skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw a video on YouTube recently from an independent content creator who went to look for these mythical sea nomads, and apparently what he found was that the idyllic scene of a remote tribe living off the land with highly refined but primitive fishing techniques was largely fabricated.

The locals were alegedly just going along with the westerner film makers, partly because in their eyes, participating in a mockumentary was an amusing opportunity that doesn't come along every day.

He then tried to get them to show him how they really fish, and it turns out they use modern gear like flippers and wet suits but also do incredibly dangerous things like breathing out of a tube connected to a machine on a small boat in the middle of the night.

The video doesn't get into the exact science, but it also looks like the fishing isn't sustainable either, as divers reported needing to progressively dive deeper/take bigger risks over time to find high yields.
I use Siri to set timers, like for the pasta that I am cooking. It does pretty well with that. Every once in a while I get a 30 minute timer instead of a 13 minute timer.
This. The Ads priiiint money, anything else looks unimportant.
I guess that makes it even worse. Large companies surely want people around the world to visit their websites for brand recognition even if they don't operate in their regions.
We've had multiple multi-cloud customers signal a desire to move away from GCP for years now because savvy CXOs are just fed up with the unreliability. When you're looking to resolve a ton of tech debt that you have because of the ground constantly shifting beneath your feet for 1-2 decades... well, you just get fed up and want the reliability of serious enterprise vendors.

It makes innovation much harder due to the downstream effects, but at least I'm not carrying more and more risk forward thanks to Google/Alphabet's ADHD approach to product, brand, and support.
I remember the same issues but don't know why we had to enable IPX/SPX over TCP/IP. I have a specific memory of troubleshooting for an hour and then clicked IPS/SPX and StarCraft worked.

Does anyone remember a specific reason why? I was too young to know or care.
They should make a page explaining how this differs from Nginx and why it needs to be its own separate thing. I couldn’t find such a page.
>People accused of crimes deserve to know if the officers involved in their arrest have a history of lying; judges, too, deserve to know how credible police witnesses are in their cases.

This seems like a pretty bizarre framing. A police officer with a history of filing fraudulent reports or committing perjury should not still be a police officer.
Almost “make” as a static site generator
If the majority of climatologists are correct, records will be broken at a greater frequency. This would make it unsurprising to see this record broken within 49 years.
Mister HN moderator.... maybe you should read more about China's extensive efforts to control the rare earth mining market using anti-mining campaigns in countries such as the US and Australia.

Examples:

https://www.businessinsider.com/pro-china-propaganda-campaig...

https://qz.com/1962580/china-is-insecure-about-its-global-ra...

https://www.economist.com/asia/2023/06/20/can-australia-brea...

It's not my fault autocratic regimes are flooding the internet with propaganda. The comment isn't "flamebait" at all. It's a representation of China's frustration that rare earth minerals exist anywhere outside its borders.
> This is great, and I'm glad for the PHP developers out there. But if I go job hunting, it's not PHP skills that offer the highest earning potential. At least not that I've encountered.

PHP has indeed ranked close to the lowest in average salary in StackOverflow surveys for years. The amount of templated thrown-together solutions for the exact same site as yesterday with different branding vs. custom solutions probably is the root of this.
macOS is absolutely and infuriatingly the same as the examples here. I’ve yet to find anyone that actively defends this style - just like I have yet to find people to actively defend open office workspaces. (In apples case, both were designed by the same people.)
We like to tell ourselves intelligence is a factor. But really male attraction preferences are based on physical looks.

Personality is a close second but males are very simple in this department too. Men just want someone chill and nice and not crazy.

Intelligence and career come in next as mostly not considered at all. The young hot girl working at Starbucks does better than a older jaded PhD girl. Especially if that PhD girl is superficially fat. Good conversation isn't a factor here.

This is how most men operate. There are clearly exceptions. But more than exceptions there are men who lie to themselves and claim their base nature is above that.

Additionally I will say that intelligence doesn't wipe away a womens instinct. They still covet some sort of tribute from a romantic standpoint. Women can have high intelligence and still desire a ring. They can suppress this desire but this suppression isn't related to intelligence. Think about it, it doesn't take high IQ to understand what a blood diamond is.

Anyway sometimes in rare cases a man is highly desirable and extremely high value. If a man has a bunch of options among hot young women to choose from that is the only situation where intelligence plays a big role. Why not? Every woman is hot and nice and the only differentiator is intelligence. Go for it. That's probably your case. I imagine you have a bunch of hot super model esque girls pining for you and you picked the one who didn't want a ring and had a PhD. Good for you! Seriously. But note you are the exception not the rule.
A Case for Simple UDP Load Balancing
What makes you think that search will last? They could easily sunset it as soon as the majority of users switch to some AI chat for getting answers.
Presumably their second act as King Of The World will be to mandate the use of perpetual third-party hosting services. (e.g., A simple HTTPS host for static files that's run by the government and never deletes or moves a file.) Use of these services is required for sale of QR-labeled hardware.
“This is an affiliate link. If you make a purchase from Squarespace, we may earn a commission.”

What’s the reason to earn commission from Squarespace?
By not promising compatibility up-front. Swift applications were supposed to ship with their own copy of the Swift standard library up to when Swift got a stable ABI in Swift 5.

IIRC, they also provided migration scripts. Certainly their Xcode tools provided hints indicating the renaming of functions.
wait, did that continue to use php-fpm? if not I want details plz! :D (especially around the logging sync, unless it’s just php-fpm configured to collect child process output)
TIL. There’s gotta be a browser extension for this!
Looks to me more like we were in a very long, very cool period and are suddenly popping out of it and are only accelerating. That’s fine for the planet. But, sucks pretty hard for any life forms that evolved to fit the Earth in the last 10 million years according to that chart.
gmail? docs?

If google cancelled either of those I'd be very surprised and equally disappointed.
I'm not a climate change denier. I'm very interested in climate science, I'm just not informed as I'd like to be.

I edited my comment to include sources for things I knew off-hand. I left the core comment largely intact, just changing a few words to better flow with the sources.

I want more information and reading around the questions I asked.

From my understanding, it looks like we're about to enter a period that is actually slightly more sustainable for humans on average (increases in arable land, easier to access hydrocarbons - yikes) [1].

But from there, we may quickly slip into ranges that kill everything. Especially if the Clathrate gun hypothesis [2] or similar runaway mechanisms turn out correct.

And obviously even if slightly warmer temperatures are better for people on average, every temperature increment results in enormous and permanent erasure of species diversity. That's an incalculable loss that we cannot recover.

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[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/16/magazine/russ... "And no country may be better positioned to capitalize on climate change than Russia. Russia has the largest land mass by far of any northern nation. It is positioned farther north than all of its South Asian neighbors, which collectively are home to the largest global population fending off displacement from rising seas, drought and an overheating climate. Like Canada, Russia is rich in resources and land, with room to grow. Its crop production is expected to be boosted by warming temperatures over the coming decades even as farm yields in the United States, Europe and India are all forecast to decrease. And whether by accident or cunning strategy or, most likely, some combination of the two, the steps its leaders have steadily taken — planting flags in the Arctic and propping up domestic grain production among them — have increasingly positioned Russia to regain its superpower mantle in a warmer world." (There are lots of other geopolitical takes on climate change that cite similar outcomes for a host of other countries.)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis
I wouldn't be surprised if the reason it's so famous is simply because it has that title.

B. wrote 32 sonatas, only a few have titles, and they're usually the most known ones. No one remembers "Opus 27 No. 2".

Don't get me wrong, it's a beautiful movement, but there's much better ones among his sonatas.
Deteriorating climate and mass shootings are the only two subjects the news covers these days. Both very important issues it seems nobody is doing enough to address. Most people are desensitized to it at this point.
Mission Statement: Google no longer offers. As soon as possible.
Tossing mine in the pot too: make + pandoc: https://ordecon.com/2020/07/pandoc-as-a-site-generator/index...
Read this thread again. Plenty of people are suggesting it exactly for that purpose. Why do you think the biggest proponents and investors by far in the area are fossil fuel companies?

The intended message, just like for geongnineering, is "keep burning oil, we'll figure it out another way".
This is what I think about when I see people wiring a bunch of Google assistant devices and compatible widgetry in their homes. Home tech is supposed to last 20 years+, so why be okay with putting things in the walls from a company that has a pretty thick-faced history of leaving markets that it finds itself unable to milk for advertising?
Weird that the parent comment somehow triggered this person. I’d be curious as to why, perhaps a dentist or a dental sympathizer?
TLDR; YES
Yeah I don't understand people are thinking this serious and even discussing about it on front page. Am I being r/whoosh-ed?
This is utterly horrifying.
There is a lot of things to if you have good grasp of technology a company runs on and you are intelligent and able to work on some complementary abilities. Which is what you should be doing -- there are diminishing returns in learning more technology, but you get huge returns from learning completely new skills that are complementary.

Most of those things rely on some additional management/leadership skills. Yes, manager, tech lead, architect, startup co-founder etc. That's natural, because that's how you get more leverage to have more impact/return for your skills.

But that's not the only way to make more money. If you don't like management path you could, for example, become highly paid consultant.
It's very good. In some cases better. For example Caddy can handle tens of thousands of certs without problem whereas nginx + Certbot would choke.

The difference is negligible to most people.
https://www.nextinpact.com/article/71103/gandi-fusionne-avec...
Google translate it from french. Basically the new owners are known for not caring about customer service. Gandhi email service will probably go or increase a lot in price
No worries, this is definitely worth another submission. I pointed out the earlier one because the creator of SmartKnob had answered some questions there already.
Let's now predict the next product that Google is going to kill. I'll start:

I pick Google Fi.
Bandwidth.com mostly runs that service and they have proven themselves a competant business that Google built other products like GOOG-411 off of. Google Voice is just a frontend to it.

I think if it ran entirely on Google's infra and the service itself could be killed like the registrar was it would have been killed years ago (notably it stagnated from like 2012-2018 or so and there was a period of time they had a half-assed panel redesign and the product blog for it wasn't updated for years)
Sacramento has Chocolate Fish Coffee Roasters, founded by two fellows from New Zealand: https://chocolatefishcoffee.com/
TIL what “point blank” actually means.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-blank_range
I posit that the Overton Window is increasingly less relevant in highly polarized political environments.

Taking climate change as an example, a large fraction of the population in some countries is growing more skeptical of aggressive climate change policy, not less. Thats not going to shift policy acceptability even if the public's opinion shifts the opposite direction on average.
Yes, Thacker Pass has been a known resource for a while and Lithium America is one of the most promising lithium mines in the US. I have even invested a small amount in them years ago.

My point is just that the additional found reserves don't change the situation all that much. Granted if they can find more location along this crater that has the same characteristics it could be simpler to replicate the mine and processing.
I can’t wait for 5-10 years from now when the climate change deniers have a resurgence armed with graphs using now as the starting point. /s
List is missing Google Play Music
Could be broken/decomposing "adult massage toy", similar to the story of 80 year old Chinese man finding weird mushroom like plant while digging well: https://youtu.be/4CBaTBCSUUI
That's not true, it just takes a lot of time and money.
That portion of land wasn’t won for free they lost a lot of troops, vehicles and aircraft and even a handful of boats to do that.

They are also losing it slowly piece by piece.
My prediction is that geo-engineering will be done when a certain death/disturbance threshold will have been reached (too many climate refugees for example and western world can't achieve a closed border, or too many weather disasters that hit the western world and populations are convinced it is because of global warming). However I don't think we will reach it in the next 5-10 years, but maybe after that period.

Also curious if the earth maybe has some tricks (last one I can recall was more clouds were causing more cooling than expected in the climate models) that will invalidate the current climate change models.
I wish people would educate themselves about this myth.

Global cooling was never a concern for climate scientists. It was the press that promoted it.

https://gizmodo.com/reality-check-most-scientists-never-beli...
Well why study history at all? Nothing in it has any more impact on us, no? Why try to determine who murdered a person even if it was decades later and the killer might be alive? It doesn’t matter anymore right?

I’m not in the conspiracy theorist crowd, but the “doesn’t matter anymore” crowd is disappointing.
Ask HN: Are there downsides to making all our source code publicly available?
I run a small SaaS business and our code is currently proprietary and hidden from view, as is the norm (the client-side code is minified). However, I would prefer to make it publicly accessible, for the following reasons:

* As a matter of principle, I like to err on the side of openness.

* We have great code, fully documented and with lots of unit tests, and I'm hoping that others could learn from it.

* It might help with recruitment, if we can talk publicly about our code and about interesting problems we are solving.

Support libraries could be licensed under a permissive license, such as MIT or Apache, while our core user-facing products could either be kept proprietary ("source available"), or be licensed under terms businesses tend to dislike -- the AGPL3 comes to mind. (If doing so could spur discussions about licensing our products under a different license, that would be a nice bonus.)

Are there any downsides to doing what I describe above?
Very nice. A 21st century take on pizzatool.

https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-story-of-sun-microsystems-...

FWIW, there's a pizza restaurant, Waypoint Pizza in Tiburon, which if you ask nicely will deliver on the water in the San Francisco Bay. This comes in handy during weird less serious sailing races like Three Bridge Fiasco.
I suggest you give up all non-human powered transportation for starters and follow that with a reduction in you electrical footprint: no more batteries - use hand- or foot-crank generation instead.

Once we haven't heard from you for an extended period we'll assume you were successful. Best of luck.
Cloudflare supports it.
MIT SoftZoo: Open-Source Platform Simulates Wildlife for Soft Robotics Designers
Everybody knows about levels.fyi.

I was asking about the leaked spreadsheet which has the data on Google US's 200k employees.
Why Hurricane Lee is alarming even if it doesn’t make landfall
DVB-S2 GRCon23 CTF Challenge
Because Google's shareholders demand it.
They're fun
> Despite being endlessly fawned over by an army of professionals, Usability, or as it used to be called, "User Friendliness", is steadily declining.

En contraire. The more usability professionals you hire, the worse your usability gets. It seems every dev team nowadays has at least a part-time designer. They come up with new, fresh ideas all the time and, of course, want to see it implemented.

If it were only the Devs, you'd just use Google Material or "read the docs" for whatever it is you were building. As it is though, people think that you need "brand recognition across platforms", which basically means that you do whatever the hell you want and the more guidelines you break, the better. It has the added advantage that you really only need to design once and ship to all platforms. Who cares if iOS/Windows/Mac/Android are different? Just implement your own pop-up dialog!
Well, part of the answer with respect to web browsers specifically is that we keep 100 tabs open and websites are often very bloated with respect to advertising-related components in particular. Security-related features probably also add some degree of overhead.

If I just want to run something simple locally on a stripped down version of Linux it would probably be pretty fast and resource-efficient.
If you carefully read my message, I said there are cases where async is beneficial. Most of the time I don't think even threads are necessary. E.g. the most common application nowadays (arguably) is a web server. Of course those who write web server itself may use whatever technology that fits, but for us mortals who simply want to receive request, query DB and respond with data, even threads have a very limited usage. Why? Because web servers are highly parallel, you try to make your request processing parallel and you starve another request (DB is a limited resource, and most web apps don't require computational power). So a simple sync processing works just fine -- no headaches, no mental overhead and you can focus on the business logic, that's what your employer values the most. The exception is when your company name is Twitter or X, whatever (which the most of web apps are not). Other cases? Depends, but the same approach applies: we usually have a bottleneck somewhere else, so you are trying to be smart and starves that. And introducing a sophisticated approach where it's not necessary you shift the focus from the business logic (see above).
It's a legacy module system with a lot of code written in it. Without mixed support, you can't rewrite code incrementally to use the ES modules. As a consequence, many projects still stay with CommonJS, since the migrating everythin in one go is a big hurdle.
Zoning laws, property taxes, liens, HOAs. You live a fantasy, you never answer any question in replies and just keep jumping from one thing to another. Completely unproductive. Done here.
Why is your life a nightmare? I’d love to hear more
That can be many things, but I doubt it is an adult toy. You’ve not read tfa
I seem to recall that the first and second IPCC reports (I haven't read the newer ones) indicated that increases would continue for about 200 years, even if emissions went to zero.
Sure, if you want to fade into history as an ultimately irrelevant ad network that simply had the novel ideal of tying ads into internet search early on in the internet’s youth and became popular and rich for a decade, then take this stance.
Yes but it's missing the one thing that would make a huge difference: Blocking images from people not on your contact list.
Yes, I have relatives that are medical doctors, physic professors, have doctorates in statistics, are engineers (real engineers and not software engineers), etc. and yet, because of the lies of conservative politics, are convinced that at best there is climate change, but it is from natural fluctuations and not human caused, and at worst that it is a hoax. Either way, there is nothing we can or should do.
So, lets bet really everything that all the climate scientists are wrong so we can keep making profits. I get it.
What is sgmljs? There doesn’t seem to be any explanation on the site.
You never know :)
My only dislike about porkbun is their domain search. Google domains had amazing search, as might be expected.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia[1] - is what you are now describing mixed with a little bit of Maxwell's Demon[2] - something is intercepting between you and a true experience.

Real, in the way I believe you are trying to express, is a complicated topic.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia
2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_demon
"just convert all your code to..."

I remember hearing that once from the Python devs...
https://www.fastmail.com/

Have been a customer for years, great service run by humans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis ?
Looks like silk. Chitinous feel. no idea about what is this thing

Some flatworms and molluscs produce eggs encapsulated in ribbons. maybe a brown algae or a fungus. Very fungal in the preserved last photo.

There were three objects like this it seems.
Been using Zoho services for my family after I got tired of fighting with spam reputation when self-hosting.
There are multiple Linux powered handhelds at this point that seem to have market traction, they are doing heavy lifting for laptops like this on the software side. I don't know any current figures and don't think quoting forecasts figures for 2027 is helpful.

I do think it's getting to the point where starting a game on a steam deck or holoiso is easier/requires less of a user than windows.

Anecdotally, every time I turn on a windows machine I'm inundated with updates. My machines using holoiso (steamos build for any x86 hardware) I just start up and they work (assuming no required game updates).

https://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/There-Are-Do...
Perfection isn’t necessary.

When assessing a carbon tax for example you can try and come up with an exact figure or you can simple tax the amount of carbon extracted from the ground. That does account for methane leaks from natural gas pipelines, but it’s much better than nothing.
Office 365 is decent overall, good value for money so it's still worth considering. With rough edges.

Zoho is an alternative, can do custom domains, website hosting, email, productivity suite.
...but that is exactly what optimizing compilers (and re-compilers) do since forever, and they are already quite good at that.

I fail to see how an LLM could magically improve that.