skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope thats why I specifically said any help to get to an MVP or website feedback. Good to see everyone thinks it's a scam website though kind of silly. Not sure where the dead links are. Some book titles are not yet published. Some are through KDP thats why theyre amazon links and the items are recommendations from the books or unique items we thought would be nice to link. not sure the links in the shop let you purchase anything yet still linking payment account and there's legal stuff to deal with before we can actually accept anything besides donations or sales of tertiary products we want to go with the homes. we wanted to just see what people thought of the pricing really.
Climate change shouldn't be used as a get out of jail card free card for catastrophic events like this.

PGE has a very long track record of neglectful behaviours. From leaking chromium into drinking water in socal, san mateo gas main explosion, and the electrical fires in northern California.

There is something very wrong with how PGE approaches it's infrastructure and public safety. It would happen regardless of climate change.
Have you tried the other tips? The AirPods Pro come with a bunch in different sizes
I'm very happy to hear that! I'm on a classic SE 16 GB, my second, and the really tiny amount of space is really a bummer. I'm so glad the SE 2020 is worthy upgrading and holding on to.
Here's your inclusive diversity training in a nutshell: How about not being mean to either Shanice or Steve? Nobody asked you about a fashion opinion, and everybody would be happier if you didn't say things that might be hurtful to another person.

That's it. That's the whole thing. The request is "don't be an ass to anybody". One would think it's not a high bar to clear.
This is absolutely plausible
Dhall does have many features that can still "compile down" to YAML or JSON (or some others, too). Depending on this target language, some Dhall features are unavailable.

I don't think OP meant Kubernetes is changing to Dhall, but that we'll see something like Dhall on top of Kubernetes YAML/JSON that catches on.
Do you have a better alternative to Tor? All of my understanding and reading has lead to it being a great solution for anonymous web browsing.
It reads like a press release, no gotchas, no complaints...

https://k8s.af/
Even if it does ask for permission to my contacts, I don't like the use case of it importing all of my contacts. It's all-or-nothing, and if I choose no then the app may not install. Again, I don't really remember giving the app permission to my contacts, so maybe it's my bad, but I would have liked to have been able to choose which contacts to import and not just everyone. I remember this happened after an update, and to continue chatting with my friends, I'm not sure I had much of a choice but to give it access to my contacts.

I don't really trust Signal all that much, but my friends seem to. It's founded by "Moxy Marlinspike" which is a guy with a made-up name, who Twitter hired to fix their security issues - and it looks like they wasted their money on that, so I don't have the most confidence in "Moxy" to really keep my chats private.
My understanding is Steam machines weren't so much meant to be a console competitor or even a gaming PC competitor, they were meant to be a Windows competitor. So that Valve could basically just say "we'll start releasing exclusives for this" if Microsoft pushed the Windows Store hard and tried to kick Valve out of their dominant market position. Steam machines bought them a bit of leverage when they needed it.
> This is the first time I've noticed anyone trying this model.

It’s pretty common for crowdfunded video games to have anything from naming side-characters to working with writers for a complete quest line or NPC. This seems to simply introduce it to books.
> when I buy something on Steam it will always be available for me to download

At least, until Steam goes offline, or maybe your account gets lost. I for one still use Steam, but I do wonder if I'll be able to play my favorite games in 20 years.

A plain EXE from itch, GOG, or some other source will work as long as compatible hardware lives on.
A big advantage of the monad abstraction is that you can define custom monads to suit your business cases, but then reuse a lot of existing functionality with those monads. So looking at which "standard" monads are most popular only tells half the story.
Here's a thread with more detail about the data in the study: https://twitter.com/ikauvar/status/1306266124313653249
Personal attacks will get you banned here, so don't do that again please.

Please stop perpetuating flamewars also.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You joke but I literally worked with a Raspberry pi 'hat' that talks in 2G.
Text to speech that you can run on your own computer is not great but it gets the job done without involving audible. I personally like it because it doesn't have the interpretation that human readers bring to stories.

Of course I still find myself still battling DRM for even text ebooks just to get access to the raw text itself for use with command line tools.
Nope, you can sync state using just an S3 bucket (or local filesystem). It’s a bit hidden in their docs though.
duly noted. just wanted reactions to pricing. good feedback thank you. we need funding to build the robot and print the first house or the "MVP" so yeh need lots of funding to get to an mvp obviously.
Woah where's this from?
There’s not much personal direct benefit, but if someone cuts you off, honking has the benefit of letting that person know they were being antisocial. Without feedback, it’s easy for people to start to think that selfish behavior is ok.
Ask HN: What personal finance tools do you use?
I've been using YNAB(6 months) after having used HLedger(2 years). HLedger was beautiful, I really loved budgeting that way. There were fantastic tutorials on how to do envelop budgeting. The lead developer helped fix bugs instantly. There was a tool that let me import my OXF files from the bank. It was a dream.

However I got married and merged finances, so I needed something a bit more user friendly to give my wife access to our budget. YNAB is well it's slow and dogmatic. I don't mind dogmatic but the way it rolls months annoys me. Couple that with a clunky slow interface and I'm done with YNAB.

What do you use to for your personal budget?
While I share the frustration with the constant need to fiddle with things, I am not sure if going a non-SaaS route is gonna solve this problem completely. Pay-once software at least has a clearer incentive to deliver improvements, so that you want to pay for the newer versions. So the need to grow might be even stronger. Ultimately old versions will also go out of support.

Maybe OSS is the best bet, as long as the project is popular enough.
Apple: where it's not a problem with their hardware, it's a problem with your ears.
Is nuclear non-renewable? Because nuclear is effectively unlimited by today’s standards.
Perhaps in 20 years I'll be able to play HL3 instead of HL2 :)
http://home.mcom.com/home/whats-cool.html
Please don't cross into personal swipes. If a discussion gets to that point, it has long stopped being a good thread here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That’s an interesting approach. I can picture the system quite vividly.

You’ll probably use 100% scaling?
"We don't store any of the images uploaded or generated. Once the toonification has finished running no images are kept on our systems."

Sure, then don't hide an otherwise perfectly normal computer program under a random web interface.
wow, brings back memories. I never had an oracle version though. I remember being very happy when sun came out with a USB version of their keyboard so I could use it elsewhere. (previous versions had a sun connector)
Film scheduling is a "real" discipline because the range of effort for (major motion picture)
filmmaking projects is extremely narrow, the dependencies are all known, and all the projects are bottom up in nature i.e. this number of shots, sets, cameras, explosions, etc. equals X more dollars and Y more hours to produce it.

If every software project ever made was just a CRUD app, with the only variations being the number of fields and the amount of data validation, and we'd been doing it for 100 years, I'm sure our ability to finish on time and on budget would be much less maligned.
I think that people ignore the fact that the population of the United States has dramatically increased over time. We now have 331 million people whereas there were only 210 million in 1970. So of course housing is going to be more expensive. The issue gets even more dramatic prior to 1900.
>Valve has been resting on their laurels for years.

They aren't just a game development company anymore. Their primary product is Steam. If Half-Life Alyx was playable on any PC or console it would have been one of the best selling games of the year. Its only a niche product because, instead of resting on their laurels, they are trying to drive the industry forward.

Not only did they make the Index, which is by far the best VR Headset yet, they also supposedly helped HP develop the Reverb G2 that's coming out soon.

GabeN likes playing Dota but the idea that he sits around all day playing videogames when he's been building, improving, and expanding a billion dollar gaming empire is ridiculous.

There's also the massive progress towards making Linux a viable gaming platform. Really the only thing keeping me on Windows on my gaming system is the fact that most competitive multiplayer games' anti-cheat software can't run on Linux yet. If I played mostly single player games or casual multiplayer I could play almost everything I want to on Linux.

IMO they are plenty innovative. I wish they released more games, but aside from gaming they are doing a lot of great things for the gaming community.
Netflix can and hopefully will add support. HBO Max and Disney+ support spatial audio right now.
In mainframe operating systems, you give a process a virtual disk, and some I/O channels. The process has zero access to the rest of the system.
A modern system needs to do exactly the same thing, use Capabilities to specify access a virtual machine has, and default to nothing else. On a datacenter scale.
The 5 prediction probably had a confidence score of 98.52% or something, and the model chose the one it believed to be most likely.
You can predict a pseudo-assembly output for a mental model of the architecture(s) you're targeting. It doesn't have to be an exact match, register allocation and all.
Just needs a "even my grandmother is using KDE seamlessly with her online banking site"
I mean, I still like Tor. It depends entirely about what your threat models and goals are.

I2P never gets any attention compared to Tor, but it keeps chugging along. In many ways, it's a lot better. Their most recent release was on 2020-08-24.

https://geti2p.net/en/
It's still bizarre to me that clicking a shutter button is a "creative process" but being the subject of the photograph gives you no rights whatsoever. I've been on both sides of the lens and there has to be a better balance than we've struck in this country.
Using nginx.conf to host this looks like a great way to get around organisational boundaries to deploy applications you are not allowed to. "Well I'm just doing a quick config change, updating the nginx.conf sir..."
That's not an HN thing, that's an internet thing (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...)

If you find yourself getting sucked into a "no, u" dynamic, the only thing that works is to step away. That's hard in the moment (because it feels like ceding the field to the obviously-wrong, obviously-inappropriate other) but then you win. And we all win.

Certainly when an internet thread becomes so generic as to reach "theory of mind and epistemology", it was time to walk away a long time ago. It's hardly likely that any internet forum will ever generate anything new or valuable to say about such things, and certainly not in the middle of a tit-for-tat activation.
> But many things can negligently cause sparks, including dozens of human and natural causes.

My favourite: https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-mendocino-compl...

Someone tried to stop an angry yellowjacket nest by driving a concrete stake into the hole in the ground and their hammer thew off sparks and started a 459,123 acre fire-- the largest recorded in state history at the time.
ahh what. You mean running Hugo deploy to an S3 bucket with a cloudfront distribution infront. It costs like 2 bucks a month.
If you're blogging your content is perfect for static site generators. And there's other options that can make it even more simpler than that.
Their SSD is not just an NVME gen 4 drive, but includes hardware to decompress textures and other game assets as they stream in. It's going to let the PS5 do a bunch of stuff that the XsX won't be able to. Also, the controller with its haptic feedback is supposed to be a significant step up and Sony had originally had a huge in person marketing and promotion event around the controller that COVID messed up.
PGE also was responsible for contaminating the ground water in Hinkley California with millions of gallons of chromium in the the 1960s and then covering it up for 20 years.

There is something seriously wrong with PGE and it's attitude towards it's infrastructure and public safety.
I know tone is hard online, but I never intended it a personal attack for a moment. Looking at it, I can see how it can be interpreted as condescending, though. I meant what I said: I am not a specialist, either. However, this was the top comment on this submission when I replied, and it was factually incorrect. I did not spend a long time searching for the links I cited. Dang, you understand running an online community better than I ever will, likely. What is the right call on civility vs correctness? How could I have done better here?
From an old documentary I watched early '00s (no idea what it was called), there was a musician that claimed music with a BPM between 135-140BPM and a 16th note bass line was in a frequency range that made it very easy for the human brain to sync up to it. Something about being very close to the Theta wave (or which ever brain wave, it's been a long time since I've seen it). This would result in a dance floor full of people who were all on the same wavelength. I'm sure it didn't hurt if they were all on some form of psychedelic as well. If the BPM was too high or too low, then it was harder for the brain to latch on. This was an old Goa/Psytrance artist, so that trance state was kind of the point of the music.
The maintenance was the last thing to fail.

There are always other causes and improvements. From how the maintenance is performed and verified, to how the system works and is designed, to the process and culture of the organization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_whys
So when is the app coming out that reads the epub of my choice in the natural voice of the narrator I like? You cant tell me that Google didn't already show this a couple of years ago - it was making restaurant reservations back then.
Can you explain why this is such an important feature? How often are you writing code where you're not at your desk with a real keyboard and mouse?
Yep, that's what I was referring to here

> Just give me the UI that shows up when you tap the app drawer search button, but as soon as I swipe to the drawer and without showing the keyboard.
Hah, I was just about to post this. (And, yeah, I'm not wild about his Hermione either, but everything else is alright.)

We refer to him by name, it's not "Hey, you wanna pick up where we left off in Chamber of Secrets?", it's "Grab a snack and let's enjoy some Jim Dale, shall we?"
The argument against "police militarization" flew right out of the window over the past 3 months. Same with the argument against the 2nd amendment. People are buying so many guns, the background check system is overloaded and gun stores are sold out.
Blender has some extremely limited and outdated internals for solid modelling (NURBS) which are what CAD/CAM could be based upon.

Some work was done in Feb 2020 to start bringing them up to speed, and there is a patch set for review:

https://developer.blender.org/D6807

It doesn't seem to have received the needed reviewing though. Until that's done, there's not much hope. :( :( :(

Note - this is just my understanding of it, as I was wondering similar about the state of solid modelling in Blender last week.
Ask HN: How does a product like Snowflake pitch itself to customers
Snowflake is, from what I understand, a database engine.

To get value out of it, a developer has to write sql and integrate some other reporting tool to actually view results.

How are they positioning the product to customers? As a tool for developers? For business analysts (will business analysts want to even write sql)?

How are they picking up million dollar contracts when the output of their product is essentially a stream of data that needs another tool to visualize it and the input needs to be written by an engineer?
noted. the shop is mainly just for show to express what we want to offer and pricing to see what people have to say about it. more just us sharing our vision. there's a long road to the MVP and we need funding to be able to get to printing the first house. the packs are estimates for professional quality tools and products that we will hand pick ourselves based on professional experience in many of these categories or from outside sources that are more savvy than we. To get to the MVP we need something on the order of $500,000 no employees just me and my co founder and some contractors to do some of the trades you need licensing for.
my application was essentially a user-space forwarding (of gtpu packets) using dpdk. approx 80% of available cores (total of 32/64 not so sure) were dedicated to that task. now each forwarding thread would work independently of every other thread incrementing tx/rx counters etc. instead of global shared counter, we had per thread 16bit counters which were 'synced' if they were overflowing. which ended up reducing the overall contention by quite a large margin.

ofcourse the salient point here being that it was ok to be 'eventually correct' minor lag was always ok.
Rather ironic that the post mentions things like accessibility while using a blog layout that is not responsive on mobiles, and looks like crap with tiny, unreadable text on large screens.
Check out https://obsidian.md
A couple of major reasons compared to the Xbox Series X:

- Sony's CPU + GPU are slightly higher clocked than Microsoft's, which typically means special binning required and increases costs (Bloomberg story collaborates on this: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-15/sony-is-s...)

- Proprietary storage system, super fast but R&D dedicated to design and implement it

Ultimately both companies losing money on these initial sales but it seems Sony losing more than Microsoft.
The genome of this virus has been public since January, thousands of biologist and virologist inspected the same evidence yet she is the only one who decided that it was man made.

And all of the scientific community is 'censoring' her for not peer reviewing her paper.
This is a very interesting analysis. Thanks for providing it.
I can't assess the merits of i2p but in the comment section of the post I found this

> i2p is substantially worse.

> It is worse BECAUSE every user is also a relay. I can sit at watch the connection, allowing me to map out each user's address. If your server is up long enough, you should see everyone eventually.
I have to agree with my sibling post. I seek out narrators like Wil Wheaton, Ray Porter and Luke Daniels. I will often look at the other work that a narrator has done in the hopes that it will be worth considering.

There are also excellent cast based readings, like Cory Doctorow's last novel Walkaway (which had among other people Amanda Palmer in it).

There are also some excellent cast based reading Audible. American Gods comes to mind.
I don't think it's correct or helpful to use the term "selfish" to describe rationally self-interested behavior which does not impinge upon the needs of others.
The visual style reminds me somewhat of "Team America: World Police".
Gmail uses Wiz. The extension was probably misclassifying it.

https://twitter.com/cramforce/status/958696304149868545
Haskeller here, some observations:

- Not surprised that the state monad is the most commonly used one, it essentially acts as an escape hatch to write more imperative-looking code

- List monad least used, probably due to the fact that Haskell has list comprehensions

- Continuation monad is second least used, much like how many programmers find Scheme's call/cc unintuitive, continuations can be complex conceptually and have specific use cases that don't really appear in industry

- The Error monad in mtl has been deprecated in favor of Except, looks like there's still many packages left to update

Overall I'd say that mtl has penetrated quite well into the Haskell community, any intermediate Haskeller likely knows it. However, I hope that in the future more people end up using effect libraries such as fused-effects and polysemy (based on the work on extensible effects[0]) which have compositional and performance advantages.

Also, one common complaint from the effects community is how the IO monad is a "sin bin" (as SPJ describes it) of effects. One ought to be able to express more nuanced side effects such as network/disk access or console I/O.

When designing a program we should start thinking what effect we want to achieve rather than which monad transformer to use. Instead of jumping straight to StateT and so on, we ought to identify what transformation on the world and its resources we wish to effect.

[0] http://okmij.org/ftp/Haskell/extensible/
>Of course they can. A failure is an unplanned shutdown

A pedantically accurate retort, but ignores the real point.

Shutting down these lines for "inspection" is not feasible. These lines are the backbone of a grid that millions of people and services rely on 24/7/365, and there is zero redundancy. They are responsible for delivering power to hospitals, traffic lights, schools, airports, grocery stores, homes, businesses, and the list goes on.

Telling people "We need to turn off your power for a couple days every couple months for inspections" is going to create a lot of backlash, no matter how good the reason.

Also, the lines in question aren't like closing a two lane road in a small neighborhood for a couple hours where a few annoyed people can take alternate routes. It's more like shutting down all the freeways in a major city for a day just so that the DOT can finally get some street sweeping done. Good luck not starting a riot.

The problem is, these systems are old, too many people rely on them, and there is no redundancy.

If we want to take a step towards fixing the problem, the best start is to create redundancy for power supply to consumers, imo. Preferably more localized power generation via wind/solar/etc with some localized power storage.

Also, their profit margin for one year is not a fair argument towards them being at fault. Economics of public companies are about a lot more than "We made extra money, so we should have just spent it on making our product better". If shareholders don't make money in a company, they pull their investments. You pull enough investments in PG&E, that means they have to cut costs. Meaning, less money for inspections and improvements to the grid.

Economics at scale is not a black-and-white, napkin math, solvable problem.
I don't think its that big a deal.
Its a lot of work, for sure, but I think it's table stakes for writing a good text editor.

I'm not sure how many good native text editors don't have their own text editing engine.