skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I say let’s try it! Do a gun buy back. Ban new sales of assault rifles and high capacity magazines; institute longer more invasive (effective?) background checks (have a buyer have to see a shrink before buying? Makes sense to me.)

Before moving to Germany I owned some guns for sport: my friends and I would go into the mountains to designated shooting areas and do target practice. If the hoops to get a gun were increased 10 fold it wouldn’t effect me at all.
Maybe it's best read as not mutually exclusive. There seem to be ships that can also carry ships.
A problem for Zig is the combination of unsigned overflow UB, implicit widening and always performing operations on the type size of the operands.

For example, let’s say you have `a = b + c` with b/c being i8 and a i32. This calculation is first performed as an 8 bit add, then extended to 32 bits. This is true for both Rust and Zig, but Rust requires an explicit cast to widen the result of `b + c`, making it obvious that an extension happens and that `b + c` is not performed in 32 bits. In Zig there is no such indication- you need to look up the definition of b and c. Other problems occur as well, that both C and Rust avoid in their own ways. Hopefully Zig can improve this situation.

See more here: https://c3.handmade.network/blogs/p/7651-overflow_trapping_i...
What's so great about Knime?
I wrote a React electron app that starts all our companies microservices on a single laptop and docker images for databases (which has our canned test data). It runs like 15 things and you have the entire application running in about 12 seconds. (most of the waiting time is mysql/mongo/memcached/rabbit starting up slowly in docker). You can also grab the PID of one of the services it displays and throw it in VSCode for debugging (since it's all node). It also makes a bunch of recommendations like - git pull, change branch (if there are changes), open vscode, open Azure Devop's PR page.

All of the crazy microtasks our team has shackled ourselves to into are handled by this app.

It's fine now, but I would never ever ever ever in a million years recommend microservices to a team of 6 developers.
There are no Hindu countries presently.
>I'm curious how Israel out-did us though.

They paid more.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-will-reportedly-pay-mor...
It seems absurd to make the default behavior incorrect because older cheap calculators did the wrong thing. This isn't like making an incompatible change to a programming language to fix an incorrect behavior, this is more like if the designer of a new programming language decided to make 1+2*3 give nine because his cheap desktop calculator did the same.
I don't see the problem with this number. Scotland (seen as a separate energy economy) sometimes exports energy to England and Wales, sometimes imports it. Scotland's production of renewable energy, considered in total MWh, represents 97% of its consumption of all electrical energy. Clearly, in dollar value, the number is smaller since they usually export at times of low prices and import at times of higher prices. That isn't the comparison that's being made.
The site was a broken web 2.0 mess. This is what caused the most dissatisfaction.

How things were sorted on the main page, obstensively to stop from getting botted, was a secondary concern as most people just read and don't comment.
This comment bugs me.
Hundreds of thousands to run infrastructure like Uber? That's absurdly cheap.

That's probably less than the cost of setting up one restaurant.
So, which ones were better off?
It is lying, it's lying as a last resort, not as something you do every day.
The idea of it being wrong to have a "my country first" government is a pretty unusual one, because the alternative is having prosperity fleeced by rivals. It's like a tech company saying they aren't going to compete anymore and slowly give away assets while lowering employee salaries. Would love to move beyond nationalism but you simply can't when the world's second largest economy (perhaps first soon) is the most ethnic-nationalistic country in recent history.
I’m pretty sure the author is right that, in some kind of game-theoretical way, the ”artificial boundaries” and a healthy nationalist attitude is for sure beneficial. The problem is that I think social media turned us all into extremists. You can’t say the word ”nationalist” without being labeled a nazi, because the person labeling you a nazi is getting points with his/her crowd. On the other hand, you can’t say ”let’s not screw other countries over” without being labeled a communist or some such, because again, points are being won. Most of the discussion completely fails to capture the complex nuances of real politics, and passion, hate, and distress end up being used as an instrument for other, completely different means. So yeah... a bit of healthy me-first is not bad at all (as long as you’re not using it to disguise the fact that you are, indeed, a nazi).
Ask some of us from victim countries. You'll find no one praising the interventions the US made for the profit of its ruling class.
I see, so my assumption was wrong. I've just gone on Zillow to investigate a little more and they don't state anywhere where their "lot lines" come from. However, it seems to vary by location.

Some places don't seem to have any lot lines, others have some properties marked and others have every property clearly marked.

I'd be interested to know where they get that data from. Is it some public source or a proprietary database? Do some states have a list and others not?
Exactly what it reminded me of! Had me smiling the whole way through. If anyone knows of more long form writing with this style i'd love to know!
It's already well underway. In my opinion, a combination of tech and the entertainment industry has transformed the populations of many Western countries into atomised, ineffectual and under-developed veal calves.
Interesting indeed - as I heard someone point out recently: the Chinese government takes immediate offense at anything perceived as negative said about it, but has no qualms criticizing other nations.

Double standards.
This is starting to happen:
https://octopus.energy/agile/
I imaging more suppliers will start offering this soon.

(I'm not in anyway associated with Octopus btw, just interested in this sort of thing)
I don't know - in my experience as a programmer, when I work for somebody that's never worked as a programmer, they tend to estimate based on how long they wish something would take (which is usually an hour, two max). Ex-programmers turned managers who still code from time to time are far more realistic about how long something might take to complete.
Hacking eInk Pricetags
Why would power become cheaper for individuals?
> So I like this stuck boat because it shows where "the system" has weaknesses.

I felt similarly about the pandemic exposing the fragility of our economy and the cracks in our political systems. Of course I would never say I'm glad that we had a pandemic considering the lives and livelihoods lost, including among my family.
And depending on your use case, you may not need to implement growing the hash table, or deletions, making it even simpler/less daunting to implement in C (since this avoids a lot of the memory management parts of the job).
I've seen similar things all over poorer regions of Central and South America as well. My take on this: I'm paying a portion of the salary of the immigration official, police officer, etc. For better or worse, that's often how they feed their families.
> law enforcement activity driven under democratic oversight within a lawfully elected representative government

I hate to be that guy, but the holocaust was literally this. Nothing has happened since the 1930s that would make me feel safer around a government just because it was lawfully elected.
This is the best thing I've ever read on hacker news.
I've been wondering about this! I keep hearing that air-source heat pumps aren't great in pretty cold areas. Do you have any links or references on this? I live in the Northeast US and wanted to see what the options were and what people's experiences have been.
Octopus Agile makes them available to regular consumers. Last summer people regularly got paid to charge their electric cars during the night!
How does Israel keep getting held as some example?

0% of Israel's vaccines were domestically made. 0% of the components were domestically made. 0% of the R&D behind the vaccine came from Israel.

Israel is tops in vaccines because of, apparently, European guilt about the whole WW2 thing. It is receiving enormous shipments of Pfizer and Moderna, made in the EU.

So what does nationalism have to do with this? The country is completely relying upon the goodwill of others.
This is one of the best comments I've read in a long time on HN.
I made a similar observation in april 2020. everyone was saying that covid was exposing the inherent fragility of JIT shipping or even the entire system of capitalism. in reality, the worst that happened was toilet paper was out of stock for a few weeks and I had to settle for my second-favorite shape of pasta a couple times.
It would be cool if i could use an electric car parked at home during the day to store some of that cheap electricity then spend it from the car back into the house at night.

When i looked into this last, it wasn’t common to have that bi-directional power flow capability. There was one, very expensive, Mitsubishi solution on the UK market around 2 years ago.
This glosses over the fact that it’s Biden who has actually executed on a vaccination plan. And he doesn’t fit with the articles overall premise. And Trump is the opposite of what this article is asserting - he’s me first conservative but he didn’t have any plan at all for vaccination, according to news reports.
And we need those tools for that purpose because? It's been proven that employees don't normally do that? Genuine question, looking for data here
Yeah, moral relativism isn't really a thing.
Walking robot that doesn't need any electronics
I suppose it's a personal preference thing, but I like over simplified implementations when the purpose is educational.

I am more bugged by the accusation that the author did this because "look what I can do". I don't see any evidence of that.
Nope, your words were clear - you were flat out wrong, and are now trying to save face. I don't have a tendency to call people out, but blindly applying the "two devs in a garage" axiom is not only wrong when it comes to labor marketplaces, but it also unnecessarily spreads discontent to the point that we have to stop this silliness. I don't care one bit about your recalculated math from now on - for me, you're just another armchair quarterback who speaks before he thinks.
The (western) world currently needs more "stuck boats", i.e. the world needs more masculinity.
Welcome to Plasma KDE. Visually bloated by default.

I always say everything looks like a quick sketch made after a brainstorm.
That depends on how often you can use the equipment. The company I work with pours cast iron in one factory - if you get a job there you work the overnight shift because that is when power is cheap. Since energy is the main cost of melting iron (it takes a lot of energy to get to get over 1100c) we are willing to let the equipment be idle and pay the workers extra to work a shift that doesn't work with the rest of the world.

Planned maintenance in that factory is worked with the power company. I'm not sure if that means they are also doing maintenance on some power plant, or if that means during Christmas lights season.

If you can predict high wind times a week in advance I'll work my energy hungry production around your cheap energy prices. The only thing I need is some sort of guarantee that those times will happen "often enough". I can pay employees to work 60 hour weeks some months, and other months get paid vacation, so long as over a full year I get reasonable use of my factory and there is some prediction.
How does Israel manage to be over 100 per 100 vaccinated?
> it is strange that we haven't started to do it more accurately, especially for new builds.

Last time the surveyor came out he found the buried property stacks, dropped his GPS tripod right on top, and that was the property line. This was a house built in the 80s. I'm guessing each county in each state has a method for marking and surveying property.
Agree, I'm missing some context to see why your parent post thought this was good enough. I suspect that "Lowest Demand" is being thought of in two different ways.
YC has not lost its way: launching Zoom from your cal is too much work
That's presumably for EU production of the vaccine.

So Israel probably didn't really compete with the US for it.
That's unequivocally false.

For example: there are many legal concepts which are not a crime to disobey (and therefore there is no criminal reason for police to be involved) and/or it is not in the jurisdiction of any police force.
Conflating your experience as one of the countries on that list, deeply, genuinely, hurt, with others such as Nazi Germany, genocidal Japan, etc. does an extreme disservice to your experience. You don't need to defend a lazy link to a Wikipedia article to defend your story :)
"So I like this stuck boat because it shows where "the system" has weaknesses."

My father was a freight Sea Captain. We learned that lesson way back in the 70's when the Suez canal was closed and boats from east Africa to Europe had to take the long way round the southern cape. Everyone knows the canal is a potentially fragile bottleneck, but what can you do about it. It's not like there are many places where you can dig a sufficiently geographically distant backup option to cover most common threat scenarios.
It’s effectively genocide and quite damning on society. I don’t put it squarely on the parents because it is so difficult.

My neice has downs. Interactions with her are about the here and now. Joy and life. Fun and wit. Not plans and efficiency and production. Those with downs are modern day prophets for the rest of us to expose the soul-destroying utilitarian ethics of modern society... and we’re killing them!
It seems like the article didn't have a problem with patching the flaws, but rather publicizing their operation and outing the government hackers.
The limited data about Israel's purchase is that they didn't particularly pay more. Further, the EU has explicitly excluded Israel from export controls.

The US didn't even have to negotiate. They just implemented the defense measures act and basically nationalized the vaccine makers, or at least their output. It's very...socialist.
It's doses administered, vaccine is 2 doses.
Yes, in fact the 'jobs split' between Scotland and England is probably more in Scotland's favor than any putative split of the oilfields after Scottish independence would be.

There is a concentration of oil infrastructure in Scotland and oilfields which would be in English territorial waters are serviced from Scotland.
> Perhaps the answer is as simple as "there's a setting buried somewhere that all technically-literate Windows users change"

With all the editions and versions of Windows 10, there doesn't appear to be a single definitive answer to that.

I for one settled on https://github.com/marcosbozzani/Win10ActiveHours , which prevents reboots by scheduling a task to update Windows' own "Active Hours" twice a day.
> The equipment that sits around waiting for low or negative electricity prices represents locked up capital, and ongoing maintenance and depreciation costs

But the costs over time are negligible when current alternatives will eventually only go up due to scarcity. I might be missing something.
99PI did a story on the process of submitting a new emoji request to the Unicode Consortium that you might find interesting: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/person-lotus-position...
I’m guessing it’s counting doses.
It's not my assertion, it's the law of the land since 1558 Act of Supremacy.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Eliz1/1/1?view=plain
And about how much small differences in assumptions and what was written in the ticket can impact development times.
I agree. I liked the article a lot from that point on, including (after that point) the first part of the article in retrospect. At first, though, it felt more like someone being silly for the sake of being silly, which can be also worthwhile but I'm glad I kept reading.

Edit: That article and the next most recent one (a short story, written by a different author)[1] were enough to make me subscribe.

1. https://stone-soup.ghost.io/archive/building-beyond-outside-...
A huge value for a relatively small amount of people and uber customers.

It's also not really very true. Its been a year since I traveled outside of the USA but on my last two international trips Uber was not available in those countries.
I’ve never really understood why standard Unix functions rely on internal global state. For example, strtok():

https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/string/byte/strtok

Was there some reason it was optimal to write these functions this way back in the early days of Unix?
But Spotlight is just cmd-space away at all times. My only complaint is that I can't get results for date-based queries like "days since 17 Jan 2021" or "50 days from today" and I have to go to Google for those although I can at least just hit return after entering the query to have the result pop up in Safari.
ITT: folks who advocate energy/electricity storage but haven't actually run the numbers, and thus are a few orders of magnitude off
Kind of. I mean, that's pretty much the reason it stayed there after being the provisional capital.

Why was it the provisional capital? Well, the major cities (Istanbul, Izmir) were occupied. Ankara was
* Controlled by Ataturk's government
* Centrally Located
* Decently Large (i.e. not a village)
The boss "should" be able to do most of your job BUT they Should not need/want to. Good bosses understand the word "delegation" and that is what it takes to build a real team and company. I am a boss and I can do most of my team's work (whether efficient or not) but I don't want to because I have higher priority things to do to get the most out of my time. For example, I can code but I don't (well mostly). I have a team of developers. I focus more on customers (existing and prospective). But then again, I have customer support folks who help with daily requests so that I am not answering every support question myself. Can I ? You bet. Would I ? Not if I want to scale my company further. If shit hits the fan, sure I will talk to a customer but I trust my team to take care of them before it gets to me.
The article mentions it works best with thick skinned grapes. Muscadine grapes may be well suited for this technique.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/09/26/551835327/mu...
There is no reasonable way to do this. The only conversion of PDFs that makes sense in the general case is to rasterize them to images of some arbitrary DPI. Then, you could simply insert these images into an HTML document.

This is more-or-less what we do in our application when we want to present a PDF for review or perform drawing on top of PDFs in contexts where we cannot rely on PDF libraries for whatever reason.
The stoic answer would be to not get emotionally affected by things you have no influence over. Overly focusing on the bad things you can't affect just leads to constant negative emotions without you being able to do anything about said bad things.

Or in other words, "don't think about it".
I think the key is that supply chains need to be resilient to shipping delays. And once you factor this in you may end up reorganising things quite radically differently. For example, it may lead you to prefer local suppliers over otherwise cheaper suppliers from a different continent.
Japan, Germany, Italy, France, Belgium...alas that's all I can remember from the one screenful I grabbed! I continue to believe it was a mistake to breezily link to Wikipedia and conflate those experiences with genuine harm :)
so will fusion. Much better to spend resources building high density energy like fusion than these Rube Goldberg machines.
Learn and practice using Hanlon's Razor with exercises
Airlines are literally among the most capital intensive industry out there. Where are some pilots getting their first billion for aircraft, flight scheduling, landing slots, fuel, maintenance contracts, etc...

Notice how most employee co-ops such as law firms have essentially zero capex requirements. They don't need startup capital that necessitates shareholders.
This is very cool. I am
amazed that this is a one man project
do we really need more hostile, sneering, condescending, toxic pricks like you policing the web?
A raft?
For those that still had power, I don't think they were thinking about the price, they were busy trying to make sure their pipes didn't freeze or to find clean drinking water if they already had. And inviting neighbors over that didnt have water or power and maybe had flooding with burst pipes and icicles on the ceiling. A couple blocks from me there were people building trash can fires with people huddled around them and further off in the neighborhood someone froze trying to sleep in their car instead of driving on the frozen roads. I can see skyscrapers from my front lawn, its not like its rural, we just weren't prepared. Lifesaving resources like shelter, heat, water, or medicine for that matter don't play nicely with the free market. Infinite demand...
Good article. I appreciate the emphasis on thought, planning and design.

> “ Engineering planning should never be about finding the most detailed solution, it should be about finding the simplest solution that solves the problem.”

This is a great statement for applied science, but for engineering I would add these additional words:

“...safely and responsibly, for the lowest cost and shortest schedule that is achievable.”

Engineering is inherently about getting things built that take a whole variety of requirements and stakeholders into account, including cost, schedule, resources, regulations, safety, social concerns, etc. This is true of both hardware and software engineering.

The arrival of rapid development tools has not necessarily been a boon to engineering, to product quality or to society. Instead, we are possibly in a race to the bottom.
AVC: Digital Art Frames
How to go from a software engineer to a crypto and blockchain engineer
Both the core problem and the solution will remain the same. The only one ITT peddling this insanoverse is you. Which is why I'm glad the big boat is stuck. I'll just read about how the boat was freed later on and dont have to consider the merits of other people's viewpoint. I'll just celebrate the efforts of people I dont know and move on.
So, I'm confused you rebuilt the product for a YC company in one blog post and you think their company has enough of a differentiator to launch a company?
Here in Texas a lot of people could get access to spot prices and it didn't work out as well as they'd hoped.
Things clearly weren't that bad where you were. I had to settle for my 5th favourite pasta shape on a couple of occasions!

(true story, but to be taken in jest)