skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that you're leaving out economic factors - when better and cleaner technology becomes cheaper than the alternatives, politics becomes largely irrelevant. And to get to that point economically, you need technological innovation.
Chances are you are applying to new players in the market.

I recommend going for employers who got involved in a bit of mining or otc /retail trading, you can even get 100% crypto salary there.
Vulkan is low level, so I think it will be mostly used with intermediate libraries, that ease its usage.
The surprising part is that sscanf calls strlen behind the scenes.
The squishyness you refer to is because categorizations like what is a planet or a continent are not objective. Pluto was initially considered a planet, but when the number of similar objects discovered kept growing, astronomers had to either categorize all of them as planets or introduce a new "dwarf planet" category. Similarly, I wouldn't bet on this "missing continent" being actually accepted as a continent, but maybe they will introduce a new category for "mostly submerged pieces of crust that are thicker than oceanic crust but much thinner than continental crust" - pseudo-continents?
> The “wokeness” of the silicon valley is skin deep when it comes to money.

Realistically, decoupling from that dependency is tough. Just read through the "Free Land - Living off Grid With No Money" thread [1], and the challenges of decoupling are laid out on just the individual level. It's going to be even tougher to accomplish as you scale up.

I think that decoupling is a worthy goal. It adds resilience. But not everyone shares that point of view.
So countries like Luxembourg can continue to pollute because at an absolute level it doesn't matter but countries like India or China can't have any development because at an absolute level their emissions are huge. I can't see poorer countries accepting that argument.
Show HN: Know and manage your emotions when trading stocks
The cooperative that went bankrupt isn't the platform that the argument applies to. In fact, you could create another cooperative without much trouble and start a parallel implementation of the same scheme.

This really applies to the power grid itself. Even the power plants aren't covered by the argument, since if you have a reasonable grid, you can build another power plant of any kind you feel viable in some reasonably suitable place.

[Ed. add.: the grid is actually the market. It facilitates the transactions between power plants and consumers.]
You will be surprised how many people are indeed aware of Google’s axing policy, if not even consciously.

The reality is that so many of them have been burnt by Google. Picasa was an extremely popular photo management platform used by many. Google Play Music was extremely popular. Google Plus was not exactly popular but touched nearly every Google user, was highly promoted, and then disappeared. And then you come to the massive list of chat and calling apps that Google has arbitrarily spun up, promoted, and then killed.

But even if we go with the idea that regular people are unaware of Google’s tendency, even subconsciously, there’s also the fact that the way most products become popular is through a smaller subset of influencers. And tech influencers, almost necessarily, are almost certainly aware of googles tendencies.
Silence, otherwise somr lofi hip hop beats go study / relax to.
Kit Store
Kit is a community to discover, discuss and get interesting products – grouped into kits – for activities like traveling, DJing, cooking, cycling and more.
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Ask HN: What do you want to work on?
If you want to work on your own project(with the goal of generating income out of it) then what domain would you like to work in. And if you are looking for someone to work with, then what skill-sets/traits do you prefer in your dev buddy?
Saving you a click: leads to an empty signup page with no content to explain what it is.
That's a lot harder to do when fossil fuels benefit from massive subsidies.
I've heard just as many people express the opposite. That because they were used to "having extra money to spend" being a fleeting thing, they threw caution to the wind and overspent after attaining a substantially higher income. That they had never learned about saving before (because they didn't consistently have extra to save), so it never became a habit.

It'd be interesting to see real data on which outcome is actually more common.
It's a lot better than one meal a week. It's all relative :)
Context changes the meaning as you rightfully point out.

Being a broke college student and being a broke adult are wildly different in almost every respect.
Warren Revives Wealth Tax, Citing Pandemic Inequalities
> and also energy storage.

Precisely, that's my point. The costings of the OP ignore that part.
Hello HN!

I made several mistakes with my personal finance and I was struggling to understand how my emotions affect my decisions and learn from my own mistakes.

I wrote a blog post with the source code and giving real examples from my personal experience losing money (in recently GME hahahaha): https://blog.guilatrova.dev/project-profly/

I'm very open to be criticized and to improve. Don't be shy or keep hard thoughts. Share them with me so I can improve. Thank you!
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HELOC, HELOC again[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_equity_line_of_credit

(As The Cars might say: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3mjTpZk3Ao)
I can see why you'd think that, but knowing Jakob, respectfully, you're wrong.

Jakob shares authentically. Not with the primary goal of building an audience to sell stuff to, but because it's natural for him.

His particular brand of learning in public and making connections with others on similar journeys is appealing to me. I worked very privately in my last business as a solo founder. It wasn't sustainable.

I've learnt a lot from how Jakob works. Am I the audience? What is an audience? Is your best friend? Your parents? Your team? What I take out of it is how to make genuine connections instead of inauthentic re-hashed tweets.
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Every time I look at MacOS (been using it daily for 12+ years) I still feel like it's a toy OS not made for any real work.
> The estimated cost of the Long Island Rail Road project,

> The competing services for infra in NYC are cabs, car pools, private buses, bike rentals, scooters, subways.

You're conflating the infrastructure with the service on top of it. The equal comparison would be railroad project to motorcar roads & bridges. And the latter also have their share of cost overrun stories...

(Also, bridges are the rare case where a ship can compete. But, well, every rule has its exceptions.)

Oh and the fact that it's (even unreasonably) expensive has no bearing at all on the argument. There ain't gonna be some competitor building their own railway line regardless, or especially since the first one was so expensive.
before I try yet another ETL tool. How does this work with datasets that do not come from 3rd party providers like salesforce etc?
I have had to build ETL pipelines for highly customized datasets either row level based or xml with I would say tricky code as the nesting or flows were not so simple and a lot of data missing.

How would Meltano or the other mention tools handle this?

Example is EDIFACT or FHIR or BDT
You might enjoy Scala. It has a range of usable styles, from "concise Java" to "somewhat Haskell-ish with OOP-ier syntax" to "type astronaut", and you can get by anywhere in between (as long as you don't mind hearing others bicker a bit about what people ought to be doing). It can target JVM, JS, and native/LLVM. And, Scala 3 just reached RC stage; it tries to revamp some of the language aspects that people found to be pitfalls or otherwise confusing, so it might be a great opportunity to try it for the first time.
+1 for Elixir. If you like Rust syntax, you should also check out [Gleam], it compiles to Erlang and has full interop w/ Erlang/Elixir.

[Gleam]: https://gleam.run/
Poluation x Goods/Services x Energy/Resource demand x Waste production = Human impact on earth

It seems fairly common to picture the earth heading to an unstable overpopulation but imo this is only a comfortably narrowed down perspective on large scale problems.
Especially for western countries, it is tempting to focus on the global population issue because this is primarily a phenomenon of rural, poor regions, so not their own. The other three mayor factors at play here would unfortunately require to rethink basic economics and this would reach deep down into societies. I suspect some sort of psychological "the others fault" self defense emerging in large. I have to be honest here, i fell for it too at first.

Even if the overpopulation would be the only factor we face, its solution would still be large scale and system questioning because either you throw away any moral standards or you end up creating and distributing wealth in a sustainable way. No, simply the delivery of contraception is no solutions only good healthcare and especially the education of girls/women.
Oh man, does this resonate. I was invited to participate in a panel on doing business as a person making and selling stuff. I build furniture. Early on, while I was still a student, somebody told me that I have to get on Instagram, because "that's where all the woodworkers are" [0].

Also I this panel was a person who makes things that sell at a more impulse purchase price level [1]. One question was about social media strategy. And they were all over how to get the most exposure on Instagram: when to post, how to interact with the app to get ranked higher, how to get your friends to save your posts instead of liking them, how buying stuff from other makers on Instagram and posting it shows how you support the community and helps your brand, etc.

I had so many questions I didn't ask: how much time does all this gramming take? How much money do you actually make? Do you actually sell anything via Instagram?

Of the woodworkers I know personally, exactly one has gotten any business via Instagram. I'm sure some of the really instafamous ones get work, but it's a long way to the top. I think my time is better spent building furniture and selling via other avenues. I post what I'm doing, but I don't worry too much about it.

I'll be honest: I'm not making software money building furniture. But the business is growing (in revenue and profit terms, I have no desire to manage employees). And I see a path for it being a truly meaningful contributor to our household income in the next year or so [2]. To clarify: it has been modestly profitable the whole way, just not hugely so. A move to a new area in a year with limited opportunities for in-person sales probably set things back a year, but it's still going OK. Picking up some contract jobs has helped with the cash flow immensely.

I don't mean to make any assumptions about anybody else's business, but you've got to be selling a lot of impulse purchase priced items daily to make ends meet. That's a lot of time doing fulfillment and everything else that gets product in the customer's hands and money in your pocket and less time making things. Maybe they've found a way to make it work, but I had to wonder if they have more audience than business.

I'm not asserting that this is case for that business. It's not, however, a way I see a profit in. Thinking this way probably ensures I'll never be big time, but that's OK. Meaningfully profitable is my goal with this.

[0] Yeah, I know. Fuck that: I need to be where the people with money are. Still I've learned a lot from other people's posts, gotten good feedback, and if we're honest, the imaginary internet points are nice when you don't see another soul in the shop for days at a stretch. It's good to know other people are enjoying my work.

[1] Details elided for reasons that will soon be obvious.

[2] I'm the meantime, there's that old joke: What do you call a drummer without a girlfriend? Homeless.
I wouldn't call it prudent to go all-in on any cloud service, whether it's Github (both for VCS and CI/CD), AWS, or moving your entire office suite onto Google Workspace.

You should be able to run your test suite and deploy locally, CI is all about automating the process and utilising remote resources rather than your bogging down your dev machine.
Do you actually believe the number of doses would be an arbitrary decision? The effectiveness has been tested at different intervals after each dose. The manufacturing and logistics change dramatically when there is more than one dose. If one dose was needed the vaccinations could be mostly done in spring instead of through the summer.

I can't believe anyone would actually think something so crucial would be chosen arbitrarily or on a whim.
Or firmware versions
The effects of climate change are expected to be gradually increasing frequency and severity of extreme events. So that's not too hard to calculate probabilities for on the time scale of typical house insurance policies that are renewed annually. It's not going to be one giant storm that takes everyone by surprise.
It's possible - but you'll end up reinventing nearly every step of the IC design process, which will cost a lot.
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It should work although it's not user friendly. If you did the sign up you should receive an email, after confirming you can sign in straight.

If you don't wish to create an account, please, use this instead:

user: guilatrova-local
pass: yUY2Z9vS3xiz
> Attribution is trivial and left as an exercise to the reader.

Huh? It isn't to me. Can someone clarify on this?

Also:

- To what extend is this fixed by the mitigations which the kernel provides [0] for the Intel bugs? What do I have to add to my kernel command line?

- Where did he get the binary from? VirusTotal doesn't allow arbitrary people to download binaries which someone else uploaded, does it?

[0] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/hw-vuln/i...
Lync was MSN and was fairly popular and Skype for business was an evolution of the Lync client not the Skype client. So Microsoft did actually pick MSN. They just kept the stronger brand. Also it always had chat history.

Teams is a different beast and a natural evolution. It's mostly centered around meetings and group chat which makes sense because that's what pro users actually want.
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Not gonna happen.

This is a popular idea, I think people are a bit deluded by the fact that Wind+Solar got so cheap. Don't get me wrong: This is great. We'll likely be able to get rid of fossil-based electricity simply due to costs (even though it's too slow).

But it's simply not plausible that you will find a cheaper technology in every area.

Finding a way to fly a plane without carbon emissions is a challenge to begin with. Doing it cheaper than with kerosene - there isn't even a faint of an idea how to do that.

In some areas like cement the only option seems to be carbon capture and storage. There's no way whatsoever that a cement plant + a ccs plant is cheaper than a cement plant alone.
There's definitely an American perspective there, where few cities have decent transit, let alone good transit. But you're not gonna escape the car problems in the states by moving to a smaller town. If anything, that usually makes things worse.
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Forced to install third party software for a basic OS functionality? Nah.
Growing up in NYC, AIM was how I communicated with all my friends. It was very popular at the turn of the century (of the 21st century).
I did not think that simple municipal sports would be taken in by data collection contracts. But it does sound like that is what happened.

Having been a victim of "sports dad turned coach" while growing up, pretty much every team and league, I cannot be surprised that a group of them decided your data was fair game.
I used to create Android apps and had quite a few apps listed on Google Play. I never made any money.

I was disheartened and started teaching coding on YouTube.

I have more subscribers than the number of downloads my apps have ever got and made almost $3K from teaching coding.
I find it interesting to read articles like this one, on one hand I see it as being written by a person with nobel intentions but then they bring politics, race and poverty into the story, conflate them all with "conspiracy" and other "leftist" buzz words, and leave me wondering if this is just more anti-"Young Republican" propaganda.

As long as there is a shortage of vaccines to meet the demand, why are we concerned with convincing skeptics to get the jab? There may in the future be a time to impose your will upon the skeptical but to opine about that now is kind of off putting and feeds the "Crooked Fake News Elitist" false narrative.
It would not have been very difficult to pivot AIM into making money. First you add social media style profiles, then ads, then integrations, then feeds... none of this would have relied on mobile. Facebook didn't rely on mobile for many years after formation - the iPhone came out a couple of years after facebook did, and it took a few more years before smartphones saturated the market.

Of course, it's easy to say this today having seen the result. But aol in particular was familiar with ad-driven business; they should have had the appropriate resources to anticipate the potential of their businesses.
The “asynchronous” chat apps are designed to basically be synchronous. And aggressively so.

That’s why you have that aggressive red notification badge with the number of unread messages that your brain requires you to get rid of. That’s why when someone sends you a message, the default is to aggressively slide a notification with the message no matter what you’re doing.
Seems to work fine in Japan for railways - there are three different rail connections from Tokyo to the Narita International Airport for example, each run by a different company (at the same time, we have 0 rail/subway connections to the Prague Airport:P).

Same thing in many other places - in Kyoto there is big and nicely build station by JR and, Transport Tycon style 200 meters from it another big station by IIRC Kintetsu.

Or in the middle of Tokyo, the Minami Senju station is effectively three station - One on the JR Joban line, one on Tokyo Metro and deep bellow another one on the Tsukuba express line.

So its definitelydoable, even in the most densely populated of places, at least with rail.

Also when you compare with places that have little to no competitionon the rail network you can clearly see the lack of service quality resulting from that. Well, if you get any service at all. :P
Ask HN: What tools do you use to write techinal documents
In such common cases as

- writing specifications for new software

- writing documentation for a client on how to use software and/or how it architechured internally

- writing an API reference with usage examples

I've seen most of times people use just a plain Google Documents/Word file and share it. Some write markdown files and convert to HTML/PDF. Nowadays many start to use Notion too.

But I feel like those tools are not featured enough. Like, what good technical docs can be without some squares and arrows?

I want to be able to:

- split my documentation into tree-like structure of sections/pages, add linking between them and even include blocks from one page to another

- add and edit right in-place: diagrams, mindmaps and other schemes (PlantUML is my loved choice, but drag-n-dropping mouse-clicking editor if fine too), tables and charts (with referencing external sources like CSV), math notation (LaTeX)

- connect it somehow to code repository, so I can reference classes, function names and signatures, code parts -- main reason here is when I refactor the code, documentation is updated on commit, and therefore always kept is sync.

- all done with WYSIWIG in web, so I can easily share work in progress with my (maybe less technical) coworkers, so they can edit too or leave comments.

For me, there is AsciiDoc, which is less-known alternative to markdown, having a lots of features out of the box (plantuml and other embedding, better tables, etc). But hard to collaborate - you can only preview it locally; syncing changes only via storing it in git; other writers should be familiar with syntax too.
And there is still Notion, which is very easy to collaborate on, but not extendable, so I need to copy-paste my diagrams as pictures from somewhere else.

I still struggle to find something like a mix of those two, and I wonder if I'm alone on this. Is this because my use-case is rare? Or do others too feel a lack of such tool?

What do you use?
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> You are just missing that modern instant messassing plateforms have little in common with AIM and MSN.

I'm not sure I follow your reasoning. AIM could have created a great mobile app with new features a la whatsapp et al, a new OSCAR protocol that was backwards compatible, and had a huge base of mobile users.

Hindsight is 20/20, but it sounds like you're saying that even with hindsight closing AIM was the right call.
AIM was all my IRL friends, I met a few people from IRC over my 15+ years on it but ICQ and IRC were "internet friends" to me. AIM was huge when I was in middle/hs in the late 90/2000s.
So who is paying who? Am I just transferring money from my 401k to someone else’s and then they transfer it back since we both own shares in index funds?

Going to $0.00 is plenty of incentive for shareholders to demand accountability. It makes no sense to me to somehow go even lower than that. And why would shareholders be specifically punished but not creditors? If there is some liability claim how are shareholders not just equally responsible as everyone else including creditors? If Joe down the street buys a share of Enron he’s going to get sued? If Jane who works as the company nurse owns stock is she now getting sued? How does she with her 10 shares effectively make management “less fraudulent”? What leverage?

C’mon.

When a company goes bust or bad things happen, shareholders everywhere lose their investment. That’s a big enough deal as it is.

> If everyone involved with the company would be personally liable...

Liable for what? Are creditors suing shareholders for losses? I guess banks won’t hold shares of companies because then they’d just be suing themselves.

If a company “does damages” and the government failed to regulate the company properly can we sue the government too? What about suppliers? Why draw the line at shares? Maybe everyone who was ever paid by the company should be held liable?

What you’re proposing here could use some work. You’re trying to create a system of infinite liability that just doesn’t make much sense.
And the same management team stays in place coming out of bankruptcy. Capitalism is a complete joke. But we got ten varieties of Cheerios so there’s that.
Nope, IBM z still has language environments, and I call all of them mainframes, instead of precise definitions, because everyone without experience has a vague idea what a mainframe is, whereas midrange systems, most likely requires a Wikipedia visit for most of the audience.
I think GP was suggesting each person runs their own computer. So,

>someone stopping maintenance of a private server

Would only mean that that specific person was unreachable. Everyone else could carry on like nothing had happened.
Love these cameras. The Agat 18k is a marvel!