skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was an environmental science and sustainability major in college, along with a journalism minor. I enjoyed journalism but prior year classmates who worked the local beats would always share their nightmare career stories. Terrible pay, zero respect, long hours, poor benefits, constant downsizing, writing on deadline... for how important a job it is, it's terrible how they treat their writers.

Who's going to want to do that?

Don't get me wrong, I have a lot of respect for journalists, but the overwhelming majority of them get the short end of the stick. It's a very exploitative industry dominated by soulless conglomerates.

Put it this way. I dabbled in coding in college, doing some WordPress stuff. After two years I was paid better than most journalists after a decade. Granted dev work is really overpaid (especially before 2023) but journalism has been really underpaid, and getting worse all the time, so the difference was quite stark.

One has you doing almost no work for tremendous pay and benefits. The other has you working your ass off every week and weekends for nothing, with very little growth opportunities too. It may be decades before you pay off student loans. It's not a livable wage in most areas.

Want better journalism? We gotta treat our journalists better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8v_XqFO8Bc
Yeah that seems to be the issue. The mixing of product lines really muddies the water.
That sounds super cool!

I'm at the very early planning (read: daydreaming ;) stage for a tiling project of my own, (where my "constraints" are "has to be nerdy-awesome"). Like find a specific conway's game of life still life, or perhaps use the newly discovered aperiodic "hat" tileing.

Any chance you would be willing to dump your notes somewhere I can see?
Read the first sentence and just stopped. I'm neither afraid nor lazy. I value my time and my comfort. I like being able to drive my kids to school, having lunch with them during school vacation and always being home for dinner.
Heroes of Might and Magic 3. The game itself being great for multi-player aside, I used to play online tournaments with US players, during US evening hours while in Russia. That made me skip a bunch of classes in college, and realize instead of going to classes and getting As I could skip most and get Bs anyway; that translated into getting a dev job early in college, and set me up very nicely in my career.

Stars! was another really nice multiplayer game (PBeM), I met some people irl from playing that and hanging out on IRC channel.

ADoM back in the early days, playing it and finding out game lore from some mix or forum rumors and looking at strings in the exe felt special, the community around the game was great.

Not community-related,

Fallout 2 I think might be the best CRPG game ever as far as RP goes, you could really get away with playing a peaceful character that barely ever fights, and you could also become a maniac hated by the whole world and still have meaningful gameplay.

Settlers 2, for some reason that's the only game I can basically just keep playing forever even though I ~never played multiplayer or never did anything online with it.
We could at least get everyone here to use Firefox. There's really no excuse for a technically minded person to still be using Chrome for their day to day browsing.

If you do eventually run into a poorly crafted webpage that doesn't work on Firefox you have the wherewithal to decide if you are simply not going to use that site or hop over to chrome just this once.

But the important thing is checking in automatically as a Firefox user in the logs of every other site online. Push Firefox marketshare up and at least some places will be hesitant to write off Firefox as irrelevant.
I used MiniZinc extensively in my previous position, and have mixed feelings about it. As is stated in other comments, it works very well for specific small problems, but when the model gets complex it can become unwieldy.

We used it to create models of networked biological systems (e.g. the immune system, gene regulatory networks, etc.). The network topology was constructed from mined academic literature and then the model was constrained using data. The great thing about using MiniZinc was that it could propose multiple models with the same or similar “accuracy” to the data. You would then have an ensemble of models from which to make predictions (i.e. how does a drug affect the system).

We would have MiniZinc files that were 10s or 100s of MBs and would run for days. Sometimes they would be unsatisfiable within a few seconds, other times within hours. Many of the solvers are single threaded, and those that are multithreaded don’t seem to be much more efficient with more cores.

MiniZinc is very difficult to debug and the paradigm shift can be jarring coming from procedural languages. However, I am grateful it exists and for the work that many have put into it. Similar to the train yard comment, we used Python to construct the MiniZinc models and then submitted them to the solvers via the minizinc-python package which is well written and meek maintained.
>What this is proposing is basically to turn websites into mobile apps

The web is an app platform which competes against other app platforms.

>device controlled, unmodifiable, broken on any non-approved hardware

That's already true of the web without this API. It doesn't change anything in regards to that.

>at least I'd still be able to use my adblocker when I browse the web

Please read the proposal. It has nothing to do with preventing adblocking or detecting people with adblockers.
I was going to ask if this would be good to use with a Framework laptop... but it doesn't look like you can even get Thunderbolt for the Framework...

Update (I can't reply to the reply because of HN's "posting too fast" bullshit): Thanks for the reply. I thought a TB port would have to be one of the modules, and none is listed. But I guess TB ports are built-in, based on this: https://frame.work/blog/framework-laptops-are-now-thunderbol...
I feel like I've stepped back in time with conversation of dial-up and being presented that website
Good luck getting online banking to work outside Chrome and Edge.

If you call their support line to say something isn't working, they'll ask if you're using Chrome or Edge. If you aren't, they'll tell you to just use Chrome or Edge.
So is Apple. Some here might see this as a lesson in licensing I guess.
FWIW with my AQ meter it seems like how you use the stove matters more. When I boil water with my gas stove, barely anything changes. Same thing with heating a frying pan. But as soon as you pour some oil on it, the PM2.5 spikes.
Sounds like it should be an attribute of the index and not require a change in the data. To me, anyway.

CREATE INDEX ... USING HASH;
I will bet a nice, cold beer that some of those satellites end up riding to orbit on top of Falcon 9 rockets. Too much has to go absolutely right for them otherwise.

No doubt this will irritate Jeff to no end. I hear he’s not a big SpaceX fan.
I think you need showdead on in your profile settings, go to their comment history and see all the dead comments they have? That's a sign of shadowban.
Right, but a kitchen can't push out a proposal to make your mouth incompatible with non-approved food. ;-)
FBI improperly used 702 surveillance powers on US senator
I'm talking about a daily average sustained over the entire course of your life. You don't commute on the weekends, vacations and when you retire, etc. so it's not quite as bad. But ultimately yea, would you rather die at 80 and commute two hours every day of your life or die at 70 and never waste a second in the car and also enjoy cigarettes?

I'm also talking about time that is so utterly wasted that it's the same as not living at all. What percentage of TV watching or phone scrolling time falls to that level? Surely some parts of TV watching aren't wasted, if not then why does comparing that to smoking not sit right with you?

I'm not trying to say that the numbers match up to smoking necessarily. I'm setting up a "living hours lost" framework for fun and comparing how things match up to one thing that Americans have deemed not worth it.

We could also factor in the time it takes to work for the money to buy cigarettes or say that time in your 20s is more valuable than time in your 80s, but I've never been 80 so I could be wrong about that.
Insights into designing advanced stimuli-responsive porous materials
Forget your employer. They likely don’t own the building.

Why do you (or your employer) owe a random corporate landlord anything?
The actual network configuration program is a Win32 dynamic-link library called NCPA.CPL. The extension CPL indicates that it is a Windows NT Control Panel extension (or applet). It is represented in the Control Panels main window by an icon representing a netcard cable.

That is still there in Windows 11, although MS had to put it back likely after a Very Important Customer started complaining loudly when MS redirected it to the horribly lobotomised new settings UI.
The Forlinx RK3588 evaluation kit integrates an embedded Mali G610 3D GPU with support for OpenGLES 1.1, 2.0, 3.2, OpenCL 2.2 and Vulkan 1.2. The special 2D hardware engine with MMU can maximize display performance and provide very smooth operation. In this article, we will test the performance of the GPU performance.
This is just flamebait. I think remote work is generally inferior to in-person, but blaming its persistence on lazy or scared workers is just childish, it's trying to pick a fight where there isn't one. It's like some charicature of propaganda. Companies can decide with their employees what model best meets their goals. Nobody gives a shit about or owes anything to corporate real estate.
I've actually never watched the show :)
You are blatantly missing the point.

The point: Scientist says in private "A thing is possible" but in public "A thing is not all possible!"

Not the point: "A thing is possible, therefore it happened"
lol, wut
It could never happen today unfortunately.
Maybe they changed it because it seemed redundant to say "TOR router" (like ATM machine)... :)

Either way I don't mind, but personally I think "Tor" looks more professional, less shouty, and doesn't conflict with "top of rack" router/switch (which is a thing in datacenters). I have noticed that the Tor project is pretty protective of their brand, e.g. if you start a project including "Tor" in its name they will complain and ask you to clarify lack of affiliation.
It’s a great analogy but to nitpick a little I wouldn’t say the circumference is expanded ‘a lot’ - they’re generally in LEO at 5-600km so an additional 1000 km which is essentially 3,141.5 ish kilometres on top of 40,000ish - under 8%?

Of course, each additional orbital plane is basically another set of roads but for all the internet sat constellations being planned extra distance = lag, hence we’re going to see the most growth in that LEO category
They've probably delusioned themselves that this is not evil. They are saving the internet from small businesses going under because their ads are being blocked!
I've only seen carnivorous plants do well in terrariums. Trying to keep them as a house plant doesn't work since most houses are not humid jungle climates inside. even orchids do not do well in most people's homes. The best orchids I've seen were kept in a bathroom with a window steamy showers are taken daily.
> You realistically need electricity and refrigeration

I'm pretty sure people were cooking for quite some time before electricity and refrigeration came along.

> Beans take hours to cook without even considering soaking time.

You do understand that you don't actually have to stand over the pot the entire time they're cooking, right? And that crock pots are a thing that exists (and which can also be had very cheaply from thrift stores)?

What you apparently think of as "cooking" is "making the latest frou-frou trendy recipe". Old-school peasant cooking (from any peasant society you care to name) is cheap, easy, and consumes very little time.
It's a simple tragedy of the commons. Except the commons is the entire planet.

I do not believe democratic governments would ever be willing to take the needed steps to slow growth sufficiently to save the planet- they'd be voted out of office and replaced by someone else. Autocratic governments will never care enough to do anything to help anyone but themselves.

One begins to see why all the billionaires are trying to figure out how to escape the planet.
I used Slackware, among quite a few others in the early 00's. Moved to Ubuntu and Debian for awhile, but then got too busy to deal with all the questionable design decisions, and have been back on Slackware for the last 5-7 years or so.

It just keeps working, and when a new release comes out, it keeps working better. Better than I can say for my experience on most other distros. That it moved to pulseaudio eventually in the first place was a bit of a gasp moment, but it's generally been very good at adhering to the Unix design philosophy -- a rare thing these days.
One critical thing you're missing is that when cars smash into each other, the debris stops moving soon, and a spec doesn't completely destroy other cars a week later.
“We were a tech-enabled therapy platform for children with autism. I recently decided to stop working on it, we sold part of the company, and I shut the rest down. It was a wild ride: we were sued, we raised millions of dollars, hired over 130 people, and I made tons of mistakes.”

I’m going to be equally honest. How does it make sense on a base-of-system level? What were 130 people doing? What could the technology possibly have been to enable therapy for autistic children? What mistakes could you have made in such a situation, with what possible consequences? For who, the children or the technology?
That means the satellites should be aware of each other positions, just like aircrafts. It’d take care of collision. The majority of satellites will be commercial, not military. There will be space control for them.

Also may be not 500 billions, but how about 100 millions? So 5000 times fewer.
When I was a kid we moved from one condo to a different one in the same building. (major improvement in landlord)

Instead of going a couple weeks without a phone line, my dad went to the phone box and rerouted our old condo's line to the new one.

Some weeks later when the old condo had a new tenant move in a tech came to our door to ask wtf was going on. He was like "the people who used to live there have been unknowingly paying for your phone service. You're stealing"

Yeah, they (we) don't mind, lol.
So the reason you didn't reply is because you knew what other people were going to say if you did? Why would that stop you? Because you felt misunderstood?

What if people understand you, but just think there's more than one way to read it? Do you really think the only way to read that story is the way you did?
But cars constantly have traffic jams, so this doesn’t work as an argument a fortriori (basically, showing that a generous bound has been loosened).
The multitasking is really not the same. You can't have multiple spatial apps on the quest simultaneously in the same way the AVP was demoed, at least not yet.

In theory there's a play for Meta to lean into deeper Android app compatibility. The apps do currently run on the device. The issue is the lack of Google services and app store but perhaps Meta could make it work or make a deal.

I do think Meta still lags behind on the app store front, both from a consumer and dev perspective. They've focused on gaming and they've done well to bring up a very solid game console but it's not the same thing. Their biggest gap to catch up on is the app side of the store and they have to do it through jeers that they've abandoned gamers.
> This doc is where you help clarify company culture (#NoSmartAssholes) and stuff like this.

The less you try to do this the better. Keep it as simple as possible. Because your culture isn’t what you put in a Google Doc, it’s how people actually behave.

We try to impress upon people early that our culture is in their hands because no matter how much we say #NoSmartAssholes (or whatever) if they are a smart asshole, that is part of our culture now.

The onboarding doc is a great idea though. I always liken it to customer service. Businesses put all this time and money to attract new customers and business owners hate it when a new customer is treated poorly and doesn’t have a great first experience. But then they put all this time and money into hiring new employees and more often than not just give them a computer and hope things get figured out.
Because Hollywood mandates that legal distribution have DRM.
It's not just an opinion, it's a physical reality. We only have the Earth's worth of biomass that we can use. And unlike former Twitter CEO's pipe dream we aren't anywhere near being able to venture into an exoplanet, and attempting to do so is hurting the environment yet again. About the only reason we're not changing course is because most nations on this planet currently subscribe to an ideology devised in the colonial age by some european dudes.
These things look neat! I can tell, being in the engineering industry for 20+ years that there's a lot of excitement and progress happening.

One thing I really wish there was more of though, was motivating examples that make sense in my world.

The comment "I used minizinc to try and generate levels for my puzzle game by encoding the rules." is a decent example.

I'll believe that sat-solvers are getting better and should be used more, but I feel there's a real dearth of motivating examples for those of us who live, eat, breathe and have no problem with the C/C++/systems engineering/high performance stuff. :)

edit:

Basically, I want a few dozen well written examples of things like (starting from "Solving Sudoku with SAT"):

https://codingnest.com/modern-sat-solvers-fast-neat-underuse...

It seems a significant amount of cleverness is required to model rules as the equations, before passing them off to the solver.

(also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36087464)
There are many minerals added to tap water as part of water treatment. Rain water does not have those. So it technically does rain distilled water!
Nice find!

I wonder when it was put up, it took me a while to track the original down

License-wise on the site it says:
> You can use it for anything you want

Which implies “public domain”, and …

https://github.com/opless/small-prolog-walnut-creek-original

And on the copy on the Walnut Creek CD it explicitly says;

These diskettes contain a public domain Prolog interpreter
called Small Prolog version 2.
In the USA the C User's Journal will have the latest releases.

It has been compiled on an PC clone, on UNIX and on an Atari ST.
American blueberries are the only ones I know. How would I, as resident of middle America, obtain these "bilberries"?
In case it wasn't obvious, I didn't bother reading or even clicking on the article. Not the least because it comes from the cesspool known as Forbes, of all places.
"Construction started in 1986". Is this an example of an accident that would not occur today due to eg better technologies and practices, or an example of something inherent to nuclear technology that can never be made safe?
What Is Reddit CEO Steve Huffman Doing?
I suspect it's more that JSON is (rather explicitly) not designed to be stable across all implementations, so there are subtle differences. Numbers don't have a specified precision, strings don't have a specified encoding, maps have no canonical order nor do they require unique keys[1], etc.

Nailing all that down so you can e.g. have a truly deterministic signing process often requires custom encoders/decoders and is rather fraught with problems even then, at which point why even bother with JSON. Use something designed to be consistent.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/23195243
> was by far the top candidate for each role

How can you possibly know this?
I love their beer and look forward to the Christmas Ale Magnum bottles every year.

I hope the employees are able to buy it and run it for many years to come. Big beer has been buying up and killing way too many breweries.
Worst case scenario is house prices drop causing you to go underwater and eventually bankrupt. There is a lot of risk in buying something beyond your means and gambling that will change.
> I do not believe democratic governments would ever be willing to take the needed steps

Dysfunctional bicameral faux democratic governments such as the system that holds sway in the US at present will struggle - but they don't properly represent the will of the people at large.

Every survey I've seen on health care or gun regulation for example shows the will of the public at odds with the actions of the government.

THe founders were not fans of party politics .. and yet that became the emergenant behaviour, pandering to self interest and the highest bidders for attention and not to broad opinion.
> Anybody who suggests that the food industry should be entrusted to the ruthless efficiency optimizing mechanism that is free market capitalism should be beaten with sticks until they fall quiet.

That's actually been done before, more than once.

The result was 30 million starving to death in the USSR and 60 million starving to death in China. Plus the odd few million in North Korea, Ethiopia, Cambodia, etc.

I'd rather we not run that experiment again, thank you.
Make it attend meetings and write blog posts for me.
> Perhaps there's a term or a well known genre (besides "irony") for critiquing a writer by mimicking his style

Parody.

In fact, this is the strict definition of parody - the kind that's actually protected in copyright law.

Other things that get called Parody, like Weird Al Yankovic songs, aren't strictly parodic because they are using a creator's work to critique something else. Just changing the words to a thing or reusing the characters or plotlines to make it about something else isn't 'parodic' unless the something else you're making it about has some critical purpose in relation to the original work.

Using someone's own style to critique them is, precisely, legally, parody.
Sounds like a lot of work. Once we had a fruit fly problem and I read several guides on how to deal with them.

Each evening after cleaning up and taking out the trash, I’d whip out the vacuum arm without attachment and send the swarm to their doom. Believe I had to do it three times over a week or so, then it was done.
You can debate about de-growth but you definitely need to grow substantially slower than you bring new capacity online, or else you run into Jevon's paradox, which points out that if you increase consumption as fast as you make efficiency gains you cancel the latter out. Examples being cars becoming larger and heavier even though engines get better, bloated software despite faster chips, better healthcare but sicker populations, and so on. Vaclav Smil is cited in the article and he noticed in one of his recent books that despite large deployment of renewables, global fossil fuel reliance has only fallen from about 92% to ~88% over the last few decades. It's because we keep adding more consumers almost as fast as we add renewables.

In regards to ecological problems we're on a tight schedule to fend off the worst consequences and that won't be possible if we keep eating up all new gains. Especially because there's hard limits on how fast you can add new infrastructure globally, which itself is rarely green.
You can control your black hole with rare earth magnets. set them around the area where you are going to create the black hole to form a containment area. you might need to play with the size/quantity/distance of the placement of the magnets for best performance. I have not needed dry ice for cryogenic cooling.
I think it's because capitalism perverts everything into repeating the mantra "don't fuck with the money". You need to fix the economic system along with the government.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30071240 (496 points | Jan 25, 2022 | 69 comments)
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