skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea i actually wrote my own file chunking and general git-lfs-like backend for this exact reason. I liked Git LFS, but Github's pricing felt insane for my indie dev. For my needs i could backup onto a local server, network drive, or w/e at an insanely cheaper price.

Hell even uploading to an S3 compatible API was insanely cheaper than Github.

That and i really hated the feeling that Git LFS was being designed for a server architecture. I didn't have an easy way to locally dump the written files without running an HTTP server.

There are a couple Git LFS servers that upload to, say, S3 - but i really just wanted a dumb FS or SSH dump of my LFS files. Running a localhost server feels so.. anti-Git to me.
I agree. It seemed like another competitor in the space along with cloud9, koding, code anywhere, shiftedit, code envy, nitrous and who knows how many others founded earlier, and then it seemed to move away adding on features.

Really the big moves are towards hosting, and I always thought that after AWS bought cloud9, they would dominate that space, but cloud9 seems frozen.

I wonder if Digital Ocean or someone buys them to bring about the cloud IDE/hosting combo. (Actually, I have no idea how large replit is and if that is even reasonable).
good post, but to be pedantic:

>I suspect that even technically simpler games like 2d platformers are probably much harder to develop now than they were a few decades ago, due to necessity of competing against every other activity the player has to choose

I'd say they are harder to *succeed* than a few decades back. Especially for indies. Development is easier than ever with tools and assets available for no cost (during development at least).

e.g. If you make a platformer in 2008 and get it on a store for $20, you would probably get a decent following just because you managed to get it on the store.

If you make the same game in 2020, even if it was a really good game, it's harder to be noticed and gamers will always have "but is it as good as Hollow Knight/Celeste" in the back of their heads. Games that each spent years refining their mechanics and ultimately sold for $20 each. Games that right now sell for $10. It indirectly buries and caps your market to try and compete there.
DVC [0] is great for data science applications, but I don't see why you couldn't use it as a general-purpose LFS replacement.

It doesn't fix all of the problems with LFS, but it helps a lot with some of them (and happens to also be a decent Make replacement in certain situations).

[0]: https://dvc.org/
This sounds interesting! I'm generally not a fan of visual programming, but working on models is very visual and I could very well see this being a viable alternative to notebooks/jupyter.

Also, I haven't poked around much but it's very obvious the blocks map to a standard python-numpy-pandas stack, so it could be easy to integrate Kobra with git/other code/rest of the tech stack.
It's very difficult to follow and engage in technical posts like these benchmarking micro-instructions and so on, where on the face of it the product is simply falling on its face in the most basic use-cases.
I was thinking the other day about half the signers of the Declaration of Independence either had their hair curled or in a ponytail, but today a grey-haired man with a short ponytail says "old hippy" not "founding father". Anyway if you'll excuse me, I'm off to get fitted for a new pair of spats.
The theoretical maximum for a lithium anode battery (sulfur cathode) is 2600 wh/kg nearly 10 times the current cells used in vehicles.
What are the chances of a Tesla megacharger exactly at the closest exit when you hit your 8 hour mark, and also not being used by any other trucks? Real life usage requires buffers.
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> So it's a passage in a (novel? Definitely a literary piece anyway)

It's not fiction. It's an autobiography. These are his personal opinions and feelings.
Out of curiosity, what have you moved on to now that you don't do browser coding?
This is very bad for accessibility. Rendering things in canvas means there is no DOM, which means nothing for screen readers to read. To be fair, the old google docs editor was also very bad for a11y, but at least there was potential to improve it. This removes that option. They could have worked with the Chrome team to help improve standards for everyone, but decided to reimplement the rendering engine from scratch without regard for accessibility. I'm very disappointed that this wasn't flagged at a company the size of Google.
> Question is did people really needed the collaboration feature so much, or as much as it was praised for decades... When it shows that source code (which IS one very important content) is being developed not collaboratively in real-time in the browser, but with the aid of various version control systems (CVS, SVN, GIT etc.)

This is a good point. I don't think realtime collaboration is so important, but multiple author collaboration is. And "track changes" is a sort-of good-enough solution, but painful.

I've had good luck collaborating on documents (research papers) using latex and source control, but that assumes (a) participants are comfortable with both and (b) the storage format is amenable to revision control. Most word processing doesn't work well like this because you can get the document into a broken state in ways that are hard to recover from, and many of the users have no mental workflow map for "source control"

TeX/LateX or orgmode/Markdown type approaches have an advantage here for complicated collaboration.

These days a lot of collaborative stuff is being done outside of spreadsheets and word processing docs, the lines are blurrier and the collaboration is broader. In the "old days" a wiki might have done the trick for this but people want richer environments too. Not sure what he answer really is.
thanks for your comment. Good point about a web version. My understanding was that people rather be on their phones than a web browser on their laptop.

Also, we do have an option to relax and/or disable the location filter, but I think specially for a dating service, having some kind of location filter is a must.
So you think women should feel okay working alongside someone who thinks they are soft and weak, cosseted and naive despite their claims of worldliness, and generally full of shit?

It's not about safe spaces or offensive ideas. It's about enabling sexism and racism to freely propagate while telling minority groups that it isn't harmful despite past experience.
> What tells you to press Ctrl+Alt+Z?

Invisible text inserted in the DOM with Javascript (forgive the French, it ignores browser settings and seems to use geolocation):

<div id="docs-aria-speakable" class="docs-offscreen-z-index" aria-live="assertive" role="region" aria-atomic="true" aria-hidden="false">Pour activer la compatibilité avec le lecteur d'écran, appuyez sur Ctrl+Alt+Z&nbsp;Pour connaître les raccourcis&nbsp;clavier, appuyez sur&nbsp;Ctrl+barre oblique</div>
When it comes to my data, I’d rather not have them use it until forbidden. I want it to be not
Used until explicitly allowed
I’m only speculating, but I’d think they wouldn’t even “have to work with” anybody - couldn’t they just instrument whatever they want?
It's about producing PDF vs producing HTML.

Google Docs produces printable documents not hypertext. Print was never a priority of HTML. And I guess it shouldn't be either. Just look at the complexities of DocBook, LaTeX or Open Office XML.
They (the devs that control the repo that almost all miners run code from) chose to stifle the base layer to profit from higher layers using 'goat herders should be able to run a full node' as the excuse.
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Coming from using dialup with a USR Robotics Sportster 56K modem using Mosaic browser on Win 3.1 with Winsock I am glad my kids have the iPad.

I learned a lot but things are now far complicated but easier for ordinary people to use.
Not sure where you found the data for 3g and whether they follow the same methodology as apple (the report shows up to iphone 4 which was introduced in 2010), but even if I assume that they are correct, what you are proposing is even more far-fetched.

That in 2010 something dramatic happened in the battery technology world and they doubled in density overnight. Hint: No they did not.
Whether the current spike is "transient" is yet to be seen
> Why is nuclear the silver bullet that will save us?

Because you can generate power without adding CO2 to the air, or other pollutants. It works 24/7/365 and it requires no new "science" to produce.

However, the root of your question appears to me to be founded in some misconceptions you have about nuclear power. It isn't uncommon because the information in most popular press articles about nuclear power is over 50 years old.

To put that in perspective, imagine arguing the utility of an electric car when your data point is gas at 30 cents a gallon (the price in 1965[1])?

But to talk about nuclear power with current data about how you would design a power plant (and these are the new designs we're talking about), the risks of them leaking any radioactivity, and the risk to people should that radio activity leak and it makes our decision to keep building fossil fuel plants look pretty stupid. It really does turn the whole question on its head.

Nuclear is demonstrably cleaner, safer, lower risk, and potentially lower cost (although how do you price the cost of destroying the planet right?) than any other baseload technology. It even surpasses hydroelectric in terms of externalized costs of habitat destruction.

But I recognize that if you base your analysis on an idea that any new nuclear plant would be identical to the ones at Fukishima (built in 1967) or Chernoybl (built in 1972) it does seem odd that we would want more of that.

[1] https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/fact-888-august-31-2015...
You can build earthquake proof buildings. See many nations in the pacific: notably Japan.
But there isn't a single most plausible explanation. There are at least several, and they're not all conspiratorial. The infrasound and katabatic wind are two of those. From debating with people who have espoused different theories, I don't think it's because they don't like the mundane explanation. It's because they don't think the snow slab or whatever other mundane theory explains all the evidence as well as the one they espouse. I don't think any theory stands out as the one true account, because the evidence is too spotty.

The evidence suggestive of a conspiracy includes injuries to hands and faces of the five hikers not found in the ravine, which is consistent with fighting. There are some other injuries which could be consistent with being bound and being hit with a hard object like a rifle butt or baton. The newest book presents evidence for mining explosives in the area, and people knowing about the accident prior to the search party finding the tent. I'm not saying any of that is true, only that it's somewhat plausible.
Catastrophic Cancellation
It also gives some context to Ted Kaczynski - when I learned that he was possibly dosed on massive amounts of LSD and screamed at while in college. It's not a huge leap from there to why he broke down and became the unabomber.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski#Harvard_College

I can't really imagine that - and it went on for a long time, I would be surprised if a person experience that didn't have some kind of mental break.

"In his second year at Harvard, Kaczynski participated in a study described by author Alston Chase as a "purposely brutalizing psychological experiment" led by Harvard psychologist Henry Murray. Subjects were told they would debate personal philosophy with a fellow student and were asked to write essays detailing their personal beliefs and aspirations. The essays were turned over to an anonymous individual who would confront and belittle the subject in what Murray himself called "vehement, sweeping, and personally abusive" attacks, using the content of the essays as ammunition.[26] Electrodes monitored the subject's physiological reactions. These encounters were filmed, and subjects' expressions of anger and rage were later played back to them repeatedly.[26] The experiment lasted three years, with someone verbally abusing and humiliating Kaczynski each week.[27][28] Kaczynski spent 200 hours as part of the study.[29]

Kaczynski's lawyers later attributed his hostility towards mind control techniques to his participation in Murray's study.[26] Some sources have suggested that Murray's experiments were part of Project MKUltra, the Central Intelligence Agency's research into mind control.[30][31] Chase and others have also suggested that this experience may have motivated Kaczynski's criminal activities"
These could have been fielded at any time in the last three decades. That they haven't been may be a consequence that they offer relatively little scope for the wholly-legal institutional corruption that has driven nuke power construction throughout its lifetime in the US.

When construction costs are allowed to balloon 4x-10x over quoted cost, the great bulk of that amounts to a conduit from the public purse to private pockets over a decade or more. Projects where that is possible out-compete projects, for backing, that merely promise normal value for money spent. We see this dynamic not just in nuke projects, but in urban transit tunnels, military and manned-space procurement, fusion research, and abortive bullet-train projects.

That we do not see it in most current solar and wind power projects with, instead, costs plummeting well below anything than could ever be matched by nukes, may be a consequence of some combination of the projects' short terms, idealistic contractors, and dead-simple accounting. It will take decades to drive costs back up to where they will be good conduits for corruption. It remains to be seen whether hydrogen projects can be made to serve in such a role, but there is strong demand.
desktop computing had core skills that could be developed, that would apply across different programs.

on mobile systems, the balance of power feels very different. apps are each their own immersive experiences, each picking their own widgets, toolkits, styling, paradigms. many apps are a thin shell over far off closed services we could not understand if we tried.

mobile has been a very advanced war on general purpose computing. the value of understanding the os, understanding "computing" has gone way way down in this far more black boxes environment. the user has been treated like an idiot, protected endlessly from themselves, and the technical underpinnings deeply deeply masked over.

computing is being destroyed, especially on mobile. the desktop is one of the few places one has any chance to learn about computing in any meaningful way.
Correct, BTC is not peer to peer cash, try the real Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash.
AirTags start beeping if they are removed from the associated device for more than a few days, so there is plenty of opportunity to update them.
since when a mere PM also started getting categorized as an exec?
I am regurgitating facts as I know them, if they happen to line up with Elon that is not by choice, I am not the cultist here.
The internal monitoring and codified repercussions also grow at the same time, I'd hope..
>we need to fix it so states can't create situations where people stand in line for 8+ hours to vote (Georgia, Arizona).

Agreed, but you seem to imply it is the Federal Government's job to do it, which I do not think many would agree on, one, and two, kicks the problem up a level.

>we need to eliminate gerrymandering.

We already did. It's illegal. Now go find a judge comfortable with establishing an objective legal test that works in all or most cases to measure gerrymandering. I'll wait. (I kid you not, that's what actually holds it up)

>we should address the electoral college, you shouldn't have more voting power just because you live in Idaho.

You shouldn't be able to dictate who the Chief Executive of the Federal Government is by virtue of your population demographics. The Federal Governmemt is the primary mediator between the States, not People. The formula for the number of Electors derived that the States must fill has been unchanged for centuries, but I also agree that legislative meddling (forcing Electors to Vote the popular vote, and negating the Faithless Elector ) completely nullifies the institution's original purpose (a check against demagoguery).

>we should eliminate FPTP. Nobody should be voting for "the lesser of two evils" they should vote for the candidates they like.

Agreed, you'll still jave a problem in that people will still structure ticketsarou d it.

>we should reform campaign finance. It shouldn't be legal for the rich to buy policy.

Agreed. Donations from legal fictions (Corporations, trusts, etc...) should not be a thing. It just leads to issues.

>we should address misinformation and education. Because what we need is an electorate that is presented with accurate information and has been given the tools to process that information. We don't need an electorate swayed by a popular podcaster spewing misinformation.

You're pissing into the wind. People have that already. The tool has been subverted by the SEO, advertising, and media/publishing industry for their own profit which has caused a downswing in actually constructive politicking since placating reachable audiences is necessarily filtered through editorial audience engineering. I.e. instead of printing/advertising/favoring the Truth, you get this tooling printing/advertising/favoring whatever gets the most clicks, or drives the most revenue. Nevermind the perverse incentives and propaganda hazards created by blindly leaving that sort of thing to a government controlled agency.
A democracy is two wolves and a chicken deciding what to eat for dinner.
Maybe not, but they certainly do worse:

https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-insiders-saudi-arabia-sp...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/former-twit...
Just this past week, git lfs was throwing smudge errors for me. Not really sure what the issue was, I followed the recommendations to disable, pull, and re-enable. And got them again. So I disabled. And left it disabled.

Not a solution.

This said, the whole git-lfs bit feels like a (bad) afterthought the way its implemented. I'd love to see some significant reduction of complexity (you shouldn't need to do 'git lfs enable', it should be done automatically), and increases in resiliency (sharding into FEC'ed blocks with distributed checksums, etc.) so we don't have to deal with 'bad' files.

I was a fan of mercurial before I switched to git ... it was IMO an easier/better system at the time (early 2010s). Not likely to switch now though.
Tools like git-annex or dvc support similar strategies.
Heck, it even happens on TV ... look up "A staffer at local Fox affiliate Q13 has been fired after the station aired what appears to be a doctored video of President Donald Trump’s Tuesday night speech from the Oval Office." Sometime in 2019.
You do realize the lengths states like Iran are going to enrich enough Uranium for a few simple bombs? If this works as a shortcut, it doesn't have to be easy or practical. And besides, it might be a lot easier if you don't care whether the people cracking the thing open will survive the ordeal, or whether radioactivity gets released to the environment.
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That is seriously creepy. And I REALLY hope if they make it into a product that you can turn it off when you are asleep because I know I'm not the only one who dreams about writing code sometimes and I don't want find myself debugging something I dreamed about the previous night with only a vague memory of having written it.
I've had luck with the Direct Marketing Association list removal service. I signed up years ago and it works pretty well for most credit card offers and such.

It cost money though. Not a lot. I think they've rebranded since I signed up, but this looks like this is it:
https://www.dmachoice.org/static/faq.php

Lamentably I found myself on some charities mail lists. They're not part of the Direct Marketing Association and will send you stuff unsolicited (gloves? seriously?) in an attempt to guilt you into joining..
they bought in Q4, sold 1/4 of it in Q1, which allowed them to have a profit that quarter since they lose money on selling cars. Now china car sales are down this quarter and they realize they need to cash out completely.
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Canvas apps can be made accessible.

The example that Google shows in their post has accessibility features [0], although currently these need to be switched on with a keyboard shortcut (⌘+Option+Z).

Pay attention to `document.getElementById('docs-aria-speakable')`.

[0] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N1XaAI4ZlCUHNWJBXJUBFjxS...
For sure, and we may well end up seeing some number of content moderators fired. As with any major crisis, there's gonna be people who feel that it's worth losing their job over.
You can't visualize the numbers? Or translate the "audio" in your mind?
There is no substitute to building one yourself, but The Craft of Text Editing book has a lot of accumulated wisdom. It is Emacs-centric, but basics are same.

http://www.finseth.com/craft/
The main cyber crime is mail-order drugs, both kinds, and it’s absolutely not new.
I play guitar, and I am certain that practicing the fine-motor sync skill of using both hands at once has helped my typing, and vice-versa.

For reference, my typing while transcribing rate is in the 100-110 range. My daily-use composition is likely half, simply because I spend most of my time composing in my head.

I will say that the big advantage comes from being completely comfortable touch-typing, without needing to look at the keyboard. Once you've achieved that, the mental load of typing fades in to the background, and you can spend more time considering content instead of the mechanics of creating it.
This is a good point, 'how much’ is an important question.

But then, it seems society sometimes make the decision to take somethings off the table entirely.

I look at the accident at Fukushima, and earlier (when I was small child) Chernobyl and I can't help wondering whether some risks aren't worth taking when there are alternatives available.

I'm sure risk analysis was taken seriously in Japan. Often we miss things, and the people answering 'how much', quite frankly get it wrong.
"Israel" is not claiming ownership of the property in question. A Jewish organization purchased the property and started developing it during the Ottoman period, and despite several changes in which country's government is in charge, there has not been any legal transfer other than a sale to another Jewish organization. The Palestinian families that currently live there were originally settled there as tenants, not owners, by the government of Jordan. They are not being evicted on the basis of their ethnicity; they are being evicted because, despite signing what amounted to a perpetual lease in the 1980s, they have made no rent payments and have made unauthorized modifications to the property (and ignored a court order to remove those modifications).

More important than the actual facts of the case is this: HOW is a legal dispute, which is working its way through a civil court system -- the same court system that ruled in favor of these Palestinian families in the 1980s -- an "incitement to violence?" I am genuinely curious to know what the argument is here.
This is already the number one story on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27134049