skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Call it what you like. I agree our society goes out of its way to mis-educate people on the matter.

I guess maybe the difference in my mind vs illiteracy and idiocy is that someone illiterate in a matter may still manage to put together that whatever they are doing isn't working and maybe they should try something else.

The idiocy comes in when people know it's not working, and know it's designed not to work, but dammit if they aren't going to live that way anyway and complain the whole time.
A house with 10-year-old solar panels on top is surely going to be worth more than a house with no solar panels on top, even if the cost of new panels comes down significantly over that time. As you point out, the panels continue generating returns for a long time after that.

Moreover, people should not buy a house with the expectation that it will inevitably be worth more in 20 years than it is today. Appreciation of land values is far from a universal law of nature.
At this point, the Usenet servers which took massive amounts of bandwidth and disk space take tiny amounts of bandwidth and disk space (assuming you don't allow binary posts).

Maybe it's time for Usenet to come back.

- Truly federated

- Topic focus instead of people-focus

- Killfiles!

- Proper threading

- Standards-based servers and clients
Ah yes, the "more data will magically solve self driving" argument.
This is how we should maintain and pass laws. To see which legislator proposed / amended which paragraph etc.

Might be interesting to see the authors of the tax law etc.
I'm not fully sure what their use case is to speak to that. A good launching point to finding like minded people is this list though: https://fediverse.party/en/portal/servers

I joined before that link existed though, so I opted to join a really large instance, mastodon.social specifically in my case. From there, I started searching hashtags for topics I was interested in and engaging there. From my interactions, I got a feel of the quality of interactions from various instances. From there I started honing in on the various code of conducts to find a smaller instance I wanted to chill in.

It's worth noting that smaller, niche communities don't federate with the largest instances. If you're looking for the most down to earth people, it takes a few hops and a bit of time.
And what is wrong with an invalid UTF-8 string? Why were you truncating the string in the first place?

Basically, I believe the point here is that a Unicode aware truncation should be done in a Unicode aware truncate method. There is no good reason to parse a string as UTF-8 ahead of time - just keep it as a blob of bytes until you need to do some something "texty" with it. It is the truncate-at-word-boundaries() method that should interpret the bytes as UTF-8 and fail if they are not valid. Why parse it sooner?
Fantastic points. Thank you for sharing your experiences.
You’re right of course. I was addressing the larger question of the impact of GPS jamming tests on aviation in general. Less of a reply to you and more of a note to anyone else reading.
What are the implications of that?
I don't think that was the main thrust of their comment, which comes across as mostly a selfish appraisal of a perceived risk to their riches ("only be worrying about who's about to take it from you or whether your assets are going to be worthless in the next financial crash"), rather than concern about others.
That tells me they're not being challenged enough at work. :)
Why is grinning-and-bearing harrassment by people who want you dead virtuous? “people who have grown up without having any meaningful opposition in their lives” always feels like a dogwhistle to me, because the people saying this tend to have far more privileged backgrounds than the people being harassed.
> 90% – maybe 93% – of project managers, could probably disappear tomorrow to either no effect or a net gain in efficiency.

I don't know how 6 years of experience in the industry can confirm this but nonetheless, I do agree that indeed there are software engineering teams that don't need, perhaps even impeded by, PMs but I think they are fewer than average. I would agree if the numbers are reversed, i.e. 7-10% PMs are not needed.

Many developers love to hate on PMs but I think most teams overestimate themselves and think that they're mature and self-managing enough to not need a PM. It can be true that the individuals in the team are self-managing on their own but it's different when it's scaled to a whole team.

For example, it's difficult to finalize a decision when most experienced and opinionated team members have differing opinions. A PM serving as an arbiter can help resolve this deadlock. (Yes, there are strategies out there on how to make decisions w/o an arbiter but then, how do they decide which strategy to use?)
I expect you may be searching for a somewhat longer and healthier lifetime.
> yet we still take steps to protect people from discrimination on those avenues despite having no metrics.

The issue is that the U.S.A. knows at-will employment to begin with where a man might be fired or hired for rather arbitrary reasons.

In many countries, the onus is on employers to justify their reasons to make financial sense.

Pertaining to Japan, I once had a discussion with someone from the U.S.A. who learned that sexual orientation is not a “protected class” in Japan, and he had assumed that that meant that one's employ could be terminated over one's sexual orientation. Japan, as it stands, is notorious for it's nigh impossibility to fire an employee for about any reason other than willful, dishonorable, illegal conduct. Even an employee that is not being sufficiently productive in Japan will be hard to dismiss if the court find that he still tries and puts in enough effort, but simply finds it hard to manage. — personal reasons, such as sexual orientation or anything one does at home is completely off the table, of course, and thus in no want of any special protection.
Honestly, growing up and living in Texas for 40 years, I've never seen more than an 8' fence, and that once. Most are 6'.
Our opinions are both valid, but it is apparent that our core beliefs differ. While I agree that there are societies and organizations that embrace diversity, I strongly believe that itself to be a deviance, not the norm. "Classic" societies, orgs and memeplexes are almost all xenotoxic and value homogenity. Yes, even most flavours of buddhism.
Would you rather earn $50k at a 20% profit margin or $50 billion at a 2% profit margin?
Kubernetes API Priority and Fairness (API Server's Request Throttling)
Now this is white knighting at its finest.

We're producing 77.000 tons of lithium a year.

We're producing ~7800 million tons (!!!) of coal per year.

You're either nitpicking for who knows what reason, or it's a bad faith argument.

Yes, lithium mining is bad for the environment. Yes, it probably sucks to be living in a lithium mining town. Yes, lithium is still the least bad alternative we have. Yes, people in those lithium mining towns should be compensated better and their lives should be improved.

There is nothing we can do as humanity, to absolutely, definitely, not harm someone or something. Life is a compromise and lithium is a huge step up from where we are now.

If you're saying otherwise, then go look up documentaries about coal mining, fracking & shale oil in general.

TL;DR: Lithium mining sucks but not mining any lithium sucks more. In parallel to mining more and more lithium, we should improve the mining process and also improve the lives of communities affected by lithium mining.
They already have ARM SoCs which are used in their own Shield TV and other devices.
This is a somewhat superficial list that omits discussing the fundamental idea behind CSS, viz. the semantic model; from which everything else is, directly or otherwise, a consequence.

Two decades ago I was overjoyed to discover that Scheme was finally going to have a useful application beyond illustrating SICP and writing koans to amuse myself, because DSSSL was on the cusp of evolving into the last document styling language anyone would ever need.

Unfortunately following an incident with a broken Lisp machine, a liquid lunch, and an unlicensed particle accelerator, I became trapped in a parallel universe where the HTML ERB anointed CSS by mistake during a drunken night out in Oslo.

The primordial concept of CSS (best revealed by H.W.Lie's thesis IMO[1]) was to create a rich and versatile and (crucially) non-Turing-complete set of structural selectors in lieu of DSSSL's recursive expressions, and to allow styles to overlay one another (the "cascade"); two design choices that only by the application of gallons of irony can explain why most web pages are composed of a bunch of nested DIV elements with hashed IDs and overloaded semantic class attributes, and everyone compiles their assets into a static file.

[1] https://www.wiumlie.no/2006/phd/css.pdf
It doesn’t advance past the first level for me, on mobile (ios)

Edit: after exiting Chrome, now it’s rendering the controls at bottom of the screen.

Edit: and it’s really fun.
Nice idea, but this would be much better as a slightly animated video, especially with sound effects. E.g. to emphasize the monkey eating a banana, have a sound and animation for it.
Doubling down on this. Discovered this the hard way last year. Well documented my troubles with their 9300 (2020) models trackpad here: https://www.reddit.com/r/dell/comments/ibk4je
https://github.com/sessionbird/xmpp-smtp-gw

https://github.com/Puppet-Finland/milter-xmpp/

Btw, when I click "open source" link on delta chat website, I may be not the only one expecting to be taken to the source repository instead of definition of what open source is. I found the actual link, just a suggestion.
Been trading SPAC's recently. Seeing a huge influx of SPACs in renewable energy. Jump in at the beginning and the most you can lost is 10$ if the SPAC fails. When it receives a letter of intent(LOI) you'll see a big boost to the stock price. When the definitive agreement (DA) is announce there is another 20% jump. After the merge and symbol change, the price drops and then slowly comes up.

With so many coming out, just keep jumping to new SPACS as the LOI or DA is announced. Just wanted to share my experiences.

EDIT:
Nikola and QuantumScape (NKLA/QS) are the big ones that got attention. Every SPAC is hoping to make a run like QS; 10$ went all the way up to 100$ at one point. NKLA was a scam, but brought a lot of attention
http://archive.is/mSKlz
Have a look at PostgreSQL, SQLite, LLVM, Clang ... all these are projects that get a lot of support from proprietary software vendors. I'm pretty sure that the companies contribute to these projects because of the liberal license, not in spite of it.

I think a big fallacy with regard to the GPL is that companies don't contribute to open source because the license forces them to. Companies contribute to open source because it makes more sense to collaborate on some projects rather than each work on their own.

Licenses like GPL etc. are great for ensuring their user's freedom; but they don't really incentivise companies to contribute to them at all. Instead, they prevent some companies from using them. So counter-intuitively project with liberal licenses end up with much more contributions than projects with strong licenses...
> They're effectively stealing a disproportionate amount of our world's resources for their own pleasure,

Not really. Think about this way. One share of Amazon costs $3,292.23. If someone gathers $3,300 and offers to buy that share at that price, Jeff Bezos's wealth just went up $424,000,000. But it's not like he took $424MM from anyone. And he wouldn't actually be able to get that $424MM, because if he started selling his shares, there would need to be enough people with $424MM more than they had before that want to buy it.

At that level of wealth, most of the money doesn't actually exist. It just represents control. It's basically created from nothing.
Show HN: A simple flask request JSON data validator in Python
That's one of the fastest loading modern pages I've ever been to. Kudos!
According to GPL, you do not need to contribute back to the original authors, you only need to make your changes available under GPL.

But maintaining a fork is not everyone's cup of tea.
This is a question I wrestled a lot with. Growing up, diversity was not something I thought a lot about, and in any case I have always considered myself a hard-nosed type of thinker, for whom concerns about quality and the bottom line should _always_ outweigh the messy questions of identity politics.

But these days I work at a much more diverse organization than the one in which I started my career and what I have realized is: it's better. Better teams, better business, better tech. Far from being a sop to some sort of social-justice party line, diversity in the workforce has made every member function at a higher level.

Social science research has pretty clearly shown that more diverse organizations tend to be more profitable ones, and my own experience confirms this. I don't know the mechanism by which diversity brings this improvement about, but I have two theories as to possible contributing factors:

1) Diversity (at least intellectual diversity) forces us to defend our ideas. Homogenous groups in all pursuits tend to mistake their own way of doing things for some sort of iron law of the universe. Diversity can impose intellectual humility on members of the group and is a useful counter to our tendency to cargo-cult.

2) We pattern-match too aggressively in our evaluation of candidates, which leads us to inadvertently underrate people who don't match the pattern of the type of person we are used to thinking of as being competent. On HN, we talk about this all the time in terms of the software industry's folkloric approach to interviewing.
Using Tailscale on Windows to network more easily with WSL2 and VS Code
Gradually, more and more of Chrome will become closed source as is already happening. DRM, Sync features,...
For some reason my post disappeared... I documented the appaling issues and lack of resolution with the 2020 9300 trackpad here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dell/comments/ibk4je
I will say that CarPlay is a pretty big difference for me (when I had a loaner that had it I seriously was considering if I should sell my car)…
Currently the dry casks that we use to store nuclear waste get rusty, or leak the inert gas within them. This needs to be monitored and repaired.

They need to be security because they can be stolen and the waste within can be used as a weapon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_cask_storage
Ah, well that's kind of worth mentioning, I would think; that person was Polish in nationality only, not actually of Polish descent yet somehow dark-skinned. :)

What I mean regarding "as if it be ..." is not standard English grammar. Use of the "be" form of the verb (that is not the subjunctive be) without inflecting for tense or person is featured in African-American Vernacular English.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Vernacular_En...

(An example like "I request that everyone be quiet" is standard; that's standard grammar, using the subjunctive mood of "to be").
What's the best way to monitor for new SPACs and when those events happen?
That kind of makes sense, the cookie banners have been around quite a while now though.
From my very limited experience of knowing billionaires, it sounds about right.

I was having a small group lunch with the founder of eBay once when I worked there, and someone asked him how his life is different now that he's a billionaire. He started to mention some of these things, and at the end he said, "I'm still just as ugly as I ever was, but now lots of smart beautiful women seem to be interested".
Really incredibly, irritatingly simple and well executed idea...
Are there no fediverse-scraping services that sell your data to advertisers? That seems a prime target for every moderately-evil adtech executive out there.
I often have problems with barrier. Sometimes, it'll just refuse to stop when press "stop". It'll continue replicating the mouse to the other computer.

Other times, it'll refuse to start working again, requiring me to restart one or both computers, with know way to know which is messed up.

If I could guarantee one of the non-subscription ones would work properly, I'd probably pay. But since Barrier is apparently a fork of Synergy, I don't trust it. And most of the others have weird monetization, or I've heard bad things about their customer service... So I don't trust any of them.

In the end, I'm still using Barrier and just dealing with its problems.
It does cost money, but if you sell, you can pass part of that tax on to the buyer, as they’ll want to pay a bit more to avoid having to pay that tax themselves.
The problem with inlining all CSS is serving all the global styles all over again with every page load. You're gaining a great first impression at the cost of a poorer experience for every subsequent page load.

Have you considered inlining CSS in the head (as you've done), but then serving it again with a linked css file just before </body>.

Then, with subsequent page loads (of the current or other pages), you don't have to inline any CSS anymore.

Of course this requires that you serve two versions of all your pages, one for if that page is a first hit, and another to be served to users who already have your CSS cached.
there's 4G LTE in places, even in Slab City. but if you're seriously considering staying there, you better know how to deal with feral dogs and methheads.
To be honest the new MacBook Air is the model I was considering the most, mostly due to its pricing, but also because I used to own a 11’ inch low end model years ago and it was honestly the “little laptop that could”, ha.
This is one of my favorite articles on the subject of wealth :)
I would agree. Got 15inch XPS 9560. Loads of problems from the get go with screen, keyboard, WiFi etc. Cool whine very noisy, and support variable. Very disappointed with the “MacBook killer”, and all round a struggle to use tbh.
Recently the author of "Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon" Jenny Chase was on the Energy Transition Show podcast [0] discussing the growth of solar. The discussion got into some of the technical reasons solar was able to grow as it did; while the analysts were assuming solar was barely affordable with the subsidies, the industry was actually using the subsidies to develop low cost manufacturing processses, springboarding off technology from modern semiconductor manufacturing. A comical moment in that interview, on the same topic as this tweet, was that not only did IEA and other agencies and analyists under-estimate solar, the best estimate (which was still short by half) was from Greenpeace just using a simple compound growth model.

[0]https://xenetwork.org/ets/episodes/episode-132-the-future-of...
I was just down there for the first time a couple weeks ago, in a shiny new Outback full of millennial Bay Area yuppies. We poked around and got lost in the neighborhood, but experienced only welcoming kindness, directing us to the library and the hot springs, and apologies for other diversions being closed due to Covid.

People we spoke with acknowledged that many residents are vets suffering PTSD, criminals on the lam, meth heads, and others that prefer to be left alone. But that some members of the community have built infrastructure for tourism, and it’s tolerated.

People considering visiting Slab City: just bring a warm heart and open mind, it’s really not scary or dangerous to go as a tourist. (Edit: also bring your street smarts of course, just like when visiting Union Square in SF)
I tend to enjoy Scheme more than Common Lisp for just hacking around, but I'm by no means an expert Lisp hacker. If you decide to check out Scheme though, Chicken Scheme has been awesome for me. It's very fast, compiles to C, had a ton of great "eggs" (modules / packages), and seems to have a somewhat friendly community with decent documentation.
Appreciate pointing me in the right direction! Show package contents is exactly what I was looking for. I was looking in the wrong spot before with App Info (cntr + i).

Thought I share where I am at:

I think I'm in the right direction now. There are log files associated with previous crashes due to out of mem errors. The app here also includes a java vm_param file so I can maybe experiment with a few settings here and hoping here by decreasing the GC recycling time maybe things improve. Also, I will be looking whether the app may have somehow embedded a jvm (possible?) rather than using the one I have provided.
Ask HN: What to use for prototyping metal structures?
Is there a product between Erector sets and 80/20 extruded aluminum?

I.e. generic components for building structure that are easy to disassemble and modify during prototyping and sturdy enough to hold against a couple pounds of spring tension or server motors. But targeting a finished product around 1-3 feet on a side on more of a hobbyist budget.
Yup. And the red error text that displays on text input forms has a contrast ratio of just over 2. It seems like they just forgot that this error text needs to be a different color when the background color is dark.
Yep, in hardware this is picking a new material to work with, try it out in some smaller part that's easier to work and isn't critical, and then see its failure rate in the wild. Get used to using it before you bet on it.
Requiring VS Enterprise to actually use them properly, doomed their adoption.
I think the scrutiny should be whether fewer people die than otherwise would have.
Racket really is nice if you don't know what you want to do and you want to be hacking on some code in less than five minutes. I think I have Racket installed on every computer I own.
For purposes of browsing, you can source your top-level "zoomed out" layer from a single photograph and blend at lower tiles in the quad tree or normalize the downsampled capture data against a reference.

Nonetheless, thanks for doing this. It's an amazing piece of work.
> I don't have much hope for Bluesky.

me neither. I think, based on Twitter's track record, people should remain skeptical until shown otherwise. They haven't delivered much to prove they're willing to do the right thing.
I've been following other boards, but saw this website floating around. Many of them have active excel sheets monitoring which ones have announced

https://spactrack.net
> But maintaining a fork is not everyone's cup of tea.

It is not in the interest or benefit of the community if everyone makes or is forced to make his/her own fork. Forces should be joined, not scattered.
To add some light on this, obesity can be perceived a lot like mental illness - it actually changes your brain chemistry and how you react to your environment. The pattern of brain activity and the excitability of critical brain areas are completely different from normal.
If the software fits into the 'infrastructure' bucket then open source software seems like the best approach for selling into engineering orgs. This is likely due to the longer setup/eval time for infrastructure type software (Elastic being an example) and the higher price tag (justified or not).

Contrast this with 'tools' (such as IDEs) which tend to not be FOSS and are a low enough dollar and time cost that they can easily be purchased or even trialed for a month.

My very brief review of your product site leads me to think that a good approach for your company would be to offer small-team licenses for free with the hopes that they will adopt and become champions for their enterprise to buy a site license.
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I'd be somewhat worried that the dogs get or spreads covid..
I do aknowledge that everything will be different )

(There was no attempt to compare different languages or their "abstractness" levels and to apply them to the same class of problems. Of course, that almost never the dilemma people are facing.)