skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is most striking to me about this list is how you can use it to trace the broad sweep of human habitation on the planet. The oldest continuously inhabited cities date back 5000 years and the youngest (in Oceania) only a few hundred. So for 5000 years humanity lived on a planet with unexplored and unexploited regions. That's all done now. The entire planet is now completely overrun with homo sapiens, but that project wasn't completed until very recently. Sydney only goes back to 1788 and Canberra to 1913, almost within living memory. I don't think humanity is anywhere near coming to grips with this new reality.
> I'm pretty sure that users like good software with pretty GUIs that are easy to use and navigate around and extend.

I don't know about other users, but I like good software with functional UIs that are easy to automate and extend. In my experience, that's definitely _not_ Electron-based UIs. It's also not most GUIs either for that matter.

I absolutely do _not_ want "gesture" and "animation" support. Gestures are a hack for a shitty touch-screen input with zero tactile feedback. Animation is just a power hog for, like you said, a pretty interface. I don't want a pretty interface if it costs performance, costs battery, costs usability.
could they have done it at cost? Yes. Did they need to make a profit off this? Probably not. Are they relatively unaffected (due to prevalance of online banking and also reduced costs due to physical banks being closed)? Yes.
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It appears that the original site of the city was abandoned for centuries after the Umayyad conquest of Tunisia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Carthage_(698)

Tunis was founded across the lake as a replacement shortly thereafter, and development shifted there probably for land availability and protection from naval attacks.
Thanks for putting this together, Chris :)
You still need to use an api for everything. Good apps need a backend; not a JAMStack fan for anything but the most basic of sites.
They have the same name as a competing service???

It sounds like they made a mistake choosing that name/domain.
you think that an administrative fee of approx $20K per transaction is reasonable?
Is this it?

https://www.fast.ai/2020/04/13/masks-summary/

https://twitter.com/trishgreenhalgh/status/12497438256371998...
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Just to note - the CEO of this company (Jamie Dimon) is currently a top pick for Biden's treasury secretary[1]. If this concerns you please do reach out to the campaign via social media or any means you feel appropriate to make clear your opinion. I, personally, don't want change to be upgrading from a really slimey banker (Steve Mnuchin) to a slightly less slimey banker.

1. https://www.axios.com/joe-biden-cabinet-vice-president-picks...
To the question "what is 2 + 3" a French primary school pupil replied: "3 + 2, since addition is commutative". He did not know what the sum was equal to and could not even understand what he was asked about!

https://www.uni-muenster.de/Physik.TP/~munsteg/arnold.html
Problem with the banks (and many other huger corporations in US ie: airlines) is that during prosperity all the profits are going to narrow set of people (board and investors) but during the crisis there's always bailout using taxpayers money to save them. It essentially means that profits stay with the wealthy while losses are being spread across the poor. This is no longer capitalism but communism where they ruling party (boards and investors) are getting richer without the risk.
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I sat in the glass bubble where a gunner would sit at the front of the aircraft

It's rare that I'm envious of anyone, but I'm literally drooling right now :-)
This is great! Is there any technical limitation keeping this from being part of the open source version?

I get that Gatsby company put a lot of effort into this and wants a return on that investment, and good for them. I assume a third party could offer the same but why would they compete at the same value prop.

However an open source version to not be reliant on any company would be compelling to many.
>rolling release for developers/users running snapshots

Well Void is far more on edge than OpenBSD -current.

>there were other problems with updating Qt on OpenBSD, but that was resolved

They are still trailing us.

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/15310
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The problem is that the payment processor has no capacity to really investigate fraud, so their main choice is between defaulting to enabling seller fraud or buyer fraud. This means it makes sense to use different payment processors with different defaults for different payment types, because some payment types have disproportionately more buyer fraud than seller fraud.

The problem for Patreon is that they're trying to provide something useful -- a service for transactions which are more likely to be dominated by buyer fraud -- but are stuck building it on top of credit card infrastructure that the law requires to default to defending against seller fraud. Then they get stuck in the middle, because buyers can still commit fraud by purchasing thousands of dollars worth of material and then disputing the charge with their credit card company after they already have it.

What's needed is a version of credit cards that themselves do what Patreon is trying to do (no chargebacks) with relatively low monthly charge limits (limiting the buyer's exposure to card theft risk), so that this use case can be met with a system that isn't a garbage fire.
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thx. sorry, i sounded a bit snarky before and wasn't meaning to be. it's just easier for people to focus on visual issues vs operational/functionality. and switching between multiple projects/clients/standards illustrates to me how relatively unimportant some of these things are (but of course just imo).
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Exactly. Sometimes I even feel compelled to complete the sentence more than once (as if I wasn't paying attention enough the first time, so I feel the need to say it again). I think there is a subtle difference between that and "reading without production" (when I try it, it feels more like skimming text; I have to really try to pay attention). To me, reading/inner-speaking feels like engaging with the text; to only be able to "see" words would be lifeless (I'm assuming that some/many/most people can do both).
So, if I have an array of extint(3), does it pack them nicely into 10-per-32-bit-word? Or 21-per-64-bit-word? Will a struct with six extint(5) fields fit into 4 bytes? What about just a few global variables of extint(1)? Will they get packed into a single byte? Did I miss where this is covered?
Khan Academy is a great project. At least as a general idea; there may be some small technical details (there is some criticism on Wikipedia that seems reasonable, but maybe it was already addressed). I only tried it shortly, so I am not sure how complete it is beyond math.

Now if I may dream, I imagine something like Khan Academy, but:

- containing all lessons from all subjects of elementary and high schools (and optionally some university lessons);

- somehow certified by the state, similarly how textbooks are certified, so you would have some official statement saying "this is at least as good and as complete as public schools" (and if something specific is missing or not up to standards, the problematic topics would be clearly listed);

- with the consequence that if you complete Khan Academy (and take extra courses/exams in the problematic topics), you would get a certificate equivalent to completing the elementary or high school (perhaps after taking an exam to check that it wasn't e.g. your parents doing the tests for you), without having to attend a school, and regardless of your age (so a gifted kid could have high school completed as 10 years old);

- maybe with an option that teachers could upload their own versions of existing lessons or new lessons, and the users would by default use the standard Khan Academy videos, but could choose the optional ones, and based on popularity and administrator decision, the new videos could become the default ones; this is how the content could continuously improve and new topics (e.g. the university lessons) get added; also, repetition is the mother of learning, but instead of listening to the same video again, you could now listen to an alternative version of the lesson;

- with some way to create an individualized study plan, so you could specify e.g. "I want to be a lawyer, but I also want to make computer games", and the lessons that lead you there would be highlighted.

Also, I'd like to see a competitor or two, of comparable quality.
@pc - how about an answer to this question?

@dang - is there a service or function that allows some kind of notification specifically based on @ mentions?
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I'm surprised you think people are surprised. Where are people expressing surprise that this sort of activity is going on?
You do have to pay for a maintenance contract and part supply chain. Even if the robot keeps working your business may not legally be able to operate outside a certain window if you're public facing (eg a clothing store).

There are times the math works out for the robot but it's not very often. Keep in mind the robots need to be managed - someone has to make sure they're working and be able to take over when they go down.
The proof is that they only advocate these things when they can't pass them. When the Democrats control Congress, it suddenly isn't a priority again.
For packed structures, C already has bit fields. Example (from https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/bit_field):

struct S {
// will usually occupy 2 bytes:
// 3 bits: value of b1
// 2 bits: unused
// 6 bits: value of b2
// 2 bits: value of b3
// 3 bits: unused
unsigned char b1 : 3, : 2, b2 : 6, b3 : 2;
};

This is more aimed at large integers.
Other commenters are rightfully pointing out the continued performance issues, but just as important for me is the platform citizenship of electron apps.

The glut of new ones I use for work on macOS: VSCode, Slack, Notion and Height all have different keybindings than any other apps, some completely disable command+? which I use to find/learn commands for operations I don’t already know. Some just don’t use the menu bar at all. Layout is awful in them, like slack threads being a sliver of the right side of the window, or notion’s usable area maxing out at 800 pixels, or height’s window being fixed to a minimum of 800. Some don’t respect auto dark/light mode. Notion has completely upended many tried and true patterns from word processing. Links take you to the browser based version instead of deep linking to the app.

Of course there are some things I do like about each app, but for me they aren’t worth the tradeoff for the ramp up time on a new product coupled with the annoyances I encounter when using these new apps. I can get things done just fine in a github repo full of markdown, or apple notes, or email, or Xcode, or textedit or sublime text, and on and on. Not to forget the venerable command line. I think the one web app I legitimately enjoy using is trello.
Aphex Twin is not a "they" and he's probably more prolific on a larger scale now than he ever was.
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> Contracts are part of that. I think I understand their vision, but they need to put themselves out there and be willing to be hauled into court to make "permanent" happen.

In cases of severe data loss or organisational insolvency, I'm thinking that there might not be an organisation to haul to court.

What might work for the end users of such an organisation is transparency of some sort, including the publication of regular financial statements and board minutes.
Same here, I spent hundreds of hours on it when I was around the same age. I also thought it was pretty cool how detailed the instruction manual for it was (108 pages): https://manualmachine.com/gamespc/stuntisland/1119422-user-m...
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Indeed we're running on GCP, using a mixture of Python and Node. In terms of the approach, I suggest checking out our blog (https://www.tmrow.com/blog) and this talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAelZb2ZYwI) which might provide a bit of clarity.

Also, feel free to join our Slack at https://slack.tmrow.com to ask your questions!
They're doing exactly the same amount of work, just time-shifted.
I would add: when using SQL, the default transaction isolation level is probably not what you'd expect.
In the minds of many developers, SQL is not a "real programming language". That's why they don't see the value of spending the time learning it. Many also believe that SQL is something that they should better avoid, using an ORM, and let it be handled by libraries written by "experts". All of this contributes to developers not having a firm grasp of SQL.
This is the exact fear of SQL that's being talked about. You can make a mess of anything but its not hard to have a well maintained relational DB with minimal cruft.
Come on, you know the routine. No matter what your cause is: Never let a crisis go to waste.
This is such a popcorn-heavy story. I can recommend Reddit (for example [0]) for juicy details. Code was leaked by a Valve employee. Also there are enormous chatlogs with that guy who spills the beans on all kinds of stuff.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/g61v4x/steam_databas...
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> I don't really understand how they manage to stay in business

I suspect they follow the vanity press model and charge authors publication fees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity_press
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You're conflating financial value with moral value. There's a lot of financial value in delivery or bagging even if there's no moral value.

Printing money doesn't increase financial value it only increases liquidity.

> it comes from taking it back from where it's been concentrated over decades of inadequate taxation.

Again you're not increasing the financial value, you're changing how it's disbursed. Whether your fuel is in the form of gasoline or electricity you still have a finite amount of it and once you burn through it, it's gone unless you're adding more to the system.
It seems that it must be a really difficult problem to work out the optimal solution for having spare capacity to allow time/location shifting of workloads to minimize carbon per unit of compute.

This Dell paper[0] suggests that 16% of the carbon over a typical server lifecycle is from the manufacture, so you probably don't want a server sitting there unused for 23 hours per day, since the overall carbon/compute ratio would be worse overall.

The post doesn't mention this metric, but it would be really nice to see something more detailed in time - especially with this overall efficiency of the server/datacentre lifecycle in mind, rather than just energy consumed from use.

[0]: https://i.dell.com/sites/csdocuments/CorpComm_Docs/en/carbon...
Just use crypto-currency and you don't need to worry about any chargebacks.
I think most commonly used languages with and without standards, C,C++, JavaScript/Wasm, Python, Java, etc. should standardize new primitive type represetations together (with hardware people included).

If you have different representations in different languages it just creates unnecessary impedance mismatch. It would be better for everyone if you could just pass these types from language to language.
> people stories

Well, my neighbor owns a flower shop, and she doesn't know if she'll make it. She was giving away the flowers to the neighbors for a while, so they wouldn't just go to waste, but I suppose she's run out now. She's dipped into her savings, but she's not sure how long that will last. Her bank screwed her over on the first round of PPE, so let's see what the second brings. She wonders why she can't open to serve customers curbside, like so many other businesses with questionable essential-ness can. Even then, who knows who would buy flowers, but a few customers are better than zero customers, I suppose. A people story.
woah.

i hope you're wrong, no offense.
From Lichtenstein's 2008 paper [1], mentioned in that article as the start of it:

> Ultrasound has long shown its utility for plain organs.6 Although the lung has traditionally been excluded from its repertoire,7 studies have proven that this belief was unfounded.8 Since 1989 in our ICU, using devoted logistics,9 the concept of whole-body ultrasound was developed and extended to the lungs for managing critical situations.10,11

And in his big guidebook [2]:

> We used ultrasound first in 1983, on occasion in François Fraisse’s ICU in 1985–1989, then since 1989 in François Jardin’s ICU, using the on-site 1982 ADR-4000 devoted to cardiac assessment, in actual fact suitable for whole body and lung assessment and not larger than nowadays laptops [1]. At this time, although an old idea [2], ultrasound was not routine in the ICUs and had neglected this vital organ [3]. Many doctors thought that lung ultrasound was unfeasible [4, 5]. For demonstrating that this dogma was wrong, deciphering the artifact code was the easy part, but publishing was the hard one, far from finished.

It doesn't sound like there was a breakthrough in the instruments, just that people had written off lung ultrasound quite early, and someone had to go back and try it properly, and then convince everyone else there was something to it!

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3734893/

[2] https://annalsofintensivecare.springeropen.com/articles/10.1...
Looks interesting but I am not interested in making timelines .. is this Phoenix framework general enough to make arbitrary real time web apps?
> The other problem, IMO, is that programming languages are very poor at bridging the difference between the SQL domain and the language domain. We really need plugins for compilers because ORM libraries often are harder to learn than the database itself.

Actually in past year I discovered that JetBrains IDEs (in my case PyCharm) have nice feature that seems like not everyone is aware. It is due to their integration with DataGrip. If you configure the IDE to connect to your database, it will start looking for SQL in your strings, it will then do code highlighting, autocomplete table names and fields. If you use refactoring it will understand SQL, if you refactor database it will produce migration statements. It appears to solve all the issues that ORM supposed to solve, and you still have full control since SQL didn't need to be abstracted from you.

Edit: this video shows how it works in action (forwarded to a relevant part): https://youtu.be/_FlpiNno088?t=2868
Except, if the truck driver consistently fails to deliver the goods, the truck driving company usually goes out of business. It is generally referred to as having actual skin in the game.
Not sure I’m very impressed by the plot they show here. The results during the day looks ok, but then they only translate two nightly peaks (low carbon) into one slightly larger... couldn’t even more of the work be done at night... also it is strange that there is a dip in both ends of the plot (maybe they just plot one 24h period, ignoring the previous day’s load and the next day’s load... I think it would be more appropriate to consider previous/day as well, as a 24h snapshot over a multiday view)

A more interesting measure would be the actual reduction in CO2 emissions.
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And then there are the factors on the other side of the ledger: fewer traffic deaths, ironically - fewer COPD related deaths because of significantly improved air quality. And many more. This is not a simple problem by any stretch of the imagination and trying to make it seems as though only one or two factors are suddenly dominant and should be given precedence without taking into account other effects of larger or equal magnitude and possibly with inverted sign makes it all about as useful as badly informed guesswork.
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One could imagine an annotation for if-statements that both branches should run for the same number of instructions or cycles.
Interesting, I'll give it a try. Thanks!
This article and the Bloomberg article[1] that is currently on the front page.

From this NPR article:

> We funded more than twice as many loans for smaller businesses than the rest of the firm's clients combined," the bank said in a statement to clients. "Each business worked separately on loans for its customers. Business Banking, Chase's bank for our smaller business customers, processed loan applications generally sequentially"

Note "Each business worked separately on loans" and "processed loan applications generally sequentially". They divide their consumers up into large business and small business groups, assigning dedicated staff to each group. There are far more small businesses, making the queue for small businesses much deeper. Even though there were more workers (staff) pulling from the small business queue, there weren't enough to make up for the discrepancy in queue depth.

From the Bloomberg article:

> More than 300,000 customers of JPMorgan’s business banking unit, which serves smaller firms, applied for loans through the Paycheck Protection Program

> By comparison, about 5,500 larger, and sometimes more sophisticated, customers of the commercial banking business applied for funding.

> The data reveal that, in the race to get a loan in the first-come, first-served program, larger businesses had a leg up over smaller ones -- even when applying through the same bank.

> its commercial bank, with fewer clients, was able to process applications faster, said a person familiar with the matter.

[1] https://outline.com/HacVTV
The best analogy I use for logical errors such as this is -

If you have a dependent - ie a child - whom you are a primary source of care. Should you qualify for a bigger helping hand than say, the 25 year old with no children?

If you agree - then now imagine you have 500 dependents. Or in the case of some corps 500,000.

You have half a million dependents who rely on you every other week for a paycheck.

Do you qualify for a larger helping hand than the 25 year old who lives alone?
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Are physical banks closed? Wouldn't banks be an essential service?
It tends to work the other way around - at least in the markets I'm familiar with.

If you're a large consumer of energy and can turn that consumption on or off at short notice (on the order of seconds) then the grid operator will pay you to allow them to scale your consumption up or down.

The classic example of this is cold storage. If you have a warehouse full of freezers which need to be kept within a certain temperature threshold then it doesn't really matter when you run the freezers and you could switch off at several points during the day.
Not getting accurate info is no reason to spread inaccurate info.
Toshiba does the same thing too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22906959
Yet they are unwittingly willing to learn a different DSL, the ORM's DSL.
> $10 would have bought you .. maybe 20MB? Pretty cheap to store that "forever" now.

On a macro scale, 20MB is still pretty difficult to store "forever", especially if you need to involve a significant number of trusted people, over a long enough period of time (basically forever), to ensure that it's around.
I see your shoebill and raise you a cassowary. They make it very plausible that birds are descended from dinosaurs.

https://www.google.com/search?q=cassowary&tbm=isch

Kiwis are pretty weird too.
Australia is notorious for being not very smart, don't lump in America with australia.