skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am waiting for the next big thing, where the 3rdparty programs comes as a virtual machine image with a complete OS in it, with own kernel for maximal platform-independency.
I like graphviz a lot, but I almost always end up using [Tikz](http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/), which is quite a bit more flexible.

One huge advantage of Tikz is that you can use LaTeX equations natively. E.g. subscripts and superscripts in graphviz involve jumping through a few hoops, iirc.
They are unpopular for other reasons.

The first is that they are more expensive than burner reactors. With uranium ore being cheap and plentiful, and with the energy cost of enrichment so low now (gas centrifuges using 50x less energy than gaseous diffusion), there's no economic case for reprocessing, let along breeding.

The other problem is that fast breeders are inherently dangerous, with the possibility of fast supercriticality lurking in a serious accident. Edward Teller famously pointed this out publicly in 1967:

"For the fast breeder to work in its steady-state breeding condition you probably need something like half a ton of plutonium. In order that it should work economically in a sufficiently big power-producing unit, it probably needs quite a bit more than one ton of plutonium. I do not like the hazard involved. I suggested that nuclear reactors are a blessing because they are clean. They are clean as long as they function as planned, but if they malfunction in a massive manner, which can happen in principle, they can release enough fission products to kill a tremendous number of people.
[…]
...But, if you put together two tons of plutonium in a breeder, one tenth of one percent of this material could become critical.
[…]
I have listened to hundreds of analyses of what course a nuclear accident can take. Although I believe it is possible to analyze the immediate consequences of an accident, I do not believe it is possible to analyze and foresee the secondary consequences. In an accident involving a plutonium reactor, a couple of tons of plutonium can melt. I don't think anybody can foresee where one or two or five percent of this plutonium will find itself and how it will get mixed with some other material. A small fraction of the original charge can become a great hazard."
Earlier Pis could already run off USB drives, it’s just that they released the Pi4 before they had USB boot in the firmware so it didn’t work, but now it does.
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i'm 48 and have run 2 startups over the past 25 years...it can be an intense roller coaster of a journey and i empathize with your struggle. May you find what you are seeking and may you find balance between your mental health and entrepreneurial goals. None of this is easy nor guaranteed. Having a steady income, safety-fund, and building towards retirement certainly is a safe and worthy path. So is following your dreams and working towards 'creating' something profitable or impactful. Hope you can find both;
Not at all, of course you need to stay informed about the knowledge, actors and networks you're participating in. I think we agree here, it's a balance. I'd say optimally 5-30% reading, 95-70% doing. But it depends on what you enjoy, want to spend time on, goals, and other personal factors. If you enjoy reading; read.

Also, my post was about my own experiences and observations and was a direct response to quietthrow - he seemed distraught and the emotional angle seemed more fitting than a neutral and balanced response.
Honestly, it's not necessarily feasible to run all the tools one might have at the university and if the only way of doing science is by using expensive apps only available to rich individuals or companies that are well off, well its quite limiting in who can gain an attractive amount of experience working with it.

It also sets a baseline for every student and prepares them for a future where science is made to be shared and part of that is using tools and work flows that can be copied around the world.
I've found going right after lunch hours during the "work week". Basically 2-3pm on Tue/Wed has been the sweet spot for me. Store is restocked after weekend and folks are not there during their lunch time.
Coronal Magnetic Field Topology from Total Solar Eclipse Observations
After 10 years in tech isolation, I’m now outsider to things I once had mastered
I'm with the product team at Prisma.

Prisma Migrate is different from ActiveRecord migrations (which are very familiar with) because the DB schema is state-based. The Prisma schema file acts as source of truth and the DB schema will be migrated to match it.

Can you elaborate on what you would perceive as reaching the level of Django/ActiveRecord? I'd be interesting in specific aspects/items.
As someone who uses both Reddit and Discord quite a bit, I can definitely see the latter eating a lot of the former's marketshare, especially in communities for entertainment related topics like gaming, TV, music, etc.

In the case of r/LoL it's replaced TeamSpeak, and for quite a few other communities it's replaced IRC or other chat systems, but a lot of subreddits and old school forums have been replaced with Discord servers too.

For instance, many speedrunning communities are now primarily focused around Discord servers, as are communities for the Mario RPGs, the Luigi's Mansion series and most game mods/fan projects. An awful lot of communities focused around YouTube and Twitch personalities have made that jump too.

So while the article may have not given the best example, there are definitely a lot of instances where Discord has replaced, or at least significantly hurt the activity of a subreddit.
There is a straightforward, economical, and practical approach to dealing with spent fuel: sealing it in dry storage casks.

This is cheap, good for at least some centuries, and forecloses no future options for its disposition. Why do anything else now?
Could not agree more.
I have personally also made the experience that (Swiss) zip codes don't refer to geography at all: e. g. there are zip codes reserved for universities (that are used regardless of campus).
I'd be interested to learn about significantly complex, nontrivial systems of say 100K to 1M LOC scale that require reasoning about every single instruction from the perspective of every other instruction, in order for the system to work.
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> it can be hard to determine what aspects of a given library are the encoding and which parts are the fundamental ideas if you haven't seen the ideas used in well-suited language

That's a good point. Using a proper functional programming language doesn't just enable FP ideas (you can't fake a feature like implicit capture of variables), it may also clarify them by reducing baggage.

> I found `functools.reduce(function, iterable, initializer)` significantly more opaque than `foldl :: (b -> a -> b) -> b -> [a] -> b` because the type signature makes it clear what sort of functions are suitable for use as the first argument.

I suspect you're just a better Haskell programmer than me (I've only ever dabbled), but I find the big-mess-of-arrows syntax to be pretty confusing compared to a simple tuple of descriptively named identifiers.

Perhaps related to this: I don't see the practical appeal of currying. Even C++ supports the 'bind' pattern just fine - http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/functional/bind/#example
Dust and protection from casual accidents. Having a naked board on any kind of desk is just asking for trouble...
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Graphviz's syntax easy enough to programmatically generate, here's the course dependencies for CS classes at my university, for instance, generated by a Haskell program that scraped the appropriate data.

https://i.imgur.com/OZarGSg.png
Shameless plug: I created an online Graphviz/dot editor which is powered by a language server that provides auto completion and refactorings. It uses a WASM version of Graphviz to render the graph. You can try it out here:

https://edotor.net
No, higher pressure does not push you upwards. That's all about buoyancy and a liter of water weighs just as much at the bottom of the ocean as it does at the surface. That higher pressure works on all sides of your body which means it cancels out.
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I can't find anything about why I would want to use it over any of the hundreds of other testing frameworks out there. How does it compare to xUnit? Is it even the same type of thing? Do any of the links lead to non-trivial examples?
There used to be a site call ClerkDogs.com that probably had the best movie recommendation system I've used. You started off naming a few movies you liked, and it would provide a list of movies you'd also probably like, and it was very accurate.

From what I remember, the database was cataloged and maintained by actual humans, and not some algorithm following behavior patterns.
Statically typing paths into deeply-nested interfaces in TypeScript
Cool, and? Then you're apparently not the target audience.

It's an unobfuscated .NET application that a bunch of folks seem to have built in their spare time. Did you use any of the widely available tools to decompile it and find anything egregious in there or is this just a lazy dismissal?
> he didn't get more "respect" for his labor (highschool teacher)

> we will all have the dignified life of middle class westerners

What a sad irony. If he was a highschool teacher in the US as now he could be struggling to pay rent and medical bills and get more or less the same "respect".
Eventually sounds like far far away
In reality, they really have short lifespan, are slow, and halt the system

Therefore I wouldn’t recommend the rpi anymore.
Black hole's heart still beating
I wish it was that simple. Unfortunately I was seeing this then using the laptops built in speakers, not just with Bluetooth headphones.
Olof Palme was ill liked among many, also people far from far right. It was also among the ordinary right, common people with conservative or libertarian opinions. Among traits Palme had that caused this was arrogance and divisiveness.

Note that it did not take much to be conservative in Sweden in those days. Cannot be compared with the current US meaning of the word. If you thought that paying less than 50 percent of your salary in taxes was fair, you were basically conservative.
The Zim wiki software has a plugin for graphviz (https://www.zim-wiki.org/manual/Plugins/Diagram_Editor.html), where you can edit your graph and see the results in real time. Very helpful if only for this feature
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Totally agree that "you" is an emergent phenomenon rather than some atomic entity. Is this where we start debating the meaning of 'free will'? Because most discussions usually miss that step, rendering the rest of the conversation kinda pointless.
Why would I (or anyone else) care? The important question is, are the animals offended? Besides, I think owner is the correct legal term - if you own an animal, you're responsible for it (and for any harm it might do to others).
Price isn’t a benefit?
Yes. I just meant that when we tried to obtain a few ARM servers, the only quantity we ever got was "1 sample machine". Thus we couldn't even really try it out ourselves, let alone have customers do meaningful tests on a handful of machines.

Of course in "a few datacenters full of"-like quantities there was just no chance of getting anything. And of course, for making our own hardware (you can get ARM chips, just not full systems) we don't have the expertise, size and will.
Show HN: Weekly email of upcoming IPOs, filings and newly-public companies
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Related tangent: philosopher / author Milan Kundera once wrote,

> "Vertigo is something other than the fear of falling; it is the desire to fall -- against which, terrified, we defend ourselves."

That's from memory (over 20 years ago) but I think I got it right.
I ended up with a different tool, but I was uncomfortable using drawing apps for diagrams, and only rarely included them in my blog until I could use text to define them.

I’m all-in on Markdown + Github for writing, so working with text-driven diagrams is a natural fit.
For 2-3 years I had a tower (1m height) with 8 RP3s, 4 thinker boards and about 12 Orange Pis (different models). I did run different BOINC projects on it. So the load was 100% 24/7.

The whole time I had 1 or 2 broken SD cards. Temperature was never an issue.

I put on all SBCs just a passive heatsink (about 30x30x20mm). I installed packs with 4 boards vertical. On the bottom I had 2 large fans for all the SBCs. (sorry no picture)
Determinism doesn't guarantee easy intuitive understanding. Many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is deterministic, but even educated people easily fail to understand it, because it's still not intuitive.
As much as I like Graphviz (and I've been using it for ages) I keep looking for an equivalent with two features:

- Nicer, more modern looks (the original is too... LaTeX-y for my tastes)

- A different layout engine that uses straight arrows and 90 degree turns

So far I haven't been able to find any good replacements, although a few JS libraries come reasonably close.
It's a shame - we have automatic translation so articles in a language most visitors can't read are still useful to them.

Of course the submitter could fix this themself with some effort but we will lose good content if we rely on that.

Instead, it would be better if HN translated content and especially titles into the readers local language or English automatically using public APIs.
A will free from external influence.
His wife is still alive though
No, they are not clueless, they've been stealing software since the late 90's with mmo's.

They wouldn't be celebrating your cluelessness, they are talking about a "revolution", aka a revolution in the publics cluelessness about software ownership.

Why does ANY piece of software need a remote computer in order to function?

https://tifca.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ClienttoCloud_V...
This feature is Crostini. I now know you have either half knowledge or are intentionally posting in bad faith.

You don't need to turn developer mode on for this feature. That means you get verified boot , updates (including your Linux distro) as well as the security guarantees of Chrome OS. Crouton requires you to give up all of that. You can't get sync without signing in. Cloud sync is the foundation of the OS. It's what makes it stateless. If you don't like that it's not for you but stop spreading half truths about the product in bad faith.
That's a little unfair, that explicitly says "GNU" in the name. And it's not GNU, or even GPL. That's rather more egregious than simply beginning with 'g'.
I don't think RISC-V servers are anywhere near that level of development.
Maybe, but that would mean building our own hardware. I don't think anyone here would be comfortable with that, we are not big enough for such an endavour to make any sense at all. We'd rather buy off-the-shelf hardware, preferably from a selection of vendors...
So is Baidu.

The whole industry benefits from this sharing of knowledge.

Also, the best aren't going to work where they can't publish.
TLDR: launching a weekly newsletter to track upcoming IPOS: https://www.iposweekly.com/

Tracking upcoming IPOs seems like a genuine pain point for retail investors. People periodically check IPO calendars then forget about them.

e.g. these Reddit posts:
https://www.reddit.com/r/stocks/comments/999irr/tracking_upc...
https://www.reddit.com/r/SecurityAnalysis/comments/76zj0v/al...

So I'm launching a simple weekly newsletter of upcoming IPOs, filings and companies that just went public.

"Doesn't this exist already?"
IPOScoop is often recommended as a source for this data but has no obvious newsletter.
Fidelity has IPO alerts but you have to create a Fidelity account.

Finance is not an industry I know at all so I might be way off with this idea. Using https://carrd.co/, https://emailoctopus.com/ and $100 in ads I can try and validate it.

If it does work the nature of the content lends itself really well to automation/ outsourcing.

Here's the link again: https://www.iposweekly.com/
I'm not sure but I've been using ShutUp10 for years now and it's super reliable.

It's one of the only solutions I've seen that disables the automatic Bing based internet search feature when you use Win+S to search your system.
I’d like to write some scripts that can take some of my code and produce a graph of it.

Things I’d like is for example to draw a GCP cloud build file, or something like that.

What would be a good intermediate format for this? I’ll read an xml or yaml file into a python list of dicts and then loop through it and write ... Graphviz? Mermaid? Tikz?

What do you guys recommend?
In the first few weeks of working from home, my depression definitely got significantly worse. I'm pretty sure that, perversely, I enjoy my job because of the high levels of stress and anxiety (teaching) that normally distract from deeper-seated unhappiness. By removing all the distracting stimulus from my day-to-day, my mental health fell off a cliff fast.

In recent weeks I've mellowed out into a new normal. Have you heard about the idea of the hedonic treadmill? It's the idea that being happy is a temporary response to a positive change in your life and eventually your emotional state returns to normal, even if your life continues being great. I'm beginning to think it works the other way too: I've returned to my not-so-great emotional baseline, even though my quality of life is objectively worse.

I'm sure others will chime in here with what strategies have worked well for them but I thought I would add this observation because it surprised me and is perhaps counter intuitive. All the best getting through this.
You're absolutely right, but that's just one manifestation of our society having problems with long-term goals. I'd say it's insecurity that draws people to short-sighted goals and leaders.
> Far too few people in CS care about the ethics side as well.

Unrelated to this story, but on the topic of ethics in CS: I found the decision of Joe Redmon [1] extremely brave. (If you don't know who he is, he's the principle original author of YOLO, and could easily have had a stellar CV career. Also, his papers are just amazing reads with tons of humor.)

[1] https://syncedreview.com/2020/02/24/yolo-creator-says-he-sto...

[2] https://pjreddie.com/darknet/yolo/
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Quote from [1]:

RISC-V has some nice work and support but that software/firmware/optimized OS ecosystem does not develop itself overnight. And x86 and ARM are still propitiatory ISAs but also have mature software/firmware/OS(Optimized) ecosystems.

Now just because the Power9/Power ISA is opened up does not mean that IBM’s specific hardware implementation that executes that now Open ISA is open, and ditto for any other MIPS ISA or RISC-V ISA running on others’ custom hardware implementations. Folks it’s the underlying hardware implementation that gets the real work done and an ISA is nothing more than a execution template that can have any specific custom hardware implementation being more efficient or less efficient depending on that in-hardware implementation that’s engineered to execute the ISA.

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[1] https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/08/20/big-blue-open-source...
Indeed. They just finally gave up.
This. You can do the game theory alright, but statistically speaking there are many more people who are constrained by their working hours to go to the shop during either lunchtime (12:00-13:00) or just after 18:00.
If there is information you want to share with us, write a blog post to set it out clearly and submit that. If you're annoyed or worried or otherwise exercised that you can't submit the URL http://ai then include it in your post and explain why you feel the way you do.

Who knows, if your post has technical merit and is interesting you may get people upvoting it and engaging in discussion.
He used to, but I believe he now resides in Switzerland.
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France just signed for a new large wind farm (300 mills), guaranteeing 120-140€/MWh for 20 years. What's subsidized, already?
Pre-Covid, a good trick for the non-religious or non-Christian person who lived in areas of the South with regular church attendees was to go early Sunday morning, when people were at religious services. The only issue was if you wanted to pick up alcohol and you lived in areas with blue laws, you'd be stymied since you were shopping before noon.

Might still work now if churches are hosting regular web-based worship, but I don't know.
The reason we stopped building nuclear power palnts is that growth in energy demand suddenly slowed or stopped, nuclear power plants turned out to be more expensive than promoted, and because of a 1978 law called PURPA that opened up the grid to non-utility generators.
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This isn't a problem unique to software. Half the stuff in the sciences is not named something useful and descriptive, but rather after whoever discovered it second. Naming things is hard.

"One of the miseries of life is that everybody names things a little bit wrong, and so it makes everything a little harder to understand in the world than it would be if it were named differently." --Richard Feynman
The British Antarctic Survey has collaborated with a musician to create a work incorporating these and other Sounds of Space:

https://www.bas.ac.uk/project/sounds-of-space/
I've been living on US$500 a month for years. In a Western country.
Well, I think many ideas we hold about education and how that should work are probably going to be refuted in future. The idea that a physical school or college with lecture halls and classrooms is the 'best' way to learn likely isn't going to hold true much longer, nor are we always going to have teachers/professors standing in front of a class reading from a book/paper/whiteboard/PowerPoint presentation.

I think in future, we're going to figure out much better, more scientifically grounded ways of teaching people, and we'll look back at the current methods of teaching in the same way we do old school medicine with leeches, humors and elements.

Not sure which scientific truths/theories we'll see refuted and replaced though.
...it's right there. Look to the right of the logo and download buttons.

https://imgur.com/kHrmgSJ.png
Looks cool, but either the default graph has incorrect comments, or it's buggy on firefox. There were no lightbulbs, and clicking on "a" did nothing.
Yep, jinni.com did the exact same thing, and I loved it. Unfortunately, it seems like B2C just didn't work financially so they switched to an entirely B2B model to help providers with their recommendation engines and no longer have their data accessible to end-users.
I've been trying to use graphviz for many years. Idea of storing graph data as text with presentation hints is very appealing. But simple diagrams can be made in corresponding software (draw.io) way too faster. For complex diagrams I had to constantly fight with layout engine and place too many hints.
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