skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perceptions on stiffness vary greatly with your inseam length, and I feel like it's fruitless to have conversations without stating what frame size you're looking at.

If you start with a bike model that is already known to be mushy and try to ride a 60 or 62cm size it's going to be even worse. When I still rode I chose a frame that some other club members characterized as 'harsh' but they were riding something more like a 56. Even a couple inches makes a huge difference in leverage.
See this CAL-OSHA complaint.[1]

"During the past decade, hotel operators have
increasingly competed on the basis of the level of luxury of their room offerings. This includes
luxury bedding consisting of oversize mattresses and opulent bed linen, together with other
upgraded room and bathroom amenities.
One industry observer has aptly described the competition to introduce more luxurious
beds and room amenities as the "bed-race." The trend started in the late nineties when
Starwood Hotel Corporation introduced the "Heavenly Bed" at its Westin-branded properties.
Other companies followed suit with their own luxury bedding programs: Hyatt the "Grand Bed,"
Marriott the "Marriott Bed," Radisson the "Sleep Number Bed," Hilton the "Serenity
Collection," and others. Although first confined to upper-end hotels, the new bedding and room
packages are now commonplace throughout the hotel industry.
The new bedding packages are characterized by heavy, plush mattresses weighing in
excess of 100 pounds. They typically feature a bulky "duvet" or quilted comforter, triple
sheeting using flat (instead of a fitted) bottom sheet, up to six pillows on a bed, pillow cases that
fit tightly over plump pillows, and other amenities such as decorative pillows and blankets.
Major players in California's hotel and lodging industry have acknowledged the hazards
that the new bedding packages pose to housekeepers..."

[1] https://www.dir.ca.gov/oshsb/documents/Hotel-Housekeeping-Mu...
> (Today, not in the 70ies)

Exactly, numbers stations were a big thing in the 70s-80s.

In those days carrying a SW receiver was pretty standard and almost every country had a world service radio station that people would actually listen to.

These days using the internet makes a lot more sense yes, both for tourists and spies. Because spies want to be where the mainstream is to avoid detection.
IMO grain and artifacts are a tool, like any other part of the post processing pipeline. Those tools can be abused, but they aren't valueless. I'd think that most people reach for these tools for two reasons, adding detail to bland sets, or adding authenticity to your setting. Our brains are weird and sometimes seeing less of the scene allows your mind to fill in the gaps better than the budget allows a texture artist or a set designer to do. The lack of post processing in general is what gives bad games that Unity Engine look that people hate.

As for the other reason, it's sort of like how we perceive people as older due to the clothing they wear and their hair style, our cultural reference for how old a piece of media is can be tricked by the mimicking the imperfections of the filming techniques of the time. Take a photo of old brick building with a Polaroid camera and ask folks when that was shot, I would bet that most folks would say 80s or 90s more than the 2020s.
No. IRC was also a sort of global namespace. There's no such thing (that I can see) in the fediverse. Handles are closer to RSS links than they are to Twitter accounts, and the tooling just blurs the difference.
Your account is too new to post this url... Wait a bit longer
You're definitely right, but this conversation gets utterly muddled by the approaches that the right uses. Just click into the home page of that site, and see how every single article is something shitting "wokeness" or diversity.

This is the texture of the debate right now in the US. The far right have colonized all theae reasonable positions as sort of gateways into more extreme ideology.

What you say is reasonable and I utterly agree, however just know that this conversation has been weaponized by the right.
I don't really see the issue?

The instance provides the resources you consume to access Mastodon. In exchange you follow their rules.

If you don't like their rules you can move to someone else's instance or even host your own. The process seems pretty simple: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/06/how-to-migrate-from-on...

I don't object in principle to instance admins having a lot of power, precisely because they provide the resources and you can move to some other instance whenever you want. That seems reasonable.

There's also nothing preventing you from having multiple Mastodon accounts on multiple instances, including one where you're a responsible member of society and another where you're tooting spicy politics under a pseudonym all day (and the network opts in or out of you as it prefers).
I guess also the inspiration for the hit television program "Deal or No Deal."
When more than a few thousand of us get a chance to vote we will certainly ... ummm ... choose between alternatives ... oh democracy, what has happened to you :-(
This is not really true, most of the times the discussion goes like this

Q: "Why haven't you implemented feature X -- python has it, so nim should too"

A: "Nim is not python, it is a different language, not all things implemented there are good, so we don't implement everything"

So this is not "against python" it is against specific attitude towards nim where people think it should be a python clone instead of a separate language
He's also very good, but as someone who has some level of knowledge of what he's working on, I think he talks too much.
I have the box set of some of your other zines, so I instantly bought two copies (as I did with the box set). One is for my twelve year old daughter who's been fascinated by your stuff for years, and one to take to work, where it will constantly be lent out to other people.

Love your work. Always fascinates me to see how people approach simplifying something complicated. These remind me of a feeling I also get when I'm reading Scott McCloud: comics are vastly underrated for educational content.
Ask HN: What Historically Is Oracle VAX Rdb/VMS?
Hey HN,

In conversation, I heard that Oracle had a version of their database that historically ran on the VAX system:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Rdb

I've never heard of this before (and have tried do a decent bit of historical research in general). Would be interesting if anyone else had practical experience or historical knowledge about it? How does it compare to what is modern Oracle?

I try to explore a lot of historical hardware and operating systems in my spare time. (You know when you are back for the holidays you get to hear all kinds of great old stories...)
I would suggest a read of The Effect of Low-Skill Immigration Restrictions on US Firms and Workers: Evidence from a Randomized Lottery - https://www.nber.org/papers/w30589 and reconsider that position.
Where exactly is this movement you're seeing? I'm seeing a lot of speculation with no actual facts or data to back it up.
Umm, no. I haven't seen answers there where people just invent non-existing options like ChatGPT does.
Since people seem to be rating your book, I'll give it a purchase, as this'll probably be useful for me. You got me with the discount for being in Trinidad and Tobago haha, which I don't actually need cause I actually live in Canada, I'm just in my home country for vacation.

Anyways, as a self-taught junior developer, I'm always looking for ways to become a better programmer, so thank you for this :)
Not sure if this is useful or interesting, but has anyone else cut their hair to look less like SBF? Any other change of appearance or mannerisms count as well.
Where does this leave people who do not want to use their phones for literally everything?

I do not want a lot of apps on my phone, and I do not want to install something just for one trip.
This is the tactic of the right. Have a blog like this publish 10 reasonable arguments and 90% wild anti-woke stuff so you can draw people in and get a head nod, then ease them into more radical views with the other content.
Django is lovely, but it uses so much Python magic, so much metaclass chicanery, that if you try to use it moderately differently you'll hit roadblocks.
I'm not familiar with that ecosystem. I'm an old neckbeard who tries to stay open minded. You'll see me with vim or emacs. Yes I use both.
Have you measured how it performs, compared to a simple boost.asio based "thread-pool". Boost.asio is often used in the core of proprietary thread-pool implementations, so I am curious ;)
Another way to say that cheap hotels are a thing of the past.
Right but my worry is that it will become so cheap to produce 100CoD games/marvel movies/etc that it's going to crowd out anything else.
Explosives, much as other forms of energy storage, tend to have lower specific energy (energy per unit mass) than slower-burning fuels.

1 kg of TNT has roughly 4.6 MG.

1 kg of petroleum has roughly 45 MG, ten times as much.

The difference is that the trinitrotoluene combusts rather more rapidly than the oil. But if, say, you simply want thermal energy and have a mass budget, you'll go with the oil.

C4 has an energy density of about 5.1 MG/kg, slightly greater than TNT, but only 1/8th that of petroleum.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-4_(explosive)>

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density>
Given the content of that page, it looks to me like that was the spam filter working as intended.
Comments have fairly stringent expectations compared to other sites, consider conforming more carefully to the guidelines[0], and you can post whatever you like.

Not to be accusatory, but undersubstantiated hot-takes are frowned upon, because they don't result in productive conversation.

Think debate / examine, rather than protest, basically.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What was wrong with the old rubber raincoats?
You can also say that tight immigration leads to automation. Companies will do their best to find ways to reduce costs and increase profits. So limiting immigration will not necessarily lead to wage growth.

Also, the employee shortage will only get worse as the number of older american increases and number of working age employees shrinks. If it's bad now, it's only going to get worse as time passes.
It's also that a forest is incredibly three-dimensional and layered, which contributes a lot to how you experience it. A photograph shows only a 2D projection of this, obviously.

Capturing depth in a satisfying way in a photograph is a skill that can be learned, but often it's impossible. (The skill is really about learning to see the small set of perspectives that do translate meaningfully to a 2D projection.)
I wonder if the lawyer is really that stupid or just puts on a good act to help sell this nonsense. Requiring security at the hotel is as dumb as requiring security at the high rise condos just down the street (they don’t and nobody would buy them if they did).
TikTok’s new feature will tell you why a particular video appeared in your feed
It's easy with steel to go outside of the realm of easy repairability. In the last days of steel before aluminum became affordable and even before carbon fiber did, it was common to for fancier bikes to have tubing that changed thickness (interior of course) once or twice, as stiffness at the ends of the tubs tends to matter more, and it's easier to weld thicker pieces of metal.

And then you had Serotta, who before they switched to titanium, made steel frames that were not just double-butted, but they also spirally ground the butting to maintain most of the torsional stiffness but lose a couple more ounces of weight.
A free Twitter-like app using S3-compatible services as the back end
As someone who has been writing nim for many years now, using grep, rg, and various other search tools I can say that I've never had any issues with finding things I wanted. This is just one of those imagined issues that your realize doesn't exist when you actually try to do it.
In 2018, Elizabeth Holmes has the misfortune of having multiple cabinet members, Presidental ally Rupert Murdoch and Republican stalwarts like Kissinger and former Senators among her defrauded investors. Other than Theranos there was little financial crime prosecution.
Good catch. I assume it was to mitigate the risk of him fighting the extradition or outright fleeing. If he had known their case was this strong, with his former colleagues flipping on him, I wonder if he would have agreed to be extradited or if he would have tried to delay it.

(Or maybe he already knew and it’s just a coincidence).
Similarly I remember telling my mom about chumboxes, clickbait and fake 5-minute hack videos.
PS the fabric I refer to is called "Shakedry". But it's only one of the many types of gore-tex. The more traditional types don't have this issue.
The details are debated. The basic fact of it is not.
Great point. A quote I like that’s more succinct: “Amateurs wait for inspiration, professionals just show up and get to work.”
ive been making general notes on How To Name Things (from companies to variables) here since its one of the well known hard problems - offering it up for others

https://www.swyx.io/how-to-name-things

this piece would be a new category for me - how to name products, given a big brand that covers multiple products
But that is not what I said.
Lettuce for the win again
I have stayed at multiple hotels where a machine hands out key cards or numeric access codes when you enter your name and date of birth.

When you leave you just throw the key card into a box or feed it back into the machine.

No smartphone necessary.
No one cares about Mastadon now. And in a month when it fizzles out, you should come back and re-read this article.
It depends on how lenient they are. Many times, deals just for pleading guilty are a thing, leaving conspiracies aside.
Is it really that common? It’s happened to me once, in my 10 years of using Reddit. Not saying my anecdote proves anything but I wonder how rampant it really is.
No true crypto
Musk's Twitter is not 'stirring up' polarization, he is 'allowing' it.
Only time I had to bring my own bedlinen was in a youth hostel. For some hotels I've stayed in though, it would have been a good idea.
Good god, the things people used to do because transistors weren't available, or too expensive.
Does 10 bit color actually deliver a benefit if you have an 8 bit screen?
Probably no accident that old-school ski cafes on the slopes serve up calorically dense food like cheesy omelettes and fondues...

Talking of old-school, I am reminded of Robert Wood's The 2oz Backpacker from 1980-something that advised hikers to take a swig of cooking oil before going to bed, for calorie-burning warmth.
With any project, the first step is the customer describing their business needs. Analysts turn those requirements into a complete set of specs, then programmers write code that performs the specs.

There's no way AI is going to take the place of the customer, since the AI doesn't know what the customer needs, nor will it take the place of the analyst since even the smartest AI can't deal with a customer who is unable to clearly articulate their requirements. Hence the need for human analysts.

The AI might be able to help the programmer turn the specs into code (see Copilot) but it will always be hamstrung by not fully understanding (as a human would) the actual requirements.
> And yet, regulators across the world (US, Europe, Canada, China, Japan) allow its continued sale and use.

I wouldn't be so sure, with more and more agencies signaling their intent to escalate...
This is done, as an alternative to "spinning reserve" with renewables-loaded grid supplies.

The benefits are mixed. Amongst other problems, the Earth's own rotation actually puts a lot of stress on the rotational axis. free-floating flywheels aren't generally highly practical, so compensations (I believe magnetic bearings are common) are used.

The apparently obvious storage mechanism ... turns out to be rather difficult to operationalise.
Ironically a carbon frame is easier and cheaper to repair than a nice steel frame.
Batteries also serve typical passenger-vehicle energy demands better than flywheels, with far less complexity and risk.
https://showrss.info/browse/1627/upcoming#tulsa-king

Allow me to donate information that should lighten your load, the torrent community effectively collates TV schedule drop information for free and in open formats.
Thank you for this post, which captures what I think is a key issue for many.

I wonder though if there is a reluctance to adopt an approach similar to King's because people are wary (possibly subconsciously) of killing their enjoyment of the process: 'Don't turn your hobby into a job' is advice that you hear a lot.

Perhaps those who are prolific have their eyes more on the end result (a good book in 3 months) rather than the act of writing and that helps them deal with this as well as being more generally motivating to produce good work.
Put the config in a file and have a launcher program that turns it into flags, and then stop thinking about the flags.
You could apply the same trick to also make a self-decompressing file, basically you could have self decompressing and decrypting archives, all stored in html.

Pretty cool trick
Megacorps is a red herring and emotional appeal. The same applies just as much to small businesses in the same industries.
What is up with the conspiracy theories that professors are somehow politically powerful entities? Is everyone putting forth these theories still in college? Do they not know how little power college professors wield outside academia.

Personal connections to the head of the SEC on the other hand are valuable.
The simple reason is that these search engines don't exist to help you find information.

The search engines exist to try and sell you stuff.
The scroll bar that some OSes hide and that cannot know if there's a massive picture or a map or 50 of them? Not nearly the same thing.
"Ms. Fields said her phone had instructed her to point it toward a satellite and hold it there, which allowed her to summon help."

;_;
> "JVM but for everyone who isn't a Java developer" would be good but WebAssembly isn't really suited for it. It works for some static native-code targeting languges (C, C++, Rust, Zig, etc) but doesn't work well for languages that most application developers use (.NET languages, TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, Clojure, Java, Ruby, etc)

.NET/Java/Clojure, maybe not. Ruby and Python work via an interpeter for the platform, just like they do on JVM/.Net, except that, unlike JVM/.NET, in both cases they can use the normal C-based interpreter, compiled for WASM.
Just the table of contents is gold. Would make a poster from it.
It's always the same: Microsoft seems to have turned and got away from its evil image, then they turn their all they have done good into more evil.
This is partially addressed by .env files (many projects support them) and an accompanying file with empty values or defaults, that lists and documents the variables (the .env file itself is then in .gitignore)
Yes, 100%! This is exactly the machinery the makes it hard for a compiler to elide the exception.

I don’t think there’s anything in the standard that prevents the compiler from optimizing away said exception completely, but neither gcc or clang do so even in extremely trivial cases where the exception is identical to an if statement:

https://godbolt.org/z/8Y81bzo5s
Either you've got a 64 bit fixed point number, 64Q32 or you just invented your own floating point format, and it's not clear which you're trying to describe.
I would love this to happen because finally I can have my own one man paramilitary industry like Tony Stark.

Then I just need to procure the right assault weapons. Then I will be (at least my bunker will be) unstoppable. No need to hire mercenaries anymore.

Maybe one day it will get even better, that I can have my own attack units like robot dogs/personal tanks equipped with insane amounts of assault weapons and javelins. Then I can mount an attack against anything. A person, an organization, a city, a small government. A true one man army, with AI controlling everything.
Reading the article I guessed this is why they end up used in busses and other larger vehicles.
There's nothing opaque about having an implicit potential return after every line as well as an implicit additional error result value. Think Go, but without the ceremony.
Hotels should start proposing discounts for not cleaning the room every day.

If I stay in a place for a couple of weeks, I’d be happy to have the bedsheets and towels changed once and the room made like every 3 days at most.

I mean, most of us don’t do more than that at home. Less room cleaning would save on staff and laundry et be a net benefit for the environment.
Not even close. These plans are limited to certain areas, usually for those, sometimes surprisingly small, areas that have just recently been opened for construction. At least in my experience, there certainly are statistics to be found around that. E.g. we don't have one neither, my parents have one so, including the kind of trees to be planted in community places.
How do they support a family on a service industry income? Living paycheck to paycheck just hoping nothing bad happens?
It sure is, and there are even more funds and more people working on this today than there were 30 years ago.

Breakthroughs have been found recently. People use busses and watch cars win 24h endurance races using this technology, partly thanks to the research on composite materials.
First off roaches are endemic to Las Vegas. Like NYC. I don’t care how clean you think you are, if you don’t have pest control services, you will get roaches.

Secondly hotels inside of casinos both outside of and including the strip will regularly clean rooms. They also have regular pest control services, as the rooms are high traffic and constantly occupied.
I like the "don't even ask" part, some places over here can be rather difficult in that regard.
> Would you work for $16/hr with no health insurance?

I actually did, even if you adjust for inflation.
I started to do crochet small animal … forget Japanese term. Otherwise I found out I have no patience for larger item knitting … except use those round plastic one.

It is sort of like programming and totally agreed it distract you very much
Brilliant, now they will fund two separate divisions doing same thing leaving room for the next CEO to cut costs by reintegrating or cancelling.
It depends on how one looks at it. For example, I didn't read it.
That's also bad. Prosecutors hold a huge sentence over people and compel them to confess - it's a kind of hypothetical torture, forcing you to confess by the bad stuff they'll probably do to you.

Prosecutors, along with their investigators, should come to a position on whether a party is guilty and if so what punishment they deserve. They should then make that case in court. Courts would need much greater throughput to handle this, but the current method seems much worse.
I've started to dislike this perspective, because it feels like an "if the only tool you have is a hammer..." kind of explanation. It's a valid perspective, but it's not the only one, and other perspectives are often more useful.

Maybe the issue is just that hotels don't want to pay enough.

Maybe there is an actual shortage. Then any single hotel can solve the shortage by paying more, but hotels in general can't.

Or maybe hotels have to rethink their business models. It's an inevitable consequence of real wage growth that labor becomes more expensive relative to goods and services. At some point, the old ways are no longer viable. Hotels can't hire as many housekeepers as before, because people are not willing to pay enough for hotel rooms. Hotels must then find ways to provide housekeeping more efficiently with less labor.
Do you have any examples that aren’t confusing and super complicated?