Recent submissions

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 3 years ago
as the article says, it's "most extreme" with respect to its size compared to the surrounding waves: "the Ucluelet wave was nearly three times the size of its peers."
Comment · 4 years ago
I regularly use parmigiano rind when making vegetable stock. Hopefully the tracker extract will add some nuance.
Comment · 5 years ago
that's excellent -- couldn't find any background info on the project, do you know the context?
Comment · 5 years ago
The author of the book -- Ester Salgarella -- has also put together an online searchable corpus of Linear A:

https://sigla.phis.me

It's very neatly annotated, e.g: https://sigla.phis.me/document/ARKH%201a/

and a good starting point to anyone wishing to try their hand on extracting patterns out of the corpus

Comment · 5 years ago
how did joining the EU restrict Commonwealth immigration?
Comment · 5 years ago
i find such logic hard to understand: UK was part of the EU, hence the open labour market. That's the whole point of EU. What did they find unfair exactly -- that Nigeria was not part of the EU? Or that countries can agree to have an open labour market?
Comment · 5 years ago
yes but amplification matters -- there's been at least one study which measured the clickbaity-ness of headliness of paid vs ad-based news sites and the difference was sth like an order of magnitude. i'll see if i can find the link.
Comment · 5 years ago
advertising is the primary driver for clickbait and emotion-driven content. it enables The Daily Mail, it results in youtube's algorithm hell, it's why facebook exists. 'clicks = money' is bad for mental health. as long as wikipedia et al are free, give me subscription-based web all day.
Comment · 5 years ago
yes, this reasoning does make sense. but given the human cost it should only make sense if there's a significant prior: in most of these cases there was no previous evidence whatsoever, just a new system, and boom, thieves.

I think the core point here is how imbalanced this process was: postal system builds a new accounting program that shows money is missing. these people were convicted solely on the evidence that software said so, there was no burden on them to show that the money was actually missing. I mean, hard for me to grasp how is that possible. anyone can write a program that shows something. how is this sufficient proof to send people to prison? does it not need to touch some objective reality at some point?

Comment · 5 years ago
This is unreal. Shitty software sending people to prison without anyone in the process considering what exactly is the likelihood of hundreds of postmasters simultaneously becoming thieves overnight.
Comment · 5 years ago
Could I ask the source for these numbers? I've been trying to find some production numbers for popular synths (including submodels, e.g. all Minimoog or Prophet 5 versions combined etc), but haven't really found anything properly sourced/cited.
Comment · 6 years ago
> American gun culture has little to do with this case. Cops behave like this because behind door number one there could be a guy with an assault rifle ready to take them down

i'm struggling to understand this -- are you saying there is no link between 'American gun culture' and the probability of 'there could be a guy with an assault rifle ready to take them down'? in what other 1st world country would the said probability be even close?

Comment · 6 years ago
cheers, had no idea
Comment · 6 years ago
could you elaborate why? i mainly use deliveroo and tip with the app -- they also seek to minimise contact so usually i just get to pick up the food from my doorstep, cash tipping seems a bit suboptimal

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton