worried GitHub might ice one of your team members, use something else. GitHub is extremely up-front about their willingness to ice users.
Tinygo lets you build your program with the option -gc=none that results in a link error at every point in your program that would allocate memory on the heap. So that's a very easy way to find them. Tinygo is a completely separate implementation of Go, so not every program is going to be portable 1 to 1, and I suppose that where Tinygo might allocate memory is different than where normal Go would allocate memory, so you'll have to take the results with a grain of salt.

It is of course possible to use Tinygo-compiled programs for your production use case as well. It has a focus on WebAssembly and microcontrollers, but produces perfectly-serviceable amd64 binaries as well.
1000% the fault of the small plane and a terrible loss to a historical treasure.
For a start, you should probably read OP's article. I know often HN commenters don't read the article before commenting, and I'm sometimes guilty of this myself, but in this case the linked article offers fairly important context for my comment in the sense that it explicitly names at least one such company and gives concrete examples of what they are doing with your data.

For another salient example, check out this article^[1] about cell carriers selling their customers' real-time location data without consent.

^[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/fcc-issues-wrist...
A 30 minute documentary from the year 2000 about Sir Alfred is available on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/ngNP8ZNutNY

He speaks well in english, smokes an exquisite tobacco pipe indoors and you can hear the airport flip boards in the background during interviews with him. Also pretty interesting to pause and see what's on the newspapers.
Saying that there's a sliding scale toward being effectively a utility is "deeply unserious"?

Is it also "deeply unserious" when I say it's bad that shopping malls are privately owned areas masquerading as public spaces, which lets them ban people in ways that actual public spaces can't? Because there's a lot of literature on that topic, and I see it as pretty similar.
In my small town, local TV reception was being completely wiped out by interference.

When the Radio Inspector came to check, he found a rechargeable torch sitting in it's charger bracket, which generated horrendous interference whenever the batteries reached full.
I really tried to convey your exact point. That gardening is inneffient. That I'm probably spending more CO2 because I have a rake. My neighbor buys a rake. The other neighbor buys one, etc. All with a footprint. That farmer producing millions of zucchinis probably has one rake. A tiny footprint, compared .

But energy and Co2 make the article even more convoluted. Bitcoin (PoW) even more so. And there's a major difference. In which PoW deliberately burns energy. Whereas the fediverse at least tries to burn as little as possible while remaining decentralized.
My best guess based on the video is that the P-63 pilot had been high and out of position in formation, and tried to get back in position using both geometry and speed. He may have recognized that he had too much closure and wasn't in position to safely underrun the B-17, and tried to bank and pull to get safe lateral separation, inadvertently putting himself into a blind lead turn where he wouldn't be able to see the B-17 through his wing or fuselage. The blind lead turn is an incredibly dangerous maneuver in formation flight--typically prohibited in military air combat training--for obvious reasons.
Bluesky Social enters the chat https://www.inc.com/kelly-main/jack-dorsey-bluesky-twitter-f...
as they say: "you get stronger on rest days". this applies to both endurance and strength sports. the trick is to use your rest days productively; it doesn't necessarily require being inactive (for those who really want to go all in).

also, there's the principle of polarized training (for endurance sports): "go easy on the easy days, go hard on the hard days", because if you go to hard on the easy days, you can't go hard enough on the hard days.

a lot of people are under the impression that giving 100% every time, every day is the best way, probably thanks to years of training montages of sly dragging sleds through waist deep snow and karate-kid ... idk, kicking a tree really hard or whatever karate kid does, when actually it just leads to exhaustion and burnout.
A modernized fork:

https://github.com/Zeal-Operating-System/ZealOS
Curious, did you live through that era in Spain? Do you have some stories to share?
I’m guessing that person who flagged this felt misled by the title, since Americans read the phrase “welfare program” as “benefits for the poor”, while this article describes a benefit for homeowners.
GitHub probably is more of a webapp than a webpage at this point, so makes sense.
Bleed air is taken from the compressors before the combustion section, so it's probably not CO2 from combustion. If it was, it would also be humid and stink of kerosene, which it's not (cabin air is notoriously dry except on the 787) and doesn't (fuel smells in cabins have other causes).

CO2 rises in the cabin during taxi because the bleed air system is not effective while the aircraft is moving slowly. This is another good feature of the 787: cabin air conditioning works adequately even with the aircraft at rest.
I've hear, in France air energy has wide adoption, even few decades ago, before electricity, exists compressed air ring in Paris.

In Germany still exists lot of recognizable buildings, where stored methane. Some of them converted to culture/arts centers, because their specific design, not suitable for living or work (large cylinders).
Similar thing happened to me after forgetting my mobile device was logged into the wrong Wi-Fi network, they permabanned two unrelated accounts as well that I used for completely different purposes. I appealed and got one back that I use to post on a gaming subreddit, but not the other that I used to post on a subreddit for a medical condition. Very strange, and irritating.
thanks, i needed this today. also enjoyed the muppets link, thanks dsr_.

the world needs more people like prince, cynthia rose, and susannah melvoin. it would make life richer
At this point I just refuse to fly…I’m not putting up with this crap.
I actually measured that Dell USB-C chargers forward grounding to the outside metal of the USB-C plug, and the laptop actually uses that grounding for its chassis.
What's "slippage"?
If they won’t set up a first interview with their client after one conversation, they either don’t have anything or they have a tenuous relationship with the client and are afraid of presenting another bad candidate.

If you talk with them as if meeting the client is the expected next step, they’ll take you more seriously, too.
Looking from the chart it seems like the CO2 levels were elevated for the entire flight?

As in it never dips below 1200pm on either the short haul or long haul flight.

Also with the caveat in the article: "Note that the graphs below aren't calculated for altitude adjustment. Since planes are generally pressurized to an equivalent of 8000 feet, and senor drift is typically 3
per 1000 feet of elevation, it means that while in the air the CO2
levels are likely $24% higher than shown on the graph."

It seems the logged numbers are underestimating it.
This is strangely beautiful.
Are you suggesting that KYC/AML protects consumers from the bank?
This is how a change in social norms occur. My extended family had a house in a Mediterranean paradise village, and my late uncle one day in the 1960s heard that local fishermen brought the nets out with a Roman amphora, not so unusual. This object went to a prominent house corner and made us all tolerant with this problem, which I now regret, albeit museums had no short supply of them. When the house was sold, it was said that the object increased the price, that it was the "tie" of the house.
Times are luckily changing.
Yes, the only reason people dislike Meta is because they couldn’t pass a leetcode interview. Yeah, that’s it. Only possible explanation.
Some long-term, large-scale studies of the effects of widespread public masking have been performed recently.

For example, one lasting over 1.5 years was done in the province of Ontario, Canada, involving approximately 15,000,000 participants, in environments ranging from dense urban settings to sparse rural ones. In Ontario's largest and densest population center, Toronto, the duration this study was about 2 years in length.

It was conclusively demonstrated that widespread public masking does not prevent infection, and it does not prevent transmission, of airborne viruses.

It was conclusively proven that such masking did cause accessibility problems, it did cause significant social disruption, and it did cause environmental damage, among numerous other harmful effects.
Seems like an AI could perform this sort of analysis to geolocate images with far fewer distinct features and no reliance on any prior knowledge, since it would have near omniscient knowledge of all satellite imagery. For example, this seemingly unidentifiable shot of Gwern’s window view [0] contains a nondescript tree next to a body of water. Nigh impossible for a human without any prior knowledge of Gwern’s general location to identify, but potentially trivial for an AI, since it could automatically scour all satellite imagery for trees and shrubbery of similar shape next to a body of water and a house with a three-sash bay window, a task utterly infeasible to do manually.

[0] https://www.gwern.net/Links#hardware
Married to a wonderful woman who contributes in every way to our home - in the same way that I do. 2-3 children. Building my own house while the kids are growing up - in the Santa Cruz Mountains (or Portola valley or woodside or whatever). Spending time riding and rebuilding motorcycles, cars, bikes, and so forth. Having a woodworking shop and other DIY stuff.

Working a job where I make the decisions rather than implementing someone else’s poorly made decisions. Spending time with my friends regularly. Dancing with my kids and showing them all the fun things there are to do.

I have little interest in reading or writing. Rather spend it making something with my hands, playing with kids, or spending time with my wife.

All of these things looked very possible about a year ago. Now they’re looking extremely distant now that I’m divorced, penniless (lost 90% of NW), and generally looking like it’s not going to change anytime soon.
Yeah, math and programming contest winners are usually very thin. Do some cardio, don't be fat, but bulking up is probably not optimal.
You're probably disagreeable. I'm struggling too. Have you tried agreeing with absolutely everything? That's what your competition is doing.

Next time a company tells you about their mission statement, stop them midway, eyes open in awe, and say "That's my mission statement."

Do the same thing when they tell you about their tech stack. Or anything else. I'm not kidding. The last applicant agreed with everything, and you need to agree with everything harder.

Agreeability and disagreeability are two separate skills but the tech industry sees it as a spectrum. They do not hire disagreeable people.
Nothing in the link description said it was mid-air.

My first thought on reading was it was on the ground, like in "East Midlands Airport: Taxiing planes collide in morning fog" at https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-48104527 or "Two planes collide at Lagos International Airport" at https://dailypost.ng/2020/07/30/two-planes-collide-at-lagos-... . Both during taxiing.

I suspect most airplane collisions occur on the ground, but that's a wild-ass guess.
So then what explains the mysterious lack of air circulation during takeoffs on the 787?
> That single passing reference to him as King of Assyria, was everything that was known of him for 2500 years, until the ruins of Dur-Sharrukin, his capital (destroyed during the mentioned wars) were excavated in the 19th century.

I only have a layman's knowledge of this part of history, but this strikes me as unlikely. Surely something was known of him for some time in other sources, probably hundreds of years at least, before those source were also lost? The loss of knowledge is also second-order: we have lost knowledge of what was known to our predecessors.
I couldn't find this link between Elsevier and overleaf. What I did find is that overleaf is owned by digital science UK which is owned by Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. The later owns a lot of publication companies and group. They own Nature and more than 50 share in Springer. Am I missing something?
prolog

forth

camlp4

postscript/joy

pure/q (aardappel is worth looking at but could hardly be less ascii-based)

raku

smalltalk
3k “ancient” BTC move for first time since 2011
Often enough that it isn't good practice to assume one outcome or the other.
> It was Sun's corporate backing and muscle that enabled you to get their SDK for free.

You could get GCC for free before Java 1.0 was released. My personal introduction to GCC was Walnut Creek's Hobbes OS/2 CD-ROM from 1994, the EMX port. Paid for the CD-ROM, but we could have downloaded it for free if we had Internet access. EMX did DOS too, and DJGPP was also available at the same time (and ended up overtaking EMX under DOS).
Well, you won't be able to onboard the original poster.
> is 100% times better

I think this says it all.
What you are describing is LPR/respiratory reflux/silent reflux. It’s likely caused by diet, stress and posture that causes issues with the lower esophageal sphincter and unlikely to be bacterial overgrowth.

Check this whole blog out if you can: https://jamiekoufman.com/silent-reflux-silent-night/
Well, he said so, so ... That's a relief.
>British settlers had zero imagination at all.

Surely you must admit that eastern Australia is the spitting image of South Wales. There's hardly a more appropriate name.
What exactly did you say? I'm intrigued as to what they consider is the tipping point for a lifetime ban.

(Partly out of sheer curiosity and partly so I can avoid this myself, as I also have a habit of making somewhat feisty comments, when I'm off my meds and in a bit of an obsessive rage about something.)
The military are extremely interested in being able to power expeditionary bases without having to truck in diesel. It would be a game changer to logistics.
I don't think so. I guess what you want is a CO2 scrubber like they had in Apollo 13, but I don't know of any consumer, room-scale, ones.

Plants make basically no difference sadly, in my room it gets to 1600ppm in under an hour just from me and my cat Gazpacho, although I've admonished him for breathing so much.
Bevy 0.9: data oriented game engine built in Rust
Given how stodgy and variable WiFi tends to be, I'll stick with the Neanderthal way of copper lines.
Yeah, that really makes me rethink my entire education experience...
You'd be surprised at how often they do--especially at how often the planes involved land safely despite the damage.
Actually, we add the stylesheet objects directly to the shadow root, so they're shared and there's no <style> tags (on supported browsers).
Until an angry Radio Inspector arrives on your doorstep having spent all day driving around your town with a spectrum analyzer to track you down.

When you get to attend court, the judge will award the standard fines (and possible jail time) but also the cost of the time spent by the Radio Inspector in traveling to your town.
So you think the publisher assigned copyright to a guy with a huge liability settlement against him just so he could immediately assign it back to them?

Rather than the obvious "here sign this form that says we can publish a book about this and put your name on it"?
There’s not so much we on HN can do about this.

I would suggest that you talk to your manager. If your company pays for GitHub, hopefully they can get in touch with support and/or a sales rep and get it sorted.
Another crap. My friend told me...read first.

Last year, Tether revealed that it held some cash but also bought a large amount of commercial paper, which is short-term corporate debt. This raised concerns given that Tether does not disclose exactly which companies it holds commercial paper from, and where those entities are based.

But the company has been reducing the amount of commercial paper in its reserves. In the fourth quarter of 2021, commercial paper made up just over 30% of Tether’s total reserves, down from more than 44% in the third quarter.

“Over time we will keep reducing the commercial paper, we aren’t finished yet with the reduction,” Paolo Ardoino, chief technology officer of Tether and affiliated cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex, told CNBC on Wednesday at the Paris Blockchain Week Summit.
Your dodging of my question leads me to believe that the answer is "no". Therefore, "modern C++" is still unsafe.

> Even using unsafe blocks does not, by itself, make the program unsafe.

This is false. "Unsafe" means that there is the potential to cause memory safety bugs. Unsafe blocks and C++ cause this, by definition. "Unsafe" does not mean that a memory safety bug actually exists.

Moreover, I didn't mention anything about Rust in my comment.
I'm on Firefox on Linux and it just renders 40% and then stops
> if there had been an Enron Stadium in 2000

There actually was an Enron Field in Houston in 2000:

> Minute Maid Park, previously named The Ballpark at Union Station, Enron Field, and Astros Field, is a retractable roof stadium in Downtown Houston, Texas, United States. It opened in 2000 as the home ballpark of Major League Baseball's Houston Astros.[1]

(It was named "Enron Field" from 2000 to 2002.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minute_Maid_Park
The words of Andrew Lahde (who closed his hedge fund up 800% after betting against investment banks in 2008) continue to be not just insightful but downright educational.

"I was in this game for the money. The low hanging fruit, i.e. idiots whose parents paid for prep school, Yale, and then the Harvard MBA, was there for the taking. These people who were (often) truly not worthy of the education they received (or supposedly received) rose to the top of companies such as AIG, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers and all levels of our government. All of this behavior supporting the Aristocracy, only ended up making it easier for me to find people stupid enough to take the other side of my trades. God bless America."

The lesson is that just because you work for a16z, or Goldman Sachs, or McKinsey, doesn’t mean anything. In fact you’re probably more dumb than average because you’ve been trained to see things a certain way. Not only are they not our best and brightest, they are in fact the “low hanging fruit”.
Being told how to feel is more behind a paywall? This is also not remotely true.