skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But there’s none at the North Pole.

One pattern that is curiously consistent is that broadly land tends to be antipodal to ocean (and not just because there’s more ocean in general - there’s a genuine statistical skew) - so having land at one pole and none at the other matches that overall pattern. (https://www.geodatos.net/en/antipodes)

Basically a surprisingly large proportion of antipodal pairs have land at one end and water at the other (although water-water is also common).

In other words it would certainly be more surprising to have land at both poles; and we should be unsurprised if we find land at neither or land at one and not the other.

So by that measure the poles are fairly typical of other antipodes.
Compared to a MacBook I’m sure your battery life is meager. And the memory bandwidth (which may not matter at all for your use cases) will be minuscule compared to Apple Silicon. But those are general non-MacBook issues.
In my CMS: http://github.com/tinspin/sprout I use node based structure on top of a relational db: MySQL, Postgres or Oracle.

So to define a admin you just add a GROUP_NAME node called "ADMIN" to a user, pretty simple but not very fun when you need to find all admins.

It's the first and last admin interface I will ever do, since then I just hot deploy my hardcoded changes or edit the raw data instead.
Oh? So you're saying a company with a similar, but not identical, product might have completely different infrastructure and staffing needs?

So we might not, in fact, be able to meaningfully compare Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, etc by headcount alone?
You might consider offering more free or cheap versions, like a student edition (cheap with no proof required) and a free trial. Wolfram, for instance, does both. Not many real companies will cheat, and it's better to have users who can't pay using an official version than a cracked one. Perhaps they start using it in an un-funded skunkworks project, then buy a full license when the project gets funded.
Working Through It
Credit card companies make money regardless of whether or not customers carry a balance due to interchange fees.
It negates most of the cost of digging and transporting sand.
An article like this is not very credible when it is sponsored by a vendor of this kind of tool.

So far as labor costs to run the portal and the "cost of missing features" these are not necessarily zero if you get software from a vendor. If you are happy with their product out of the box it might be really cheap to configure and maintain but if you need or want some different functionality it could be anything from simple to fiendishly difficult to impossible.
> but if it avoids a second Trump term

I'm no Trump fanatic, but I still do not understand what people's real problem is with him either. Most of their problems seem to be made up. You can see it most clearly in the Jan 6th committee, who were committed by any means to suggesting that Trump incited violence even though he directly and plainly called for peaceful protest and spoke against violence that day, yet they showed none of that during the "trials".
>This is like the advent of the electronic calculator on maths study ...

Absolutely! And I honestly think it will be a net positive, after all.

As others have pointed, with or without calculators, GPT or whatever, slackers gonna slack and those who take it seriously will have another great tool in their hands to do great things with it.
Specs from a new heat pump, didn't particularly need to aim for super cold climate so some models can go even lower than this:

- Cooling operating range -22°~122° F (-30°~50° C)

- Heating operating range -22°~86° F (-30°~30° C)
I asked you.com's chat a very basic question: how do I build a pc? and it said " Oops, I’m still learning and I couldn’t generate an answer right now. Please try again." Not sure that's a chatGPT like AI to me.

I asked it other simple questions and got the same answer.
Using limewire to download limewire pro felt like a real life cheat code. Thanks for this blast from the last!
So you agree that every country that exists today is a violent regime except the handful that gained their independence peacefully because the rest were all formed through violence?
I absolutely LOVED Liu Cixin's The Wandering Earth collection of short stories. One of my favorite Sci-Fi books. Surprised no one else mentioned it here yet.
"I like being that much more liquid"

There's "I use debt to buy things I can't afford", there's "I don't use debt to buy things I can't afford", and then there's "Yeah, I could totally drop cash on this but I'm going to take 0% debt just to avoid the liquid drain". If you're in that third category, you're just too far away from the first one to understand it very well. (In self discipline, not income. There's no amount of income itself that keeps you out of that first category!)
PDF: https://www.ics.uci.edu/~jajones/INF102-S18/readings/23_hane...

see conclusions

intuitively static typing is less forgiving and forces programmers to write code in a specific form

think how much time has been wasted writing Java boilerplate code.
We spent $3.2M on cloud in 2022
Confused me as well.

Perhaps David Brooks believes the working class get their news from Facebook memes. It's the only explanation that allows me to make his statement congruous.
> Why would I use Firefox when it is worse than Chrome in every way? To avoid Google? Google funds Mozilla, Firefox would be dead without Google money.

Yes, to avoid Google. There is a huge difference between using Chrome and signing away all of your information to Google, and using Firefox which is insulated from Google even if it is funded by them.

Plus if you change your default search engine in Firefox, Google isn't exactly getting their money's worth.
+1 for Preact. And its overall bundle size is smaller. I'd also recommend Svelte as well.

38.2kB Minified, 13.5kB Minified + Gzipped, https://bundlephobia.com/package/alpinejs@3.10.5

10.4kB Minified, 4kB Minified + Gzipped, https://bundlephobia.com/package/preact@10.11.3
Which sites do that for any meaningful reason? I see this argument often, but have a hard time either coming up with an idea of a business for which it would be non-marginally profitable or finding a real app/site which does that to cover the last mile of its world-wide scale.

Until that I believe this argument is equivalent to “what about Mars”. By supporting dead slow connections on Earth you simply support them to remain so.
I think a huge issue we have is that we are now at a point where we know a lot. We even know there's some causation here between latent infections and plenty of neurodegenerative disorders.

However, as the author pointed out, it's super hard to study. And with all the problems of the world, the ones that are almost impossible to study don't get studied.

But the question is if we need these studies anyway. Maybe some of the latent infections don't cause as many issues as others, but we've gathered enough knowledge at this point that we should suspect all of them.

A much better point is the one about vaccines. HPV is a prime example. It is already reducing cancer rates for boys and girls (one of the few cases where medicine ignored men - to much detriment, because a whole generation of boys could have been vaccinated already and they get cancer and spread it, too).

We should put funding into getting rid of as many of these latent infections as possible. We desperately need Epstein-Barr, HSV-1, HSV-2, and Herpes Zoster vaccines.

Making vaccines isn't anarchism to overthrow the medical establishment. Instead the problem is how funding gets allocated because the proof we have is less strong, but looking at all of the latent infections, the proof is plenty, we don't need those hard-to-do studies. Instead we need to start fighting these disease.
It was a huge productivity boost for me, because when text editing was tedious, I would lose my flow, get bored and annoyed, and start goofing off.
Semis are driven by mostly trained and experienced operators. Passenger cars are driven by people checking social media.
Last I checked, Exxon was in the business of selling oil not burning it.
Yeah it's almost like he changed his mind? I don't know, I'm not too bright.

I'm also not in the habit of crying about what was said 15 years ago and what has clearly changed since then.
Hahah! New this would be by Brooks before I clicked. Strongly disagree with this entire argument. Americans work more for less than their parents did, and much of the rest of the western world.
>Why is everyone so unconcerned about the former but pretending that the latter is the end of the world?

Where do you get the impression that people are "unconcerned" about the former?

What is the ratio of passenger vehicles to semis on the road?
In America, the psychology and boom-bust cycle around every form of credit is really influenced by inequality.

Step 1: Create cashflow problems for poor people by delaying pay, but frontloading unexpected expenses (healthcare, education, repairing a broken car that gets you to work), making alternatives incredibly overpriced (renting vs owning a home), and adding extra fees for late payments overdrafts and similar. ("Being poor sure is expensive." [1])

Step 2: Expand access to credit in the name of equality. Sub-prime and aggressive lending products help people who are living inefficiently make better choices like buying a house, taking that job in the next town, getting a degree etc etc!

Step 3: New markets always mean (a) bigger interest rates being promised upfront, (b) borrowers who are less experienced with credit and (c) lenders who don't really know the nature of risks in he new market. This is a huge opportunity for middlemen to create products that are exploitative to the borrower (sandwich financing), to the lender (CDOs full of NINJA mortgages), or both -- so folks show up to do just that.

[1] https://finmasters.com/cost-of-being-poor/#gref
When I worked in an office, one of my favorite boards to bring to/from was a Tokyo60. 60% HHKB-ish layout, split backspace, ctrl-instead-of-caps, and a classy aluminum case.

If you're curious enough to get into designing your own, there are much simpler guides than the OP here, if you know what you want to accomplish.
FWIW in Budibase you can generate all the connectors if you have an openAPI spec
Correct. In the same way a venture capitalist can still be successful if only 1 out of 20 of his ventures succeeds and 19/20 fail.
Also, the docs need a lot of work
C is a minefield of complexity, though, why are you so desperate to pretend it isn't? The reality is that much of the language complexity of things like C++ or Rust is because the problem space is actually complex. C's language just doesn't help you with the inherent complexity. In fact it actively encourages bugs as a result. That's not a simple language, it's a bad one. It was fine for the constraints of the time, but it's not anymore.

C is easily the least defensible language choice of the commonly used languages. There's so many just obscenely better options it's not even funny. See also why even "intentionally C-like" languages like Zig are growing increasing complexity https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/7769 Or why things like D's betterC adds all the same "objectionable" stuff C++ does - RAII, operator overloading, etc...
I have read the guidelines several times, Dan! I think they are almost impossible to follow.

I ask you sincerely: Please read through my comments, like the last 50, if you think I'm not a fit for HN, please ban me - because I struggle to fit your mold, I think. I can TRY HARDER (haha, caps - oops! I used "haha!") but I'm never going to be the guy you want me to be, I don't think.

I'm not going to argue with you about this, but people are snarky. They aren't always substantiative, even when they try to be. I definitely never try to personally attack people and would apologize for making that mistake (and I do apologize for making that mistake) I don't personally think saying "bro, check yourself" is a personal attack, but again, lots of this stuff is up for interpretation.

You use the term "community" but what I think you want is a world where people act how you want them to act. That's cool. You guys pay for the site.

Honestly, you have made me feel really bad about HN since our interactions. I have been muted, and the entire thing made me feel worse and worse about the site. The only times I've "personally attacked" people is when they have been really rude to me. And it isn't like I'm saying "GO KILL YOURSELF" I'm saying "you're being ridiculous" - if you put these on the same level, man. That's a tough one.
It's in Nixpkgs, so you can use it anywhere that's supported (any Linux distro, macOS, WSL, etc.)
It could be useful to graph things on a server where you don't have a graphical desktop. Graphing CPU performance is a common example.
Midwinter and Flames of Freedom were so far ahead of their time. It’s like Mike Singleton had a vision from the future of Just Cause or Far Cry or something and tried to build it using 90s technology.
This and the evidence of gut-microbes influencing behavior tells me that we’ve likely been focusing too much on genetic causes of many diseases. We have guests in our bodies interacting with our digestion, immune, and central nervous systems. They have an effect.
What I don't get anyway is why provider DNS servers are needed at all. Customer routers can be set up as full-fledged DNS resolvers, there are numerous lightweight and open-source solutions for this.

edit: removed the reference to dnsmasq - it is one of the very few DNS packages that cannot do recursion [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_DNS_server_softw...
I really like Firefox. I’ve been using it for years as I find its workflow meshes better with mine than Chrome. However, it’s been a huge pain on Linux for me on my desktop with an NVIDIA graphics card. It was locking up my CPU and causing total system crashes periodically while I was listening to YouTube videos in the background. I finally narrowed the problem down to having hardware acceleration enabled, but it was a frustrating period when those crashes were happening. I’m sure running Firefox on Linux with an NVIDIA graphics card and hardware acceleration enabled is a niche, but it really felt like that shouldn’t ever be happening. Fortunately it just works on my laptop running Fedora. The only thing that kept me on Firefox during that period was that Chrome was blurry out of the box, and I needed to focus on development rather than tinkering.

Addressing the loss of users, I’ve never met anyone in the real world that uses Firefox in my circles. It’s entirely Chrome and Safari on iPhones / iPads. I’m curious who besides myself actually uses Firefox. I have recommended it to others, but they always revert back to Chrome. The most I’ve seen with someone who was privacy concerned was switching to Brave.

I hope Firefox is able to continue its development long into the future because it’s good to have diversity from Google’s control of the internet in my opinion. It’s unfortunate that Mozilla has to rely on Google’s money to fuel that development however.
Is this true? This article suggests the opposite, banks lose money overall on everything credit-card that isn't interest payments, which make up the vast majority of their income. https://www.valuepenguin.com/how-do-credit-card-companies-ma...
Not just an example, but perhaps the classic example of why averages can be misleading. The obvious comparison is median income:

https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/stagnating-median-incomes-des...
It's important to note that "electric" is not "induction" (which is also "electric"). Induction provides many of the benefits of gas.
> now what?

Now congratulate yourself that people are willing to jump through hoops to use your software, I guess?
Ha, right. I was in that same position. Unless you're working with a fixed, non-search, massive dataset, I found the performance is just fine doing it in pure Liveview over the socket, but I don't know your situation.
Thanks! Sounds reasonable.
Good thing I haven't read any textbooks then. Hunting for witches doesn't pay well, just so you know.
I started multiple python open source projects which were useful to my employer. I did some blogging, newsletters. Low on the self-education side of things :(

The one thing I've been considering for retirement is a videogame. Godot engine most likely. I have a few ideas I'd love to put together.
> I'd be very surprised if that was as ergonomic as a symmetrical layout.

The body is complex, and movements build on top of that. It's hard to reason about it as a system in this way.

For now though, what matters is it's more fun to type on an ortholinear keyboard. I wish the focus was on that aspect and not health benefits until there's data.
I found the first book in the trilogy to have more character and history stuff per unit of science fiction than I'd like. I felt like 50% could be removed without losing too much importance. But I'm so glad I stuck through, the follow-up books are excellent, and the whole story is amazing. I chose to listen to all three as audio-books; they made for an excellent commute before my 100% remote started.
There is a link to a page about it in the second paragraph
GDP isn't attributed to specific individuals so you can't really show "GDP per capita excluding the top 5%"
>I feel I need one myself to give me a fighting chance in the case of a collision with one.

I selfishly agree. The poor lose again, I guess.
$ being used for both make and shell replacements, leading to $$$$(var) abominations and the general lack of clarity as to which variables are for which things

There was another comment asking why not just use a shell script? If I don't care about dependencies that's what I would do, but I often do care about dependencies. So I call a shell script from my Makefile to do all the weird and wild things I want to do. Make checks the dependencies and I avoid having to use $$ in my Makefile.

site/index.html: html/mk.sh html/index.html binary
$^ $@
I was referring to the StarBook, the 14" version https://starlabs.systems/pages/starbook
There's a well established theory called the "Hygiene Hypothesis" that says exactly this - https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/consumers-biolo...
I'm not a historian, perhaps you can enlighten me.

France is one that came to mind. Violent regime? Of course not. But they did have to tread through a reign of terror after their Révolution française.

Perhaps you eventually get to a peaceful regime. But it's hard to imagine power sweeping into control on a wave of violence suddenly shuttering that same violence.
> Whenever you see a BNPL offer for 0% it means the merchant is paying the interest on behalf of the consumer.

I don’t think this is true - the merchant pays a transaction fee (around 3-5%) with companies like Affirm or Klarna, which is not much different than typical credit card fees. The merchant is not paying an interest rate or liable to pay more if the customer fails to pay on time.
Oh, this is Blink, a x86/Linux emulator in a browser, not Blink the browser engine on x86/Linux.
Sorry ,English isn't my native language ,thanks for the feedback anyway ,I will sure consider researching.
It was a quick Google that I can't find again. Efficiency numbers vary widely, since the size of the pot makes a big difference in the efficiency of gas or conventional electricity.

In one experiment, using coal fired electricity to boil a pot of water on induction released 0.29 pounds of CO2. Using natural gas to boil a pot of water released 1.16 pounds.

https://zeroenergyproject.com/2016/10/24/induction-cooks-bet...

As you said, it's fairly irrelevant. The point is to reduce natural gas heating and methane leaks. Natural gas cooking is a side effect.
Well the OS pushes iCloud, Safari doesn't need to do so itself.
r/Showerthoughts is that way -->
I'm afraid this earns a "well, duh" from me. For a minimal cost to ranches, they can increase both their output and the reliability of that output. And the externalized costs? The ranches aren't held accountable for those, so they may as well not exist.

And you can bet those ranches will fight tooth and nail against being held accountable; it is, after all, the most "logical" way to spend their resources to protect their revenue. Imagine the shareholder response if the profits were to drop significantly, and permanently.

It's simply how we've trained corporations to behave.
Some vendors who sell expensive software arrive (perhaps unintentionally) at this solution: produce software with enough defects or missing features that it cannot be used without regular contact with support. An adjacent idea is to produce software with a large number of plugins that are separately purchased. That multiplies the effort needed to crack and distribute everything.
Legibility also increases the ability for a large organization to chase singular ambitious goals.

For example: software estimation is hard. It takes time, it's highly inaccurate (frequently by 2x or more), and rewarding good estimation incentives worse software.

But having deadlines helps functions like marketing and sales immensely. Marketing can plan effective launches, and sales can guide customers towards new products with minimal lag in uptake.

Lots of corporate life is like this. It's a net good if it's used to deliver a better experience to customers. It's a constant fight to make sure legibility efforts aren't being used to hoard power for personal gain.
How long did it take to get to the point where Dvorak wasn’t frustrating? (Not necessarily to equal speed, but to at least non-distracting/non-aggravating.)
In 1984 you would indeed see ads for the Macintosh, with its glorious 3.5" drives.

And yes, people in general wouldn't use the term "minifloppy" in normal conversation (except, possibly, old-timers mostly used to "real" floppies, the 8" ones. But even I wouldn't, even though I - just barely - started using computers and floppies before the invention of 5 1/4" drives), you wouldn't say "Please hand me the minifloppy". Just ".. the floppy". You don't use a long term when a short will do.

But, as einr said, it lived on for longer in marketing and packaging.
What exactly is your definition and/or interpretation of software engineering? And how exactly, in your eyes, is it different from programming?
Anyone who denies the legitimacy of democratic elections is an enormous threat to the nature of democracy and should not be given large political power.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/cnet-is-experimenting-with-an-ai-a...
Good article. It reminds me of the more extreme offshoots of the FI community: people or couples living on 10k yearly in US or Western Europe, guys living out of their 1st gen Chevy Volts, and so on.

In most circumstances, it'll never be worth paring back the conveniences of your life, because the time saved by convenience becomes more valuable as your labor/expertise becomes more valuable and your free time gets scarcer. But it seems healthy to remember that barebones living is an option.
I think so too. But that requires a bit of dev effort, and perhaps they are prioritizing other things - like some state migration path to the new models, or a button to click to 'replay' a conversation from an old model through a new model to regenerate the state.
A very good reason to use it!
It does not really matter if you have a programmable keyboard, you just set the layout to qwerty on your device and then remap on the keyboard
I phrased that poorly:

I meant things like income or other household metrics, but only for the bottom 95%.

Precisely because GDP doesn’t give us that insight.