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Curve looks a lot like total Hacker News volume but with a bigger spike in the last year. Would be interesting to see this adjusted relative to average content volume

Fun project and well executed. It would be cool if it had the option to adjust for relative volume. For example, a search for “iPhone” dips around 2025, but did interest in it decl…

30 seconds of googling easily disproves your claim that only one billionaire backed Trump. https://www.businessinsider.com/which-billionaires-support-d...

Tokyo to Kyoto is 280mi/445km and it's an extremely fast and comfortable train ride.

Recent US Traffic fatalities: 2021: 42,915 2020: 38,824 2019: 36,355 2018: 36,835 2017: 37,473 According to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_... the last…

In 25 years you’ve never once created a list with more than one type of object in it?

The new error messages are much better. Take a look at this example: Traceback (most recent call last): File "calculation.py", line 54, in result = (x / y / z) * (a / b / c) ~~~~~~…

It's probably directionally accurate

Oh please. We have multiple vaccines that have all been demonstrated to be safe and highly effective at preventing hospitalization and death from COVID in multiple studies. Ivermec…

These jobs almost certainly also want someone who is clean and reliable. If you are homeless, you might not have access to a shower or laundry facilities. You might have to rely on…

From the article: > “We’re of course thankful for the gift and we’re thankful for any gift to our most important institutions during this time,” said Matt Haney, another supervisor…

Perfume: The Story of Murder is a terrific historical fantasy novel (the movies version is great as well), but I wouldn't take anything it says as fact.

> In 1995, the Pew Research Center did just that, finding 14% of U.S. adults with internet access.4 Most were using slow, dial-up modem connections—just 2% of internet users were c…

> rapacious unions Worth noting that Paris has famously powerful unions and yet still manages to build transit projects for much less than New York City.

But there are other tests, the US just didn't use them. South Korea has had tremendous success with testing. > On Feb. 4, two weeks after South Korea reported its first coronavirus…

I don't think that SF is better than NYC for the homeless. A big difference between SF and NYC is that NYC provides shelter for people that can't afford housing and SF does not. On…

> There are other search engines than Google. Consumers can ignore Google and use another search engine, but a publisher that ignores Google won't be in business very long.

> It tried this with plastic bins That sounded interesting to me so I tried searching for an article about it, but I couldn’t find anything that talked about Amazon using plastic s…

I think a lot of people would think the fact that a nuclear power plant core had exploded was evidence enough that an evacuation was needed.

It's a case study of the unusual effects of a stroke on the human brain published to the health section of a news website. Seems like a reasonable topic for a health story to me.

The Atlantic | NYC or Washington DC | Onsite | https://www.theatlantic.com/ The Atlantic is a digital-first media company with over 160 years of history and 36 million readers a mo…

Call me cynical, but I couldn't help but notice Musk seemed to be going about his effort with the maximum amount of tweeting and publicity possible.

Two features I miss from pip-tools: 1. `pip-sync`, An easy way to ensure my local environment actually matches my defined requirements. I guess the pipenv version of this would be …

If we accept your argument that Google can't measure the speed of a webpage then wouldn't it also follow that Google can't know if the AMP version of a page is actually faster than…

Yeah, I guess I normally don't deal with enough properties like that for it to be a big deal in my workflow. When it's come up I've generally done something like: class Foo: bar = …