skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is nice! It's a diverting hobby with a pleasantly tangible outcome, and I've also found that the impetus to "finish" the craft by reading the actual book helps me overcome a screen-driven need for distraction that's been bothering me for a while now.

So, I started answering these apparently simple questions and giving an overview of how I make books, and realized at just over 2500 words that what I really need to write here is a blog post. I need to take some pictures, too; a lot of the processes involved will be much easier to explain that way.

I actually printed off sheets for a book block earlier this morning, so that should make for a good opportunity to walk through the whole process complete with illustrations. It'll take a while to finish, especially since there's an enforced day-or-so-long pause while the binding glue dries; that said, I don't really have anything else pressing to do on this Sunday afternoon, so I suppose at the very least I should be able to produce a Part I in the next day or so. I'll link it here once it's done!
Another overlooked gem from this era is "Dark Star".

The dreary psychological effects of prolonged confinement in closed quarters seem particularly poignant today; and the dispute and argument with Bomb is a delightful foreshadowing of the frustrations of dealing with advanced, yet imperfect and inhuman, artificial intellegences.

And yes, the beach ball alien was intendedt be humorous; and yes, the closed-quarter panic in narrow vent shafts was inspirational on later science fiction movies.
Banks ask everyone during application if applicant have a US citizenship, because of some anti-terror-funding law which non-American banks find onerous. Are you saying the kids should lie and deny being American?
Twenty years ago I was sharing a conclusion w/ my kids' principal - that preparing for state assessment tests was cheating.

The point of the tests is to evaluate the schools overall effectiveness. As much as test-centric cramming effects those results, it creates a false picture.

Some notes and observations:

Because the state both accommodates and encourages this scenario, the fault can't reasonably be laid on the schools.

A more impeccable (but problematic) way to handle these tests would be for the state to show up with little/no notice and administer it.

I'm personally inclined to scrap state assessment testing altogether. The zero-sum nature of pitting the schools against each other for limited funding consumes a great deal of precious teaching time for little clear benefit.

This conversation happened at our county's first charter school. A few years earlier, this principal happened to be my son's PS teacher.
What's the cure for phobias? A quick ddg search brought up CBT and exposure therapy, is this what you're referring to?
I always ask: what regulation would you change? Nobody in the nuclear industry has suggestions for what is unnecessary, as far as I can tell.

And as Texas showed us last week, without regulations, profit motive alone is not enough to maintain proper equipment. The nuclear plant that tripped off could have made months worth of profit in less than a day. Yet they did not do simple weatherization preparations that they knew they should have based on 2011's events.
If you're riding in an automobile to/from the airport, you have reasonable cause for concern.
The consensus is that all/most trading there is wash trading to give the illusion of volume. But like all bank runs, they don’t occur until enough people actually ask for their money.

Until that point, people seem happy to consider USDT equivalent to USD (and that may never change)
Bitcoin is not advertised as entertainment, though. And if it was, gambling industries are heavily regulated. If you argue that bitcoin is essentially a new entrant in gambling, would you support similar regulation? Otherwise, there is not much besides whataboutism here.
> It’s straight to the landfill every 6 months.

Isn't that a trend that has mostly ended or is about to end now? It looks like that was mostly caused by nm process improvements for ASIC chips in the past. With 7/5nm ASIC chips it seems like it should now progress as fast/slowly as the nm process capabilities of chip manufacturers in general.

Not pro-BTC, but this seem very much like faulty interpolation based on a past trend.
In what sense were previous heart transplants not dead? Would they only use hearts that were kept pumping right up until they were surgically removed from the donor? I thought they were previously transported on ice, and assumed their must be some period of time during which the hard was considered dead - wondering what's so fundamentally different beyond the device that circulates donor blood through the heart.
What happens if you lose FIDO key or key was destroyed in fire ?
I think the "CRUD app" classification is never accurate. For example, your app almost certainly performs queries that have a where clause. That means that the R step has logic, which means you can (and I know I do) get the logic wrong. Also, there's usually complicated rules during C, where a user is only permitted to actually create data in certain cases, and when data is created other data needs to be updated to remain accurate, etc.

So yea, of course data is Created and Read, in that every application maintains data. But that doesn't mean that it's a CRUD app. If you have any where clauses or if expressions, it's not a CRUD app.

Finally, the most popular way of storing data is the relational model. Which, is just math applied to the notion of data: https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~zives/03f/cis550/codd.pdf
Is this what you mean? https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/target-retirement...
The interface implemented a lot of ideas from The Humane Interface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Humane_Interface One of those is to avoid "modes" where the same key does different things depending on context, because people are bad at tracking that kind of thing. So when modes are needed - like typing to search instead of entering text - it uses "semi-modes" that require holding a key down so you don't forget what mode you're in.
How do you keep people from simulating a fido key? There is intrinsically no way to detect if the hardware signature was actually done by hardware.
> This is actually a primary design consideration taken very seriously at nuke plants.

Yeah, because they're so dangerous.

If you're worried about the grid, you were always worried. We use a grid now, and in the past. Massive near-continent wide failures happened before major renewable use.
- Monitor (with Bugsnag) and fix all errors/exceptions like its your religion. No new feature dev if there's an open bug. Write tests.

- Use Heroku. Monitor metrics to ensure you don't have major performance issues

- Use Datadog. Datadog can monitor and fix many things (web request queue too big -> trigger lambda function to scale up Heroku dynos, Worker queue latency too high -> same thing, scale up worker dynos, memory swapping -> restart dyno).

- Spend a lot of time fine tuning your logging, and custom metrics in Datadog. Makes investigating much more pleasurable.

- Any issues or exception notifications route to a #devops channel in my slack. Other slack channels include signups, business metrics, daily revenue reports, etc

- If something ever happens where you had to intervene to fix it, do a real post-mortem with yourself and try to come up with a way for that to never be a problem again.

I also do a lot of remote camping & off-roading without internet. I'm working on a simple little app where I can get paged on my satellite messenger (Garmin Inreach) if something is wrong, and key clients can also ping me. Only trusted contacts can SMS the Garmin Inreach, so I would use Twilio as the communication pipe.
And I've pre-ordered Starlink. My off road truck has an elaborate electrical system (Lithium battery, solar, etc) and I plan to find a way to run the Starlink dish off 12v.

Currently working on my home backup plan, which includes hot-standy Mac mini, time machine and cloud backups, home battery backup generator (Ecoflow Delta), Starlink, portable generator, etc.
Apple Offers Its Closest Look yet at iOS and macOS Security
You're never going to have a powermix that's 100% renewables

There have been a whole bunch of studies that say you could, in principle. If things like power-to-gas or cryogenic storage panned out, going from 'in principle' to 'in practice' would no longer seem particularly far-fetched to me...
Not sure why you've decided to become personal, snarky, and sarcastic like this?
hmm. went back and reread the comment and... i think you’re right. Saw discrete and did not fully parse everything.
Impacts of Large‐Scale Sahara Solar Farms on Global Climate and Vegetation Cover
logical coherence and fallacies far pre-date computers and code
Yes their white paper explains this quite plainly: an entity sends them fiat and they issue an equivalent number of Tether.

What you’re suggesting is very different. And your unwillingness to explain something that is so simple speaks volumes.

I’ve done my research. You’ve made a few unsubstantiated claims and then refuse to substantiate them.
I don’t know about FL but for CH you do have to apply for a permit. However, if you have a job offer and an EU passport you basically just pay the fee for the permit and you’ll get it (usually for five years). And af r the five years you can either renew your work permit or apply for permanent residency.

Same goes for CH nationals who want to work in the EU.
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Sure. I usually don't bring it up unless asked because it is very controversial.

Chronic mercury toxicity was the cause. I've confirmed this diagnosis with dramatic improvement to chelation therapy. I've also done some novel testing that indirectly confirms the diagnosis. It's not something you can test for directly unless you start taking biopsies of tissues you wouldn't want to cut out of someone alive. It resides in "deeper" tissues, not in the blood. The effect of mercury on biochemical pathways has been mapped out quite extensively, and we even know what and why certain genes make some people more susceptible than others. Not something you'll find in mainstream medicine, but the research is extensive and still rapidly growing. Particularly in the toxicology and chemistry circles.

I use a newer chelator called emeramide. It's currently in Phase II clinical trials and will probably be approved within 10 years. Although, it can be very dangerous if someone takes a too large of a dose, and the person pushing it through FDA approval does not seem to be fully aware of how bad it can be. Generally, the sicker you are the lower the dose you need to start on. This phenomenon is extensively documented in the Facebook groups where mercury toxic people discuss their experiences and results.

Emeramide binds to mercury the strongest, but also chelates other toxic metals like lead and cadmium, so those could certainly be complicating factors. Especially lead, as I grew up in a home and neighborhood with lots of it.

As for where the mercury came from, the timeline of my symptoms, animal toxicology studies, and it's removal in 2001, and more, all point towards the vax(inations I received as a child. For example, I had random and inexplicable symptoms as a kid like attacks of projectile vomiting without being sick, and bloody noses that would last for hours.
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All the time. Maybe 1/3 of comments I don't submit.

We all feel outrage and want to snark back. Writing a diss is cathartic. But experience shows they just provoke more in return, and the forum turns into a bunch of monkeys flinging poo at each other.

So, on behalf on HN, thanks for not submitting your snarks!
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It's funny, I have about 13 years experience, have been senior in both enterprise, start-ups and everything in-between, and have basically the exact same view about front end dev as your original post.

Except I fucking hate using Typescript, and totally wasn't expecting to see you mention you like it, given all the other stuff.

IME all the same people that overengineer everything with god awful dependencies are the same ones pushing super hard for typescript on every project I'm on. When they get their way (as always, since everything is decided democratically and everyone is dragged down to the level of the worst dev on the team), they write the worst typescript ever. On my last project, one of the people championing typescript defined some constant strings containing css breakpoints as the type 'string | int'. Rather than getting knocked back as one of the dumbest lines of code in the history of front-end, this somehow generated 3 pages of discussion in code review then got left in. I'd give the person a pass, assuming they'd never used a typed language before, except (a) they were senior and (b) they're the one that wanted types. These "seniors" lack even the most basic understanding of the shit they're using, but feel the need to impose their opinions about libraries, tooling and languages constantly.

I don't feel like I'd mind using TS at all on my personal projects, but on work projects with average devs it just adds another entire layer of complexity that they spend hours and days and weeks and months wrangling with instead of writing any code that might be remotely useful, by say, maybe implementing a business requirement, or doing anything that makes the company money instead of pissing away millions in salaries playing npm lego.

Plus, although I'm not familiar with any of it since I'm never the one pushing for TS, and so never the one setting it up, I've seen people spend absolutely ludicrous amounts of time tinkering with webpack and fussing over TS integration with 3rd party libraries and whatnot.

I'm surprised you haven't run into more of these people that just seem to use TS as a complexity multiplier for every bad engineering decision they make. Like spending 6 months setting up Gatsby or Next isn't costly enough for them, so they decide to tack on 3 months of TS integration and 'upskilling' for 3000 combo points, when they already (more or less, usually less) know how to write Javascript.
It's more about avoiding avoiding negative emotions being associated with the work in a way which does hamper productivity.

Software Development is that strange split between clear defined engineering aspects and creativity aspects which are often as important.

I have seen major problems in projects due to developers being dissatisfied and annoyed with the tools they can use.

The problem was twofold

- first it was not that they couldn't use the newest exiting tools, but that the tools they had to use had horrible UX making them unnecessary hard to use. Like if you tell someone they have to now turn pages of an book with a fork instead of their hands.

- The other problem was that one person involved had a fixed view about what is good and in their view must be done and nothing else is good and doing something else is always stupid and as such in their view their work is stupid and worthless and as such they don't want to do that at all as it's just a pointless wast of time which will be discarded in the future anyway... Which is quite a bad approach to your job, tbh. And caused some massive problems later on.
Well yes, because next funky startup doing Z is going to take them away unless you pay them much more to stay with you.

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;

Players stay in the game as long as it is fun.
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Admittedly I came at the GP harder than I could have, but it's so easy to write off large diverse institutions as "fucking bullshit" and poison a discussion before it even starts that I think it was warranted (that was the top comment at the time). One of the things about bullying is it's so easy to walk around tossing bombs (metaphorically) that sometimes people don't realize what they're doing until one of those bombs explodes a little closer than usual.

The OP didn't critique anything. Simply decrying an entire institution isn't a critique, it's a denouncement. A critique involves analysis.

Also, if I violated HN guidelines, so have you, by calling me out in turn.
Yeah one can go full panic attack over the wrong interpretation. This alleged reality vanishes as fast as it came, although the potential mistakes it triggered can last long.
This argument is sensible, but given that applications outlive both hardware and operating systems, the alternative is users keeping whole operating systems around forever without updating them.

The Linux kernel is one opposite example. They are pretty hard line about never breaking userspace APIs. It is overcomplicated and full of traps though. For most end users it's still worth it.

The reason you took X11 as an example is because it's still around, all modernized APIs that leveraged broken backwards compatibility are long gone by now.
China Tariffs Blocked Bill Gates’ Plan for Safe Nuclear Power
Tools like this are trivial to make and it's trivial to do it manually using Google. I don't see any point in getting angry about the existence of tools like that, as it's beyond anyone's power to stop people from doxxing each other.
Thinking about it a bit more, I wanted to acknowledge that I think there’s also a challenge around knowledge. Unless transient population might have a deeper memory for what has worked in the past and not worked in the past, and be better able to hold people accountable.
The Soundscape of the Anthropocene Ocean
> Thats not really called "streaming".

The data would literally be streamed along a bus from one storage to another. The name ‘streaming’ literally appears in some APIs you’d use to do it!
I checked your numbers against [0]. Road distance NY -> SF = 2900 miles [1]. Model S mileage is 290Wh/mi [2]. That is 840kW for Tesla against 657kW for a single transaction. This is all order-of-magnitude stuff but... wow.

[0] https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption/

[1] https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=road%20distance%20san%...

[2] https://www.zeviecars.com/browse-cars/tesla-model-s
Well, it is tbh, but not right now, and not in the US. It would probably be doable in Europe if we massively overbuilt?

You want to have a stable baseline because you want to be able to provide electricity to some services in worst case situation. Those services often have backup generators, but in worst case scenarii, the generator is too cold/old/dirty, and you don't take risks. In France we had a scenario were our grid managing center is under attack and cannot indicate who dispatch power to who, and to respond to that you can't not have a base load. But also, having a base load that can fluctuate daily permit emergency maintenance on multiple electricity production site.
Two observations:

- The slide with the jeep together with the "use boring technologies" slogan paints an interesting picture of the challenges of E-mobility in this century. There are going to be a lot of things no one expected.

- How would you call this style of presentations? Zen-like? One catchy thing per slide? I find it pretty well done, and when I compare it to my own "wall of text" slides, I am a bit jealous.
Maybe your country should worry less about the technology and more about the people using it. You clearly have a personelle problem.
I mean, yes but also: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/330/819/e47...
> Erlang, Rust and Go can only be used to solve embarrassingly parallel problems.

I'm pretty sure each of those have been used for other kinds of parallelism than just embarrassingly parallel problems.
There are some issues, like ARM32 Windows store apps not working.
There are some other outdoor keypad options - tv remotes, security gates, garage door openers, etc.

The case doesn't need to be special for a first pass. We just need enough of a fucking owl to decide what to do next.

https://i.imgur.com/KmaZLNy.jpg

Edit: my plan was to find a configuration of hardware that does what we want to do first. Next would be trying the new platform from a desk and, if that goes well, designing a case for the parts we selected. You can't really make a custom case without knowing what's going inside :)
This is a good read, but it probably should be marked as coming from 2017.
... and unnecessary middlemen playing casino with human lives (aka health insurers) don't extract a huge payday.
Where are you getting the idea, that it comes back to Texas being constrained?
Very nice, do you know where to read about maya ? (fun fact Alias Maya was one of my favorite software ever, yet it's the first time I get interested in the philosophical concept behind the name thanks to you)
Thanks! Me too :(
Kodi doesn't do any transcoding, it's up to the player to support the codec.
I tried explaining this a very eager green friend of mine and he would have none of it, he preferred blaming the USA on every bad thing going on in the world. Even Asian garbage being dumped in the ocean.
But Occam's razor says it's probably just that a whole ton of money has gone into and trading volumes have increased a lot over the past 6 months.
You’re assuming that 1) the value of a username or URL is higher than the value of privacy 2) people use those for discovery. I’m sure 99% of social media connections happen via recommendation algorithms, friends-of-friends or search by name (not username), never directly typing a username or profile url.
My 1/1 got me here, which looks like an in-depth review:

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/books/2016/04/15/fear-and-loath...
Next year would be the earliest. That's when phase 3 of the Eth2.0 upgrade is planned to happen (though I'd personally add another year to that).
I have one tape with that sticker! Someone did not return a tape way back when.
"Bad things will always happen" is a despicable shrug mentality. Bad things happen when people don't have their acts together in design, engineering, manufacturing, maintenance, and operation. The failure rates should be striving for zero, unlike the stunts Boeing has pulled on 737NG, MAX, and the 787.
Looks like you should have put a fan on that chipset. Like your GPU, which runs at extreme temperatures for extended periods of time!
It’s a hamfisted attempt to assert the correctness of one’s argument by fiat. It’s the grown-up “are not / am too!”
There’s a fascinating, if rather long, dive into Go HTTP processing issues (nodejs too) at https://fasterthanli.me/articles/aiming-for-correctness-with...

It’s a long read but it’s one of the most enjoyable things i’ve read in ages.
State Management Made Simple with HookState in React-Native
The Holo token (HOT) which is hosted on Ethereum network reaches new heights. It will be a 1 to 1 analog to upcoming Holo Fuel, an exchange system soon to be implemented on Holo's P2P decentralized app hosting system. It cannot be mined. Looks like the actual high demand for HOT token is coming from new comers, consolidation, and recent deployment of Holo's Elemental chat app.
Pleasant fantasy. Look at how easy IR communications are; we could have had "cheap LAN modem" capabilities like that plus universal remote controls, much earlier... But even now when the software exists and the hardware costs pennies (where not already there) and easily interfaces to everything, its rarely used.
this article describes a centralised system with the fido2 key manufacturer as the source of truth