skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, Kernel is to Scheme as Scheme is to Common lisp. Kernel really is a truly beautiful little idea.
This is wild - they built a nuclear plant that has its generator sets just sitting out in the open? This seems like a bad idea regardless of what is generating the steam.
On the risk of sounding arrogant/selfish, I personally never saw value in answering questions on stackoverflow myself. I've been coding for 10+ years and of course I've looked up stuff on there, but from what I noticed, there are three types of questions:

- Easy stuff, the kind the some proper digging within the docs or the logs would give the answer. This always seemed like the majority, even more within the last few years. I don't think I should spend my time answering those. I used to ask questions on forums before and got schooled a couple of times from people telling me to look it up in the docs or from other questions, it was more valuable than a direct answer itself.

- Stuff that require digging, like 1-hour or more. Those are interesting, but again, I have my own issues that require 1+ hour research that I could spend my time on. I know not everyone is doing it for the points, but I didn't feel like the transaction is worth it. The knowledge I'd gain from researching a topic I don't currently care about to answer a random question might seem valuable (and it may be), but I think it's somewhat similar to the value of watching those short "educational" youtube videos, you feel like you learned something, but 2 days later you basically forget the whole thing. Maybe it's just me.

- Stuff that you're the/a authority on, like if it's your language/library/framework/toolkit. I'm not either of those, but if I was, I don't think I'd be able to spend time answering random questions on a site I don't control. I'd probably feel much more compelled to give lengthy answers on the tracker/forum/qa site of the project itself.
Here's a good argument why the dots will connect eventually as long as you keep doing interesting things. One of my favorite books: https://davidepstein.com/the-range/
It will take another company that isn’t Google to get customers to take a risk in buying it. Whenever I see a Google product that I’m not familiar with, I’m wondering, “How long will it be before it’s cancelled?”

For Google to succeed with a new hardware product, they will need to either give it away or price it below $10
Here where I live (northern Europe), chimneys are always internal. Nobody would even think external chimneys. Heat loss is massive that way.
unfortunately, tracking athletes like that is another example of the tech outpacing the ideas. there's all kinds of cool sensors you can put on athletes, but the products for actually doing something useful with that data once you've collected it are all pretty mediocre, and mostly limited to generating pretty graphs to help convince your funders that you've spent their money on cutting-edge tech.
Except for maybe that last point, I really don't see how having 1 billion people in misery is going to help. Do you have any better solution or would you just hope those regimes change by themselves eventually?
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> had Nasa been budgeted more than its puny $22.6 billion allotment

$22,600,000,000.00 yearly income is not puny by anyone’s definition.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26054160

https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=26055731&goto=item%3Fi...
I think "emergency ration pricing" would make sense, but I'm not sure non-emergency restrictions are needed.
Beinecke to make Frederick Douglass and Douglass Papers available to the public
Including use after free experience.
This gives nostalgia vibes of the 4chan from 10-ish years ago.

Back then “memes” were fringe, but 9gag slowly took over with washed down normie memes.
I've decided to opt out of the med-tech-industrial complex. As far as I can see it's mainly a transfer of wealth to already-wealthy people.

I see the dentist twice a year. That's it. No apps, no health devices, no screenings, no monitoring, no doctors.
A useful function would be the ability to alert contacts or summon a personal surveillance service (via drone or nearby pedestrians) in the event of a Police stop or Karen incident.
OpenBSD’s pf (which got ported to FreeBSD) and it’s pf.conf still sets the benchmark for the most beautifully readable firewall rules.
Company training tells me you are phishing
But aren't those benefits also available in other cryptocurrencies that came later, with various added features and capabilities (eg. anonymity, stability, DApps, etc.) thanks to the benefit of hindsight? Why haven't the cryptocurrency mainstream (those who see value in crypto aside from speculation) abandoned Bitcoin and migrated en masse to those newer coins?
Your entire argument is only valid if the other two major grids don't have the excess generation capacity to support the gap in Texas.

Otherwise, it's cutting off a limb because of a papercut.
I was thinking the other day that I would like to open-source all my random projects or startup files if I die but I couldn't think of a good way to do it.

I guess maybe a private repo with instructions could do, but it requires a technical person in the family or friends to check it if/when GH gives them access. The way that Facebook does it with their memorial service is not bad. You can set what happens with the account and repos if a death cert is received.
Does Gmail download by default, whether you open the email or not?
Composition is not a substitute for inheritance and is used an order of magnitude less in Go code than inheritance in other languages, which touches everything.
> Tesla is a car manufacturer!

That's what you think.
I don’t disagree about CA. They are micromanaging a “private” company and making things even worse.
I always say I write scheme because it's fun. Fun, like back when I discovered JS in 1999. I do it to keep my soul.

Some other languages also had this effect. F# and factor are the most notable. Guile scheme is the only one I use daily though.
Where does one begin playing Factorio? Is there a place which doesn't make it feel like work?
I think the way to discourage hoarding behavior is inflation. Cryptocurrency follows similar models of scarcity like Bitcoin. Some cryptos have tail emission. None of them has any meaningful inflation.

I designed Bitflate. It's a cryptocurrency with 7% inflation. The rate is moderately high to make it the opposite of Bitcoin. But it's not too high to cause hyperinflation. Bitflate is a Bitcoin software fork. So there are possibilities to create hybrid cryptos that have inflation rates between 0 and 7%.

Check out my project: https://bitflate.org/.
Typescript taught me that I actually don’t care about types and all I care about is the shape of data. In most cases I think of types/interfaces in Typescript as strict data definitions. A function takes in a collection of data; as long as the data matches the shape I expect, don’t care what the data represents.
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Around 2010 or so I worked for a skyscraper in downtown Seattle. There was a heat wave and the utility needed to shed load. The mechanism for doing that was someone calling our front desk and saying "Hello, please shut off your lights."

(Commercial lighting runs at 277v, so it's all on separate circuits from wall outlets. You can shut off the lights in a building without killing the servers, for example)

We had remote-controlled breakers, so doing that was a couple clicks of the mouse. But if nobody had picked up the phone, they would have needed cops to break into the electrical room on each floor and start flipping breakers by hand.
They don't want you to see it for $10 then later see it for $40 and feel ripped off
Sunday night before the capacity dropped, TX was at 65 GW consumption.
GMail absolutely caches images. The cache is primarily for performant delivery of data over mobile networks though and reduced load of repeat same-day viewing, and less for privacy.

While their cache is large, it's not infinite. If what you're interested in is whether a customer engages with an email multiple times over a few days, you'll likely get the pixel hits to confirm it over that time period. Of course, as you imply, you wouldn't be able to collect how many times an hour a single customer has viewed an email sent to them.
I get the historical relevance and figurehead aspect, but to follow your example, nobody actually uses the early first computers (ENIAC, UNIVAC, Altair, etc.) anymore -- everyone today uses their improved descendants. Why hasn't the same happened in Crypto? Hasn't its functionality been pretty much superseded by later improved coins?
Amazon comingles inventory. I doubt Amazon knows which vendor supplied the product that was reported as a counterfeit. Even if they did what would stop someone from opening BarCo after Amazon closes FooCo's account?
You're describing why Texas having its own grid isn't localized insanity, but for the uninitiated, it still seems like insanity. Why not connect (and be able to draw from) other grids?
I'd be interested in what clubhouse bios look like once it opens up. If you haven't been looking at twitch lately, the most consistent category is "just chatting". It's literally a steamer monologuing with a comment stream to respond to.

To me, this category seems proof that the clubhouse social network model has demands outside of stonks and hustle culture. In fact, if clubhouse was to bring in more varied creators, I wonder if luring away streamers from twitch to clubhouse will be a viable strategy in the future. It even comes with monetisation strategies built in (tips and subscriptions and possibly pay to ask questions just like twitch).
It's true, frontend is complex. User interfaces and interactions are full async and all behavior needs to be captured and tested. Server side code can get complex but there is a lot less externalities and requirements are well defined.

My main gripe is the people behind major frontend projects - Node, npm, React, etc. and their overall philosophy. The community is a shitshow and I hate how unorganized, unplanned, broken the entire ecosystem is. The worst part is that this is celebrated.
So bringing up battery storage on an article about a blackout caused by a multi day storm might lead some people to believe that batteries would make a difference in this situation, when they wouldn't, regardless of the GW.
"Disclaimer - Use Bye Bye Domain at your own risk. You are responsible for conducting due diligence, using escrow and protecting yourself against fraud. Bye Bye Domain - the last resort for your domains - 2021"

Whats to stop people from claiming to own domains they do not own? Given how prolific criminals are what's to stop your site from becoming 90% scams and ergo worthless. Obviously its difficult to do something like escrow the payment and domain name although this would be ideal but couldn't you find some way to verify they at least own the domain?
The same model of car physically exists in multiple climates. A powerplant (usually) doesn't.
Obscure Wikipedia pages are a HN staple I do enjoy.
Main screen turn on...
> Sqlite is full of locks, and any writes are single-threaded stop-the-world, and there's no way around it. It's Sqlite's philosophy.

SQLite is not the silver bullet of the DB world, but it's extremely useful in certain scenarios. Will you need a DB for a desktop app? Ditto. Want a portable file to carry some complex data structure? Ditto. Want to test your webapp during development, or provide a single-user version for users? Ditto.

Concurrent writing, multiple user, multiple producer scenarios need something bigger. MySQL Embedded, MySQL, Posgres, MSSQL, Oracle... List goes on.

SQLite makes databases accessible and useful in much more scenarios. I've hated databases until I've found SQLite, because I simply didn't see the point of running a big server which is designed to handle much bigger data sets to store 250KB of text tables.

SQLite is extremely underrated IMHO.
Well, that was my original question to the the parent poster, too. You can achieve 100k+ /sec, but they went looking for better performance, apparently.

But to answer your question at face value, one common use for SQLite is as a file format for complex desktop apps, or perhaps a game save format for certain types of games (mostly the non-realtime types). One great advantage to this is that if you use a DB migration library, you ensure backwards compatibility with previous versions of your saved files. However, it's easy to imagine a fair bit of data getting inserted into such a new file each time it is created. It might only be 5000 rows, but I'd prefer to not have to wait 5 seconds just to persist it, if a single change can make it 0.05 seconds.
Have you considered a self-editing file approach a la Tiddlywiki Classic, in lieu of browser storage?
Quotes from the essay:

> I had some money saved from consulting work I'd done in grad school; there was probably enough to last a year if I lived cheaply.

> The good part was that I got paid huge amounts of money, especially by art student standards. In Florence, after paying my part of the rent, my budget for everything else had been $7 a day. Now I was getting paid more than 4 times that every hour, even when I was just sitting in a meeting. By living cheaply I not only managed to save enough to go back to RISD, but also paid off my college loans.

He earned his own money and paid his own bills. You can do that today as an software engineer if you choose to live like in worse conditions than a working class, like he did.

The biggest difference is how quick you could pay off a college loan compared to now.
I’ve never experienced these problems, and I run productionized apps from 2016 still. What kind of feature sets were you trying to achieve?

I wrote a collaborative model editor in React and MobX, using some nigh unknown JS library to manage collaborative aspects and d3 for visualizations. All while interacting with multiple services. I upgraded seamlessly across webpack versions, despite continuing to use legacy decorators.

Plus, churn in the front end is completely overstated. Most libraries from a few years ago have the exact same APIs, but perhaps also added a new way of working. You do not need to adhere to this new way of working, or you can progressively adapt it. Small libraries died, but isn’t it professional diligence to evaluate the likelihood of that happening and the risk you take in the first place not doing it yourself? Especially when it is simple.
Yeah, alternatively I'd imagine OpenBSD would have booted problem-free on RPi 4, which is mentioned specifically in the installation instructions at https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.8/arm64/INSTALL.arm64 That said, I haven't tried OpenBSD on Pi nor have I yet tried FreeBSD -- just going by the official docs. :)
Though, wouldn't the BTC price fluctuating in the wrong direction one day instantly blow past whatever transaction fee there is? It seems way too volatile for long-term storage...
Elizabeth Holmes resists government efforts to detail her CEO lifestyle
When you understand the movie, or the book it was based on, you will no longer consider it a comedy. It is a terrifying dip into a government program devoted to psychological warfare.

There was never any program to use ESP for spying. There is, instead, a program that--in one of its projects--sought to convince Americans that ESP spying had been attempted. The project was a massive success: most people still believe that happened. There are still DoD people who continue to insist it was attempted, which means the project is still running.

The program is ongoing. It was involved in capturing Noriega in Panama. It was the source of the torture program in Afghanistan and Iran. It probably orchestrated the pundit-sphere's rabid insistence on invading Iraq despite all the evidence that there were no WMDs, and that the invasion would be a massive failure.

The same program probably is running the Tictacs/UFO hoax, today, for reasons unknown. Possibly it is just another exercise, like the ESP thing; military programs are obliged to demonstrate their readiness frequently if they want continued funding.

The Iraq invasion was not, for some people, a failure: it transferred, ultimately, $5T from the American people into many newly-minted billionaires' pockets, some of whom have become reliable campaign financers. Secret programs breed corruption.
I'm somewhat disappointed that Apple doesn't offer better default privacy for Mail.

Perhaps they can't figure out a good solution to differentiate between benign images and tracking images; it does seem like it would be nearly impossible to do so, but I wouldn't mind a) blocking external images by default, b) per-sender/recipient settings, and c) clearly displaying "invisible" images and warning about them.

Perhaps someone has some better ideas on how to fight this scourge?

I tend to think that the only practical solution is to block them entirely, but then malicious senders will send URLs that say "click here to view message."

Maybe HTML email wasn't such a great idea.
I had the same idea. We can probably build a market on top of the Ethereum platform
Oh my, do I get this. My wife has worked for years as a professional organizer, so she definitely has an idea for How Things Should Be Done.

That way is not mine however. I've been known to have something much like Shitbowl as a system, except I called it my "sedimentary filing system." It has layers, like a parfait, and very much an LRU cache.

She likes things to be away, which to me, is not always having them usable. Sometimes, things that are stashed out of sight are less than accessible when I decide I want them.

Different strokes I guess. After nigh on thirty years, I'm somewhat tidier, while she has become more tolerant of a bit of disorder.
Shares of Facebook for sure. Bitcoin's value is in the network effect, you can easily create a bitcoin clone but it's worth nothing if you are the only one hogging all the coins.
> The price continues to be volatile yet less and less risky and overall trending upwards.

Please stop telling nocoiners this arcane and forbidden knowledge! Instead, encourage them in their belief that Bitcoin is a scam, a collective delusion, a market mania, a bubble, based on nothing, wastes energy, will go to zero, and so forth.

When, in a decade, 1btc == usd1M, we'll all be grateful that such people stayed out of the market long enough to allow us to buy more bitcoin relatively cheaply.

What they can't see is that Bitcoin is now more likely inevitable than not.
Can I only have one successor?
FWIW I think the core devs of Typescript would disagree with you on the characterization that they were in any way attempting to show a large crowd "that soundness isn't an important property." I just say that because such had been my view of the language as well (pragmatism & productivity over type-system strictness) until I had a feature request rejected on soundness grounds a few days ago.
Ahhhh Something Awful. I was more of a GenMay guy myself but both were such fun places to hang out in my high school and college years.
How are they broken?
C# also compiles to native code, just like D, csc isn't the only option.
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I cannot tell you how many times I've stumbled on SO post that just recommends - "Just use Node v10". Usually, with no explanation. Ohhh....
I’ve used fish for quite a while but after Many a scripting incompatibility I went back to ohmyzsh. Fish is great if you can port your whole ecosystem into it.
Investigating Quadratic Time Complexity When Adding Subviews in UIKit (2016)
With something that small, a not-so-insignificant number of people will end up washing it in their washing machines. Speaking from personal experience, as I have ended up washing several notes of money, coins and one pendrive.

Plus, it just seems unecessary. Another comment here explained more eloquently than I did with their concept of "diminishing returns."
> I don't think any completely lost heat (most have gas) but at least one person found their gas fireplace they were hoping would heat them up when out of power didn't really work that well.

American fireplaces in general are a joke. You are just spending way too much energy and not really storing it anywhere except the air around it. They are built to look good, not to actually heat anything properly.

Check any Nordic country, we don't have gas fireplaces nor do we have the silly tiny iron things you have. What we do have is stone fireplaces. [1]

How it works is this: You heat the multi-hundred kg stone mass using any material you want, for us it's usually wood in some form. After the stone is hot enough, you stop wasting wood and close the chimney when the fire has burned out to prevent heat from escaping.

The stone mass will store heat and distribute it slowly and evenly over many hours, keeping everyone warm without electricity. If you want to distribute it, there are fans that operate on the radiant heat coming from the fireplace. A properly installed fireplace (central to the house) will keep a normal home toasty warm for a day or two with one proper heating cycle depending on how cold it's outside.

[1] https://www.tulikivi.com/en
Download via a proxy and cache the image when you receive the e-mail.

It's processed in the queue and opened. Was it the user? Did it hit Inbox? Where did it got opened? When it's opened? How many times it opened?

All these information's reliability got out of the window with a single optimization. You can't know how this mail was processed and it's fate. So, your tracking pixel and URL returned something useless to you.
And how the hell can admins figure out from your answers you are LGTB.

If they can do that, your answer should be deleted and not because you are LGTB. Because it probably has nothing to do with the question.
Ask HN: Amazon Failed to Deliver an Order
Hi there. Have a question for collective intelligence. In a situation when Amazon promised to deliver by a certain date, and then failed to do so, issuing assurances that it will be delivered up to the date the package is supposed to arrive - what can be done?

Talking to amazon help did not help - got stuck in an endless loop going from one person to another asking the same questions and failing to escalate to a local (U.S.) customer support.

Is there anything that can be done here? Or just accept it as inevitable?
This is an oversimplification. An allergy will not necessarily cause anaphylaxis (suffocating, etc). I'm allergic to a lot of types of pollen/mold/dander (skin prick test) and also two food items, also identified with a skin prick test, and I've never yet had anaphylaxis. When I eat oatmeal/rye (my food allergies) I get a runny nose, fatigue, and mild GI distress.
Nope,

https://www.wildernesslabs.co/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/iot/
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I'd be surprised if they will. If provider A is selling power at 10 cents/KWh and says that they can handle a once every decade cold spell, and provider B is selling power at 9 cents/KWh and isn't taking cold weather precautions, I'd bet that most people will use the cheaper provider. They'll tell themselves that if the extreme event happens again, they'll switch to another provider, or they'll tough it out, or get a hotel or whatever, then they'll be in this same situation where there's no where to go and no where else to buy power from.

It needs to be mandated so all power producers incur costs to handle the weather.
As an option you can do dead man switch + some automation. Once per month script sends you an email with link. If you don't click the link in 1-2 months, script opens everything.

Of course, that won't handle corner cases like jail or coma, but should work for most everyday scenarios.
I have a document outlining to my (non-technical) wife where all the secret keys can be found, and some suggestions on friends to contact for help using them.