skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
JVM, Python, and .NET all have better server-side ecosystems (which I know from actual experience on multiple projects).

The original project I was discussing ended up going with Kotlin on the server, and everyone (including devs) are super happy with it.
Desktop. I've found that a lot of web-based SQL clients pose more limitations to how much data you can bring in, causing frustration. Additionally, it seems that the solution to running multiple queries on the web is to open more tabs of the application in your browser... which isn't ideal.

Most of my work involves automating SQL through Python scripts so running queries on desktop solves the above problems and limits the amount of switching back and forth.
So much so, that I suspect a lot of programming languages not see wider adaptation because of crude tooling. What good does it make to have advanced language features when the development experience is subpar?

I would suspect if a language advertises it has superior reasoning capabilities about code that should also enable a superior IDE experience as well. Where are those IDEs?
This is entirely unrealistic. Tech export restrictions are a reflection of reality. Ideally, export restrictions would not be necessary, but the reality is providing weaponizeable or military technologies in public domain is irresponsible.

Admittedly, this case is focsed only on geopolitical rivals, but it's easy to see that releasing many other restricted technology details so they can be easily reproduced by anyone would have a destabilizing influence on the world.
With FOUR times the population of the US, I think India (the largest democracy in the world) conducts elections in a much more efficient & transparent way. The types of analysis, projections, data mining / ML employed has been particularly impressive the last decade or so.
The petition for the Supreme Court to hear Ross Ulbright's case discusses some of the legal background in the second section https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/17/17-950/24860/20171...

Apparently there has been a long standing practice of judges finding facts to justify a longer second, but it's questionable whether the practice is Constitutional.
I think I read somewhere that he (Gabe Brown) is one of the 25 most influential farmers in the US (at least in the regen ag field, if not overall).
Edit: Googled "Gabe Brown 25 influential".

First hit:

https://www.no-tillfarmer.com/authors/379-gabe-brown#:~:text....
Ask HN: Will TS move from 'opt-in' to 'required' for all JavaScript development?
It would be in Microsoft's best interest for TS to move from 'opt-in' to 'required' for all JS development. JS roadmap development would effectively be centralized with Microsoft.

Maybe this is not the intent of the TS team specifically but, from a corporate level, if you were the gate keeper for all JS development, that would be an immensely profitable outcome.

It wouldn't even be that hard for Microsoft to do so. Just extend JS development with great new features (innovate quickly) to the point where it no longer makes sense for the average JS developer to build without it.

Making it only a matter of time, to achieve ownership of the scripting language.

This future is no doubt an interesting one.
New York Times Hits 7M Subscribers as Digital Revenue Rises
I'm not sure how the plot to any porn is really relevant to if it is porn or not.
Quick tip: Manage Node versions for your projects
The ballot language:

“Should the City of Chicago act to ensure that all the City’s community areas have access to broadband Internet?”

It’s just a non-binding ballot measure to gauge public opinion.

The way you’ve responded to this in context to the ballot measure jumps, no, leaps to an alarmist conclusion. there are lots of obvious “government doesn’t own the ISP” ways to ensure community access to broadband Internet.

These could include regulation placed upon ISPs that cap or tie rates to household income, regulate rates for service areas with no competing providers, tie rates to speed and latency to prevent price gouging for outdated technology, or add availability requirements (e.g. ISPs not being allowed to only build fiber out to affluent neighborhoods). They could even be as simple as regulations surrounding making billing more transparent or setting up a website to help people find and compare ISPs in their area.

Just some ideas.

Regardless, the ballot measure doesn’t even go that far to discuss those options. It literally just asks if broadband should be accessible to everyone. Again, it’s simply a voter opinion poll.
My question is: how do you get into this line of work? Does anyone know how Jim Keller got to be such a one-of-a-kind chipset designer?
This is real cool!

My hobby is plotting (AxiDraw) generative art. I often want to hand tweak SVGs prior to plotting them. I often get frustrated with the heavy weight tools such as InkScape and Illustrator.

This looks like just the thing I need. Looking forward to trying it out this weekend!
Intel has been moving to a server chip first strategy. I’m not sure this was a good idea.
AMD marketing learned their lesson. There was controversy last generation with the boost clocks being up to, where many chips couldn't reach their advertised numbers at launch. This time with an advertised boost of 4800MHz AnandTech got up to 4950MHz and Gamers Nexus hit 5050MHz, though these are probably golden review samples.

It's really impressive to me how big of an improvement AMD has made under the exact same constraints as last generation. Same process (even down to the same PDK) though generally higher yields probably let them choose higher bins. Same exact chiplet size to mount to the same substrate. Same power availability. Same IO die with same interfaces and memory controller. Yet they achieve +19% IPC and higher frequency with just design changes. I wish there were more detailed information available about what day-to-day engineering work goes into these design changes. Speculating:

- Designing better workload and electrical simulations to make better decisions when evaluating changes.
- Running lots of simulations to determine the optimal size and arrangement of each cache.
- Improving CPU binning processes and data, improving on-die sensors, and improving boost algorithms to reliably run closer to the edge.
- Tweaking parameters of automated layout algorithms to reduce area of specific functional units.
- Improving the algorithms implemented in logic for various processes.
GitHub – nektos/act: Run your GitHub Actions locally
hehe this has become my favorite saying lately for computers 'do what I want, not what I told you to do!' computers have a lovely way of merrily going along and breaking things at a fairly fast pace.
I think the idea with gene drive is the offspring are sterile so if you went with one of the genetically modified guys you'd get kids but not grandkids.

You could always have a tick box for it on the Tinder profile.
A Response to “Angry About Inequality? Don't Blame the Rich” (2012)
Setting up SaaS payments to please the tax man in Europe
A somewhat unrelated request, but please hear me out. Would it be possible to add X-Plane 11 to the CPU and GPU benchmarks? It is easily scriptable and seems to be underrepresented in benchmarking space, but maybe there's a good reason for that. Regardless, I'm trying to convince my dad he should be building an AMD/Nvidia flight-sim machine instead of going with Intel, but there really isn't any good data to back up my claims.
True, I discovered that after playing with it for a while! But it can be hard for a new person (who's not aware of the SVG commands) to to and clear that text area to clear the canvas.
AWS MSK Kafka with DataOps in five steps
Observation of the road outside my door offers a nuance:

People who drive at unsafe speeds have fewer obstacles to doing so.

It’s not that a greater percentage people are trying to go faster due to the plague, it’s that there’s fewer cars which reduces the chances of the speeders being slowed down by traffic.
Bali: College students able to pay their tuition with coconuts
Ryven: Flow-based visual scripting for Python
I believe that the insights is that for practical purposes, you can restrict yourself to a bounded stack; under the assumption that a large enough constant means that you will not run into an input large enough to overrun your limit.
Recently I've started using Vim bindings on my VSCode setup and although initially I was much slower than usual, now I feel confident enough to not touch the mouse most of the time. What I did was go through vimtutor every day before starting work as a warm-up and then slowly I started searching and reading around things I can improve.
Self sufficiency is possible if you are given 5-10 acres with no taxes. Even then eventually you will need to trade your animals with someone else just so your breeding stock doesn't get inbred too much.

Most people wouldn't want true self sufficiency if they could have it. I admire people who "go into the woods" for years (they are generally more hunter/gathers than farmers); but even as introverted as I am, I still like to have a larger group of people around me.
A lack of leadership. All of the listed examples had the leaders of the country front and center on these issues, making each a clear national priority and devoting considerable federal resources to the issue.

Has that happened with COVID? Nope.
I've never been able to get netrw to work when mixing Windows and Linux machines and that's the environment I work in. Plus, I usually need to do more than just edit some file and so I rely on screen.
Surprised they didn't mention OpenWRT. https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/installation/openwrt_x86
> I checked my Linux VMs and none of them have this security feature yet.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
Happened to me while doing a Docker tutorial. The practice dockerfile contained an elasticsearch container which I put on that Hetzer instance. Shortly after I received an email from the BSI (German Federal Office for Information Security), warning me about it. Aparently all kinds of entities scan around for vulnerabilities.

I had noticed elasticsearch being the culprit in security advisories and reports of breaches, but it's easy to miss when you're busy with something else. Security has to be the default!
Many CLI tools have a dry run option for expensive (time/resource wise) or risky commands (one way, irreversible or reversible only with a lot of effort). It would be interesting to see this become the default for some of them, with a separate flag `--now-i-mean-it` to actually execute.
Maybe not ELI5, but I've been following this channel on Youtube for the last couple of years and it does a really good job of explaining the architectural and manufacturing improvements from AMD over the last several years. I really found the yield explanations really eye opening in particular.

https://www.youtube.com/c/adoredtv1/videos
Bali: Hotels will not receive financial help after evading taxes
Tbe way I see it the problem with Intel is that while they had a great head start, their total marketshare in the fab business was eclipsed by TSMC because Intel didn't for the most part ran their fabs only for Intel. TSMC has thousands of customers pouring money into the company and R&D efforts while Intel was only using them to manufacture Intel parts. They pigeonholed themselves, which is why Intel inevitably fell behind in R&D.
Cool! Thanks for the comment. As I said have been a fan of this project (sidenote: love the name and simple, well designed site).

I have played around with a language dubbed WWT (for "World Wide Types") https://jtree.treenotation.org/designer/#standard%20wwt). Instead of starting with the type system and working my way toward the user have gone the other way starting with the "what would the simplest language look like for building types" and worked my way toward the type system (just compiles to TypeScript for now). My thought is it should be editable in Excel.

What I think needs to happen for TypeDefs (or similar) to nail this, is to create a type language that solves the "last mile" problem. Every organization in the world has their own perspective on things, and will need to extend/modify some global CommonTypes repository. So a great type language would be something that worldwide CommonTypes could be defined in, but that is easy for a dev at the local real estate agent's office to write some code and extend. An "HTML for Types" in that sense. Just a guess.
Yeah, wow, and here I just bought a new setup with multiple home servers all on 3600 thinking the improvement wouldn't be that significant and the prices would be much higher initially anyway.

The 5600X looks fantastic at 65WTDP. Add the unavoidable price drop of Zen 2(+) on top of that. Buyers remorse is real.
If you read TFA you’d note that quite possibly none of these people are rich or elite according to any reasonable Progressive taxonomy of evil. And they are not showing that the law doesn’t apply to them; they realize that what they’re doing could land them in jail. And the article points out that the fame these people achieve is minor and fleeting — perhaps nonexistent — and Cannonballers often do it not for the fame but for the inherent challenge of it.

These people embody the hacker ethos, and while their actions obviously inhabit an ethical grey area, challenges like the Cannonball speak to some adventurous souls in a way that no officially sanctioned event can. Note also, according to TFA, that the worst injury that has happened as a result of a Cannonball attempt was a driver breaking her arm after drifting off the road as a result of falling asleep at the wheel.

Cannonballers and people like them are akin to the skater kids of Dogtown and Z-Boys while the acceptable events that a child of your comment mentioned are events for the well-scrubbed kids being driven around by their parents for soccer or lacrosse practice. But even skating has been captured by the parents and the commercical skate parks. We should pour one out for the death of yet another activity that people used to practice, yes maybe a bit for the possibility of fame but more likely, for the pure joy of that moment when everything comes together and you hook up.

That’s why I’ve been doing start-ups for over twenty-five years. That’s why I rode my motorcycle solo between Brooklyn and Long Beach, CA, in fewer than four days, that’s why I’ve ridden solo to Alaska and across the Trans-Labrador Highway.

I am posting this anonymously not because I’m afraid of anyone’s downvotes — I’ve whored my way to enough karma to burn at will — but because I don’t want to publicly associate myself with what I’ve done. The rewards of doing many of these things are quiet and private, and talking about them in public take something away from their merit because it amounts to boasting.

These people do this for themselves, or to people able to share a beer with the people they did it with or someone who knows what they’ve gone through. These people, in all of their moral ambiguity, need to be respected. And “respected despite the moral ambiguity” is something that too few people can do today.
The idea here is that the market values things that are not so useful. Maybe there is some way to make the market value useful things more?
You obviously have no idea about psychedelics, to position this as a “drugs feel good” story. Good chance at least one of the participants didn’t have a pleasurable trip. In fact, it’s a common psychedelic trope that it’s precisely the challenging, unpleasant, bad trips that truly have the potential for restorative change. Myself, my most profound and helpful psychedelic experience was a DMT trip that went in a very dreadful direction.
Any advice on breaking into the industry? Would be really neat to work as a quantum research engineer, or software engineer on quantum computers!
OpenVMS on a Raspberry Pi
The team who dedicated 10 years to building Middle-earth in Minecraft
32 bits is now considered _ancient_? Oh, man, I remember 8-bit computers...
As a bonus to the above they also open source a fair bit too

https://github.com/BBC
"In Praise of Idleness" by Bertrand Russell

"On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: A Work Rant" by David Graeber

"Industrial Society and its .." just kidding
Companies That Improve Their Product Through UX Writing
Bitcoin has surpassed $15k for the first time since January 2018
> The empirical findings cannot provide more information on whether this term is positive or negative. There is also no theoretical reason if [complicated equation trying to quantify emotional responses] should be positive or negative. Therefore, it is possible that different studies find different correlations, and the true social media effect is negative.

Why is it that humans think emotional output may quantified by observing sense information alone? It should be self evident that people who use social media "encode" emotional responses in their words, and some do it on purpose to "trigger" others who may not have defenses against the "fake emotional outrage" or other negative emotions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc
Good. Hopefully they can never use there technology
That's not how evolution works.

If it's harmful, it will get selected against, and will disappear rather rapidly.

There's a reason why they need to release 750 million genetically modified mosquitos, and not just 1.
59% of people read only one newsletter
Sheesh, I wish I was worth $500/hr. I guess I'm not professional enough.
Hmmm. You'd think a company with "cluster" in their name would take steps to avoid a cluster-f%%k. Not this one.

It's really quite strange that WordPress passwords are shown in cleartext. WordPress core is diligent about hashing passwords, using nonces, and all that sort of security work. Maybe some workflow uses HTTP GET for logins, in which case passwords land in the weblogs. But a web service company? Using more-or-less standard open source web apps? How hard would they have to try to do that?

"We take data security very seriously." Yeah.
The definition of "best" is often subjective and may boil down to familiarity.

On the other hand, betting on open-source tooling may be a good way to increase the chances that your "best" tools will still be available in the future.
Sure, but you might hosting fundraising dinners, or making donations the NGOs that do have K-street lobbyist on staff. Both are activities professional-class software engineers have access to support.
Yes and anyway you could use combined heath and power systems to get higher efficiency.
There's nothing to be hated about any programming language ever. People confuse "I don't understand it" with "I hate it".
Yeah, the Adam Smith, purely financially motivated thing to do would be to sell the cows and charming old barns, move out of the ancient manor farmhouse and make a fortune from renting that out as well.

But the life satisifaction of being a hotelier compared to someone who works the land and raises livestock would not be nearly the same.
Absolutely agree with you. But with advent of microservices architecture patterns, it is possible to keep service code within bounds of maintainable size.
Darn it, yet another hint that I'm not getting any younger. 20 years of Java experience and no intention of learning a new language... When prompted, I usually snark that you don't ask a professional violin player to "just" switch to viola either.
This is my experience in the cloud space as well. Sure, AWS has a GUI, but the API & CLI are what we care about.
How Slovakia tested 3.6M people for Covid-19 in a single weekend
Is the FCC censoring all these networks?

https://muninetworks.org/communitymap
The article says that iron burns at up to 1800 C. I found a short list of other fuels:

https://toolsowner.com/blacksmith-forge-temperature

And we can use the Carnot formula to calculate efficiency:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnot%27s_theorem_(thermodyna...

efficiency = 1 - T_cold/T_hot = (T_hot - T_cold)/T_hot

First we must convert to Kelvin by adding 273.15 to the Celsius temperature. Here is a table with Carnot efficiencies calculated, assuming that the cool end of the cycle is something like a car radiator at just below the boiling point of water at 373 K (100 C or 212 F):

Material Temperature(Kelvin) Efficiency:

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Coal 2250 83%

Iron 2073 82%

Propane 1533 76%

Wood 893 58%

Im having a hard time finding efficiencies for iron oxide electrolysis because all of the papers are behind paywalls. A big portion of the energy required is in heating the iron oxide in the first place, which could be done easily by solar collectors for free:

https://newenergyandfuel.com/http:/newenergyandfuel/com/2010...

This claims about 85-96% efficiency for aluminum oxide electrolysis:

https://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/9905/Welch-9905.html

I think a 95% efficiency might be reasonable for iron oxide if the temperature is raised by free solar thermal energy. So round trip efficiency is:

efficiency = 0.95 * 0.82 = 78%

This could be raised by a few percent by using a colder radiator (closer to room temperature at 300 K) and recapturing some of the waste heat with a Stirling engine. So I think that the article is accurate.

If someone has a table of electrolysis efficiencies for various compounds, that would be helpful.

Edit: after thinking about this for a moment, I realized that the Carnot efficiency should be calculated against room temperature if only the heat is being used and we aren't generating electricity. It only increases the efficiencies in the table above by about 3-8% from hottest to coldest, respectively.

Edit 2: for anyone curious, capturing heat and converting it to electricity is usually about 70% efficient at a turbine, and 95% efficient at a generator, for about 65% total. That's why a jet engine is limited to about 0.80 * 0.70 * 0.95 = 55% efficiency (40% in practice). Stirling engines are much closer to their ideal Carnot efficiency because their losses to turbulence (friction/entropy) are much lower. If my numbers are a little off here, please correct me.
> It's really impressive to me how big of an improvement AMD has made under the exact same constraints as last generation.

It's 8-core chiplets now, but yeah same die size according to marketing.
L.A. County makes history with all female Board of Supervisors
Remember that he didn't name himself. Mostly Harmless is a trail name - which other through hikers gave him - so I don't think this is related.
Interesting, I thought YC provides a lot of coaching for the business side of things they messed up on. I vaguely recall reading against all those practices in YC related blogging.

I guess they aren’t too heavy handed about it.

Also the coding on the floor thing, wow.

But after all is said and done, major props for getting to be a YC startup to begin with!
And if you need an up-to-date Debian unstable for more exotic architectures, we have support for that in Debian Ports:

> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2020-10-1...

> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/debian-installer/20...
That's some great insight! I just learned to avoid certain packages altogether and I've been living with the results. Precomputing init() is an interesting idea and I could see it both increasing or decreasing the resulting binary depending on what's in it (similar to how running LZW compression on an already compressed value will often create a larger result). Of course, you also need to consider the init() execution time and I've generally built my "main" application to load really fast and then load sub-applications as libraries in the background. Note that these are experiments and I don't have a major WASM-based UI in production.
Farmers can make a profit without subsidies. However you might not want to live in that world: with less farmers food prices will go up - particularly in a bad year when large numbers of people in your city need to starve to death because farmers tried to raise only as much food as needed, and guessed wrong because of the bad weather the previous season.
That'd certainly give "Python" a leg up as a search term.