skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They planned for a certain level of tsunami/earthquake, but this particular tsunami exceeded norms.

They could have protected against this, but siting it near the coast is desirable for cooling purposes too (and has been helpful in some ways for cleanup as they've been able to dispose of waste in the ocean), so there are conflicting concerns here.

Things fail from time to time, if that thing failing is catastrophic, it gets very expensive to ensure 100% reliability.
achieved in 1424: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23834687
What's the sales of Raspberry Pi versus something like a connected camera (Nest cam, dropcam, etc).

"Popular" is relative.
They're usually just rebranded from some other company anyways

This is a common belief, and also mostly false. I think it's common because it used to be true, but isn't anymore.

With the economies of scale that a company like a Target or a Wal-Mart have these days, plus the ever-declining cost to manufacture goods, most store brands are actually run for those stores, and not re-labeled big brand goods, or seconds that were rejected by the primary contractor.
Address Sanitizer and valgrind are widely-used standard tools for finding allocation bugs
> metaphorical in the phrase "took his leave"

How so? Surely "took his leave" is quite literal, meaning he left. See https://www.lexico.com/definition/take_one%27s_leave
That's super reasonable, appreciate the reply and hopefully will get a chance to experiment with it soon =D
I have tried iPad Pro a few time and I find myself just cannot use it. I still prefer my trusty notebook + fountain pen.

Personally, I also maintain a Big Text File as my digital note. So I put the index to my physical notebook in it. That way, I could do digital search in my digital note, and refer to my physical note if required.
I looked at this, then tried and Ergodox and now I use a 40% split ortho Corne keyboard which I love and type 15 wpm faster on then my old Happy Hacker keyboard.
Homekit devices also require a mFI chip to participate in HomeKit (or develop software to connect to another device in the home with mFI chip).
Maybe clicking on the playground link would help your understanding of the project. You can literally hover over the types defined like:

type EX = Query<"some query string", db>;

and see the that the type as defined by the TS language server (i.e. in your editor) is the result of "running" the query without actually running the code. It's a little insane and somewhat akin to "type providers" in languages like F#.

For example, add this below `EX1` (line 66) in the TS Playground:

let names = (persons: EX1) => persons.map(person => person.name);

Now change the column alias in `EX1` to something other than "name" and see what happens. You see that? There is now a compile-time error.
> One could make the argument that Gaming is inherently a childish activity that draw people with childish tendencies and childish tastes.

This is, frankly, an insult against a majority of adults in the US. The "average" gamer is 34 years old, owns a house, and has children. 65% of American adults play games daily.

It's no more childish than watching TV or reading.
Thanks for the kind words! I'm using a custom built javascript framework that runs in a web browser. Should probably have mentioned this in the post :)

Others have requested RSS too, by the way. I'll look into it.
Yes, but my point was that netbsd had the chance to switch to something Xcb based.

And instead, they switched to yet another Xlib-based wm.
"Blue ammonia is a feedstock for blue hydrogen, a version of the fuel made from fossil fuels with a process that captures and stores C02 emissions. Hydrogen from renewable energy that creates no emissions is known as Green hydrogen.Blue/Green hydrogen "can be burned in thermal power stations without releasing carbon emissions."

Non-Paywalled links

https://www.oilandgas360.com/saudi-aramco-sends-first-blue-a...

https://www.ibtimes.com/what-blue-ammonia-saudi-arabia-makes...

https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2020/09/28/saudi-arabia-sends-...
Then don't compare to Norway. Compare to Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Poland or any of the others mentioned elsewhere here.

I also find your argument a bit weird. Why not start an discussion about if the cost is worth it (which is what you want to discuss) instead of picking on the details of the country in question?
Or it's because the town square is gone and you have the free speech corner somewhere off into the woods.
Streamlining the creation of intelligent natural language processing models
The drawback is that you'll spend months learning to type again, and you won't be nearly as fast as you were.

That's what happened for me, at least.
You can import a json document directly into typescript and the entire document is a readonly constant type of the entire json object literal.

I've used this with a template JSON document that has an instance of all possible types in the runtime json.

Sometimes you might have to loosen the type slightly, but it works great for a quick start.
I have a few individuals that I pay particular attention to, but not necessarily a publication. For a time, The Information was a publication I thought of subscribing to. However, they do a lot more than just publishing. They built a community, and have a number of non-publication, community interactions — member-only Slack, for example.

You cannot really have loyalty unless you have a community. Loyalty results from the personal relationship individuals make to each other within the context of a community. “Loyalty”, in the context of a subscription is still largely framed as a transactional exchange of value in the guise of a community. In that frame, without real, personal relationships, the only thing keeping someone there is value and cost-of-cancelling (laziness, inertia).

Perhaps this is why substack is gaining more traction. Maybe this is why podcasts had become very popular. Maybe this is also why traditional publishing models are dying.
Nikola founder Milton's fall reveals what his backers feared
Running a platform costs money, many IoT products turn cost negative quickly if you don't introduce some type of value added service/ongoing revenue.

That being said I've always been a huge proponent of allowing some type of local control. Think of people in the automation market (Control 4, CEDIA type stuff) where it would simply be faster.

Even Google/Amazon allow local lambda function type activities that would be much better experience if we allowed local control.

But that also changes your security landscape.
But even with the newsstand model, you could always subscribe and have it delivered (usually at a discount vs the news stand).

The publishers (and lots of other busineses, think fusion360/photoshop/etc) are just greedy, they can't see the value in thousands of people randomly selecting their product today, and their competitors product tomorrow. They want lock in because its easier.
Julia is a good language - has excellent performance and it has a pretty decent web development framework as well.

https://genieframework.com/
As an aside, I noticed this at the top of of the article:

You have 1 free story left this month. Sign up and get an extra one for free.

I really dislike Medium. I don't want to have a relationship with the blog platform that people use in order to read the article; I want to read the article.
I also like trackballs although I prefer Logitech's trackman thumb trackball.

I also gave the Kensinton Expert a try but I really disliked it. For one I think I just prefer thumb trackballs, but beyond that I found the build quality really shoddy for that price. In particular the scroll ring is wobbly and rattles quite a lot on my model, it feels very cheap and is unpleasant to use.
Common phone cable in Finland seems to be 6P4C, at least the ones I had.
The plan only kicks in once you have 25 billion in revenue.

So there is a generous bootstrapping period.
Good idea.

I've added it (though as it's unavailable, it doesn't show up by default). I've also added the Lalboard (http://lalboard.com/), which is an open-source project to recreate it.
If it's just one employer, that would be their loss. If it's all employers, that would be your loss. And the reality is much closer to the latter than the former.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/04/the-ter...
It is amazing to me that this concept, syndication of subscribers, is completely unexplored at this late date and after such carnage in the industry.

There have been dozens or hundreds of content syndication efforts, all failures, but no one is doing the obvious thing for customer experience and syndicating their subscription.

Can anyone in the business (which I used to be in back in the early 2000's) explain this?
Unfortunately only a few weeks, and I never made it north of Trondheim. Someday, when travel is allowed again ....
Minor clarification: mix tapes were not condoned by the recording industry, they were actively opposed.
> the final executable depends on everything else and so any meaningful change to the code will invalidate it

If I'm not mistaken that refers to in traditional compiled languages.
i really love the elecom huge, due to the fact that it has a lot of customizable buttons. the only downside is the scroll wheel that is not the best in the business and the position is unconfortable at first. but the trackballs for a long period usage are far superior in my opinion
I thought Mozilla had a plan for a global license. Did they give up on that too?
sam harris just talked about this.

https://youtu.be/1se6POdUcWM

i dont accept US moderation in my life with YouTube, twitter, or facebook. the fact that we're arguing the merit of CCP moderation of our youth is strictly a nonstarter; its crazy talk.
Her plan is basically a way to dethrone the very largest companies, while allowing the next tier down to engage in the exact same behavior.

I.e. it targets the most successful companies, but does nothing for new entrants who are struggling against the market power of multi-billion dollar corporations.

The plan prioritizes the needs of capital over either efficient management or innovation.

It’s a great way to guarantee the worst aspects of capitalism while eliminating its benefits.

From what I hear, she was handed this plan by strategists who hoped it would have populist appeal.
Despite rolling a homegrown translation app, Apple resorts to freebie tool
Authentication and Authorisation: A Primer
Why is that so crazy to think of? My New York Times crossword subscription provides me with more value than Netflix right now.
For sure - how to resolve the statement is almost entirely about definitions here.

I said something that would reasonably be interpreted way more broadly than what I meant, and was rightfully called out for it by a few folks.

My intent was to in a pithy way support how it's maybe not a great comparison to pull the top of one field and compare to the median of another when discussing compensation.

Bad take on my part in support.
Are the file formats either open or exportable to something that is open? If they're not, you're in the exact same place as the author.
This site saved me on multiple occasions, great stuff
And genocide apologia.
I think that's because he didn't have a lasting impact for Berlin (or Germany) beside being the first.

Zuse built the first computers in Berlin, but they were only used in the war-time government ministries afaik. After the war, he sold his first computer, which I would consider commercial available, to ETH Zurich in Switzerland. He founded 2 companies, but both were not successful compared to e.g. Intel. He would be really famous and well-known if he had managed to create a computing giant. He never had a university employment, so his papers were not well known compared to Turing and there weren't a lot of them. He even didn't publish his PhD thesis where he invented the first programming language and created an elaborate demo in which he programmed the first chess engine (also afaik). I think in science being the first is overrated and not that important. You have to publish and popularise your idea to really have an impact (schmidhuber would disagree). So his intellectual legacy was merely that he was the first, but not really influential. And his commercial success was also limited.

I think it's tragic, it was an enormous wasted potential for germany. It might be that he never was the great entrepreneur with the skills to build a tech-giant, but he was undoubtedly a genius who invented the future. He could have an enormous impact if he were equipped with a big lab and funding, if he would have taken the academic route. But Germany wasn't (and is still not) able to support geniuses that don't complete the usual strict path to professorship (study -> phd -> habilitation/post-doc).
Colemak (any mod) + Ergodox/Moonlander - The user is not only serious about ergonomics, but has the will to put in the effort required to learn better tools of the trade.

UHK/Kenesis non-advantage series - The user is not serious about ergonomics and lacks any drive to use better tools. Status quo is the driving factor in choice.
Why data quality is key to successful ML Ops
> Your argument boils down to: they can be banned, so because “national security,” it’s ok. China may be violating laws, but TikTok isn’t, so singling them out is a bill of attainder, which the Constitution explicitly prohibits.[a] If they’re violating any laws, then why aren’t we being told anything but national security?

This action is obviously not a bill of attainder:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_attainder

> A bill of attainder (also known as an act of attainder or writ of attainder or bill of penalties) is an act of a legislature declaring a person, or a group of persons, guilty of some crime, and punishing them, often without a trial.

1) The action was not taken by the legislature,

2) I do not believe it declares TikTok to be "guilty" of any crime,

3) I'm sure the district court judge knows what a bill of attainder is, would have said so if this was one.
"It is well suited for OS and driver dev though"

Rust is brilliant, but for drivers, I would go for a language with OOM safety and strict static allocation, especially for embedded environments.
Is there a point where instead of allowing your single binary to grow indefinitely (to your point about application growth eating up any linker performance benefits), you modularize it into shared libraries that can be independently linked?
I was thinking about this the other day i would love for TS flag that would turn an interface into an assert

const shout = (message: string) => console.log(message)

into something like

const assert = require('assert');
const shout = (message) => {
assert(typeof message === "string");
console.log(message);
}

of course this doesn't work for more complicated types
Only one pair is required for a single-line telephone installation, and at least here in the US, most cheap 4P4C cables thus omit the second pair - especially now that landlines in general are so much a thing of the past. I don't know whether the UHK will work with a single-pair cable - I suppose it might, if it uses SPI or I2C or 1-Wire for signaling between the halves, but I'd definitely check the manual before just slapping any old phone cord in and expecting it to work.
There are three different things happening on amazon:

#1 Amazon selling third party products.

#2 Third party sellers selling their products.

#3 Amazon selling their own products.

You're pointing out that #3 isn't necesary, and that's true, but my point is that #1 is necessary and is how every store starts, then they might expand into #2 and #3.
My guess is that lots of the no-status ones there are chugging along just fine. No exit, no death. I'm part of Tovala (W16) and in our case, no-status means still in business. I can confirm that's the case for a handful of others too.

In our case, YC was super valuable. We've never been more focused than when going through the program. They make available so many resources you're desperate to grow and try things so you can get as much as possible out of the program.

Even though it has been a while since we were in the bay area for the program, we are still seeing many benefits by the huge and growing network of YC companies.

I can't speak for our co-founders but if we could go back in time, we would absolutely take part in the program again.
Y Combinator has one of the strongest brands of any investor, which matters a ton for recruiting. It's very hard for engineers considering working at an early stage company to determine whether it's legit or not, and Y Combinator is probably a better known name than any VC. Personally when I was looking for jobs I'd immediately disqualify any company that wasn't backed by a relatively small list of investors and YC was on that list.
> creating a better C

I'm not sure I like the "better C" label. After all, Zig allows you to easily do stuff that's virtually impossible in C, and only possible in C++ with templates and constexprs and concepts. It also doesn't have pointer arithmetic and pervasive wild casts, so it's not a "syntax-sugared Assembly". Its only similarity to C is that it is a low-level language and that, unlike other low-level languages that aren't C -- like C++, Rust, and Ada -- not only is it not among the most complex languages in the history of software (all three of those have probably secured their places in the top-five), but it is probably among the simplest.

> I'm not aware of any features that would amount to a "radical breakthrough". As far as I am aware, it is a modernized C, with nice compile time evaluation, async, and some runtime-provided safety guarantees. But nothing that is novel from a type system / language design point of view.

AFAIK, general partial evaluation with introspection as a single mechanism to do the work of generics, typeclasses/traits/concepts, value templates, macros, and conditional compilation -- combined with a general error reporting mechanism that is shared between runtime and compile-time -- has never been attempted before. It is revolutionary.
1. How many WPM do / did you type on qwerty?

2. Is coding noticeably easier or smoother on the 40%? What editors to you use? I'm tempted by the split ergo / ortho form factor, but I'm hard-pressed to give up the dedicated F-row.
It was the gchq that hacked european institutions way back in 2012(?). And then Belgacom of course.
Non-split ortho is silly, but with split layouts I find them vastly more comfortable, especially for the left hand.

The only thing I had to relearn were the keys on the bottom alpha row on the left side, because on a regular keyboard I would tend to offset them by one column (i.e. type C with the index, X with the middle finger etc...) but with an ortho I didn't need to anymore. And the only reason I needed to offset them in the first place is because standard keyboards have such a bad layout for the left hand.
Some Meditations on Advanced Programming (1962)
I am still going into the office, it just happens to be in my house.
>> How effective is blocking their operation anyway, without it being done on a national level?

I guess local authorities (York) could fine Uber for doing that and sue them if they don't pay. Simple as that.
Ask HN: How to bootstrap marketing without being spammy?
I just launched a kind of niche product. It does solve a real problem and there is a market with some established players already, but this technology is an improvement. But I am starting from zero.

Other than getting lucky and blowing up on HN or product hunt, does anyone have any other repeatable demand generating suggestions that don't feel so spammy (like messaging a million people on linkedin)? I'm just trying to get the first couple of trials and testers to see if I could even get one sales meeting.

Is the only way to just keep banging on your drum? I understand successful marketing won't happen overnight.

Any suggestions, tools, or processes I could follow? I'm willing to pay for some courses or books if they are highly recommended.
> You want something more akin to a key–value database, where you can swap out key–value pairs without corrupting the entire file

That is kinda my point, we already have one perfectly good kv-database in the form of filesystem, so why not use that
> How are those “concentration camps” any different than ICE detention camps, where forced sterilization is occurring?

Let's see.. in the US, force sterilization leads to an investigation and the relevant doctor being fired and punished. In China, it results in a promotion, because it's the official policy. Seems like a bit of a difference.
RedHill Biopharma’s Opaganib Demonstrates Complete Inhibition of SARS-CoV-2
A Google open floor plan without any of the other perks/distractions is a completely different experience.
Wow...

Our first daughter was born a few weeks ago. I took off the first week, but it had to come out of my PTO (and I only have 2 weeks total per year). My wife had to quit her job so she could recuperate and spend time with the baby. She had a rough c-section and is still in bed in a lot of pain. I'm trying to work, take care of her, and take care of the baby.

I wrote a long angry paragraph about US politics and culture here, but on second thought, for my mental sanity I need to drop it.

SO and I have been seriously discussing moving somewhere else and plan to once the pandemic eases up enough for travel to be easier. We're still not 100% sure yet where to go though.
I’d actually recommend the discussion during the interview (kind of towards the end, IIRC).

There’s a decent back and forth about the risk of political influence in journalism if the money were controlled by a government, the relative pros and cons of the philanthropy model (“tend to prefer ‘serious’ journalism, not local small news” in addition to needing to avoid angering the benefactor), and the various donation / crowdfunding / micro transaction possibilities. I think there was also a little detour into “why ads at all?”.
I thing zig ships with the relevant prebuilt llvm if you don't mind being tied to a release.
Yeah it’s insulting, but sometimes we do it to ourselves. Scorpion chair is a no no. Sometimes just take the easy wins.
You're welcome! Big fan of fSpy as well!

Thanks for the update; would never guessed that it runs in the browser. Will you make that framework public at one point in the future? It would be exciting af to look into that.

And thanks for considering to add RSS (or atom or whatever)! I think this makes the web great – and certainly I want to read more of the stuff you build.
3.4 x 10^38

So we'd be off by about <30 hydrogen atoms instead of <1 :)
Interesting, i didn't see how security works? Is there backpressure on message senders? Any ordering guarantees? Are messages queued so activated objects can reconstruct state? Can passivation warmth be controlled? Can objects support multiple threads? Can objects move? Failover?
Ugh, more myopic individualism.

How about this: after we mandate even split and the culture changes, we give parents back the right to allocate it as they see fit.

Hell, if we want to converge faster and get back to parental choice quicker, we might mandate 3:2 men's vs women's paid leave.

Annecodes like your female PhD candidate story are no basis for determining policy.
We used 22/7 when I was at school.
I've got two MS Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000s in my cupboard. I'm currently on a Sculpt, but much preferred the 4000s. Unfortunately I uncovered their weakness - humidity.

I work from home with evaporative cooling over summer.

The first unit lasted a few years, but died on a humid summer day. Next one only lasted 12 months, again dying on a humid summer day.

First unit is irrecoverably dead. The second would come back to life after pulling it apart and cleaning with isopropyl alcohol, then die again a few days later (during summer). Issue is that the humidity seems to short the key matrix. If not careful it makes for some awkward typing mistakes.

The Sculpt seems a bit more resilient to humidity.