skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have left stackoverflow around 2011, still top 4% with - ~300 answers with a lots of community wiki posts and even more comments, some giveaway through bounty on random questions. I have not been compelled to ask anything. Stackoverflow format is not suited for hard questions, that would require personal research. It's not suitable format for a topic discussed in a mail list either. It's a nice tool for quick answers on an easy ones that would score well via quick searches.

In other words. To post a question: I'd have to do my own research, followed by prototyping, testing, debugging. Be unable to reach anywhere, unable to get help by talking to peers directly. The topic should not be domain specific. Gather my thoughts, experience, etc. write them down and post a question. There has been a single case where a colleague of mine asked a question and it never got any attention whatsoever. We found the issue/solution few days later.
I believe someone awhile back tried to compel the NSA to release data collected in mass surveillance which he claimed could exonerate him. Unsurprisingly, this tactic did not work.
I assume it's not so much that, and more that it's another industry with a sub-optimal diversity record.
Flutter will die, Kotlin native with compose is the future.
Is it though? If you create a set of rules for your sandbox and somebody comes along and wants to play in it but only if you change the rules and you say “no thanks”, that seems totally reasonable. Why should you have to negotiate?
Wxmp3gain is from more than 8 years ago, and (it seems) you're basing your judgment on a screenshot, which is not a very solid ground. Using a modern, live, application would be a good test (keeping in mind, that some widgets may not exist in a given O/S).

Regardless, since you're accusing a very old and widespread project of lying ("it uses the platform's native API rather than emulating the GUI" on their front page, versus "I submit that Wx implements its own non-native widgets."), you should directly ask on an official channel, and have an authoritative answer.
I'm hoping that someone will one day build a RTOS in Rust that can run on M0 (or smaller) devices, comes with decent tooling (so you won't need projects like Platformio to compensate for the horrific tooling that embedded platforms have), and abstractions that are "just so".

The "just so"-bit is really hard.

Embedded systems need something like Rust.
Received a lot of discussion 3 days ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24222045
If you're looking for interesting, opinionated selections, Amazon isn't your competition.

There are many, many affiliate based places online to looks for book curation. It's really not that hard to discover interesting books.
Bank error in your favor, collect $175M.
Well, when I do video calls at work (and thats more than 90% of my video calls) I frequently find myself needing to look up something or edit tickets in Jira. Or showing code. So I would argue, some people do.
I assume if you are trying to hide your communications you aren't connecting directly to signals servers, so IP should get you nothing. There is no session identifier or signalID attached to your message, its contained within the encrypted part of the message so only the receiver can determine who the message was sent by. https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/
Context: 5000 sf, 12' ceilings. 4 HVAC units. Large family, lots of animals, always at home, 9-10 workstations + 1 rack server running. Thermostats are set around 75-76F.
So is the silicon lottery gambling?
Kind of off topic: Judging by the title it's another one of these write-ups on how AAPL is the worst anti-competititve monopoly that is using its position to do bad things. Thankfully it's something completely unrelated.
A 194-year-old Apple tree, matriarch of the Northwest Apple industry, has died
Right, DOS expects wildcards to be handled by programs. Besides avoiding problems from the shell expanding wildcards in problematic ways, this also enables some neat semantics like some tools accepting wildcards in multiple locations either for recursive path mapping or for a purpose similar to regex capture groups. It also substantially reduces (but does not eliminate) the need to be careful when including literal wildcard characters in commands.

The problem is of course that wildcard handling ends up being inconsistent between tools or entirely missing, although in practice this became less common as various Win32 calls related to file operations had internal wildcard handling, so applications got a basic form "for free".

As with many things in computing it's hard to say that either approach is superior to the other. PowerShell carries on the DOS tradition of not expanding wildcards in the shell, but provides a more complete and standardized wildcard implementation as part of the API to improve consistency.
This domain hijacking idea reminds me of an incident with Google I discovered a couple of years ago that landed me a bug bounty with them. I found out they created email logins with a not-registered domain for their candidacy account. I ended up registering that domain and "sold" it back to them in good faith. At least I can die with a smile on my face -- I once sold Google a domain.

details: http://www.tnhh.net/posts/gcandidate-who-is-interviewing-wit...
mbed and its RTOS was a rather nice platform when i fiddled with it.
Yes, there is still quite a bit of coal generation, but for the most part, electric utilities in the US have moved off coal to a much higher reliance on natural gas for base generation. This seems an inappropriate comparison?
Now I'm curious, because I've spent the past little while looking at file encryption headers, whether there's an example where the RSA modulus size is explicitly going to be part of the file header. I guess you could tell even if it was presented as a blob (inside a structured header) because it would be padded to a size that was equal to the length of the modulus...
Comes and goes. As it happens they are back in at https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/raspberry-pi-zero-w (limited to 1 per order).
Tribute to the Legend, Happy Birthday Kobe MambaForever
Well, you commented. Silly of me to assume there was something you were trying to add to the conversation.
Hey Anton, love the product - wanted to chime in on the A/B test pricing model.

I was PM for a company that grew to $2.5m ARR using an A/B test to prove our value and charging on the delta. (We also had the same technical execution via JS widget).

It added some friction; a few customers actually wanted a fixed rate and didn't understand the A/B test premise (it's all in the presentation). Most absolutely loved it, though, and were ready to signup after hearing it.

There's certainly best practices in the execution of this pricing strategy, and if you ever want to talk through those, let me know. Would be happy to chat. :)
> you can use it as an opportunity to remove inventory that wasn't selling anyway

If you don't have a database of your inventory, you don't know what's selling and what's not, apart from hazy memories of employees and the amount of dust on the shelf.
That's completely different and done by windows too (and IIRC by default files downloaded via browsers in linux will not have the executable permission).

The parent is talking about having such extremely well done sandboxing so that you can automatically run a compiler on source files (even when downloaded from untrustworthy sources) just to get more info about it.
I think a European user could easily do this via GDPR
Don't worry - it's fine.
Show HN: Open-Source Bootstrap 5 Admin Dashboard (Vanilla JavaScript)
I'm not even sure what "backing" Epic would mean in this context, but if they somehow are able to force Apple to release it's dictatorial grip on the app store, I'm all for it. I don't really care what kind of company Epic is, the result counts.
This is my problem; my power is ~7.5¢/kWh; my walls are 12” thick (6x2 studs + drywall + facade), so my electric bill only runs about 120$/month, averaged. I have a 68$/month fixed flat hookup fee. That means I’ve got to get solar to “pay out” at ~52$/month.
That was unexpectedly interesting.
I gave up on static site generators and use WordPress with default theme and a code highlighting plugin. I did start writing my own SSG but gave up on that too.
I wonder why they can't.

SO seems to be eternally undecided about whether it's trying to be an unconventionally structured forum, a massively multiplayer online game, or a jointly edited database of useful information.

I wish it would put a bit more emphasis on the last one of those.
Well, for whatever it's worth, PaperbackSwap [0] has become my go-to place for getting rid of books and (often) finding ones I want to read.

Just cleaned out a bookcase and put up a bunch that people want... glad to get them to good homes (where they might actually be read, rather than collecting dust on my shelves).

[0] https://www.paperbackswap.com/
Not clean enough to offset the higher cost per kWh currently. The PV price collapse kneecapped several alternative power sources. Plus solar thermal requires big centralized power plants, where PV can be distributed easily.
In addition to what other commenters have said, I'd guess that some purpleair sensors are placed in garages or other places with a local concern for air quality. That may explain some of the local variation you see on purpleair.
Depends on where you are of course - a friend of mine sent me a speedtest screenshot amused at how his download speed on a mobile connection in northern Italy was ten times faster (literally) than his ADSL connection in south London!
The interesting thing about this is that it affects people who have never been to the US and never intend to go, or those who do but take 'precautions' to protect their privacy (secondary devices, double encryption etc) as most of the data in anyone's inbox is not generated by them.

That's pretty scary.
> The paper you cited shows that 1.5x overproduction can get the US to 75% of electricity from solar and wind without building any storage.

Right, without storage you have to scale back the percentage of electricity you get from intermittent sources. Like I said, without storage, renewables do not present a valid option for a carbon free source of energy.

I you want a US example of a nuclear plant construction, you can take the Diablo Canyon plant [1]. This is not only built in the US recently, but also in an earthquake prone area and thus needed more robust construction. It cost 13.8 billion in 2018 dollars. Plants constructed earlier are even more cost effective, even when adjusted for inflation. The Donald Cook plant [2] produces about as much as the AP1000 plant, for only 3.35 billion 2007 dollars. That's about 4.25 billion in 2020 dollars. And this isn't an anomaly. Plenty of plants built during the 70s were similarly cost effective [3] [4] You're picking an individual plant to inflate the cost of nuclear dramatically.

You're absolutely right that the next reactor design isn't going to be affordable. First of a kind production is always the most expensive. Nuclear power gets cheaper with repeated constructions of the same design. You don't need to re-build the manufacturing pipeline to make components, staff become experienced in construction, and other benefits.

This is why France's nuclear program was one of the most successful. They standardized on 3 designs, and built serial production of those same 3 designs. The APR is expensive precisely because it's one of the first large plants that France has built in decades, and they don't have that advantage of serial production.

This is also why nuclear plants built during the 1970s in the US are much more cost effective than the ones built today. The US was building a lot of nuclear plants, and so it benefited from this economy of scale.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_Canyon_Power_Plant

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_C._Cook_Nuclear_Plant

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Nuclear_Generating_Stati...

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braidwood_Nuclear_Generating_S...
TypeGraphQL 1.0
Because rsync semantics around the trailing slash are a little confusing and unusual, it's pretty common IME for people to intentionally explicitly define paths to the file with rsync, in order to avoid having to look up which way they need to write the target path.
Nvidia developer program doubles number of members in less than two years
MS Money for Blender’s Development Fund Is Another Power Move
I cannot maintain a state of alarm for years on end.
Not sure if this counts as drama per Linux kernel mailing list standards: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/2911ac5cd20b46e397be50...

> So how exactly do you expect someone to review this monstrosity ?
Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastion_fort#/media/File:StarF...
http://www.homebrewcpu.com/

A computer built from 74-series logic running Minix (with a full tcp/ip stack). Once upon a time you could telnet into it.
At minimum register a domain and email forward the wildcard address for it to your daily driver. Use this for important things and don't forget to renew.

Edit: you can do all this on namecheap pretty easily.
Perfetto – Google's Latest System Profiler, Tracing, and Viewer
It doesn't hurt to do some variation of pointing and calling when doing destructive commands like rm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_and_calling
'Made in India' iPhone 12 Reportedly Coming Mid-2021
Destination, Mars Pictures celebrate the launch of three bold spacecraft
As a Kobe fan, it's always inspirational to look back at his memories. This website is really a small attempt to remember him again on his birthday. + It's "24/8"/2000
Happy Birthday Kobe!
I've been saying this for awhile, and on top of it you've got microtransaction and loot boxes which are essentially online games of chance which under the lottery rules and regulations aren't even allowed in some states and provinces on top of it they're marketed towards the children. I think in the future when we look back at this time we're going to see gaming companies that have gone bankrupt in order to pay for the gambling addictions and long-term damaging effects that these are on children and or adults. Developing and forming the brain of vulnerable players to become addicted to gambling and who knows what other types of effects I could have on addictions if the brain is developed into becoming addicted to gambling it's such a young age. I really think the parents need to monitor their kids and understand what they're doing just because something is a game does not mean that it's for children for example I don't know how many times there's been kids like 12 years old in online party chats on Playstation with adults and also playing rated r games which I find f terrifying and so happy I don't have kids so if there are parents reading this please don't let your kid have a microphone and be unsupervised and please don't be an enabler to their wanting to get items for a game out of supply drops and
and please understand that these are merely the equivalent of scratch off tickets marketed towards children.
Deserts aren't necessarily things to be "treated." We definitely don't want the entire world to be a desert, and the growth of the Sahara is somewhat troubling because of what it signals, but saying they have a "wretched excess of sunlight" and are fit to be exploited by humanity is the same attitude that got us in our current energy predicament.
Exploring Literature with Stanza
Stanza seems like a pretty neat NLP library. I think it may become by one of my go-to tools for text analysis projects. This post is from an afternoon I spent playing around with basic Stanza functionality.
jeffbee's unsourced numbers are probably not for UK.

Worldwide coal provides a lot more power than wind [1], although of course it still produces more waste and pollution and everything per TWh than renewables.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-sou...
I wish Linux on NTFS could share metadata with WSL1. That way you could boot it off the same WSL1 files you could access in Windows.
Thanks for creating Gumroad, it really helped me save a lot of time and use it for building my product instead!

Are you still working full-time at Gumroad or you are more into VC or "influencer" nowdays?
I think chromebooks kind of pivoted and now cater to the school markets and mass deployments rather than individuals. They must have realized they're not gonna blow proprietary drivers and native x86 based archs out of water and offered the low cost wholesale devices to education. It's probably a good strategy when you get them vertically integrated with G Suite for edut (which is free) and just lure all the students in US Schools to get used to Google products instead of all schools teaching using MS Office. Long way to go before they can actually replace MS Windows, macOS for games, photo editing, video editing, coding (althought that's close) or such.
Tilera was doing this but it never caught on. Probably just hard to build applications that fully utilize its capabilities.

And Green Arrays did the same on the lower end but with forth language processors.
SCO wasn't losing money on sales -- IIRC their cheapest product at the time (bare-bones SysV 3.2 SCO UNIX) sold for upwards of $600 without the dev tools or extras: Open Desktop retailed for a minimum of $1200 in its most pared-back form -- but the $250 licensing fees put a floor under SCO that made it impossible for them to compete as a desktop OS for the general public, as opposed to enterprises that expected to spend $3000-4000 per seat on tech support and licensing for every employee, every year.
Jeff Bezos – The Good Son
For what it's worth I can think of people in their forties and fifties who are still perennially single, despite apparent efforts to make it otherwise.

I mean, they could maybe hit the gym, or get rich, or read The Game, or become ardent feminists, or buy Thai brides online (after getting rich). I'm sure the options have not been exhausted. But I think at some point you have to admit that these people were just dealt a shit hand and there's probably not much they can do about it.

Or, if you think they should just work to fix the problem, you have to understand that it's not at all obvious how to do that. I mean honestly, I don't understand why serial killers can find partners and the people I'm thinking about can't. I've no idea what they ought to do about it.
> I imagine that it is cheaper for you to provide energy to the grid (once the grid is already established) than for the power companies to provide energy to the grid.

This is a bit inaccurate. Utility scale solar is cheaper to produce than rooftop solar generally.

But there are a lot of other things in play too, such as markets, subsidies etc.

Also: power companies don't just provide the electricity to the grid, they keep the grid running and in balance. If the consumption does not equal the production at all times you are going to get blackouts.
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https://github.com/billz/raspap-webgui
This is brilliant, thanks so much for posting these links!
Not at all. You're explicitly performing an action with your password manager on a domain you've already decided to trust.

Go head and inspect the source for the Google account screen where you put in your email and you'll see a password field a few elements down with the name "hiddenPassword" with "display: none" set on it. This is a well known approach.
What amazes me is it's about a dozen years since the concept of a "whale" emerged in gaming, and it keeps coming back to obfuscating transactions so children will blindly spend thousands of dollars. So far Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft have all been sued and lost for it, Facebook even called it "friendly fraud". It just never ends in spite of overwhelming evidence of fraud.

https://money.cnn.com/2014/01/15/technology/apple-ftc-settle...

https://lifehacker.com/get-a-refund-for-your-kids-unauthoriz...

https://phys.org/news/2016-07-facebook-refunds-in-app-minors...

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/xbox/forum/all/child-spe...

https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/ftc-sues-amazon-app-pur...
Yes, downvote appears after 500.

When my turn arrived a short time ago, I was curious if it would disappear if I got downvoted below 500 afterward. Not an experiment I was particularly driven to attempt, though. I try to keep my nose clean and save the knee-jerk vitriol for Twitter folks who say bad things about Lisp, so that question will theoretically and happily remain a mystery to me.
I'm the creator of Runnaroo. Thank you so much for the kind words! It made my day. I was having the same experience where I kept having to fall back to Google, so this was a very much a "scratch your own itch" project.
We could bring those advantages to web apps, but there isn't money in it, so it won't happen yet.
If you’re looking for a good next step I recommend CHIP-8.
A blanket statement about Electron is just bad advice.

If you are making an application that you expect users to run as a background process, perhaps Electron isn't the best option.

If Electron is for an application users will open, use, and close, Electron is an excellent tool for the job.

My two electron applications as examples:

Video Hub App: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App & https://videohubapp.com/

Simplest File Renamer: https://github.com/whyboris/Simplest-File-Renamer & https://yboris.dev/renamer/
I recently spent an entire day trying to import AllenNLP and its dependencies. I gave up after trying multiple interpreters, virtual environments, and operating systems.
Given how much pilots and ATCs talk among each other on the radio, I suppose it isn't all that surprising that they would develop an identifiable accent.
If we ever see a terrestrial planet moving through our solar system, some souls will surely want to colonise it even if there isn't any clear destination.
It is often said that many pilots emulate Chuck Yeager's voice.[1] Yeager was a US test pilot and jet flying ace.

Tom Wolfe has a great novel about Yeager and other test pilots called "The Right Stuff."

[1] https://www.wearethemighty.com/history/silky-smooth-chuck-ye...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np272lmVRkU
It’s a legitimate concern - I would not assume malice. How exactly would someone review a 25k loc .patch file?
I think the basic problem is that FAT is generally "good enough," and in the increasingly common case where it isn't exFAT is close to universal and addresses the only problem that consumers frequently run into (file size limit).

While FAT/exFAT leave the possibility of a variety of different types of filesystem inconsistency, these seem to be fairly rare in actual practice, probably in good part due to Windows disabling writecaching on devices it thinks are portable. This kind of special handling of external devices is sort of distasteful, and leads to some real downsides on Windows (e.g. LDM handling USB devices weird), but using a newer file system doesn't really eliminate that problem - NTFS and Ext* external devices require special handling on mounting to avoid the problems that come from file permissions traveling from machine to machine, for example.
Yes, except for the part about the call where they give you anything back.