skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has been public knowledge for years. Github Actions has been based on Azure Devops Pipelines since mid-2019 when it became a full CI/CD solution instead of just performing task automation.

https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/specifications-...

> The GitHub-hosted runner application is a fork of the Azure Pipelines Agent.

There was a related discussion on reddit at the time:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/cnoq0q/github_...

It allowed Github to get spun up quickly with a competitor for Gitlab's CI/CD, and the community was asking for actions to become a CI/CD solution, so taking advantage of pre-existing infrastructure seems like a win-win for everyone. I don't see why they'd bother going to the effort of reinventing the wheel.
> the kids are wearing Nikes and playing on iphones.

This is investment. If your kids are socially rejected at school and can't get on the internet, are they going to be better off in the long term or worse off?

If you are poor, looking poor is not going to help you up, it's going to drive you farther into poverty. It's the same impulse that makes lower-middle class parents go into debt to put braces on their kids' perfectly functional teeth (in the US.) Your kids are going to have to impress fellow students, charm their teachers, get into colleges, and interview for jobs. A bunch of people who don't see class are going to see your crooked teeth.
All that you needed to break down was the car failing, or someone falling sick.

Minimum wage in the US hasn't kept pace with inflation for decades, and rents, school fees and the costs of medication have kept rising even faster. Banks charge even higher overdraft fees, so the small joys of a pair of branded shoes or a fancy phone are affordable, but the longer term gains aren't likely to be in reach.

Escaping poverty needs 20 years of everything going right. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/04/economi...
Europe and US would still not have an ideological high ground even if they fully decommissioned coal. They built their wealth on coal, so from the perspective of BRIC and other still-industrializing countries they would (and in fact already do) appear like they are just trying to pull up the drawbridge. Pressuring developing countries to stop using coal is a lost cause, and will only increase enmity.

What we really have to do is to make alternatives so cheap and reliable, that coal looks like the stupid choice. Renewables can even be sold to certain poor areas (like deserts) as a great chance for an economic leap.
Near future novel “Klara and the Sun” by Ishiguro coming out 2/3
What business has this "Jacob" built that makes him an authority on the subject and not just another dream-seller without any successful companies behind him?

Isn't this article _exactly_ what he's arguing against - this is 100% audience building and i can't even se any "business" whatsoever on his website?

Reminds me of the hold Bill Hicks "Anti Marketing Dollar" joke about selling the same things rebranded as opposing views.
Just follow these tutorials, https://learnopengl.com/
There aren't "western" or "eastern" or "southern" scientists.

There are just scientists.

And deal with that chip.
A counterpoint - You then get jerry built high rises built to minimum standards and smaller rooms which leads to tragedy's like Grenfell tower.

Also with covid and the rise of home working you know what people realy realy want? a second room for an office and a Garden (Yard).
A dark time of my city. If one can so successful to kill a liberal city to a totalitarian one, right in front of the world ...
South-eastern Mediterranean situation was caused by repeating drought since 2006 collapsing their agricultural production. A drought in 2010 in Russia reduced their grain production by 30% and doubled the price of grain during the winter 2010-2011: it was basically a death sentence to already famished people in some African countries (Centrafrique, but also Sudan at the time), but what wasn't expected was the price of oil declining sharply, making Syria, Lybia, Tunisia and Egypt and Algeria less solvent. Algeria managed, but other countries less so. What do you think these countries have in common?
Top of page: "Build a Business, Not an Audience".

Bottom of page: "Powered by ConvertKit".

(I do think the author is genuine in his point; I just found that juxtaposition funny.)
What's worse is that Taiwan will be next. Anyone who's counting on UN stepping in and preventing it is just fooling themselves.
Ghana’s President is first leader to take the Covax vaccine
Chinese tech companies nickname obsession
Do they benefit from wages paid by the company? Why do you draw the line at shares???
Microfulfillment, retail's future, is hiding inside malls
It doesn't matter, when they aren't surfaced that way to the user.
https://www.energymeteo.com/about_us/jobs.php

> An exciting and ambitious job in a young company with horizontal hierarchies and flexible working hours awaits you. Here you will find a motivating environment where your ideas are welcome. In our dynamic team, you will be able to expand your practical knowledge and promote your personal development. You will get an insight into the growing renewable energy market and you will also be able to demonstrate your skills in the company's foosball table.
Please do write about other rabbit holes too.. ..If not a long form article, a short compilation of the holes (and links if you can find the time to get them) would be very useful.. I've been interested and flirting with haskell for a while, but become too time-poor the last 4-5 years to do anything even hobby level.
I don't think "self hosted" has to mean "can access some special internal network". Just put a Threadripper under your desk. Have a coworker do the same for disaster recovery / high availability :)
Craigslist, bah.

Facebook marketplace is where it's at.

A really enjoyable article, though. Thanks to the author.
Well we agree on the education angle. I just think it would be good to do it "in-context". That does require regulation indeed. Maybe the educational system would be a better target.
Fix some bugs - github.com/PecanProject
I completely agree with this sentiment.

Writing good Haskell always seemed harder to me than something like Python. The amount I'd have to think before beginning to type was a lot, but it always seemed worth it, as there was always potential always for a beautiful solution to any problem.

As a result, before I write code in any production language I give a little more thought to what I'm about to write, which I think ends up with a better result.

Heck, even if Haskell just gave a developer an appreciation for basic functional programming, that would be something that will benefit them for years in my view.
I don't think finding that optimum is a hard problem. Convincing the world to abide by it is.
Does this include Hill Climbing ?
Yes, I am a beautiful, sweet, blonde, purring kitty - look at my nice fur - spots you say? Yes, I bleached out the spots, they are showing a little at the roots.
Soon the pelt will show the world the predator it always was.
Elm doesn't have quick list access like that, but it does have Arrays if you need them. Also accessing a list or array returns a Maybe of the contained type, rather than potentially throwing as in Haskell.
Legal Design, a Paradigm Shift
It's marketing speak but they do work in the sector and are expanding afaik.
I disagree. When the cops shoot somebody or kneel on their neck, it dominates the news cycle.

Cop-does-good-deed is in tiny headlines. Cop commits some crime is big news.
I'm a complete noob at all this, si there an easy way to try this out at all? This is an awesome find!
> Where did he get the binary from? VirusTotal doesn't allow arbitrary people to download binaries which someone else uploaded, does it?

Only the people that pay them.
If this cooperative was not the platform, what exactly is the platform being discussed?

Why do you could think one could recreate such a large cooperative like this without much trouble? Isn't the likely outcome of this bankruptcy a sale of assets to private equity: a situation that can probably never be reversed?

What do you think this cooperative did if it was not facilitating the transactions between power plans and consumers? I'm confused by your assertion.
Facebook didn't have chat functionnalities until four years after it's started. AOL might have been able to enter the social network market at the time but the link with instant messaging was far from obvious then.
That wrapper already exists, https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2018/10/31/intr...
I'm a zero to no knowledge on this in terms of implementation, is there like an easy execute at all?
And do fully remote work.
"cash reserves" are on the assets side of the balance. Often in smaller companies and startups they may be the only real asset, so when it runs out, the company is insolvent.

The other aspect to liquidation is cashflow. Sometimes companies have plenty of assets on the book to cover their liabilities, but these can't feasibly be sold in a timely manner to pay the creditors who want their money now.

If the company is healthy, a bank will be willing to offer a bridging loan. But if the company is less-than-healthy, the only option might be liquidation.

I didn't cover this about, because in these cases, the creditors are almost guaranteed to eventually get 100% of their money back.
RC2014 Emulator
I'm very excited for this. When I was working at JPL 7 years ago they were still trying to get approval, and now they get to test it out.

I'm even more excited for the Dragonfly mission with a flying drone on Titan, but that's a long time to wait: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(spacecraft)

I wish we could fund NASA more, make it more risk tolerant, more agile, and more efficient. The Titan boat drone to explore the lakes, last I heard, couldn't be scoped due to resources. Working there requires great patience.
Inside the house been in the dark is not an issue for my dog. Outside he just doesn't feel safe as when he is inside and he needs to be sure there's no danger around him
> Why the hell do you still build single family houses, or one/two floor buildings in areas where you need to fit a bunch of people (eg. both photos in the article)?

Mostly bad regulations like rent control and zoning.
For that to happen, China Italy has to start a war. HK was under control of mainland China since 1997, Taiwan isn’t. They have a separate government.

Similar to South/North Korea.
This question was made for me.

It's not the market; obviously there's demand for higher density housing, and were it allowed, people would make more of it. It's almost always local regulations that make producing such housing difficult, or more commonly, flat out impossible.

Most American residential land is zoned for exclusively large single family homes in big lots. This is true even in most major metro areas. You can read a little bit about this here in this article that compared American zoning with Japanese zoning: https://marketurbanism.com/2019/03/19/why-is-japanese-zoning...

The gist of how it got this way is: racism and classism. The racism used to be more relevant, these days the classism is. You see, if you require that to live in a neighborhood, you must be able to own or rent a property with a minimum amount of land, it's easy to keep out people of lesser economic resources. A poorer family that might be willing to live an apartment in a nicer area will find that no such housing exists there, and being unable to afford a full house, they are excluded, hence the term 'exclusionary zoning'. This also has the effect of keeping those poor kids out of local schools.

So yeah, it's economic segregation that America pretends doesn't count as segregation somehow, even though the effects are plain as day.
Milan prosecutors order food delivery groups to hire riders, fined 733M euros
It's sad that the supposedly passionate activitists and anti fascists in the US and west will do.. nothing.

Peace to the people and spirit of Hong Kong.
Not op but they may mean the term-of-art where a pure function has no internal state and no side effects, so it always has the same outputs given the same inputs. Although it's not technically part of the definition of functional purity, I'd add that's it's nice to have a function whose behavior is defined for every input in the domain.
UN is not preventing China taking over Taiwan. US Navy and Taiwanese F-16s are.
Ease of testing is the most obvious benefit.

A "pure" function is one whose result is simply based on its inputs, no dependency on external state/IO etc. Same inputs, same outputs guaranteed.

These types of functions, are really easy to reason about and unit test. State is often messy.
> improving in capacity at immense rates
There is almost no increase in capacity at least not without making the batteries bigger.
I don’t think so. Taiwan is a whole different ball game and literally has a military to put up some measure of defense.

Hong Kong was legally going back to China at some point. There was no question of that. China accelerated the process.

I certainly have my own opinions on that, but it’s not comparable to Taiwan.

And you’re right about the UN. They won’t do jack. (Remember China and Russia are permanent members). The United States might (alongside strong allies in the region, but maybe not), however. Taiwan is strategic at this point as a source of chip manufacturing among other things. The Chinese won’t do anything.
No need for some fancy blockchain technology here.

You can't move most domains without written consent of the domain owner and you'll have to properly identify yourself before requesting that.

In the end it's about how the registrar handles those things.
Show HN: An online tool for creating user manuals and instructions
Agreed. AOL in particular pioneered stuff like E2E encryption, etc. imo, the early 2000s platforms like AIM, Yahoo, MSN were the pinnacle of the technology, and successors are all worse in material ways.

Today, iMessage is probably the best single messaging platform, which is pitiful because it has key design and UX flaws.

I think in the case of AIM, it existed by virtue of and thrived under corporate neglect. The others withered as the complimentary services withered (Yahoo) or the corporate strategies shifted in inscrutable ways (Microsoft, Google). It was a weird scenario where MS and Goog behaved similarly... Microsoft with their mysterious purchase and subsequent neglect of Skype and Google with their drunken monkey product management process.
Thats why there is a need for a global Carbon Tax/Pricing System. This would internalise the cost of pollution and make engineering solution more important from a market perspective.
Doom Element, shoot the baddies off the page
In your first phot, In my country those sort of buildings would be viewed very negatively, many would expect the people in them to be poor, lower-class, living off benefits etc. There are lots of stereotypes about the sort of people that live in those type of buildings.

People would NOT want that sort of building near their home worried it would lead to more crime, lower property prices etc.

Now, your last modern building. People would pay a small fortune to live in something like that in a trendy area in a city...

They would probably be classed as luxury apartments, come with a large rents or buying costs.
Hack the System: Announcing Skynet – Siacoin Blockchain Hackathon
Dude this is so true, in the US reliable transportation is so important. Particularly given the abysmal, non existent public transportation in the majority of the country. Having an unreliable car is a major source of stress for a lot of people.
https://github.com/sktt/doom_element
Capitalism is the cause of poverty, not what ends it. If you look at the last decade, global poverty outside China has increased. Only within China has it decreased, for now by enough to offset the rest of the world.

The problem is the constant expansion (which comes with warfare and extreme waste) that capitalism mandates.
Why so many people believe in climate catastrophe when multiple times the past climate theories proved to be incorrect?
I really believe we have some world class problems to solve, like ocean pollution, that is a real thing and everybody see it.
But climate catastrophe if really happens will not be something that humans can avoid, our influence in the climate is regional, not global, the world is constant changing since forever, we need to accept it.
What does a developer look for in a new job (except for money)?
That doesn't make sense, saying that the game still managed to be profitable doesn't show that the loss was insignificant. Those loading times are really annoying and detract from the game, and although I can't quantify the loss either I'd be very surprised if it was insignificant.

I'd say especially since the ones who are most likely to be affected by these issues are working adults with limited playtime who won't want to sit in front of their monitor for 5 minutes waiting for the game to load and also happen to be people with disposable income to pour into a game.
You just have to look at Android, where Google had to make compulsory on Android 10 as no one was caring, and still it looks like this after 2 OS releases:

https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards#Vulkan

And if one goes into the spaghetti extension soup that Vulkan carried on from OpenGL, the picture is even more sad.

https://www.vulkan.gpuinfo.org/listdevices.php?platform=andr...

On a platform where Vulkan is nowadays the main 3D API, with a roadmap to run OpenGL on top of it.
Stay in a slum and you'll find those who are more than happy to break the rules if they know they can.

You probably have the mental fortitude to figure out how to fight back on your own. To read the docs, know your position, agreements, and how to take a landlord to court to win.

In low income, people don't know their rights nor do they ever believe that the system could ever be on their side. And, they're not unjustified in that thinking.
Web apps – loading speed optimization
For me it was a similar story, after many years of python I got deep into the functional world with Elm, F#, some Haskell, and then I found out how complete the elixir ecosystem was but even a week later I could not stand going back to a dynamic and untyped languages, perhaps o didn’t insist enough with spec but I couldn’t go much beyond the second week. Did you have extensive usage of functional strong typed languages before elixir or just basic knowledge? Did it really get better that feeling of missing the types after a while? For me the difference feels as deceiving as falling from an full featured IDE to an environment with notepad and no source control and no compiler errors/stacktraces.

And I used to be the python guru at the previous company and made a whole lot of language evangelizing etc, I am afraid there is no way back for me.
Why northern Europe is so indebted
I ran into similar issues when using Rpi with SD cards, but I switched to a bootable SSD and had zero issues since.

If you don't like tinkering with your Rpi I can also recommend the Odroid C4: it has a better GPU and a native eMMC connector so you don't have to fiddle around with SD cards.
Why is this purely political news HN appropriate?
You need to checkout https://climateaction.tech. They've an active German presence and you could find myriad opportunities there.
Split ping for testing asymmetric latency
Amazing idea!
Love shooting down stupid DOOM Elements.

Good shout!
Are you interested in my hamster wheel solution?

I'm not arguing that we should go 100% hamster, but not having it be part of the energy mix going forward is dangerous since we need the diversification of energy sources.
It's not like political organizations don't use IT. They have websites and databases.

More generally, political solutions are important but technical solutions are necessary too.

Bill Gates' new book goes into this in detail, with the concept of a "green premium," the percentage cost increase of going with a carbon-neutral solution in place of whatever we're using now. In some areas of the economy, the premium is quite large, and finding new tech to shrink it would help a lot.

Technical solutions won't make many green solutions cheaper than fossil in the foreseeable future, so we still need politics, but making the expensive stuff more reasonable makes the political task easier.
Giving Ada a Chance
In Switzerland it's a political decision same as Germany it has nothing todo with cost or the ability to run the plants.
Votes start at 1. (For the options, they are probably just reusing the code for comments, that start with 1 point.)
> I wish we could fund NASA more, make it more risk tolerant, more agile, and more efficient. The Titan boat drone to explore the lakes, last I heard, couldn't be scoped due to resources. Working there requires great patience.

I wonder if funding NASA more would mean that the "inventive" ideas get reduced. The limitation of NASA's funding has meant that they've produced ideas and technologies to cover that shortfall in even cheaper ways than possible before, and that might be reduced with a much large budget.
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would you be able to link to the panel you bought off ebay?
We already have the solution: nuclear power.

The rest is the political problem of the anti-science attitude of one party in the US being spread to the rest of the world.
Anything in particular you miss? One of my side projects is something similar to Instapaper/Pocket, it doesn't see as much love as it probably should but brings in a little money.
Really sucks that they didn’t make it compatible with Math functions and other Number types. Even more type checking. Python did the same thing with Decimal at first, and it wasn’t fun to accommodate.
> an explanation of why that's important

There is just none
Second Scala. Great language and most mainstream of all the more advanced languages out there.
Aside from the primary content regarding the hijacking the registrar, I really enjoyed reading about the methodological approach they adopted for tracking information and contacts during the crisis.

But to the primary content - I've been surprised at just how ad-hoc much of the internet backbone infrastructure is as I've learned more about it. The same could be said about the payments processing industry! Beneath all the complexity and sleekness underlying the tools we use every day seems to eventually lie a system of IOUs, with an honor-based resolution mechanism between sufficiently trustworthy entities.
It doesn't need to happen in every area. It just needs to happen in enough areas that the carbon output is brought below a threshold that the environment can safely absorb.

Sure, maybe you can't make efficient electric planes. But maybe you can replace 90% of short range flights with trains and make electric planes unnecessary.
I helped a client cut down 90% of server costs with MySQL
The sensor stories behind the Mars Perseverance images
> I get that this goes against your preference

This is not just my preference. This is how mouse scroll wheels have always worked. The settings for scroll wheel and track pad scrolling are shown separately too, in apples own software. You'd never know looking at it that they are linked internally. If it is a single setting, it should be a single setting!

> Apple software and native macOS apps always use the Cmd key as the primary modifier, only adding others for more complicated shortcuts.

Is switching to next tab in safari also a "complicated shortcut"? Because that uses Ctrl too.
I agree in large part, but Hong Kong is closely connected to the electronics industry and impact many tech companies and start ups.
I'm also writing my own Scheme-like language in Zig, which will be used mainly for scripting in my game engine. The simplicity of Zig + Lisp is godsent. (all experimental, just a hobby, no production purpose)
Enabling Developer Velocity