skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's "worth" in this question?

May be hard to answer. My view from the same behavior: yes, worth it.

Was everything productive for a career? For a relationship with someone else? Sometimes yes. Sometimes no.

Would love to hear your thoughts on my first question!
I decry this example of cancel culture.
Did you (or anyone) in this thread look to see exactly what they are looking for with their provided examples?

https://github.com/soimort/you-get/pull/2680/commits/313b8d2...

You do not need to know Python deeply to construct what they are expecting. They’re not actually looking for a unit test or something.
And more importantly, how much of a tax would it take to make single-use plastic bottles uneconomical? Are we talking 20 cents?
The line I draw isn’t a clear one; my personal opinion is that we should try to minimise overall suffering, and that requires realising that almost all animals are capable of suffering the way we do. That doesn’t mean we should try to abdicate animal suffering altogether, because that just plain won’t work and conflicts with basic human interest. But we still can try to avoid suffering in every way possible.

In a broader scope, I think we’re just now realising that continuing the human way of life is just not sustainable and makes the planet inhospitable to Sapiens: We consume too much at once, and bring a disbalance to the global ecosystem. Fixing that requires rethinking a lot of the systems we rely on, and yes, also restraining ourselves from doing things that damage the ecosystem we depend on. A practical consequence is drastically reducing meat consumption and mass farming, and that ties back in to the point of reducing suffering.

I think we’re aware of an equilibrium in our environment, and if we look at the world close enough, everyone realises the status quo just won’t work much longer. Drawing the consequences is the hard part, and realising animals suffer and that that is a sign something is wrong is one of them.
Yes there are plenty of free elections that are easy to predict. The Mexican election for instance was easy to predict
Pretty low chance of that happening haha. The one similarity I see between both parties is they both have a ton of money in the stock market and so do the corporations that lobby them. So my political stance is to keep following their investments because they have both shown a willingness to do backflips to keep everything moving up.
which past success? he’s had so many compared to most pundits
Right now is tomorrow somewhere. The article is East/West non-inclusive.
And then the railroad network kind of stagnated for 50 years. the fast speed trains ("Alta velocità") are only available in the North.

In the South you have thoughts and prayers. A trip Bari<>Milano (900km) is mostly around 8-9 hours, going further south elongates the journey incredibly.
FTA: “Read the complete story at the BNL website.”

That article (https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=222117) has the answer:

“In commissioning tests in a basement lab at SBU, ramping up the voltage to the goal of 350 kilovolts took about 23 hours. Then the gun operated maintenance free for six months”

The goal isn’t to get a high voltage, though; it’s to get fast electrons. for that, the article does say what this machine does: “The powerful gun speeds up the velocity of electrons to 80 percent the speed of light”

By the way, 350kV does not look enormous compared to cathode ray tubes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathode-ray_tube#Body: “The glass formulation determines the highest possible anode voltage and hence the maximum possible CRT screen size. For color, maximum voltages are often 24–32 kV, while for monochrome it is usually 21 or 24.5 kV”.
Not quite the same but very useful for me. Sometimes small patches to programs have big usability wins. In nix you can still update automatically, it adds your patch, automatically downloads the programs needed to compile (but still can be garbage collected afterwards), compiles and done

Maybe not great for production but for personal use, since I guess this patch could break. But in exchange for a few times it breaks, I get automatic patched updated

(Except for emacs where takes 40 minutes to compile, but schedule updated for night)
Decades ago, a manager told me (in an interview) that it takes 5 years before Java developers are productive. I still disagree. It might take time to become a wizard but the priority in this business is to complete projects.
If you did have a proper IT department, they would have forced you to keep your computer up to date with security and other patches anyway. All that posts like this do is document people's irresponsibility in keeping their business-owned computer secured.
Consumer software industry
TikTok videos are embedded in text -- titles, usernames, descriptions, comments. It's very different from TV, and if anything if it replaces TV it will make newer generations more literate, not less.
Don't forget about the decent chunk that believe evolution occurs/occurred but was done or guided by a creator rather than natural selection as the mechanism (ignoring the subset that believe it's natural selection as designed by a creator, as they'd be in agreement in this particular case). Nobody really has a solid & reproducible answer for why the laws of the universe are the way they are, why any of it exists at all, or whether or not we'll be able to figure those things out with science or not. Just ways to try to figure out and assumptions at some point involving a leap of "and because that's just how it started and works. This reason it's that way makes the most sense to me so far". Personally I lean towards the belief and hope we'll one day be able to answer how things started in a reproducibly testable way using science but I don't necessarily consider that a prerequisite to thinking like a hacker. A hacker mindset, to me, is just that of one who wants to try and tinker with something to make it what they consider better or fun. You don't even need to be "correct" at your approach to figuring things out or successful in the outcomes, just believe you can try and tinker to make something better. I think certain types of other mindsets will make a more successful hacker, and they may disagree with what others think, but they aren't what I'd consider pre-requisites to thinking like a hacker.

Fair point on throwaways. I always call them throwaways out of lack of taking the time to think on what else to call them. "New accounts" feels wrong, even though technically accurate, as it can cause conflation with "new users". "Anonymous account" might be better phrasing for this case? I don't know if there is a more established term you/others use for accounts that hide community identity though. If there is please drop it in a reply so I can use that in the future.

However much I disagree with their reasons I don't necessarily think their comments make for bad discussion here or steer things in off-topic direction. A debate on what exactly this experiment is providing evidence of is good and healthy discussion of this article regardless which interpretation is correct, with those disagreeing the most likely to provide the critiques to consider. While they certainly aren't neutral positions (or ones I'd consider logical) that's not necessarily a mark of what's bad discussion or an excuse to announce I thought their comments were jokes/peddling. To us, some ideas offend, viewpoints alarm, or strike us as extremist - we don't have to treat those positions as neutral or valid but we should treat them kindly instead of always assuming the worst and commenting about it separately. That, ironically, is actually a distraction from discussion on the article (if you make a sincere Ask HN post about it some may be interested though).
> There's also a bias in some media to report a close race for fear of being accused of influencing the outcome.

This is certainly true. the response I see nowadays if an NYT sponsored poll shows Trump is ahead is… not pretty. People are treating it like a sports game nowadays, wish they would stick to football.
Put in a condition that Europeans are not allowed to use the code or the software in any way.
I'm having trouble wrapping my head around how a measure with an absolute value (temperature) can relate to a measure with no absolute reference (velocity). In a purely inelastic collision, all the energy should be transfered to velocity, and thus the temperature not increase. A pure elastic collision would be the opposite. Similarly, if the ball and launcher are moving away relative to a given point, and the ball is launched towards that given point so that it is moving slower relatively, did the temperature increase or decrease? And with rotational velocity, if you double the radius the velocity halves because the total energy (and therefore temperature?) remains constant. Imagine if I used an inertialess drive to move faster - would my temperature have increased?
Remember kids, breakfast is the most important meal of the day and any sugary cereal is good for you as long as it's low fat!
> It isn't anymore, not for newer generations - e.g. Gen Z spending most of their time on Tiktok and phones, and not knowing how to use a word processor.

This is a classic fallacy as old as society. “Whatever the hoi polloi are doing is by definition not the good stuff”. But long-term whatever the masses are doing always wins.

You know Shakespeare? He was the rube who thought plays could be entertaining to the masses. How quaint and silly, who would expect a commoner to appreciate a play. pfft.

Mozart? Taylor Swift of his day.

Printing press? Don’t even get me started, ew the commoners think they can just, like, write things down? How rude.

I’m as much an anti-fan of the short video communication trend as anyone, but it works. When bandwidth is cheap and video recording ubiquitous, video is a great medium. Who cares what you say, show me.

edit to add an uncomfortable truth: The in-crowd talks to develop ideas. What you see in writing is weeks, months, or even years behind the bleeding edge.
Seems like a more sustainable method would be to create cryptographic web rings. A series of authors or sites that are in the web ring or “club” that link and share and display each other's content. Each site has a cryptographic key that validates they’re in the club. The next step would be to make these cryptographic keys a symbol of pride or brand.

This way you don’t need a single `cohost` brand to gather around, each separate space acts on its own. Yes like federation now. Only my club has mastodons and blogs and what not.

Then your club can take approach of “we allow anyone” or “you have to be vetted to join”.

Replacing Facebook, Instagram, et al. Is a different game than setting up a “cool blog host space”. People use those tools to be apart of their community, share photos of their families and find local places to buy used. They use a false promise of “everyone here is real just look at their real name we require” as an identifier that you are in the club.

If you don’t give these spaces free form identities and some sense of exclusion, however open, you’ll always suffer the tragedy of the commons without big money treating your users like cattle. And for some reason people love being treated like cattle.

As for analytics, give me analytics about my stuff. Do not create a gaming system out of it by sharing that data with uninvolved parties.
Not even old languages, in many languages today (notably slavic) nouns decline differently with "1", "2", "3", "4" and say "5".

Hence a wonderful piece of Soviet humour: A factory needs 5 fireplace pokers, but none of the workers knows the correct plural form for 5 fireplace pokers; not wanting to appear ignorant when they send their request to management, they request "3 fireplace pokers and 2 more". Some months later they receive the fireplace pokers with a note saying "here are 4 fireplace pokers and 1 more" -- because management didn't know the word either!
Sure, and especially if seared steaks and other high-dAGE foods are considered as a marker of poor lifestyle.

But if you are saying it's just correlation you're wrong, because the research has also described the mechanism. Wikipedia has a nice list of the effects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_glycation_end-product...

> "In the context of cardiovascular disease, AGEs can induce crosslinking of collagen, which can cause vascular stiffening and entrapment of low-density lipoprotein particles (LDL) in the artery walls. AGEs can also cause glycation of LDL which can promote its oxidation. Oxidized LDL is one of the major factors in the development of atherosclerosis."

> "AGEs have been implicated in Alzheimer's Disease,cardiovascular disease, and stroke. The mechanism by which AGEs induce damage is through a process called cross-linking that causes intracellular damage and apoptosis."

(AGE is a bad search term but the term glycotoxin is used as well.)
https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=222117

350 kV.
And how it all can and probably will go to hell
Until shockingly recently I thought the definition of summer, winter etc was just when it's hot / cold in England. So I thought December is still winter even in Australia, it's just not cold in winter there. In my defense, we measure longitude and timezones relative to London, so it wouldn't be without precedent.
along the same lines, here's a creator on youtube who (sometimes) makes whacky vehicles - https://www.youtube.com/@colinfurze

here is a popular one - bike running on a "jet" engine - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKHz7wOjb9w
Never heard of this company before. LinkedIn shows five employees, most of whom joined in 2024 and a company founded ding in 2023. Seems pretty unlikely that this group has identified a blowout that all the bigger and far more experienced players refuse to point to - could be wrong, of course, and maybe they've got a brand new model that is best in class, but seems unlikely.
Recycling glass is terribly inefficient. It’s so heavy that it requires a ridiculous amount of energy to heat up, and even then needs a very high amount of “fresh” glass to keep it usable.

In addition, transporting glass is inefficient, and it is much more prone to breakages.

The real issue is the fact that every company gets to have their own plastic bottle design, with 3-4 different plastic types that have to be triaged. They typically also want way thicker bottles than required because they feel more premium.

A government that mandates a specific shared plastic bottle designed to be recyclable would be much, much ecologically effective than switching back to glass.

I don’t know if metal cans or tetrapack are better.
it’s true that 538 is no longer affiliated with nate silver but he left in 2023, not with the espn sale
Haha. Yeah, I’m working on logic puzzles all day for work. The games I play to relax are either shoot-everything games or, like, MarioKart. I need to chill and not think.
Nate Silver and his team are not at 538 any more, they were kicked out by ABC. He's at Silver Bulletin. You're correct he's saying it's a tossup but he seems to be favoring Trump the last few days. And he's also recently writing about fishiness he's seeing when comparing state vs national measures.
Avoid scheduling events for January is just a good idea regardless. CES is the worst date possible.
#2 isn’t, practically speaking, true. Ordinary hardware store door locks can be opened in a few seconds (using techniques like “bump keys”). Is that a “design defect” if every professional knows it to be true? Locks get security ratings based (partially) on how long it will take to open them without a key.

Perhaps the lock analogy is good, but that means the eventual answer is that software will have security ratings like locks (on a sliding scale, not binary secure/insecure), and you’ll get what you pay for.
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Also they can be fine in moderation.

Similarly, if you find a zero added sugar low saturated fats treat and eat too much of that, then you can still run into problems.

It seems more productive to me to not classify food as “bad” but to focus on balanced diets, including sugars and fats, in healthier proportions.
It's simply people stop writing stuffs on paper. Nothing too surprising. I myself cannot spell some English words because I rely too much on auto-correction.
I am not a lawyer (very definitely not) and may have missed context and or other paragraphs but the directive says

"(14) Free and open-source software, whereby the source code is openly shared and users can
freely access, use, modify and redistribute the software or modified versions thereof, can
contribute to research and innovation on the market. Such software is subject to licences
that allow anyone the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the
software. In order not to hamper innovation or research, this Directive should not apply to
free and open-source software developed or supplied outside the course of a commercial
activity, since products so developed or supplied are by definition not placed on the
market. Developing or contributing to such software should not be understood as making it
available on the market. Providing such software on open repositories should not be
considered as making it available on the market, unless that occurs in the course of a
commercial activity. In principle, the supply of free and open-source software by
non-profit organisations should not be considered as taking place in a business-related
context, unless such supply occurs in the course of a commercial activity. However, where
software is supplied in exchange for a price, or for personal data used other than
exclusively for improving the security, compatibility or interoperability of the software,
and is therefore supplied in the course of a commercial activity, this Directive should
apply"

see also the following recitals.

I think this sounds pretty sensible. If you want to build a business you are responsible for defects in your wares. If you are gifting software you not "selling".
Not OP, but it probably is meant one or two meat patties of code between two buns of code, as opposed to a meatball of code with many spaghetti pf code.

What it is with computery terminology being almost 100% allegorical?

Most other trades I know have their own words for their things. Computer people seem to stand out this way
https://status.cohost.org/

I see digitalocean,datadog, aws, mailgun, managed databases kubernetes.

That costs much money, that are better spend in some classic server infrastructure like a dedicated server.
weird that the Milan metro system is not there
Has that actually ever happened? Lockpicking Lawyer shows most locks are almost effortless to pick. The same locks sold by the millions to all of us.

Even so of course we know there IS liability for some things and maybe just locks are not a good example.

But then maybe that just means that security itself is not a good example and the authorities are being inconsistent by going after security only in software.

Or maybe it just means the liability should not be just security in general, but responsibility for when you hold something for someone else.

Most other forms of liability are for the safety of an object sold to the public, or it's very basic functionality. If a normal expected use of a lock cuts peoples fingers off, or if it fails to latch at all, not if it is easy to defeat.
And all of this is caused by the way that the earth spins on an axis. And who chose this axis? Is this axis somehow privileging some? We should now devote lots of effort to change the axis to rectify this unfairness.
police are trained to lie to you, and told its good police work.

they will lie to your friends, family, and employers, with no concern for the chaos, destruction or the simple concept that a police lie, precipitated a belief followed by actions, that result in death damage or injury.
The Billion-Dollar Opportunity That Became DoorDash
Co-founder Andy Tang shares how they stumbled upon the idea for DoorDash. It wasn’t through in-depth analysis or market research, nor by following a trend. They simply chose a niche—small businesses—identified their most painful problem and set out to solve it.

"But I mean, it's funny because we really weren't trying to do a startup. It was literally one of those typical Stanford dorm room class projects. We weren't trying to do a startup or even a food company or delivery company.

I think me, and I met my co-founders Andy and Tony. Andy was in my freshman year dorm, and then Tony, we met through one of those project-based classes at Stanford. The idea we were sort of working on for this class was software for small business.

And I remember at the time, the kind of the hot startup or the hot thing everyone was doing back then was like social apps, Snapchat, things like that, like everyone's very focused on sort of the digital world, but no one was really focused on the physical world."

Key Takeaways:
1. Your next billion-dollar idea might just come from selecting a niche, pinpointing its biggest problem, and solving it.
2. You don’t need to follow trends to find the next billion-dollar opportunity, it’s sometimes better to create the trend.

Watch the full story at inceptionstories.com
#inceptionstories
Indeed, I'm a jazz musician. There's huge amounts of material created for the so called "big band" that exists only in someone's basement, or is learned about by word of mouth.
Not very much. I rarely buy beverages in anything else than aluminium, glass or cardboard. For some food stuff, like meat, cheese and some vegetables I think it is hard to get rid of plastics completely, but you can easily reduce the amount by 80%-90%.
The author makes it sound like precise dates are never given, like you just get an invitation to a "summer" event and are expected to just show up whenever?

There's a utility to telling people early in the planning stage "Hey, we're gonna be hosting this thing vaguely in summer" and send out the proper date when you've set one.

(Though point taken about the seasons, maybe something like "2nd Quarter" would be less culturally ambiguous?)
“But Microsoft really failed to have the space for us where we can come together and share our grief and honor the memories of people who can no longer speak for themselves.”

Do it in your free time, you are there to work.
True, but it’s useful disillusionement that conveys useful knowledge: companies must be monitored. Every industry, left to itself, will commit horrible acts for profit. There’s no such thing as an ethical business in the dark.
> A lock maker may certainly have liability if the lock has a design defect and can be readily opened without a key.

Masterlock has entered the chat.
It's also interesting how your brain processes information in the corner of your eye. It seems to only process the most basic information - not even color.

If I take a red Coke can and place it in the corner of my eye, I can't even tell what color it is. I can tell there's an object there but the color does not come through until I place it slightly more in my direct line on sight.
If Halton Arp were still here he'd be smiling
Every day above ground is a good day.
green energy industry is far more active than the oil industry now, especially green energy companies owned by oil companies with dry oil fields.
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The poem is written in Classical Chinese, which was spoken over 2000 years ago, and back then would have been intelligible to a listener because the words would have sounded different. Even today, they sound different in e.g. Cantonese.

There's a close relative of Mandarin (Dungan) which is written in the Cyrillic alphabet. The spoken language is tonal, but tones aren't used in the written language because written words are polysyllabic, and if you know how to speak Dungan, you can reliably infer the tones.

https://www.omniglot.com/chinese/dungan.htm