skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't appear to be any particularly obvious reason this would be a big problem.

Edit: Actually looks like they repainted the lines there in between Aug 2013 and Oct 2014 which makes it much more clear.

Here's 2013:
https://goo.gl/maps/NF3xguY2P6FX4JUX7
And 2014:
https://goo.gl/maps/Bk6W8bqndCb1Zjvd7
You simply can't beat Django's ORM for general stuff. It's too awesome. This alone makes it so hard to choose anything else.

I know django doesn't have that "shiny factor" to it these days - but it's very reliable.

> mixed messaging on best practices for scalable apps

The WSGI stuff can be kinda confusing and is used across a lot of python frameworks including django and I think flask?

My advice for "simple scaling" is to start with a separate Postgres instance, and then use gunicorn. Use celery immediately if you have any "long lived" tasks such as email. If you containerize your web layer, you'll be able to easily scale with that.

Finally - use redis caching, and most importantly - put Nginx in front! DO NOT serve static content with django!

> the ecosystem feels overbloated with vapor ware extensions.

This still exists to some degree for some more niche stuff, largely because of it's age. Although impressively they'll generally still work or work with minimal modifications. It's popular enough and old enough that most normal things you'd want to do have decent extensions or built in support already.
love PlanetScale product. Do you recommend any similar offering for PostgresSQL?
De-solder internal mics, use a headset.

This is already common practice among some communities.
>that formed the 550km² of fertile plains around the south end of Puget Sound (near Seattle) and knocked a huge chunk out of Mount Rainier. If you drive from Auburn to Enumclaw, for example, notice how flat the land is and think about how that was hilly Cascade foothills and glaciated drumlins until 5500 years ago.

I grew up in this area... there are two tragedies that most people living in this area don't realize. One, before the war a good chunk of the region was populated by people of Japanese origin who farmed and never got their farms back after the war, and two, it is some of the richest farmland in the world - now covered with concrete tilt-up warehouses, highways, etc. Humanity is interesting.
The platforms had a preexisting way to report ToS violations. The government made statements of fact about posts that violated those ToS. The platforms were free to act or not act on those reports.
If you like the outdoors, this 16-years running thread is a good, very long rabbit hole.

The premise is "What's the weirdest thing you found in the woods when you were out in the middle of nowhere?". It has everything from Bigfoot, to Old West stuff, to UFOs, to cultists, to dead bodies.

https://www.ifish.net/threads/weird-findings-in-the-woods.14...

I first read it over several days and check back every year or so for new posts.
Fastmail is an excellent example of a very reliable, slow changing product with a consistent price. I’ve been a subscriber for over 20 years, and I’m thrilled that it hardly ever changes in perceptible ways and just does it’s job. In more recent years, they have started to introduce some changes but seem very careful about it.
Ask HN: How did going through an incubator help your company? Any good advice?
I live in Maui and there is something called Blue Startups here with a deadline of late July. It's similar to YC but based in Honolulu, there is a week in SF involved at the end.

I'm a solo founder, for now. I will change this when the time is right but for now, it's best to work solo and keep overhead low.

Applying to Blue Startups makes sense to me because of the strategic possibilities for a travel app connecting Asia and the Americas.

Just thought I'd ask here before putting time into my application and making sure my demo is solid.
The unity documentation drives me nuts.

I also compile Godot when I use it so I can read the source and step thru stuff if I ever have a problem.

I get paid to use Godot tho, and am a contributor, I'm not the typical user.
Possible explanation: swearing is more likely to be committed into code by people who either (1) own the code, or (2) know they're too valuable to be punished. So it self-selects.

I personally have very different commenting styles between my work and personal projects. Not that any of it's good.
Blocking internet to prevent cheating is absurdly stupid as the cost to any nation's economy must be non trivial. Why can't they just take all the devices for students entering examination halls.
> We observe that the average consumption of Fluoride is about an order of magnitude larger in the UK, yet, IQs are almost identical. Which hints that if such a relationship exists, it is not as pronounced (5 IQ points) as the article claims.

Ecological comparisons are towards the bottom of the evidence hierarchy because there are any number of cofounders at play.

For example you could accidentally conclude that smoking is healthy because smoking tracks with affluence in poorer countries.

So I would reject the notion that we should or shouldn’t see IQ differences in very different populations which is why you want to do controlled research on different cohorts in the same population.

Finally, a causal mechanism is only a cherry on top but it’s not necessary for strong causal inference. Our mechanistic explanations are repeatedly wrong and/or inexhaustive. Fortunately, we can perform good quality studies instead like mendelian randomization.
Internet Archive is a great resource, but man the interface sucks. Part of it’s because there’s no good way browse online, and part of it is because the search is broken. Indexing so much data in such diverse formats with questionable or missing metadata is hard. I’d love a better interface, but I also suspect that a crappy interface is what help IA stay alive. There’s plenty of legally questionable data hosted there if you know where to look.
Any more insights into his research and measurements that you know of? Thanks for sharing.
What are you using the number for?
> Yes it is, there are lots of corporations and anyone can start one.

Please tell me how to start a Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, or Twitter and reach their scale and engagement. Preferably up and running with billions of users by tomorrow.

Your suggestion is implausible and denies the reality that these entities are entrenched and more or less here to stay.

> If you hate censorship so much why are you on hacker news?

You want me to leave because I hate censorship? Same argument as "If you don't like America, then leave." Systems can be improved. Just because we don't like the status quo doesn't mean we want to throw everything out. This is a shallow dismissal of the free speech argument.

> There are plenty of sites that let anyone post whatever they want and they turn into people spamming nazi propaganda. You can find these sites and see if you like them better than the mainstream sites of the internet.

Again, clearly not what I'm advocating for here. Not all discourse turns to "Nazism" (as liberals say) or "kiddie diddling" (as conservatives say). I operated forums back in their 2000-2010 heydey that had a free speech policy. People behaved, and we all learned a lot. The only reason corporations have the market share now is that they blitzscaled to critical mass.

My argument stands. The ideal social media system is a p2p protocol that nobody can exert undue control or influence over. That everyone can tailor as they so please.
I've heard that the earth, if scaled down to the size of a pool/billiards ball, would be smoother than the ball.

I often use that to explain how spinning cue balls can manage to change the angle of the shot, given the same impact point as a non-spinning cue ball, in an effect pool players call "throw." [1]

The peaks and valleys of the pool ball will reliably grip like gears. Sometimes the balls even stick together momentarily before they release, changing the outcome of the shot, in another effect called "skid". [2]

Also the referenced site is an amazing deep-dive into a niche topic, worth a glance--especially the high speed videos demonstrating the physics of the game.

[1] https://billiards.colostate.edu/tutorial/throw/
[2] https://billiards.colostate.edu/resource_files/onoda_skid_ar...
The short stories in Driftglass were pretty good, and relatively tame. Read them at 13 or 14.

The sex in Tales of Neveryon is basically off-screen, with heavy allusions.
> Who writes these headlines anyways...

A Pulitzer prize winning journalist. Lab leak is dead.
At best that's a post hoc rationalization for the decision, not an actual motivation behind the purchase itself.
Visual Studio Code June 2023
THIS APPEARS TO BE UNSOURCED.

There's a TechCrunch article about layoffs of 129 people in February, a Wikipedia edit today (July 6) links to that implying that it's happened now instead of 4+ months ago and also states (unsourced) that the 129 is more than half the remaining staff (the article link was retrieved today but is from Feb). The price increase referenced was announced in April 2023 and took effect in May so also not new.

The Wikipedia article has now been updated to reflect the above.

Edit: I see that OP has noted that it was heard directly from affected employees, with 98 gone and ~30 remaining (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36619945)
This is an example where correlation does imply causation IMHO
A proof is usually some premises together with a conclusion, such that the premises are true or accepted, and it is not possible that the premises are true while the conclusion is not - usually for formal reasons.

I don't see why "life exists and no god exists" should be a contradiction for formal or other reasons.

Furthermore: the existence of which god? As you know there and have been many religions with different gods.

And lastly: if it was straightforward, how come so many people fail to see it?
No, they raised prices because they found an opportunity for more profit that they had missed before. No other forces than greed were required.
So... what? There's another sunken cold-war era submarine we want to retrieve?
It is very much a game influenced by depression, I recall you played a solo alien with a destroyed planet and no knowledge if any of his kind was left or where they would be.

It was a really magical game from the pre-iPhone era of the web, so experimental it barely made sense. It's sad to hear of the creator's struggles, I hope he focuses on himself instead of worrying about letting anyone down.
The thing that tickles my conspiracy theorist, is that the outbreak originated 2 km from the lab that gain-of-function research into SARS-2 strains was outsourced to.
>but I suppose $55 million will more than cover it

At this point, I don't know if that's such a safe bet when you find governments managing to spend millions on a single toilet, lol. I agree though, they're probably making revenue. If its 300 ppl and they're on average making $75k (made up figures) that's roughly 22 million right there.

I wonder how much _all_ parking fines bring in. If fire hydrants alone are $50 that number has to be massive, right?
You are going to scratch your head and be frustrated. Just keep going! Imagine your asking "I want to make a rock song that is better than the other rock songs. What youtube video can I watch to learn how to play the guitar?"

I usually recommend GDQuest on YouTube. Just start! Keep going! You'll figure it out.
Trans: "What's good for the goose is good for the gander."
The influx of AI-generated content on the Web is a given but I highly doubt it will have an adverse effect on any outlets that try to operate with a modicum of integrity and respect to their audiences with regard to the production of genuine, insightful material (authored by actual humans). I don't get the impression that G/O Media's assets have that in mind.

I am okay with the demise of the sort of outlets that they own from a quality perspective and the type of people I imagine frequent their assets in lieu of other outlets on average probably do not care. Most of what we read online that are "current events" or "news" are glorified press releases anyway, so what difference does it make how the information is generated? Feature stories and in-depth criticism is another matter, but I don't think that the sort of people in search for more substantial content are dependent on Gizmodo or Deadspin to get their fix today (I hope not, at least).

In short, I think decisions like this will be a good catalyst for adept, interested writers and publishers alike to forge better opportunities. The future of media has its promise in the dreadful decisions that corporations are making under the influence of late-stage capitalism. Isn't it a joy?
Home Depot is selling regular fridges for as little as $4xx right now.
> the difference in line count between Java + a bunch of libraries and Python + a bunch of libraries is a lot

In term of line of code yes, that's correct. But i think this simply shows that "delta in number of line of code" is not a great approximation for expressiveness. The difference between java and python are mainly "ceremonious" line of code that case be generate by any semi-serious IDE.
I would put python and java in the same general class of expressiveness (even if python is much more terse).

I think "expressiveness" of languages form a partially ordered lattice, with few language on top.

- Some languages are unilateraly more expressive than other like C++ vs Java

- Most it depends : scheme vs C ; If you are talking about meta-programming and AST manipulation scheme is more expressive. If you are talking accurate memory modeliation and bit manipulation C win.
Car centric American problems
I have been running a 5 stage RO and DI unit for 20 years for my drinking water and aquarium water. It costs about 200 upfront and about 60 a year in media. Very cheap and easy for clean water. Pair it up with a 5lb co2 tank and you have infinite fizzy water as well. Highly recommend. Solve it at the end point.
I don't see why there needs to be any coercion. The offense here is not against the social networks, it's against the people whose speech was suppressed.

Whether that suppression was done with threats, requests, subtle hints, or an automated system, if the government's intent was to suppress speech, the means employed make no difference.

Edit: imagine an extreme case in which a social network independently created an automated system for government employees to remove posts. Would it be constitutional for the government to use that system?

Clearly not, despite the lack of any coercion.
Show HN: I made an AI Dungeon Master to play D&D 5e with
Hey everyone, I built this project because I always wanted to try playing D&D but couldn’t find a group of friends or a DM to play with. It’s still early stages and not meant to be a complete replacement for real DMs or IRL sessions, but it’s a good way to dip your toes into DnD or to play on your phone between your IRL sessions.

I tried playing D&D with ChatGPT but the overall experience was lacking, so I built this site & Discord bot that has a character sheet tool, better memory management, support for multiplayer, and automatic tracking for things like spells, HP, and encounters.

Try it out at https://www.fables.gg/ and let me know what you think! You can try it for free, but after a while there is a paywall since the GPT API costs aren’t cheap.
Having an 'overweight' BMI may not lead to an earlier death
Wow, that just gave me a crazy flash of nostalgia. I think I must have had this set, or at least a very similar one.
Why is this news? Iraq does this, Jordan does this, it's common throughout the region to block internet. It's not effective, and usually there are carveouts (office internet still works, usually it's only cellular and public internet, etc). When I was living in Iraq this was just something you dealt with, like a rolling blackout once a while.
Or for instance pad thai, which was created in the early-mid-1900s as part of an intentional effort to create a national dish.
Laura at the DMV could tell me to disallow ISIS from buying stuff from my company and there's no way I could consider that an actionable threat of any kind.
I’m retired now after a pretty middle class career, and am well aware of how much of my success was essentially luck. I have a reasonably high IQ (not my doing), was born into a family that, while poor, instilled middle class values (again not my doing), was born with a skin color that matched the majority (do I need I to keep saying not my doing?) I lucked into a career which suited me, in an economy that worked very differently than it does now. And I was lucky enough not to have any major health problems during all of this.

A lot of people seem to think of themselves as self-made, without realizing the number of folks who worked just as hard as they think they did without seeing anywhere near the same success.

Maybe something will happen at some point to make them open their eyes, but I wouldn’t bet on it.
What I do know is that Nigeria was recently forced to cut their fuel subsidy, and I highly suspect that was done under indirect pressure from western environmentalists. Which would be a very concrete example of making a couple hundred million very poor people even worse off.
I believe Nassim Taleb wrote about this in relation to 'virtue signaling' - not swearing being a sign that people are trying to 'signal' professionalism in order to keep their jobs, and therefore are more likely to have less actual professional skills (which if good enough would secure their jobs regardless of profanity) and vice-versa. Same for hoodies over ties, etc. Although all this probably gets flipped now that we have people writing papers like this - context is everything.
I loved the Dreamcast. It had superior specs, lesser loadtimes than PS2. But lacking in multiplayer games.
I am going by the map in TFA, which only covers PFAS -- and is a CNN article, so take it with a major grain of scientific salt.
Many dumb phones have off switches (which actually work), or better: removable batteries.

(You can simply break the circuit with a piece of paper between the battery terminal and phone contact for convenience.)
Recent and related:

Algeria cuts internet nationwide during the baccalaureat exams - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36285086 - June 2023 (163 comments)

Also:

Algeria turns off its internet to keep students from cheating on exams – CNN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17393923 - June 2018 (1 comment)

Algeria shuts down internet to prevent cheating during high school exams - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17363270 - June 2018 (4 comments)

Also—loosely related and sparsely commented:

Internet goes dark for millions in Indian state's bid to stop exam cheats - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28686329 - Sept 2021 (0 comments)

Indian state cuts internet to prevent cheating in exam - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28670023 - Sept 2021 (0 comments)

Exam Cheats Cited in Three-Day Internet Shutdown in Ethiopia - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20180544 - June 2019 (1 comment)

Total Internet Shutdown in Ethiopia - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20163896 - June 2019 (1 comment)

Ethiopia shut down its internet to prevent exam cheating - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14456234 - May 2017 (0 comments)

Iraq shuts down internet nationwide to prevent students from cheating on exams - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11736257 - May 2016 (0 comments)

Iraq shuts down entire country's internet to “prevent cheating” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11719094 - May 2016 (0 comments)
Looks like GitHub just killed this project.
There are a number of problems here, so I apologize if my approach seems scattered. I'll start narrow and go broader.

The major substantive issue with this proposal is adeptly pointed about arzke, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36616677 Namely, using <br /> instead of <br> is a useful annotation to beginners who haven't fully internalized the rules about self-closing yet; it also, minimally, reduces cognitive load on more experienced developers, just like any other such annotation (e.g., a C comment when you skip fclose() because you're using stdin or stdout). While such annotations have no material affect on the final product, they are indispensable for beginners and externalize bookkeeping, reducing cognitive load even for more seasoned devs.

As a result, there are broader implications: proposals like these make the Web a less-friendly place for beginners. I believe the "old Web" had something valuable that's been lost. The creation of things like NeoCities (and its generally positive reception on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33648618 ) makes me believe that view is widely shared. Proposals that make learning HTML harder, even if only slightly, run counter to these shared values. (While omitting the annotation on self-closing tags is the tiniest of tiny drops in the bucket, so is the bandwidth saved; so while my objection is vulnerable to a criticism that the danger is de minimis, so is the OP position.)

Worst, though, is the strident smugness with which OP dismisses all the criticisms of his position, in his blog comments, in the related Twitter thread, and here on HN. "There's a whole section in the article about the risk to beginners" is only slightly more tactful than RTFA, but it nevertheless assumes the other commenter hasn't read the link (in violation of HN guidelines), and refuses to engage in a discussion on the merits, instead just asking for another hit on the OP's blog post.

Speaking of trolling for blog hits, this post, like all but one of jaffathecake's past 30 submissions, is pure self-promotion, which is obvious when you actually go to jakearchibald.com and see that the Twitter handle there is jaffathecake, and the gmail address there is jaffathecake. "Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I vehemently disagree that HTML needs to be rid of all redundancies on the assumption that anyone reading it already has the rules about which tags are self-closing memorized and internalized. I even more strongly disagree that shameless self-promotion is within the spirit or text of HN's rules.
I couldn't find the list on my first skim. Then found in the footnotes, in case anyone is curious:

"2 “Social-media companies” include Facebook/Meta, Twitter, YouTube/Google, WhatsApp, Instagram, WeChat, TikTok, Sina Weibo, QQ, Telegram, Snapchat, Kuaishou, Qzone, Pinterest, Reddit, LinkedIn, Quora, Discord, Twitch, Tumblr, Mastodon, and like companies"
Could be correlation. There's pretty plausible reason to have a cutting edge research lab close to the highest risk place for natural outbreaks of the viruses it studies.
> But Instagram is not.

I don't think that's an accurate description. Not only is Instagram not aggressive about the one account thing, they are actively supportive of multiple accounts. You can in fact not only be logged in to multiple accounts at the same time, you can have an Instagram feed that shows combined content for multiple accounts.
Those are part of GNU C, not part of C, as you suppose.
feels like notion is gonna be the next evernote