skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeaaaah, like that wouldn't have any unintended consequences.

Meanwhile, I find this more interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Army_Corps_of_Engineers_B...

The Army Corps of Engineers literally built a scale model of the San Francisco Bay Area, and they used it to figure out that damming the SF Bay was a very, very bad idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i70wkxmumAw
Ask HN: What's faster to learn in C++ a GUI library or TUI library?
I'm learning C++, I know several other languages and have some experience with C and have read a fair share of x86-64 assembly.

I want to create a simple program with some simple graphics (e.g. visualizing 2D maps very low poly, rendering a chart or visualizing an algorithm such as [1] -- though it doesn't have to be as comprehensive as that).

What's quickest to learn? A GUI lib or TUI lib? I happen to know some OpenGL (and computer graphics in general, having made a 3D OpenGL engine in Java).

I don't want to spend too much time on graphics and rather focus on the internals of managing everything.

[1] https://clementmihailescu.github.io/Pathfinding-Visualizer/
Google should have awarded a much larger value to this. Like $100k. This is a serious flaw.
Apologies, these are NOT cloud specific but cloud providers are listed here when breached, in case you missed it.

https://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites
> Then they are eye wateringly expensive to repair.

Isn't that precisely why people buy luxury goods?
Author here - I'm willing to bet online sales in general went up during the pandemic period. I can ask some of the guys I interviewed if they noticed any upticks in requests and can report back
Ask HN: What do you do with your no-longer-in-use hardware?
What do you do with replaced hardware that still works perfectly fine?

During the holidays and sales many of us might snag or be gifted a new laptop, phone or similar even though the current hardware works perfectly fine. In my case I got a nice laptop (i7, 16gb RAM) that was replaces recently, but I feel bad that it just lays here and age.

What do you do with your no-longer-in-use hardware? Projects? Gifts? Charity?
x86 only needs to macro op fuse 2 instructions at most, meaning you can look at the first instruction and immediately see which fusion to apply.

With RISC-V there are proposals to macro op fuse things like array out of bounds checks which comprise 5 instructions. You can't just check the first instruction and then the second. It's entirely possible that instruction 1 has 6 different micro op fusion patterns and you have to read instruction 2 to cut down on the number of potential patterns. It's also possible that the second instruction is not relevant in determining the pattern meaning you have to scan 3 instructions to determine the pattern. You have to start this pattern search on the beginning of every instruction you decode which limits your ability to add more decoders. Of course with enough spare transistors this is merely an extremely difficult problem, not an impossible one.
Which headsets have you used? I’ve found I don’t move my eyes as much in the oculus quest but it could just be I’m conditioned at this point.

In earlier headsets it was more narrow field of view and maybe that made it feel more obvious when my eyes were moving.
> If it's too long to be read, then are all those details really necessary?

My take is that those details are intentionally left in as is to ensure that the status quo remains exactly the same, thus ensuring that updating a piece of legislation has no unintended consequences.

I mean, if the legislation remains the exact same, even citing the exact same software as reference, then there is no doubt regarding where jurisprudence stands.
It's just a guess but I don't believe your calculus holds for countries that can't produce or cheaply import from regions like Canada/USA. The case I have top of mind is Korea, which has very little arable land and can only import via boats from China (quality worries). Japan is probably similar to a lesser scale. I believe the economics of vertical farming in these regions make a lot more sense, and 2020 has created huge price hikes in food in Korea because of too much rain and expensive imports.

Also hi , I've been curious for years what happened with your farming plans. I can guess you walked away from them!
So the great news is as we become richer and richer, the economic incentive not to have children will be so great that we die out as a species?

"Feminism" is many things to many people.

To me it is like the abolition of slavery, makes perfect sense in a modern context.

"Feminism" as it stands today in the west, just like other "-ISMS" to me, are abominations, both the cause and effect, the narcissistic, entitlement and victim culture combined with hating (average)men -- it is the dragon eating its own tail that destroys the modern society.
I'm 37 I thought I was too old but I decided to start all over again. Took some courses from Coursera about Deep Learning and last month started competing in kaggle and similar competitions sites. I earned 7k dollars but the most important is that I'm learning a lot like if I was in the university again, I think I'm learning even faster.
Request for peer review: Major differences part of “FreeBSD for Linux users”
If you really want to, soil quality can be fixed with heavy machinery and chemical fertilizers. But the new, warmer climate isn't particularly stable yet, so it's probably not wise to pour too much resources into that mega-project at this time.
Systemic change begins with personal transformation. Individuals acting doesn't replace systemic change, it helps create it. You and I acting here and now helps us develop the skills to lead others, including corporations and governments.

I agree the person you responded to shouldn't have written "Or", but that doesn't change that individual actions and systemic change aren't exclusive but additive.
Pretty underwhelming article if I'm honest. It seems to focus more on looks than interesting technical choices.

This dactyl-manuform with a built-in trackball is to me cooler than any of the keyboards in the article for instance:

https://medium.com/@kincade/track-beast-build-log-a-trackbal...
Wall Street Is Banking Billions on the Food Delivery Boom
Mark Zuckerberg actually said "young people are smarter"? So, he's going to step down now?! Good news.
Gajim specifically has support for macOS and is well maintained. It is available on pretty much every desktop OS. No one has even bothered to package it for macOS even though it would be quite easy to do so. So it would have to be the case that macOS users in particular have abandoned XMPP.
Unhealthy snacks to be banned from checkouts at supermarkets in England
Making the Supabase Dashboard Supa-Fast
1. Tiny Habits for Behavior Change with BJ Fogg - The One You Feed Podcast

https://www.oneyoufeed.net/tiny-habits/

I'm a big fan of BG Fogg and his Fogg Behavioural Model for understanding behaviour change.

2. Jim Collins on The Value of Small Gestures, Unseen Sources of Power, and More - The Tim Ferris Show

https://tim.blog/2020/11/30/jim-collins-returns/

I also recommend Jim Collins' earlier episode on Tim's podcast.
Sure. But electrolysis is >70% efficient, so even if the bacterial metabolism is only 30% efficient the end to end efficiency is a factor of 10 higher.

You are also going straight to complex proteins, whereas photosynthesis produces just basic hydrocarbons.
How to Find Customer Service and Success Costs for Your Customer Segments
A question I asked that springs to mind is https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37554058/fast-display-of...

It was down voted to a negative score initially. People posted irrelevant/unhelpful comments that I had to hurriedly refute before the question was closed and deleted.

To be fair, I have tweaked the question since, so it probably makes more sense than it did when I initially asked it. But I feel that is something the community should help with.
Eh, all these broad brush sweeping statements and specific individual issues are just noise and random data points. It all just depends on what you want or need. I’ve been on Macs and iOS devices since 2008 and it’s bee great. Excellent well supported high quality systems that have lasted many years and given me outstanding value for money overall. Yes I’ve had hardware failures, including 2 hard disk failures. One was on a 6 year old machine so par for the course, the other was a few months out of Apple Care but they replaced it for free anyway.

I completely believe the horror stories though. They’re a huge company operating all over the world. Frankly these things can happen with any company. I only use iMacs and a Mac Mini so can’t comment in detail on the laptop keyboards but I can understand why people were upset.

It entirely depends on your own specific needs and circumstances. For me a Mac is a powerful, well built consumer desktop and Unix workstation, with some great convenience features. For someone else they might be over priced inflexible systems lacking needed capabilities.
"Unlikely" and "for free". So it could happen and yes firms do pay for changes to open source software. You really haven't answered the point about what's stopping a big vendor adding its own extensions and fragmenting the ecosystem.
A Quiet Life, a Thunderous Death, and a Nightmare That Shook Nashville
That's not the definition of "need" that GP was using...
Author here - thanks for the feedback. if I'd seen this board then I definitely would have included it in the article! Would you happen to have the contact info for the creator?
> I hope S. America, Africa and South E. Asia are the benefactors of a weaker China and they too begin to modernize as the whole Species stands to benefit from that and we decouple from the CCP's violent and belligerent stance against the World.

There are plenty of belligerent countries in those regions, it's just that they're not considered important enough for their saber-rattling to be noticed internationally, and their enemies tend to be sub-national groups formed around shared ethnicity, control of resources (drugs, oil, mines) or religion who are even less likely to attract attention.

By now, lots of people have heard about Mexican drug cartels, Kurdistan or Joseph Kony's "Lord's Resistance Army", but who cared about the Houthis in Yemen before their civil war turned into an international proxy war? Who could've predicted the civil war in Ethiopia? And who knows whether the Movement for the Autonomy of Kabylie, the Naga nationalist movement, the Wa state or the Free Papua Movement will be next to make international news?

Modernization doesn't guarantee peace and democracy; it also means higher availability of more powerful or more, cheaper weapons. Combined with population growth, even small areas are able to raise substantial armies, while declining resources (relative to population) incentivize wars to secure a larger slice of the pie.

I expect that we'll continue to see large countries only held together by shared colonial history disintegrate violently into smaller regions with more complex borders.
A large majority of these trucks get a delete installed. Numerous folks roll coal. In states without emissions control it’s a giant cluster.
I'm 36 and have not once experienced blatant ageism. I keep my skills current and have pivoted my career many times when things got less interesting or I could tell the market was falling off. I went sysadmin>neteng>syseng>SRE and will have to pivot in 4-5 years again, probably, once some other culture-breaker has hit distributed systems for the 3rd time in my career.

Now, I don't have kids so you might go "hey you've got so much free time" - I'm also a 36yo engineer with 10+ years of experience. Most of the positions I take nowadays allow me AMPLE time (as in months) to do research and learn new systems before deploying them to production. I almost never study or work at home these days. A LOT less than in my 20s when I worked in startups.

I just went through a few months of interviewing, what did every company want out of me at this "age" (experience)? They wanted a strong desire to mentor and cultivate teams. I've worked with a lot of older engineers who aren't happy to do this, and that's a huge problem and something majorly wrong and undesirable in tech.

FWIW I will not ever consider the 30s or 40s old. I am working with a lot more 23-25yo developers now and feel like half of my skillset is bridging communication between zoomers and gen-x bosses. They love learning and its incredibly rewarding helping them grow their careers - something that I never got help with when I started in the toxic tech world of ~2008.

I'm a lead/staff IC, not a manager, fwiw.
The reason humans have babies is sex is pleasurable and no birth control was available.

Nobody cared 50% of children died before turning 5, nor that they got shit education, nor that women were oppressed.

Our expectations and sensibilities grew much faster than everything else, not the least or biological natures.
Forgive my ignorance of what sensors are on that platform. Are they doing spectroscopy? Can they just subtract the aluminum signature out of the data if they have extra of the exact batch they used for comparison?
This story is deeper than 'life crushed this one individual's childhood dreams'.

At any turn during the story, the author could have become something much worse. He could have become a drunk, he could have become homeless. The invisible hand of the economy dangled his future in front of him as a tease and then handed him a job in the end as a threat, telling him never to be ungrateful or else.

It's a retrospective on the ways in which average people can have their lives warped by externalities. At the end the author wonders about the version of himself that became beatnik, but what about those versions of himself that became drunk and homeless? Well, those don't exist in parallel universes. They exist in this universe, as other people in the same situation as him, the same situation shared by 90% of people.
Nice. Did not know about this. There is another company https://www.calysta.com/ that have a similar product called feedkind.

Basically animal food that is made in a bioreactor from methane. Methane can be easily made from hydrogen and carbon dioxide via the sabatier reaction.
Terrific replies, thread. Thank you.

> is really impossible to give a complete answer as countless books are written on specific topics

And it seems the story keeps getting worse.

My latest terror is the analysis showing how warming is drying plant life due to "vapor pressure deficit". While this article is about forest fires, I can't help but wonder what's happening to fruit trees, perennials, vines, etc.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/09/most-imp...
Client-side encryption really decreases the attack surfaces of cloud storage solutions.

It’s really sad that Keybase failed at building a business around this. Hopefully someone else is going to make another attempt.
Another lovely fact is that more plant mass is eaten by the animals grown for food than humans, so the plant production problem is non-existent. At least when it comes to human consumption.
Yes, so? That's not exactly a towed array now, is it?
I know this but there are many missing (eg Azure was recently hacked and I can't see it there)
Ah man this is a great execution of something I’ve been trying to get right in a side project for a while now. This whole idea of building valuable social connections and conversations out of the massive floating borg cloud of the current internet is what I aimed for with https://otherrs.com but this just feels like a much better way to achieve that same goal :)
The "snap back to form" effect is kinda freaky, but in an awesome way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKBM9my5eOA
I've used the Quest 2 and i did move my eyes when playing games with it. I don't know of screens with different pixel density in different areas either if we were to assume people always look straight ahead.
Yeah I feel like AI powered content generation tools which can automate a lot of the grunt-work will be the real game-changer
They warranty the repair for 90 days.
Ask HN: Create a mobile app with only one codebase including back end
The same codebase should include ios, android and a backend. The mobile app need to be publishable to the app stores, therefore a webview-only app is not allowed.

Close winners:
React,flutter,ionic,nativescript: 1 codebase for ios/android + 1 codebase for a json web api = 2 codebases

I heard about hotwire.dev that promise to do that with strada, however I know nothing about how this will work.
What a great little comic. It reveals a truth I've felt for a while: that most people can't really explain their success. Their success was some combination of luck and talent, and if they had to lead their lives over again, they'd end up in a very different place. Or, if they had to lead their lives in a different time (let's say 60s vs. 2000s) they might be successful in one time, and unsuccessful in another.
I found it on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKeyboards/comments/gqmyy2/t...
The custom mechanical keyboard community has been slowly growing for years and at the high end figures probably weren't too impacted by WFH since the supply is as constrained as ever. The "good" stuff is run as group buys and typically sell out within minutes. Satisfaction75 had 1300 units available and sold out in just over 10 minutes, smaller runs like Iron 180 or Bauer 2 sold out in something like two minutes. Those examples are all from the fall.

And this is not a hobby for the impatient. Group buys take your money now, but often don't deliver for 6 - 12 months.

Some keyboards are unlimited (e.g., Grid 650), but that's typically not the norm.
This is corrected. I believe the Nintendo 64 was released a month before NiGHTS Into Dreams and the Saturn analog controller debuted
> Not necessarily, at least JAMStack front-end frameworks like Next and Gatsby can co-exist with Wordpress because headless support from WP.

Sure, but no-one but very technical minded people would pick those instead of just WP. It's just extra complexity which you don't need when you start a blog or a shop or something like that. I would have a hard time defending it unless in very specific situations; wp is just too stable, too many plugins, too many programmers can support it, designers can make templates for it with ease etc, all hosters support it for next to nothing etc and without setup.
SponsorBlock does exactly that: https://sponsor.ajay.app.
It's beautiful, isn't it? Making something simultaneously compatible with multiple formats. A far more interesting use of the PE/COM “MZ” header than simply printing “This program cannot be run in DOS mode”.
Disguising Elephant Ivory as Other Materials in the Online Trade
Hence has its place, as do the holes left in theorems that our betters leave for us. These gaps leave ups to leaps of faith at our beginnings and thorough proofs as we mature. When I was a green tutor I would attempt to make every single last step as obvious as possible, but I later recognized the value of making the the pupil do the work. It builds their confidence and character to have faith in themselves or, if failing, their ability to find the answer that they could not bridge themself.
>> In my 20+ years of being a professional, and especially after having been in leadership positions I’ve always been careful to watch what I say, when, and to whom. This isn’t paranoia and I haven’t felt “unable to express myself”, this is just part of functioning in polite society.

>> While I do agree there is more calling out of people for saying things (for better and worse) it also seems there is an increasing sense of entitlement to be able to say whatever you want and not be held accountable for it. This article seems to be falling into the latter bucket.

> ???

> I think it's definitely the opposite.

> The evidence seems clear - dozens of the centre-left's most foundational global thinkers (i.e Noam Chomsky et. al.) have had to take out a page in Harper's to literally tamp down the authoritarian tendencies of those suppressing speech, mostly more extremists of 'their own side'. [1]

You're both right:

On the right, there seems to be a growing view that "free speech" means that you should be able to say whatever you want (even if it's literally a factually untrue lie), and not experience any social censure and be welcome on any platform or venue. For an example of this, see the nonsense around the false claims of election fraud and people quitting Twitter for Parler because of Twitter's labels on that misinformation.

On the left, there's the extreme form of political correctness that's metastasized into "cancel culture," where in some quarters there's an unwillingness to tolerate differing opinions and perspectives on many topics.
I mean he's basically saying what I am - they are the exception, very few teams are doing it, no public information on how to do it or best practices, everyone reinvents everything on their own from scratch.

I'd wager the popular engines are well tested because of the number of titles shipped on them not because they have good testing automation - but TBH I haven't worked in this industry for almost 10 years so maybe things changed.
WordPress is a pain in the ass when doing that kind of thing now. It is way better to use HUGO/Jekyll generators with CI/CD and Netlify/Cloudflare. You can automate almost every portion of an affiliation website and forget about it. That's the ultimate goal of those websites, be self-sufficient and passive earners.
Core i5 first generation came out in 2009 with 4 cores: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Core_i5_processo...
> 2-Acre Vertical Farm Run By AI And Robots Out-Produces 720-Acre Flat Farm

Can someone show me on a map where this 2+ acre building is, just so I know it's real?

It would have to be epic, tall and densely packed. Lots of infrastructure around it to do 320 times normal output. To do consistently and at this 2 acres they claim to have done at scale seems unlikely.

This claims SF is only 50,000 sq ft https://www.bdcnetwork.com/farming-ready-grow with no pictures to show they are using all the space.

Just the same cut away videos and low shot images to make things look big.
You can only cheer if you know you can actually stop the population decline before it leads to a catastrophic disruption of the world wide civilization, right?

Who and when will do it?

Are we willing to take away women's rights if its the only way to stop a population decline?

There's nothing to cheer if you really look into it.
Show HN: Usage Based Search for Electronics
Is there an incentive from the real world to answer questions

Apparently so - if you look at the “Customer Questions and Answers” section of Amazon product pages, there is a remarkably high proportion of answers like, “I don’t know, I haven’t opened it yet” and “I’m not sure, I bought it as a gift”.
this one technically requires some user interaction

Anyway, in the past I found a way to takeover an organization account in Google cloud acquisition and they rewarded me $100, saying their "Panel" decided that, Google's VRP panel sucks, so you're right about that.
Well, for that matter, for what it does, it shouldn't even exist.
ITX Motherboard with an Elbrus CPU
Could you describe an example of such?
Nice list and diverse list, at least in terms of looks. Would’ve liked to see the Keyboardio Atreus (https://keyboard.io/atreus) also included, what makes it stand out is a minimalistic and portable design.
Pretty similar setup and results. Was using 0.5%-1.5% before opening Zoomquilt 2, and using 1.6-2.7% after.

(Ryzen 7 4800H, Windows 10 20H2, Firefox 84.0.1, 1080p screen)
I bet you could get that much close to 100% if the resolution email just included the survey link.

If I get that in the midst of solving the problem I always click - if the survey comes hours or days late I may not make the effort.