skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very cool. Don't take this as criticism, I am just curious, what do you get out of React with this?

You have written a lot of it in pure JS so I can see you're not using it as a crutch, but I am not familiar enough with React at it's edges to know why you would bring it in to the toolbelt here.
Ask your question to the average person and imagine their response.

It's because nobody is thinking about the starships, for better or worse. People are bad enough at dealing with today's problems.
That's the other thing. Pretty much every tutorial I find is front-end web development, which I understand is most of what we interact with on a computer, but not especially appealing to me (fiddling with CSS doesn't feel like programming). The intro classes I took were Java, IDL (computational astrophysics, learning to solve ODEs) and also Javascript via HTML5 Canvas (a really fun class on chaos theory and fractal art). I got all As and thought it was easy. Beyond that, learning on my own, it got really hard really fast and I didn't know what to do.

I'm interested in iOS app development but that requires a Mac. I'm probably gonna grab an M1 Mac Mini.

I've tried CS50, got most of the way through it but it's tough to be motivated by self-guided courses when I'm not forced to do it. I was able to do the first week or so of Advent of Code before it got way too tough. I love self learning mostly, but for programming it did help to have lectures, grades, and office hours. I have choice paralysis where I just dabble in all sorts of things and don't know what to commit to.
Maybe, but occam's razor and all. This grand genius of deception and misdirection is more tv show and movie than real life.
Honestly, I was put off by the early marketing hullabaloo, so I haven't looked closely. What's most problematic in my mind is that from what I've seen, I don't feel that the V lead is as forthcoming about issues and limitations as other project leads are. I'd much rather talk to a project lead that will give it to me straight if their stuff doesn't work.

From a technical perspective, my understanding is that V similar to Nim, in the sense that it compiles to C source code. That's fine and all, but IMHO, zig has a huge leg up in this area because it does first class cross compilation of C source code to binary form. To my knowledge, no other tool does this (other than maybe cosmopolitan, if you ignore everything outside posix...)

If I were to use V, I'd probably end up using `zig cc` as the `cc` for it
Sanako – Sanako provides software tools for language teachers
Nope. I was at a company with a $1M dedicated spend contract w/ GCP and what that got us was support through a VAR. It then became the VAR’s job to file support tickets that took two weeks to get the response “oh well that’s now how we do it at Google. Have you read these docs you already said you read and can you send logs you already sent?” instead of my job to do that.
Their SLA is 99.99 for most services. I know aws just recently had an outage for a couple of hours. Normal for cloud computing businesses
Transmission lines and storage.

There are multiple 2500km transmission lines in use today. They are relatively cheap to build and solve almost all the intermitency issues.

China has a few over 3000km long already, eg: https://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/the-smarter-grid... and there is a 4500km long line planned for Australia to Singapore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia%E2%80%93ASEAN_Power_...
From the numbers we saw during the Texas power outage, the amount of batteries required would be mind-boggling.

Lots of places do not have the geography required for pumped storage, or it is already fully exploited (building a new dam is also an environmental disaster)

Molten salt also still seems to be in it's infancy.

The most practical solution I could see today to live without baseline power would be to build a massive inter-continental HVDC grid. Large grids have a tendency to be fragile and have catastrophic failures though.
> but I can't see myself ever using a plain-text recipe with no clue as to who the author is and no reason to suspect that they know what they're talking about.

Isn't this how recipes - outside of friends and family - have worked forever?

Celebrity chefs are the minority. People normally just Google "air fryer fried okra" and click on one of the first three.

A meandering SEO tale doesn't prove this person cook, it proves they know how to game Google.
Only if you use the "smart" features. If you don't want ads, get a Shield or Apple TV.
Looks like a corporate rip off of the original tripsit wiki, which is much better - https://wiki.tripsit.me/wiki/Main_Page
You could submit a pull request
What Was Artificial Intelligence Like in 1985? Ask Little Computer People
yeah video and image would be good supplementary content
Those who did poorly at school, love to use this trite cliche.

Even when we're not even talking about teachers.
Thank you. Many of them are interactive, even video games and cpu intensive. I would definitely recommend viewing/interacting with them on a desktop or a laptop.
What made it "fast"? Were your workloads properly optimized previously?
I have felt this for a long time online any time nuclear is brought up. It’s very uncanny valley feeling. I can tell the difference between people that like nuclear and people that are paid to really like nuclear and attack anyone that says otherwise. What entity would pay for this online nuclear army I wonder?
If I have extra space in my home, why wouldn't I just Airbnb it out? The guest can work there if they want, sure. But I doubt they want to pay as much as someone on holiday.
This is a misconception, GPLv2 also has the requirement that you receive "the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable". The position of the Software Freedom Conservancy is certainly that the user be given the freedom to replace the Linux kernel.
Err... natural gas (the largest component of current U.S. power generation) is produced by the exact same big oil companies, for the most part. The three largest natural gas producers in the United States are ExxonMobil, BP, and ConocoPhillips.

Also, before the Arab Oil Embargo hit in 1973 (causing oil prices to skyrocket) a significant amount (though not a majority by any means) of the U.S. electric grid was oil-fired.
Blob drivers are generally a violation of the GPL license.
This reads like an American Psycho monologue (no offense).
Modern blog-y recipe websites do tend to go and on about things I really do not care about (e.g. the worst I've seen is a recipe that included 68 wedding pictures before anything related to the recipe came up [0]), but they also tend to include some helpful hints/tips/pictures of some of the techniques used.

There's a good middle point to be struck between the starkly minimalist based.cooking and the excessively backstory heavy recipe blogs.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20180522221942/https://adventure... (author has since pared back the number of images; see https://adventuresincooking.com/spiced-pear-bundt-cake-with-... )
You build a big grid. Wind won't be light everywhere.
Load is lower at night, so lack of sunlight is less of an issue.
Maybe people start placing battery packs in their homes. Battery technology has seen large investments over the past decade and performance is better than ever.
When demand is high, inexpensive natural gas can be turned on quickly.

There are a lot of options, almost all of them less expensive than nuclear. That's my point, traditionally nuclear was good for baseline and renewable doesn't have a comparable equivalent apart from hydro. But other renewables like wind are getting to be so efficient and inexpensive, that I don't see how building an excess of it can't compete with nuclear.
The reason storing nuclear waste is expensive is because you don't want people to be able to get to it and you don't want it to escape if something goes wrong (ie, a flood).

Strapping it on a bomb to push it to the moon is obviously never going to happen, no matter how many successful launches SpaceX has.
I also became frustrated with recipes sites and made my own: https://nononsense.recipes - free to browse, or you can make an account to add your own recipes, curate a list of favorites, and leave and read comments.
> Only Based cooking.

Can someone shed light on what "based cooking" is? It's rather tricky to Google for and am unable to figure out what the site's author means by that.
It still used but who saw save icon at the first time has never seen such legacy systems.
I would guess prefab will absolutely not make this better, the pipes are still hidden but probably inside the walls rather than behind cabinets...
I’ll stick to reading the many other decent recipe sites, thanks. Kitchn has probably worked best for me so far.
The fact that the title of this article contains "teaser" suggests there might be a second part that explains the cause... but based on the symptoms so far, bug is almost certainly in the preprocessing stage.

I happen to have an extremely old version of Tesseract that I used in a project long ago, so out of curiosity decided to try it on the article's image. It's old enough that it didn't support anything but 8bpp or less BMP input, so I had to convert the PNG to a 256-color BMP, which resulted in the following output when I fed it to Tesseract:

TUE 03/@4/2018
BBC TWO
1W 8:30
Oh30m (mt]

Pretty miserable result, but no mysterious extra line either.
LG's use of the Linux kernel in WebOS means that you have at minimum the right to replace the Linux kernel on your device, otherwise LG are in violation of the GNU GPL and cannot distribute Linux as part of WebOS.
Same initial thought. Again, not to take anything away from the coolness of raycasting.
For a lot of sites I might agree, but I think individual user experiences and variations provide a lot of value on a cooking site
> the techniques and background are incredibly important

As someone who admittedly loathes _and_ is bad at cooking - it sounds like you are describing a combination recipe book _and_ cooking-instruction/cooking-history book. I wonder if people are frustrated because the two are getting conflated - they _just_ want the recipe, but they are being given both recipes and background?
Only YouTube works on mobile. Desktop supports various sources such as Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo and more.
> If you look at the data in aggragate, I believe you'll find that there's a disparity even when controlling for factors like that.

I’m almost certain that this isn’t the case. I think the crime rate alone accounts for the whole disparity and then some. I’ll dig up sources when I have more time. My best steel man is that police are profiling blacks in their killings; blacks do commit more crimes, but whether or not a particular black person commits crimes may not feature strongly in whether or not he is likely to be killed by police. In any case, the more important detail is that we didn’t even talk about it. Anyone who suggested as much was immediately dismissed as a racist; the media never even entertained the question.

> British police don't carry firearms in the general case so obviously police deaths aren't a large issue for British BLM, but there's still very much a racial disparity in justice system encounters that still exists despite controlling for the kinds of factors you listed previously. Different sentences for the same crime kind of stuff.

Perhaps, but it’s very strange to me that the U.K. would respond to subtler forms of alleged discrimination the similarly to how the US responded to graphic videos of black men being killed by police. I won’t argue the point since it’s all speculation either way.
Why do you believe it happens in the absence of evidence?
> The first thing human beings did after discovering nuclear energy was use it for mass murder, and we're still using it to create weapons.

Unlike fire, which of course has never been used to kill anybody.
People simply know that AWS isn't going anywhere. It's the Microsoft Windows of the cloud world. Google has a long history of dropping stuff relatively quickly.
Taylor Lorenz and the decade of work that made her an overnight success story
License-Plate Scans Aid Crime-Solving but Spur Little Privacy Debate
You're right about the last bit, I'm really frustrated by people who say "Math isn't for me!" because for me, I love math, as long as I have a good teacher. If I have a bad teacher, though, which isn't uncommon, it's a nightmare. I can't learn higher-level math when it's just a series of proof, corollary, lemma, whatever, without any motivation. I have trouble picking what things I want to study with CS, because it's all interesting. Too much breadth, not enough depth. I still haven't figured what's best for me. I probably have ADHD but haven't taken any medicine for it; maybe that'd help. I trip over the details and I know I'll get it if I keep at it but I have to keep looking up syntax and it drives me crazy. I've liked Python because of the simplicity. But then I want to learn the nitty gritty of architecture and systems programming, and people tell me not to waste my time and focus on the higher-level stuff.
Ask HN: Expedia for Funeral Homes
We are building Expedia.com for funeral homes (YC 2021).

1) Would you plan your funeral online?
2) Would you be interested in comparing different funeral homes and packages?
3) Would you buy an urn or casket online?
A friend of mine who frequents recipe sites pointed out to me once how often the comments are some variation of "I made this except I didn't have any X, Y, or Z so I used M, N, and O", which is great for them but it doesn't really tell you if the recipe, as written, is any good.
Until you get to site and things don’t quite fit, then the installer bodges it or you wait 3 weeks for the factory to make a new bit. Making stuff on site isn’t as subject to disasters.
The site doesn't work with Adblock or NextDNS, turning off both causes my CPU temperature shoot up to 70C. Scrolling is Janky.
It ain't exclusively a Gmail thing - other mailservers support it, too - but Gmail was indeed an early adopter of it, I believe.
The apps on LG TVs work surprisingly well. I would avoid them for the advertising and tracking concerns, but I just want to point out that the quality has vastly improved since the earliest smart TVs.
Neither the video nor URL in other comments mentions what caused collapse. Pretty confusing.
It's not like you're buying a high end blu ray player and a hifi system built into smart TVs, the player hardware is probably similar to a raspberry pi in cost and complexity.
Ethernet over HDMI is definitely a real thing. Someone else would have to comment on whether it's enabled by default on various devices, and which devices are capable of acting as a gateway vs client.
Valid point. Root cause attribution is still problematic.

My problem with the narrative is two fold:

[1] Assigning the "cause" of the 737Max fiasco to culture instead of plain hubris, complacency, etc.

[2] Even if [1] is true, attributing the culture shift to the McDoug merger. There is simply no way to test/falsify it. It becomes purely a narrative.

Even if McDoug was a financial engineering company first and foremost where is the counterfactual that Boeing would not have arrived here anyways?

Are there other great engineering organizations that have arrived in a dysfunctional place without an infusion of alien culture. Look at NASA, what was the financial engineering culture that enforced a launch at any cost mindset?

McDoug culture as the culprit in the 737Max disaster is a fanciful narrative, an adult version of the tooth fairy and santa claus.

Fanciful narratives are fine but here they are being used to exonerate Boeing by blame shifting.
I just can't believe how complex they made ipv6.
Mmmmh does spatialite use it? I guess yes. Spatialite is great even though the queries are a little tedious.
I don’t think that’s an Oracle issue. Had my credit card locked out after some tries recently, maybe try another?
Unless it's something I never tried to make before and isn't like anything I have tried before, I just want an ingredient list and the directions with a color pic of the final dish to entice me.

When deciding between competing recipes I want the ingredient list and a pic of the final product to decide.

I don't want to have to browse and search through the clutter of irrelevant things. I like Punchfork[1] for this. Easy to search, it presents the ingredient list and a pic then you can click through to the site for the instructions --unfortunately the actual sites are usually cluttered with few exceptions.

[1] https://www.punchfork.com/
Can someone clarify the slang 'based'?
> So after a few decades or so, the most deadly waste has decayed.

Yes. "Long half-life" = "less radioactive". By definition.
My thoughts in order:

1. Read title
2. But why?
3. Click link
4. No <canvas> tag? Just html and react? How?
5. Open demo
6. Inspect elements
7. Oh... Gentle chuckle. But why?
8. Remembers Atwood's Law
That press release doesn't say anything about Google signing an SLA that commits them to 10 years of service availability.
Defined here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lil_B#Artistry
Couldn't agree more. A good cookbook is well laid out and organized in a logical manner, rather than organized to optimize search rankings.

And while I'm grateful for youtube, blogs, reddit, etc for reducing the barriers for folks to share information about topics like cooking and home improvement, they've also taught me to appreciate a good editor.
Yes, exactly this. Also, I have only flown these on Emirates and they are great with a kid.
Total loss of EU servers during the OVH data centre fire
"Based" is a specific online subculture slang for something wholly positive, the opposite of "cringe".
Wow! Never mind!
Here's the backstory to why this was made:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvDyQUpaFf4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY70NCW98Is
If you find this sort of thing interesting, I implemented a "Portal" raycasting engine akin to Valves portal game. You can read more about how it works here: https://github.com/gh123man/Portal-Raycaster
> it's hard to argue against the significant advances made by renewables over the past few years.

I don't think it's that hard to argue that we should have been building nuclear plants en-masse 30 years ago, and that resistance to this has lead to immeasurable damage to our biosphere. And that continued resistance will result in even more damage. No projections for renewables is fast enough to meet the gap.

https://ourworldindata.org/energy-mix

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/01/15/renewable-e...

Nuclear is increasingly the only option for meeting climate targets quickly enough to save our biosphere.
it's not simply conflict, but value-laden judgement and manipulative framings to try to coerce, not invite, agreement.
Sounds like someone needs to make an aggregator that shows only brief auto-generated summaries, no headlines or images.
I think they are planning to pay comcast/xfinity and others for bandwidth off the home router hotspots in an automated way.

So if your neighbor is on that type of program the TV can piggyback on your or their hotspot and push back the analytics / get the ads. That's probably a pretty low cost way to solve the not plugged in or piholed issues.
This is why most people's cooking sucks.

It's not that recipes with meandering SEO tales necessarily have better recipes. It's that recipes without any explanation usually suck. If you pick something with a meandering SEO tale, it _might_ not be terrible. Possibly not terrible is better than definitely terrible.
The word "based" in slang has come to mean "not caring what others think", usually applied to being outrageous, controversial, or in some cases just outright offensive. So based cooking would be "I cook what I want". I offer up, as an example, "sketti": https://www.bakespace.com/recipes/detail/Honey-Boo-Boo-Skett... as "based" cooking.
Nope, people got recipes from books and magazines, which were considered reliable gatekeepers.

Looking back at some of the gelatin casseroles of the 60s, of course, casts doubt on some of that reliability.
What is is this? 1994?
The idea of giving up on GCP because it wasn’t the highest profit cloud provider is an interesting idea, I honestly don’t believe it. As if there would be a call. “we’re only number 2 in cloud computing so we are shutting down”. Does google really make that kind of decision. It feels like giving up on the internet because they didn’t win.
Fair enough. I agree 8x for IPv4 would be hard to swallow.

In either case, having the interning wrapped up in a reusable library is great.
I think google knows that if GCP were to fail that their stock would drop like a rock and take years to recover. The Cloud is the present (and the future).
Except most readers don't go on to actually read much of the article. One of the problems I have with NYTimes (and others) is that the contents of an article, especially if you read the full story, are often times quite different than the assumption the headlines is implying. Afterall, who really has 20 minutes to spend long-form reading a single article? Better for the publication to just tell you what you need to think with a simple 10 syllable headline. (I'm joking here, but think it's a valid observation on others around me consuming the media).

The other problem I have, and why I stopped subscribing to them was their app was terrible and mostly only promoted opinion pieces to me. In fact, I'd love the OP of the story to study how many of the top 10 articles are opinion pieces at any piece of time.
Yeah, sometimes at least basic images are incredibly helpful. First time I tried to make mac and cheese from scratch I struggled finding decent instructions on how to make the roux as I had never made or seen a roux before. Eventually I kinda figured it out after piecing together pictures from like 4-5 recipe sites.
I need to run Postgres in production soon and have been trying to decide between AWS RDS multi-AZ (non-Aurora) and Google Cloud SQL HA. I have some experience with RDS, and from the documentation, Cloud SQL seems very similar.

What's worse about Google Cloud SQL?
Asteroid dust helped us prove life's raw ingredients can evolve in outer space
I'm still not connecting the dots. If nuclear succeeds, then it makes Elon look bad? Buying nuclear stocks doesn't help the nuclear companies unless they're making secondary offerings. If nuclear success makes Elon look bad, then maybe VC funding would be the way to go, but I'm not sure there's much overlap between people with influence in VC funds and hedge fund managers who were big Tesla shorts.

Something really doesn't make sense here, but there aren't enough details in your post to tell if fund managers are really being that irrational, or if the post itself just doesn't make sense.