skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Framework-dependent projects tend to go stale and become "ew I don't wanna touch that, it's so last year, we should probably replace it with [newer version of framework that's gonna end up being much harder to upgrade than expected / other framework]" surprisingly fast once eyes are off them, in my experience. Without someone competent doing continual upkeep, the next guy/gal's gonna try to sell the re-write anyway. May not succeed, but they'll try. Framework or no.
I mean, the buyer doesn't, but the factory does. Ceiling fans function with ball bearings that are oiled, same as bicycles function with chains that are oiled. Obviously oil doesn't get into the air, but contact with water is a different matter.

I have zero knowledge about boat motors but had always assumed the oil leakage had something to do with lubricating movement of the propeller that also prevented sea water from getting in and corroding internal elements. Is this wrong? Do electric boat motors function completely without oil?
I stopped reading at "Rust implementation" .
Sorry, I can't recommend any. If you just want to know if the air is polluted or not, and humidity does not go over 70%, any low-cost sensor would be good.
Their tricky licensing makes using Qt for personal projects a non-starter and anything commercial really hard to justify.

If they streamlined the licensing and created (C)sensible language bindings then it would be great. I tried the python bindings and they were problematic. Can't even imagine using one of the unsupported bindings.
The build team has already started to look for a 1RU, 2 server blade, 2 cores each server to buy to test our workload on it. Space and power vs. test and build throughput wins all battles. Great job AMD. Me personally, I just want to know if it can handle Civ6 with huge map and 18 AI players. It’s the little things..
Wait, what? All of the above companies are basing major products on EPYC Rome. Have you read the press releases?
Yes. I worked on some of what is being discussed (main thread), and there were many extra pieces of documentation that I had to prepare declaring ITAR concerns.

(ex-Boeing, OS+support code for embedded LRUs)
> But sometimes, it does have to be complicated.

It almost never has to be complicated. People just enjoy making it so.

Looks at their inventory management system
Hey Noah, great work with Glimpse!

Josh here from https://trennd.co/ which I recently built and launched on Show HN too. We're tackling the same problem of surfacing new trends, just in different ways!

Interested to hear more about how you validate trends and reduce noise. I'm inclined to agree that this is the biggest challenge. I'm guessing it's a lot of manual verification on your end?
3000.

Well good luck with that. I don't think 3000 people are going to get anything done.

There was certainly an annexation. Whether you like it or not might be an issue for your personal feelings I suppose, but that doesn't change the fact it happened.
Electric cars don't reduce emissions from tyre and brake wear. These particles make up a huge amount of air pollution at a size small enough to cause health issues. Once they settle, they are swept into waterways and form the majority of our microplastic problem.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S135223101...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/22/tyres-an...
Johnny Armstrong, the Hypersonics Combined Test Force Chief Engineer for Air Force, until his retirement in 2012, passed away just last week. He worked in hypersonics from the X-15 to the X-51 Waverider.

https://www.edwards.af.mil/News/Article/1922993/team-edwards...

https://vimeo.com/37453969
I dunno, but here's a way to visual voicemail your own mail (this is how I have been doing it since 2015):

1. sign up with a voip provider that either terminates on your own pbx (e.g. asterisk/freepbx) or provides voicemail with emailed audio files. setup said service with voicemail.

2. setup your favorite container system and let systemd manage the service

3. create a container that watches for new audio voicemails , when it finds a new voicemail push it to your favorite cloud provider (s3, gcp bucket, azure etc) then trigger that providers speech-to-text function on the audio file in the related cloud storage. store the resulting text message and metadata in a db.

4. create another container that simply watches that db for new messages and push out alerts however you see fit. you have many paths here. i went with a web-based ui that pulled the data ala google voice.

3 years ago mozilla dropped deepspeech which changed everything - https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech
i have since replaced step 3 with my own deepspeech server. none of my data goes to any of the major privacy violators with this setup.
This squares nicely with my understanding of what "reserves" are when talking about extractive resources.

Namely, the known quantity of a resource that can be extracted in an economical viable manner using current technologies.

So there are a number of variables that can affect the size of a reserve that have nothing to do with how much of the resource is known to exist.
I don’t know. I think I’d rather touch Symfony than Rails at the moment.

And both probably beat out Node.js
Why? Is there something inherently wrong with them using Rust?
In the purest, most academic sense of the conversation; yes, it is impossible to comprehensively defend against 0-days, APTs and nation states.

If we want to be pragmatic about the discussion, then it’s all about your threat model. In that sense, OP is right. If you’re a mom and pop shop selling a catalog of hardware, your LAMP stack isn’t going to face the same scrutiny as a “GooFacePayZon”. According to how he defines his threat model, he can call himself ‘secure’.
A few of us lawyers left the tech-grind because they couldn't handle how irrational software development is.
I thought this just caused any young women to be undocumented rather than what is assumed from the statement "one child policy" (i.e. pregnancy termination)
According to the Wikipedia entry he won in court but they are still in court to collect money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max-Herv%C3%A9_George

>>By 2015, up to 50 court decisions had been rendered against Aviva France. In September 2014, the French Supreme court, the Cour de Cassation, ruled in favor of the George family, determining that the life insurance contracts, as drafted with the "known price" clause, are legally binding under French law.[18] Nevertheless, George is still in court against Aviva, having won on the principle of the legality of the contracts, he now needs to have his prejudice recognized and valued in a second ongoing battle.<<
Linux Journal Ceases Publication: An Awkward Goodbye
With all due respect, that is crazy... A tour de France rider barely consumes 5,000 calories a day while competing in the tour de France. You either have a fantastic metabolism, are in high school and a multi-sport athlete, have a medical issue, or are miscalculating. Tangentially, there are oodles of Youtube videos about the diets of professional dancers... who practice 6+ hours a day... and none of them are even breaking 3k calories.

Edit: clarity.
Dell, HPE, Lenovo, Cisco, Supermicro, and others are on board. It's so weird when people talk about past events like they're hypothetical.
What is the relevance to the article? I skim read it, was there a part to do with tyre wear I missed?
Your question is insightful.
I think a major reason that China once fell so low is the Qing dynasty secluded itself from the outside world, and didn't catch up with the industrial revolution.
So in 18xx-19xx, China was still an agricultural civilization and western countries have stepped into modern industrial form. And we know as to production efficiency, (non-modern) agriculture vs industry is like fist vs bombs.
Besides, before 1911, China was still imperial, most people were not liberated and educated, so they can not effectively participate in industrial production (In some sense, being uneducated, they were not useful people).
Now with 1.4 billion educated people, it's no wonder China is coming back to its normal place. And I believe today is not the end of China's rise, the Chinese people can do better as long as they continue working hard, especially on science and technology.
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> There are countries with even larger landmass

Russia and Canada. I wouldn't want to call Canada an inhospitable frozen wasteland, but I'm happy to say that about Russia. I suppose on reflection China has a lot of deserts, but I suspect given the population difference that China has a massive edge on quality farmland.

If you look at the wiki page for landmass [0] China actually has a startling abundance of land and has 20% of the worlds population. It doesn't really have much competition on the land+people front.

With fundamentals that good, they really don't need to get much right to become a superpower. They needed to get something right, but realistically they aren't transparent enough for us to know what.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...
It's understandable that the first useful motors would be smaller than you seem to require. Big boats are fun and useful, but so are small boats. Someone will eventually make motors big enough for your needs. In the meantime, other boaters will enjoy the motors described in TFA.

If you want to "travel between continents", get a sailboat. No powerboat is practical for that. If you're just talking about a fishing trip, powerboats smaller than 10M can certainly get you out of sight of shore.
Using AI to Detect Mysterious Radio Signals from Deep Space
> The only question is how they managed to fall so low that they weren't a competitive superpower.

Political issues. They might be the mighty sole superpower by now. Imagine the knowledge, passion and intelligence of all the people living there, and what they could have already achieved without being suppressed or held back.
Unfortunately there is little use for formal logic in the practice of law.
Like politicians, smart economists wait to make predictions—growth or recession—until two quarters later.

As a group they miss acute macro moves, altogether.
> I wonder what drove this needless and pretentious complexity ?

> Was it the inflow of too many mediocre graduates that needed help preventing themselves from writing buggy programs?

IMHO? Pretty much. That end result is linked to the desire to democratize programming. That was a common talking point back in the 90s-00's. They wanted normal, non-programming people to be able to make websites by themselves without programmers. They wanted to be more inclusive and make programming more accessible to the masses. They thought one day programming would be taught in schools right next to english and they'd use that skill every day to program their computers themselves. The common phrase used was "programming is the new literacy."

They did not succeed. To make the programming tools and languages easier to use, they had to add complicated abstractions. Objects. Exceptions. Garbage Collection. Types had to go. As a result, programming got a lot easier to make simple things, but a whole hell of a lot more complicated to engineer solid, reliable systems.

A lot of the comments in this very comments section show a great deal of fear at not using a framework to program even a simple website. That's a great example of the kind of mindset we've cultivated over the past 30 years. We're so worried about how to utilize an ever growing pool of barely computer literate junior developers that we've Harrison Bergeron'd our best and brightest.
Apple Is Locking iPhone Batteries to Discourage Repair
I feel like when people talk about "the true cost" of things, they probably haven't done any calculation. What does that, and glib talk about externalities really mean?

I remember wondering just how much the estimated cost of global warming would be, in terms of dollars per gallon of gasoline, so I looked up what the Natural Resources Defense Council estimated the costs per year would be in a few decades, and divided them by the amount of fuel used in a year.

The number I got was on the order of a few dollars a gallon, something like the difference between US gas prices and European gas prices. Or the difference between the peak and valley of recent market fluctuations.

Whether or not you have a problem with doing a cost benefit calculation on preventing global warming, that's not my point.

My point is when you think about the numbers, making meat prohibitively expensive and justifying it by internalizing externalities, would mean you're assuming there are externalities that are orders of magnitude larger than global warming. That seems implausible to me.

If everybody paid $6/gallon for gas, it seems obvious to me it wouldn't be nearly enough to reduce meat consumption to what it used to be. As, of course, people in Europe do continue to eat meat.
thank you so much. those were the books!
Precision absolutely matters, but I'm questioning your assertion that the author was imprecise. I don't know that I believe that it's a mistake.
I think it's time for me to retire from engineering.
Brakes on Tesla are said to last twice as long or more. That would be a direct reduction in brake dust. Even with my Model 3 being floored from every stoplight since I’ve bought it, I’ve yet to hear the tires chirp. Suspect the tire wear is less than a comparable gas car due to the better traction control, and the harder tread in pursuit of lower rolling resistance.
Especially hilarious when someone tries and fails with the squeeky voice trick.
Project Pluto belongs [0] in the "what could possibly go wrong" bin:

>> The SLAM, as proposed, would carry a payload of many nuclear weapons to be dropped on multiple targets, making the cruise missile into an unmanned bomber. After delivering all its warheads, the missile could then spend weeks flying over populated areas at low altitudes, causing tremendous ground damage with its shock wave and fallout. When it finally lost enough power to fly, and crash-landed, the engine would have a good chance of spewing deadly radiation for months to come.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto
I use a handheld cordless circular saw--Makita 6 1/2" 18V brushless. These types of saws are in their 3rd or 4th generation. 6 1/2" isn't very big, but there are larger ones with 36V packs. I can't imagine the corded, handheld circular saw market lasting much longer. I know they're much more expensive (~3x excluding battery), but cordless is infinitely more convenient.

Cordless chainsaws have been out for awhile, too, though perhaps until recently they lacked the necessary power and duration for professional work.
The Simpsons is dubbed into two different versions for French markets
This makes me sad. I loved this magazine, and looked forward to every issue.
Ah yes, the United States force countries to criminalize drugs as a part of its racist master plan to keep down the black man.

(I wonder what the Chinese think of your claim that the pressures of western colonialism is why drugs are illegal? Thank goodness the British forced China to criminalize opium...)
I think the biggest thing you are missing is that Softbank gets a guaranteed return on IPO. If their shares are < agreed_return Uber issues them shares to make up the difference.

But after the IPO they are on their own. So if the price drops or they hold a huge position it can be a problem.
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> Completely worthless advice from a text file written by... I'm sorry who is this person and what authority do they have?

I know you hate their opinion, but also attacking the character is kinda unnecessary. Can we just not?
It appears he won the court case stating the contract is legal under French last, and now has to fight another one to make them honor it. Courts aren't fast.
Many types of pollution are also less impactful over the middle of the ocean. Acid rain and smog for example simply get diluted into nothingness under the ocean.
It's usually companies or management/product folks paying for their product to have the peacock feathers. See also: flat/material redesigns not to improve usability—in fact it may make it worse—but to avoid "looking old", not because users complained or metrics look bad but because someone with a budget guesses maybe they might. Similar with choices to make fairly simple sites into heavy SPAs with questionable performance.

> It's because I've been trying very hard to understand what your contention is.

I appreciate it. Seriously!
I'd love to read the comments on previous postings, but couldn't find them on hn.algolia.com. Pointers?
Christopher Tolkien and the “Aubusson Weaves Tolkien” Project [video]
If you can afford a boat with twin 200HP motors you can afford to retrofit it with electric.
Its complicated because people make it complicated. Instead of following trend bullshit and self-justifying tooling insanity start with the a solid foundation and build on it one tiny layer at a time.

This is a learning process. It isn't something a tool can magically do for you. If you think you can nail this in two hours or by dicking around with some tool you are lying to yourself. Don't worry, everybody with half a brain will see you for exactly what you are, so be honest with yourself that you probably aren't some software rockstar and learn to take the primitive dumb stuff very seriously.

If you are hoping a tool will magically do it for you then you will continue to suck. The web will continue to be a complicated mystery. You will probably continue to cry about how hard life is and people won't want to be around you.

At the most primitive the web is HTTP and HTML. Don't over think this. If you understand those you have the web. You don't even need URI. URI is an added convenience.

Next, build less shitty HTML. Any HTML no matter how ugly, inaccessible, presentation-oriented, user-agent centered, and otherwise broken is still a good start so long as it displays content to a web browser. The first goal of HTML is something that just works... somewhat. Improve on this. Learn to write better HTML and better content. Most people don't take HTML seriously, but this is really the most important part of building a good web experience.

Third, learn some presentation using CSS. This will take some practice. This takes some real practice. It isn't hard, and you can do really almost anything with CSS. Even still people FEAR the CSS.

Fourth, be a damn programmer and stop being afraid to read code. Learn to write JavaScript. Learn the concept of scope. Learn to really read code. A bunch of tooling and test automation isn't going to read the code for you, though many developers seem to think that is exactly what layers of unnecessary tools are for. Keep this very simple at first. Learn some basic events and then bail out. Don't immediately think you are some kind of architectural wizard, because you will fail. If you think a framework will solve this for you then continue to be mystified and confused.

Fifth, learn the DOM. The DOM is the heartbeat, or assembly language, of the client-side application experience of the web. The DOM is what binds HTML to the browser and CSS/JavaScript to HTML. Without the DOM you have a plain text experience with really bad presentation that you shouldn't be using. Frameworks won't teach you this. The best way to learn the DOM, how it really works, is to learn XML Schema. I strongly suggest this even if you never use XML or schemas ever again.

Build on that. Baby steps. It takes some effort but it isn't complicated.
Mister Moyer! Long time no talk, my friend. Please don't retire. Between you and Colin H., I learned a lot. I'm grateful!
"Yet this process of economic liberalization and structural reform is also uniquely Chinese, insofar as it has emphasized local-level competition and experimentation, which in turn have supported bottom-up institutional innovation. The result is a kind of de facto fiscal federalism – and a powerful driver of economic transformation."

I'm not entirely sure what this means. The article that is referenced by the author is behind a pay-wall, and doesn't explain it in the top paragraphs.

How has the Government encouraged this local competition? By all means the examples he gives are all technology companies that have primarily benefited from 1) copying US tech companies strategies, 2) stealing their IP, and 3) not having to substantially compete with US companies because of tech restrictions, the Great Firewall, etc.

None of that is economic liberalization in the slightest.
It's great that they're getting reductions of this magnitude for watercraft, this should absolutely continue.

But it is damning for electric cars. The tailpipe emissions (measured in this article) that are reduced by going electric are marginal in comparison, and the other emissions are still entirely present.
Start making a list. There are quite a lot of things nobody needs. How much are you ready to sacrifice?
It’s because you can do a lot of work manually if you have 40 extra drones. If there’s only 10 of you you need to think about things and automate.
I know a number of economists from chicago and they're very strong empiricists.
Very true, this is precisely the problem. Editors don't leave E's journals' boards because it might hurt their vitae. Referees don't decline to work for E's journals (for free) because it might hurt their relations with editors. And authors often don't have much choice where to send their articles and might hurt their career by picking out-of-stream venues.
The Wikipedia article that you link to says it includes PPP estimates and also says this:

“The GDP also has been converted to U.S. dollar-based data by utilizing the moving average exchange rate.”

I disregard PPP estimates since so many subjective and cultural decisions have to go into PPP calculations, and during a civil war there is a wide space for the PPP decisions to include the political factors that we should ignore when discussing the real economy. Likewise, why would it be valid to convert to USA currency? Why not measure year to year growth directly, from the perspective of China? The variations in the currency exchange would again introduce those political factors that a person would want to ignore if they were curious about the real strength of the Chinese economy.

Back when I studied Chinese history it was well known that the Chinese economy had done well during the Cultural Revolution. Now that reality is being re-written to fit a political narrative that simply asserts that the economy did not do well during the Cultural Revolution.
This makes me so sad. Would be great if the magazines pdf could be uploaded to the Internet archive.
Well that and the regenerative braking.
The DOM is stupid easy. Start with this: https://prettydiff.com/2/guide/unrelated_dom.xhtml
Those elements are fairly semantic though, aren't they? Making reading them unformatted still easy?
What sort of value have they been creating?
I doubt it's a chicken/egg problem.

There's too much evidence that our obesity problem is caused by excess caloric intake.
what does it mean in this context?
If they offer you 1% it means they are viewing you just as an employee and not as important part of the founding team. With dilution I would expect your share to quickly go to basically nothing. Maybe that's OK with you but at a minimum you should then get a competitive salary.
Yes, but that IP theft is more often done by local entrepreneurs (moving the factory out from under a foreign company) as it is the state.
> My estimate was the the document alone would have cost multiple millions of dollars to write

I get that technical documentation can be incredibly good, but even picturing the most thorough and well-written documentation book I can, what could possibly make it worth "millions of dollars to write" when writing an actual book hardly can top $100k even by going all out on expenses?