skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Custom CSS properties make CSS even more powerful. For example you can configure a menu to fade in fullscreen on mobile while sliding in from left on desktop.
>A 40 pin socket for a Z-80 costs $5...

Yep + delivery to the UK...!

In the UK, Farnell and RS components don't list wirewrap sockets any more; they both sell Harwin SIL/turned pin wirewrap strips - but they are not cheap and to create a 40-pin socket would cost something like £4.20+.

A 40pin IC socket from Tayda in Thailand is $0.13. Since I usually buy around $20-$30 of parts at a time, delivery to the UK for around $4 is not an issue.
>> Credit to that .. Carl Benz, .. patent in 1886.

> date of 1884 for a production .. two years before the Benz patent.

The car was produced in 1885, the patent was granted in 1886.

The way I understood the OP's "The original cars were electric..." comment was that these electric cars (plural!) were dominant for some time until they were replaced quite some time later ("over 20 years before the Ford Model T") by cars with internal combustion engines.

As far as I know, that didn't happen. Electric cars and cars with internal combustion engines happened essentially simultaneously, with steam a century earlier (1769). From the Wikipedia article the OP quoted (section Golden age):

"In the United States by the turn of the century, 40 percent of automobiles were powered by steam, 38 percent by electricity, and 22 percent by gasoline. "

So even during the "golden age", >60% of cars were not electric. I have to admit I was surprised that steam-powered cars were that widespread.
> Resolution also affects performance: it's how much information you can view at a time.

Not for me. My 40-something-year-old eyes mean that the amount of text I can view on a monitor is restricted by the text size, not by the resolution of the monitor. Retina displays make not a jot of difference to me. YMMV, of course.
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A couple of interesting points stem from this. (I served a 3 year apprenticeship as a carpenter while I was studying...long story..in all I did nearly 10 years!)

1) The vacuum cleaner. Routers turn wood to horrible fine dust. Bandsaws turn everything to bigger dust particles, and take a much narrower 'kerf' than a router bit, which must be thick enough to not flex too much and to leave room to clear the dust. Other traditional machinery like hollow-chisel morticers and planers tend to produce large chips. I hated working all day with a router for the feeling of duct in my skin and hair. I wore a mask, and had extraction and had an air filter...

2) Bandsaws pull down through the surface, which makes the top surface look neat, with no tearing. With a router, cutting direction is critical to this. Twisted bits can help

3) Sharpness. Router bits suck for staying sharp, especially in plywood. We would have multiples of every size so they could be sent away for sharpening. Dovetail bits (and others) are wear critical, as they wear they need re-adjusting. If a router bit is placed in a situation where it gets hot it will be ruined very quickly. Bandsaw blades are in contrast pretty cheap and long lasting.

4) The situation was comparible if you wanted one gear ever. If you wanted 100, I reckon the bandsaw with a clever jig could cut those in around half the time.

5) Bandsaws are quiet, low vibration and safe (because they naturally pull the work-piece toward the table and the guides serve as guards). Routers are loud little banshees (especially the big 1/2" industrial ones), throw dangerous particles as your eyes, if hand guided can snatch even when used with a jig (especially the big ones).

I only do hobby woodwork now, and tend to find tasks that don't need the router to come out of storage!
I had my power upgraded from 100A to 200A for $1800 in DC. Do you have to dig?
However, there's nothing stopping the president or his successor from pardoning them, like Oliver North.
Truly speaking Twitter has little impact for the common tweeter. It works well when you are Trump or Lady Gaga.
Why would you post a link to an article that disproves your own comment?

Both the 7 years portion and the brain cells being replaced?

I don't get it.
And then what happened to the start-up?
I keep things simple. The following process has served me well for ~20 years:

For brain dumping text I put things into text files, named by YYYY-MM such as 2018-08.txt and they all end up in a notes/ folder.

Then I have a bunch of folders for things that are non-text, organized by whatever it is. I try to keep folder nesting at a minimum.

Searching text is super simple with grep and searching for specific files works well enough with file searching tools (and are also easy to browse manually).
Yes, I agree that knowledge of the ecosystem is important to efficiently create business value. If I don't know that Devise exists and I roll my own auth library, that's a waste of time.

That's different than if I don't know that Sequel exists and I blindly use ActiveRecord. They're both ORMs. They can both read and write data from a database. And guess what — ActiveRecord is better for the vast majority of situations and everyone in the Rails community knows it, so my research into Sequel would have been time wasted.

Rails helps you avoid wasting time on this kind of stuff and pre-packages stuff that most everyone needs and where the alternatives are not substantively different.
Is this intentional to prevent mass censorship?
Trees -> Typed nodes -> Graphs

MacInTouch More (1)

macOz Omnigraffle (2)

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MORE_(application)

(2) https://www.omnigroup.com/omnigraffle

Notes:

TreeSheets: Free Form Data Organizer

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15057392

Quetree – A Q&A site that is tree-based and hierarchical

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17848846
The Job: Transforming a Jenkins-Based CI/CD Platform to Concourse CI
iirc it was mentioned in a thread on HN or an article I read as good example for a pragmatic introduction to functional programming & thought others here might enjoy it as a weekend read/skim
Looks lovely. Is the 91GB mbtiles available anywhere? (download/torrent/whatever)
I think it’s okay to write a short article. He was writing an article about the fundamental attributes a good market requires (based on his vast experience with financial and betting markets), not an article about how financial markets provide them, maybe he’ll do one of those in the future.

I don’t think he’d disagree with you that modern financial markets are very well designed and have these attributes.
And/or timeless physics:

- https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Timeless_physics

- https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rrW7yf42vQYDf8AcH/timeless-p...
140 characters or less was never a river.
Also, most charging will happen at home, at night.
who, not whom.
> Spreadsheets in the terminal: Totally doable.

I disagree. I find vim, mutt and pandoc superior to LO Writer and Thundrbird for text editing and emailing, but sc is just nowhere near LO Calc or even Gnumeric.

I really wish someone would make a text user interface for Gnumeric.
Further, slightly late, reply. I've been looking more at Reason. It's React (not strictly but plays nicely) + Typescript + Immutable JS + Redux all in one fully integrated package. Looks awesome, thanks for the reminder.
No sane person would do so in any country that doesn't have the bicycle infrastructure we have in the Netherlands. I live in Australia and/or New Zealand a few months out of the year, and I've taken my kids to school there - it's insane to do so on a bike. And this was in places that actually have bike infrastructure and bike activism! Dutch people need to try cycling somewhere else before claiming that bikes are a car replacement somewhere else (they could be everywhere, given the right infrastructure and culture, but they're currently not, that's my point)
OBNC is classic example of an incremental compiler, though i never liked the language, the compiler is worth looking at since it compiles Oberon to C.
So... ReasonML?
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Imagine how self-important you have to be to say you can't be on the same platform as Alex Jones and therefore you must quit.

The word "hateful" is used like weapon here. If only you put yourself into the frame of mind of Alex Jones, you would understand that he's really just fighting the righteous war against the interdimensional child molesters.

I mean, who doesn't hate interdimensional child molesters? Banning Alex Jones from a platform just proves to him and his millions of followers that whatever they believe has real merit.
The fact somebody felt the need to build this (great work btw!) tells us everything that is wrong with this “standard”.
Actually before Apple implemented ARC in its OS Around Mac OS X Lion and iOS 5, the Objective-C runtime in Mac OS X was a garbage collection runtime.
Tesla has no monopoly on charging stations, which are popping up everywhere. In the UK, for example: https://www.zap-map.com/live/
> I don't understand the negative comments.

Yeah, if Lego wants to fund the search for a greener alternative to ABS, we should all be happy.

If they ever find one, then other companies and the environment could benefit too.

This is especially true since if the new material satisfies lego's stringent requirements, then it should be good enough for everybody else.
Or maybe it's about Microsoft's continued influence, especially in the Open Source community.
There is only 2 good reasons to buy a mac. Applications you use are Mac dependent, you need crazy long battery life. I haven't used a chrome book, I have heard they're pretty good. Considering those things, if you want to get power, buy a Dell Precision or an HP Zbook, or a Lenovo T series laptop. Dell Precision laptops are built like tanks, real workstation workhorses. Dell/Zbook/lenovo laptops will never give you fantastic battery life, but boy will they blow the doors performance-wise off anything apple has to offer you. If you do open source development, moving to kubuntu w/ plasma will feel quite comfortable for most people. Use Latte-Dock, boom, got your osx style doc, and it's fast. Font rendering on linux these days is insanely nice, fonts are bold, crisp. The only negative these days I say is go with AMD chips on the laptops since they have better support and don't have screen tearing like nvidia does atm due to lack of proper vsync support.

Vmware, so long as you run it on a non-ntfs partition will run insanely fast. I run windows 10 on vmware, and it runs fantastic.

My laptop is a Dell Precision 7510 w/ 64gb of ram, 512gb NVME Samsung Evo 950, + 2tb Samsung Evo 850, Quadro M2000M w/ Intel graphics. Runs beautifully on linux. Just don't expect to get fantastic battery life from it in linux as right now, that is the only thing that I think needs a lot of work. Windows got horrible battery life as well. I think Apple with osx has windows & linux beat on battery life.

Also.. with regard to keyboards, if you type fast, just say you're a touch typist, I'd say that Dell Precision & Lenovo keyboards are some of the best out there for typing for long time. If say you type 60wpm+ you'll enjoy them considerably. If you type for any duration on a mac, the tips of your fingers over time will start to feel a stabbing feeling, I don't get this with my dell. I do have a Late 2014 model mac laptop which I just replaced the keyboard, and I still have this problem with the laptop, something to do with short key travel.
Fascinating observation, and could be a corrolary to Nudge theory [1], which won Richard Thaler his Nobel Prize this year, which says Opt-in rather than opt-out is more effective for changing behavior.

Underlying idea: friction disincentivizes.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_theory
Not the first, and won't be the last. We have to stop this madness.
Well, in Montreal at least, efficient public transit during rush hour + shared bikes + shared cars for off-rush-hours is a very nice combination.

> why would car makers incentivise this

The cooperative just bought vehicles. What can car makers do about it?
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I don't have any problems, just use require() for libraries that don't have TypeScript definitions. I wouldn't bother writing .d.ts files for the libraries you use, just be more careful using them.
Ask HN: What are some interesting startups that have good affiliate programs?
Hey everyone! I've been writing an tech/startup-related blog and a Medium publication for awhile, and they seem to be taking off, so I'm looking into ways to make a little profit from the content I'm creating. It would be cool to find some interesting startups/projects that I could promote, and receive a bit of money for the clients I'm sending.

I want the startups to be genuinely good, interesting, and worth sharing with my audience. Do you have any recommendations? What projects do you use and spend money on?
This is bad advice, sorry. Not the financial one I mean, it’s always good to save up some money for bad times, but the “you will burn out” part.

If you think that you will eventually burn out, like in “its just a matter of time”, you should seriously consider switching jobs, work in a less demanding industry, or do something else. There is so much more to life than just this work and nothing keeps you from working just at half the pace. You even might get some different insights from that. Seriously, I don’t want to sound like a total jerk but when this is the approach you choose, it’s going to be needlessly rough.

Your username indicates your attitude, btw. Talk to a friend or professional. Maybe you need some good advice.

edit: spelling
Has such a famous person ever come onto Mastodon? Maybe it just needs to be battle tested. Realistically if Twitter designed their system to handle abuse from start to finish before the first famous person showed up, what are the chances it would have scaled?
From what I understand, the issue is that labor is limited compared with the sheer volume of material to be digitized.

I wonder if any such libraries have considered programs for volunteers to come in and digitize some materials. Would it be worth it for them to do some sort of minimal training for people to learn to handle materials correctly, run a scanner, and do data input? It's the sort of thing that I think I would find enjoyable and meaningful to do as a weekend activity.
Turning to drugs to improve learning performance is bad advice. Note: I don’t say what you do is bad, this is totally up to you. But giving someone else the advice using drugs is just bad.
PaperTTY – Python module to render a TTY on e-ink
Given less than 100% certainty, traders don't want to predict price, they want to predict future distribution of price over some time period.

Source: hedge fund trader
Brexit, the present that keeps on taking
I think that's a very developer-heavy perspective. As a user who doesn't know anything about hardware communication standards (lucky me, perhaps?) I think the fewer connector types there are, the better.

With a single USB OTG cable I can connect almost any peripheral to my phone, including my XBox 360 controller and my endoscopic camera. Why not a monitor as well? Why do they have all these other weird non-USB connectors like HDMI and DVI? I'm sure there's a good answer from a developer's perspective but from a user perspective or makes perfect sense for there to be a single connector to rule them all.

Edit: another example is that sometimes I connect more than one mouse or keyboard to a single computer. Imagine if there were still dedicated ports for each type of peripheral – would I need to buy a special motherboard with two mice slots? Or a mouse port expansion card? What a nightmare.
https://www.theatlas.com/charts/Skd1s2ig7

Apparently the chart shows only the number of permits handed out, not the number of cars actually admitted. (After you get the permit, you have a period during which you actually need to buy a car, if I read it correctly)
AI is not a business model. It's usually just a component in a larger solution. You need to get a lot of other things right for AI to produce value, notably around the data you gather and pre-process. For most startups, that data is hard to access, and without it, their algorithms won't have much to train on.

While there are a few horizontal ML/AI/data science vendors, most AI is invisible, a component in some vertical solution, and consumed by people and businesses that don't really care how the results are produced, as long as it works.

Very few companies are good at applying AI across the board, like we see at Google, but the number of businesses using predictive models at least in some capacity is growing.
I miss it more than I miss Reader :(
We can either stop this madness or accept the results of a democratic referendum.
You can't stop it. Even if Brexit was reversed - which I doubt even possible - Britain has been shown to be a source of political risk. That isn't going away.
What js in browser is missing is something that golang provided on the server - fast, simple (and more standard) way of writing and executing code, including large code bases.

Typesafety is a small part of it and I’m not sure whether switching or choosing entire dev tooling based on just that is worth it. Just structure your code better and use react prop types and most of type issues go away, in react code bases.
proxy site

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Or in the UK the canonical example is still "Trigger's Broom"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAh8HryVaeY
[Research] Painkiller more powerful than morphine is extracted from snail venom
Ttacks Happen Anywhere – Amsterdam Central Train Station Stabbing
A democratic referendum can be rigged by the emotions ruling at the moment of said referendum. You'd think if it would be repeated it would get the same outcome?
Do Chromebooks have applications to edit videos? For applications like that don't we need PCs?
>Since the Model 3 is so well built (after some startup hickups)
>and so the Model 3 is profitable for Tesla

It's hard to imagine someone stating these things seriously. So well built? Go to the Tesla Forums; buyers are being recommended to bring a checklist of defects to look for before you agree to take ownership, and are routinely rejecting delivery. That is unfathomable in the auto industry, unless you're talking about Soviet Russia. "Improving"? Maybe. But "so well built"? That's a stretch. But don't take my word for it, go and see for yourself.

And profitable? By what metric? Again; maybe. That is their intention, but there is zero evidence of that, and in fact evidence to the contrary.

It constantly amazes me how Tesla fans seem so oblivious to the realities of the struggles the company is facing. Yes, the EV revolution is coming, but there is no guarantee Tesla will lead the way.

>Also, it's fun to drive next to a Viper and throw shade.

Oh, you mean the Viper, that is a full second faster than Performance Model 3 0-60, brakes 50% faster 60-0 and runs the quarter mile 2 seconds faster? What shade are you throwing, exactly?
I think Talkyard does what you have in mind: https://www.talkyard.io — it's both community/forum software, and blog comments: https://www.talkyard.io/blog-comments, and the blog comments are placed in a blog-post-discussions category in the forum. The same login & @username_mentions work both in the blog comments and in the forum. (I'm developing Talkyard & it's open source beta software.)

I'm looking to create a PWA mobile app, meaning, people will get one's community as its own icon on their mobile phone.

(Any thoughts/feedback?)
Eh? Where is the source that today's electric vehicles are more dangerous in the event of an accident?
“In the case of Panasonic, it’s concerned that if the U.K. gets designated a tax-haven by Japan it could be saddled with back taxes back home. So moving to stay regionally headquartered within the European Union removes that risk.”
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Eh? Obama called he Netherlands a tax haven as well. Wikipedia: “The Netherlands has been known internationally, since at least the 1970s, as a tax haven”. Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_tax_in_the_Netherl...
Yeah, I agree with that quote so much. I was a pretty avid user, and only very slowly realized that I'd begun carrying around "The Audience" in my head, which judged what I did and how I looked at all times.

Becoming disenchanted with that mode of consciousness was a very long journey, I'm humbled to say. A key moment for me was realizing that if I was in the city where some "friend" or another lived, I wouldn't try to contact them.

That's not a real friend. I'm not being a real friend. In fact, everything in the whole domain is mislabled, and who wins? The company and it's advertisers. Value is leeched from real-life existence.

Glad to be gone from it -- unknown, away, without apparent value!
advisory and non-binding referendum
Of course you can stop it. UK Parliament would just need to annul the Article 50 withdrawal bill. But the question is whether there is the political will to do so.

It's very tricky because Brexiteers/Remainers cut across both Labour and the Tories and yet the party members are expected to toe the party line. Which results in an impasse.
If there was another vote to reverse the Brexit-decision and people voted for that in majority, you could stop the madness and accept the results. Things change. Being stubborn is rarely the best option.
> They failed the test and without this key innovation performing to spec I no longer have faith that Mastadon is any more than a technically complicated open source Twitter.

Maybe instead the question you should be asking is: who has the incentive to undertake such a resource-intensive attack? This seemed more a response targeted at Wil for promoting his logic regarding leaving Twitter, targeted at him directly after he reasoned why the good people of the world need to Quit Twitter.

Making new users feel unwelcome on Mastadon is, unfortunately, the easiest path for them to fend off the competitor. It would not surprise me in the least to discover this attack was, in fact, coordinated by some entity with strong ties to Twitter. Of course the attackers want it to look like what instead happened was a "famous person verification" problem within the Fediverse; bad and negative press about Mastadon are _exactly_ what the attackers wanted here. And, unfortunately, it worked. There is always financial motive.
I'm going to paraphrase the referendum choices here.

1. The status quo.

2. Imagine how things could be better. Don't constrain your imagination with realism.

It's a wonder option 2 only won by 2 percent. The only democratic way forward is to have a referendum on the final "deal".
A new reference frame for directions in space
Which is neither here, not there.

Companies are opportunistic and will go wherever makes them more money, has less tax, and laxer laws. That why tons of factories, support, and even development jobs moved out of Europe and US and into third world countries with el cheapo wages and laws accommodating sweatshop practices.

In this case, it's because of easier import/export procedures and bureaucracy for selling to the rest of the EU.

When the UK is able to set its own lower tax rates and cuts special deals for such matters (which they'll do), lots of companies will flock back there too (same as they did with Ireland).
https://www.businessleader.co.uk/from-london-to-amsterdam-pa...

>Up to 20 people could be affected out of a staff of 30

So it's just a ghost office for tax purposes.
The only real benefit of electric cars is more environmentally friendly.

Since the environment is a collective problem rather than an individual problem, the transition wouldn't ever happen without government intervention.

Hence, I think the moment of inflection is entirely down to government policies, and very little down to consumer desires.