skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sorry, but you've just noticed it?

Yes, I have noticed “an increase in arguing over the meaning of words on HN lately”. I also know how to discuss the meaning of words and how they form the context of a conversation, once taken together.

> Wars about semantics have been standard fare on geekdom since the dawn of time, and on Hacker News since the dawn of Arc.

Sure, and I enjoy very much some pedantry (and am not above doing my bit every now and then), but that’s not the point. If someone wants to have a heated discussion about how a centuries-old metaphor would apply to the kings of France but not to a multinational company, then sure, have at it, as long as you don’t derail otherwise useful threads. I will just opt out of spending my time that way and instead get some interesting pedantry.

I must admit I am not really sure what image you want to imply by “dawn of Arc”, though it does go a bit with the French king vibe. Would you care to explicit a little?

> What appears as "Obnoxious Contrarian wilderness" is good-old hacker "well, actually" pendanticness (with some sprinkling of on-the-spectrum focus on details and semantics).

Pedantry and semantics are fine, and indeed one of the reasons why I am here. But the point beyond that has to be knowledge and enlightenment, otherwise it’s just, yes, obnoxious. There is also a thin line between a good “well actually” and a nuisance (not even talking about bad faith trolling).

Please note that I did not address any of the people in question, because that would be stupid, rude, and counter-productive. I am happy if they have their arguments on their side. I was just replying to a fellow commenter that they were not alone with that feeling. There’s no need to be rude about it.
Even if, for the sake of the argument, we accept that illegality reduces consumption and that it would thus reduce the number of actively consuming addicts, that is still not a strong enough argument by itself. It depends on the assumption that the reason addiction is harmful to the individual and society is only the drug's effects per se, and not the myriad of other factors that come into play when an addict needs his or her fix, such as trying to get enough money to pay for it, marginality, exposure to criminality, risk of using an adulterated substance—all of which are greatly exacerbated by the drug being illegal.

Does the drop in the number of addicts achieved by illegalising the drug make up for the increased suffering and societal damage caused by the remaining addicts now turning to more desperate measures?
Seeking Advice: WorldWize – Promoting and Monetizing an App
Hello,

I'm excited to share my app "WorldWize" with you all. It's a platform that allows users to explore countries, capitals, and flags, offering a visual and educational experience. But today, I come to you seeking your expertise and guidance on two crucial aspects - promoting the app and exploring monetization strategies.

Promotion: I'd love to hear your thoughts on effective ways to promote WorldWize. Whether it's through organic growth, social media, partnerships, or other channels, I'm eager to learn from your experiences. How can I reach more people who would find WorldWize valuable?

Monetization: As a solo developer, I'm looking for sustainable ways to support the app's growth. Are there any monetization models you'd recommend for an app like WorldWize without compromising user experience? I'm open to exploring both free and premium options.

I genuinely appreciate any advice, insights, or personal experiences you can share. WorldWize is a passion project, and I want it to flourish with your support and wisdom.

You can find WorldWize on the Play Store:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mevapps.worldwize
I would suggest either updating the software or installing KoReader.

The most recent official firmware has a much nicer UI, but is incompatible with homebrew at the moment.

KoReader is much, much nicer to use, as it's designed specifically for e-readers. It has no annotation or pen support, but the reading features are so much better than the stock software. I typically have it set to dual-column in landscape mode, I find it more comfortable to read with the gigantic screen.

Plus KoReader works with Calibre to manage your library over the network. It's really quite pleasant once you get it working
> The FBI was just found to have framed four muslim men for a terrorism plot to bomb a synagogue. This is what happens when you make new crimes and incentivize our broken forces.

Er, are you arguing that “bombing people” is a new crime invented to weaponize law enforcement against Muslims, or does your example have nothing to do with your argument?
This is the answer. Very smart people [1] are disregarding the worth of proprietary data.

[1] https://twitter.com/nikiscevak/status/1650295590809636864
One point I'm surprised this article didn't include was hostility towards users and mods from SO staff. I wander into Meta stackexchange on occasion and it's shocking how often the top threads are full of well reasoned posts from established users being ignored or bulldozed by SO employees.

Maybe I've just happened to look on bad days but I have the strong impression that SO is a platform that I absolutely don't want to get more invested in, despite a lot of interesting and knowledgable posters. It reminds me to the disdain Reddit has been showing towards its power users lately.

An established platform can get away with that sort behavior for a while, but is utterly toxic to its longterm quality and growth.
In my experience with this I call it "addicted to being sober"
Wow, I didn't realize the little article I wrote for Lifehacker would have such a big impact on this project. Also didn't realize he had passed on the project to Cloudflare. They're a great team so I'm happy it's in their capable hands now!
My kitchen was remodeled (by the previous owners) in 1993. All of the appliances, except for the dishwasher, have not been replaced by us in 16 years of ownership and I believe they all date back to the 1993 remodel (based on serial numbers and general condition when we bought the place).

In that time, I've replaced the dishwasher in 2014, a spring on the door of the dishwasher in 2022, and a heating element in the defrost circuit of the 1993 fridge. That's an oven, a cooktop, a fridge, a trash compactor, and a garbage disposal that all have 30 years of service, with only the dishwasher having failed and two repairs. Their older fridge in the basement is still chugging along as well. That's 5/7 perfect, 1/7 with one minor repair, and 1/7 failed inside of 30 years. My parents built their place in 1999; of the kitchen appliances, only the microwave has been repaired. Their place before that, built in 1974, only the dishwasher replaced between 1974 and 1998 when they moved.

My conclusion is that dishwashers sucked and still suck, but that old appliances generally chug along for decades.
South Korean dog meat farmers push back against moves to outlaw their industry
I disagree. AWS should make it easier to just use routed IPv6, which makes the default VPC much more usable.

And then just use one of the zero-trust overlays to secure communications between nodes.
Google Cloud Platform CPU Performance in the Eyes of Spec CPU 2017 – Part 3
It fell in the ocean and drifted towards Australia. So, no, Australia has no grounds to fault India. Also, isn't it better to let space junk fall to the oceans then let it drift in space around Earth for decades?
Actually SQLite would have been a much better and easier choice for most WordPress blogs.
> cannabis

> other opioid products

Not even close

> This is due to taking weeks to get cannabis out of your system.

I doubt it. It's not psychoactive weeks later.

I agree with the "psychologically addictive" vs "physically" though. (I think it's even simpler than that though - you're just addicted to the quick dopamine surge, same as another round of Counter Strike, sex, cupcake, whatever)
Nuclear and renewables/batteries actually have the same biggest problem: the vast majority of the cost of future energy is up front capital costs. That’s what makes natural gas so attractive: the vast majority of costs are fuel amortized over the lifetime of power generation.

That’s the thing we need to fix regardless of the power source.
For me I strongly believe it is other alkaloids in coffee and similar plant products which I’m particularly sensitive to.

Artificially caffeinated beverages have much less of a negative effect than coffee. And coffee preparation method makes a significant difference as well. Espresso is better than drip coffee which is better than cold brew.
I always thought that was the scary part of a nuclear plant meltdown until I watch Chernobyl and realized poisoning the aquifer for a million years is a much more likely scenario.
It’s hard to see projects that take ~14 years to produce the first kWh urgent solutions to anything.

Spend the same money starting in the same year and the first solar project makes enough money to fund a second which then also comes online before your nuclear power plant is ready.

Which doesn’t make nuclear useless, but it’s really disappointing if you’re in the industry.
Cloud cover doesn't stop all production, it just reduces it. Just build more solar and more storage and it will still be a fraction of the cost of nuclear. I could answer point by point but all of your "failures" are artificially constrained.
Love Render and Netlify. I've been meaning to try Render's capabilities for static websites but Netlify has just worked so far that I haven't bothered yet.
as much as your friend terrorized himself, he was also terrorized that same amount, if not more.

it is hell.
I think it comes down to to a couple of things that software doesn't have that most other disciplines do:

Standardisation - in the big 'E' Engineering world, there would be a recognised international standard for Web Apps that ensured/enforced that all Web Apps supported this functionality, or they would not be approved for use.

Another factor is Accountability. A senior Software 'Engineer' would have to take personal responsibility (liability, accountability) that the software product they are producing and/or overseeing met all these requirements and personally sign off that these standards have been met. If the product were to fail at any point and it was determined that the cause was negligence in following the standard, any damages sought (not common, but not unheard of) would ultimately find their way to the accountable individual and their insurance.

In cases where budgets/importance don't allow for this level of scrutiny, there would still be paperwork signed by the producer of the software and the client acknowledging deviation from the standard and waiving any recourse for doing so.
I do wonder if some of the "massed solar sail" ideas for terraforming Mars' atmosphere would work here (in short: use cellphone processors to build and launch a couple hundred thousand solar-sail equipped satellites).

Because it would be expensive, but it would kill several birds with one stone: we (1) prove whether the concept would work on Mars, (2) develop the technology to do it, and (3) unlike SO2 in the atmosphere, "switching it off" or modifying the scale of the effect can be done almost instantly (you could remove the swarm by having it fall back to an Earth orbit).
> There is no central point to pressure or capture in order to execute the same attack as above in tradfi.

Yes, there is, the person (software system?) with the bat that's actually enforcing the smart contract in real life.
For monitoring and alerts I look to how industrial SCADA does it.

Unfortunately I have no code to share, because... I'm a dev, rather than a sysadmin, and I do backups and such at home with the GUI, and I don't work 9m anything microservicy, so I've only done monitoring of features within one monolithic application.

My preferred way to monitor a backup task would just be to use a backup tool that had it's own monitoring built in, or integrations with a popular monitor solution. I've done DIY backup scripts, it always seems so simple that you might as well just write a few lines... But it's also so common of a use case that there's lots of really nice options.

I've done the systemd --failed thing on every new terminal, and probably should go back to doing so, but it doesn't do much if you're not logging in regularly. Although it does help when you're logging in to see what went wrong.

But the general idea when I have actually implemented monitoring, is that you have state machine alerts. They go from normal, to tripped, to active.

If you acknowledge it, it becomes acknowledged, if it bad condition goes away, it becomes cleared, and returns to normal when acknowledged(Or instantly, if auto-ack is selected).

Every alert has a trip condition, which can be any function on one or more "Tag points"(Think observable variables with lots of extra features).

A tripped alert only becomes active if it remains tripped for N seconds, to filter out irrelevant things caused by normal dropped packets and such, while still logging them.

While an alert is active, it shows in the list on the server's admin page, and can periodically make a noise or do some reminder. Eventually I'd like to find some kind of MQTT dashboard solution that shows everything in one place, and sends messages to an app, but I haven't needed anything like that yet.

Under the hood the model is fairly complex but you don't have to think about it much to use it.
Unfortunately words may be interpreted differently to how they are intended. My apologies if you took offence, as that wasn't my intention. I do often make snarky remarks on here but this wasn't meant to be one of them.

I think this is part of what I'm getting at, text conversations are missing eye contact, body language cues etc, and along with the anonymity of the internet, a lot of things can be misinterpeted and disagreements can escalate quickly.

I normally try not to engage in it too much - when the sun is shining and it's a beautiful day I'd rather be out exercising and patting peoples dogs than engaging in Internet drama. That is all.
I used to be a big fan of pot and a proponent of legalization but now I am not sure.

The impact of things is at the margins - people whose lives were going to work out well, will probably still be OK even with pot. People who were gonna have big problems probably will have them anyway. But I think there are some people who will be pushed from the "barely OK" to "not OK" category.

The legalization (vs decriminalization) has had a clear impact on the use. You used to smell pot when walking in NYC sometime, now you smell it consistently everywhere. You are constantly in the presence of high people which did not used to be the case.

In my own life there were historically some benefits to discovery of pot, but I also recognize that areas where I wasn't vigilant about it, had negative effects. For example times in my life when I had gotten fat correlate to when I smoked actively. I was vigilant for pot messing me up in obvious ways - eg I didn't let it make me miss work or stop dating etc - but the weight subtly crept on me.
Why should we back bitcoin over CBDCs? At least CDBCs will get taxes paid rather than assist in tax avoidance.
> Psychology has a dearth of actual repeatable testable experiments, which is why it’s not a science.

Some sciences are characterized by their inability to perform isolated and repeated experiments with identical initial state: Economics, biology, climate, and anything based on humans. They’re still sciences.
Brave comment from a 2 minute old account. /s
I'm not sure how tall a column of water you need to trigger supercritical water oxidation, but the problem would be getting the oxygen down there.

Better to do that stuff at the surface, I think.
I didn't reinterpret anything and I don't think what you state as pretty clear is entirely clear to me (or I just didn't read into it as deeply). Anyway I simply responded with some reasons why one might publish a fake process and go through all the rigamarole. I probably should have quoted the sentence in my reply to avoid confusion.
I don't know about you guys, but I often think magician are great computer scientists.. pre-planning order and configurations to obtain a known result..
> That’s not quite how it works.

Yeah in reality there are two forms of hydropower: the classic reservoir dam, and 'run of the river' powerplants. You're absolutely right, even reservoir dams don't really fulfill the 'annual battery' idea, since they must maintain some minimum outflow for downstream consumers and can't shut it off entirely if it better suits the power generation goal.
Once cheap intermittent sources have in the moment saturated the market, nuclear cannot charge what it needs to pay off the very large capital cost. Nuclear is then dependent on making that money during brief spikes, but storage and demand dispatch will be flattening those spikes. Nuclear will have nowhere to hide.
We recently bought a /24 at $65 per IP. Larger blocks are somewhat cheaper, but not by much.
Not every negative aspect of changes caused by a market-driven process is actually an indication that those changes are negative as a whole.

You should contemplate why the market caused resources to be allocated this way, instead of your preferred way, as usually the market allocates resources more efficiently than any single person could ever hope to achieve.

It may turn out that the negative changes you perceived are more than balanced by other positive changes that you weren't able to perceive. In your example, the lives ot Chinese people who benefitted from those changes may have improved a lot more than whatever setbacks you may have experienced. Or maybe people around you can now buy things they couldn't afford before.

That said, this is not always true, as markets don't take into account externalities.

But still, we don't know of any system of global resource allocation better than letting markets do their job while governments try to control their externalities.
Oh, Quantum mechanics is completely characterized. We have complete theoretical modeling of chemistry and most electric phenomenon.

But you just try solving the equations our models create.

A computer can certainly simulate this material, on the CS theoretical sense, where all computers are the same and time and memory are both infinite.
These limp attempts to limit demand are exactly what people naturally do, and so is ignoring them.

Some environmentalists might say that our power is unchecked because we've killed our last predators and destroyed all the other checks on our resource consumption, but they just aren't looking far enough in the future or with a wide enough view at the system. The checks are there, and they will check us since we're incapable of checking ourselves. And it's gonna hurt my kids.
What fact was that?
By "the" asteroid strike I'm guessing you mean the one 66M years ago? There were definitely ice ages before that, likely including one or more Snowball Earth phases (the whole surface frozen): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowball_Earth.
PlugShare shows 14-50 outlets, mostly in campgrounds, and I carry around a 14-50 charger in the event I'll ever need to do that. By design they're not going to be conveniently located downtown though.
40mg is a huge dose, no?
I always thought “well, nobody’s gonna die” is a crappy attitude for any professional developer. We should care about quality and getting it right, regardless of the stakes.

QA: ”Look, if that integer overflows here, your software is going to fail.” Dev: “Well, it’s a cooking recipe app. Nobody’s gonna die!” How low of an opinion you must have of your own profession if you’re going to excuse yourself this way!
They didn't pay?
In the dictionary under "redundant" it says, "See Redundant"
> I must admit I am not really sure what image you want to imply by “dawn of Arc”

Arc is a Lisp dialect invented by PG whose main notable use is that it is the implementation language for HN: the “dawn of Arc” is thus a flowery way of saying something like “the first concrete steps to the creation of HN”.
Your own math points out that this is a cost effective technology. 4 cents per kWh is quite cheap electricity.
Dijkstra's maxim is both harmful and clueless. Many of the greatest programmers in the world started with BASIC. When I "graduated" from BASIC to Pascal, I very quickly dropped the BASIC approach to program flow, as any software engineer worth their salt would do. Dijkstra infantilizes programmers, as if it wasn't obvious that BASIC's approach is cumbersome and people just keep programming C++ as if it was BASIC...

Once you go to a "proper" programming language, there is nothing to "unlearn". The new approach is so obviously better! At the same time, having an interpreter up within 2 seconds of turning the computer one was AMAZING and got a lot of people interested in programming.

Much of the software world you see today was built by people who started with BASIC!
Incidentally, On Basilisk Station is a free e-book at the publisher's website [0]. They also have an online HTML version [1]. So you can try the first book in the series to see how you like it before purchasing any of the others.

[0] https://www.baen.com/on-basilisk-station.html

[1] https://www.baen.com/readonline/index/read/sku/0743435710
Deep drilling based geothermal can fill this role too though - and does have the substantial benefit over nuclear that it leaves no surface-supply chains for resources (uranium).

Given that we're so close to being able to do it, we honestly need a Manhattan project initiative to push it through to reality (with the outcome being the machine and process to do the drilling).
Yes, the Safe Mode button. But you have to remember to press it before you start configuring the router and then exit Safe Mode when you're done.
Nuclear is not a needed addition to the grid, unless you have a compulsion to waste money.
ELBs (Elastic Load Balancer) supported IPv6 termination since 2011.
> because they are worried about dependencies and write to nigh-lowest denominator.

Yeah, here’s a strong culture of writing ultraportable scripts in case our precious script ends up running on a SunOS box somehow. There are cases where it’s important, but not the dozens of small-ish scripts we end up relying on daily.

I entirely agree about the rest of your comment.
Looking specifically at the data presented in the article, the headline is damned suspect. But looking at what you've cherrypicked for me, I find it interesting that you conflate "control or influence" with "control."
You have to agree that "skip to morning" button really works.
How does the bill let Warren and Graham say what to censor and change? The bill says that social media companies have to clearly explain their moderation policies and disallows them from using algorithms to hurt their users. There are problems with the bill, but none of the problems have anything to do with telling people what to censor.
Well yeah, because enforcement was a joke.
> remarkable 2

Fun fact, you can hook this up to your computer and use it as a drawing tablet, maybe I should open-source my plugin for this :)

> only nit, is sometimes swipe when turning pages is ignored and I have to do it a couple of times. (Maybe it is sleeping and needs to be woken?)

It's an issue with how you do the gesture, I have the most luck doing it around 60% down the screen, from one edge to the other, and waiting for the screen to finish refreshing before doing anything else.
The two are not the same. Before the prohibition, alcohol had been legal for hundreds of years, socially accepted and permeated the culture. Can't say the same about weed.
Do you personally know how much your employer pays in tax to employ you? I bet most people dont have any idea. I just had to look it up myself. I would never know if the rate changed provided I didnt read about it in the paper.