skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are they bad if they create good code? :) Personally, I don't think classifying developers as you do works. I think it is very one dimensional.. Like ELO ratings in chess. Good coders are good at everything, bad coders are bad at everything.
This new template from Jumpstart helps you "port" your Rails app to iOS, powered by Hotwire and Turbo.

We've been working on it for a while and are really excited with how it turned out. The template includes native authentication, URL routing configuration, a native tab bar, and push notifications all built in.

You can even configure your tab bar with a JSON file on your server, no iOS code changes required.
WhatsApp breaks App Store guidelines by limiting functionality
You're missing the point. Liquid hidrogen takes much less space, that's all. It is neither lighter nor heavier than the same amount of hidrogen gas.

And for buoyancy to matter, the trucks would need to be huge (zepelin style).
This is interesting, because usually I see nationwide grids being touted as MORE resilient, not less. The idea is if power is knocked out in one area, you can still get it from elsewhere. This came up a lot during the Texas situation.
I love that aspect of it. Maintainable code just makes me feel good
I like that. It also reminds me of Fred Brook's second essay in the Mythical Man-Month. He elucidates that SW engineer's optimism can often be an issue with schedule. Too often SW engineers don't carry the humility that they make mistakes and that they constantly expect fewer bugs exist than do by the time test time comes along.
Smaller grids like Texas are more susceptible to weather events though.
This looks like a lot of fun, speaking as someone who loves the weirdness of the old web, but understands the challenges of re-creating such 'messy by design' sites with pure HTML/CSS.

Wordpress has moved in this direction with Gutenberg (where you can add 'blocks' inside the <article> element for things like columns, tables, images, iframes. Full Site Editing has been "coming soon" for a while however.

But even so, Wordpress (or Wix or Squarespace) isn't offering the "Clippy meets PowerPoint" level of drag and drop that can result in fun sites. For example, rotating an element so it appears a little off-centre and askew isn't supported out of the box in WP Gutenberg. You have to be able to edit your CSS file to do this. Whereas in PowerPoint, you can rotate and scale elements easily.
A wind turbine doesn't spin 24/7. You'd need a Wind Turbine + a very large battery.

The waste heat from a mini nuke is also perfect for district heating.
> This is all there is to it.

Well, think about operating a credit card company and taking fees whenever one of your cards is used. You could be very rich that way. Was any wealth created, or are you just siphoning off value that, in your absence, would have gone to someone else?

In that case, you created a lot of wealth and kept a part of it. The extra wealth arose from transactions that wouldn't have occurred without the service you provide.

Cryptocurrency isn't used much as a medium of exchange, but that was a design goal. Theoretically, it could be.
Understanding Functional Components vs. Class Components in React
TLDR, IMHO: Get rid of the Small plan, make the Sandbox tier a much more generous free tier (1k/10k with logo), and charge more for the bigger plans. "First one is always free" kinda thing, so that devs can use your service for small projects (that don't cost you much) but then upsell it for broader enterprise-wide adoption on bigger projects.

As a dev, I have the opposite opinion: The low-end pricing is a barrier to adoption. $9/mo isn't much, but it's the difference between "Oh cool, I can immediately use this in some of our side projects!" and "Oh, I have to request budget approval for this, explain what it is to superiors who might not be in the IT dept, answer questions about why we don't do just build it ourselves, answer questions about vendor support and lock-in, etc."

It would cost more time for me to jump through all those hoops than to just use a standard CSV parsing library -- even though the workflow is vastly inferior -- because it's much less bureaucratic.

Other services often provide a more generous free tier so that devs (the first ones to try something, often) can use it in a real-world project, fall in love with it, and then sell the paid version (which could be much more than $99) to their superiors only when the prototypes have proven valuable enough to make a solid sales pitch.

I'm not a business consultant by any stretch, just letting you know that as a dev, I'd probably never bother using this because of the bureaucratic headaches involved with your pricing structure. Just my 2c.
Thank you!

To be honest, we haven't thought about the possibility to work everything client side. Its an idea worth exploring.

Our aim is to integrate the importer with multiple destinations such as databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, S3 etc), APIs (custom, Zapier, GSheets, Airtable) and others (FTP, Email etc). Coding server side would be easier and faster.

Moreover we plan to introduce on-premise deployment options in the future.
Time Management from a Dying Professor
It's not that simple. Banks have tighter lending standards for LLCs. It's not like any random person can form an LLC, borrow money from a bank or brokerage, YOLO it in the stock market, and walk away if the bet goes bad. In reality the lender will usually demand significant collateral and/or require the LLC owner to accept personal liability. LLCs have their uses but they aren't financial magic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-waMtGtxAdg
How long until Sam Denby from Wendover makes a Half As Interesting video on this?

Edit: typo
If you're going for a synthetic hydrocarbon, you might as well go for one which is liquid at normal operating temperatures, which makes logistics a lot easier.
Modeling Battery Designs via Quantum Computers
Conversely, they must be in an almost constant state of wonder. When was the last time you or I saw a new color for the first time? Their threshold for amazement and "this is literally the best thing I've seen in my entire life" is also much lower!
There is a difference however between "Does all the things my snowflake app needs" and "does the top 20 most common things". The latter is easy, and even quantifiable if you have the time (to scour open source repos for use cases). When you write dozens of utilities, a few libs, and several apps, its likely the common date time use cases will be suitable for 80% of them. Rinse and repeat across numerous other dependencies, and the result is a std library you learn once, that serves 80% of your use cases just fine. Its not about no dependencies, its about dependencies focused on novel or niche problems, not common and already solved ones.
Yes it's a rule of thumb, it's not meant to be accurate to the day. And it assumes you're investing the savings to get average index market returns.

It doesn't matter your actual salary, if you can get by on 35% of it and save the other 65% then it's all that matters. After you've saved for 10-11 years, you'll get the 35% of your original salary you live on, in perpetuity, from what you saved earlier.

Now of course it's much easier to save 65% when you're paid more than if you're paid minimum wage, but still. And you'll probably want some slack because these numbers are really the bare minimum, but that's the idea. Saving 65% of your income as a SE is really not that hard for a lot of us, even less so when you realize this is the ticket to being free within 10-15 years.
A very interesting perspective, thank you for posting it.
Though keep in mind that Multics was more for the business[1] side of things, despite being developed at MIT. ITS was a hacker's OS, it was going to have more cool stuff.

[1]https://multicians.org/site-timeline.html

Btw, great fan of your work at https://github.com/PDP-10/its. Keep up the good work in keeping computer history alive!
Forgot to say: If the computing resources don't cost you that much, consider making higher business/enterprise plans where you sell an SLA and/or support contract and/or custom feature development/integrations, etc. rather than making it usage-based.
XP rendered the window unless you had a few settings switched (or the classic theme on).
Er, I hope it’s not at room temp otherwise you might get food poisoning.
Sometimes I feel like i'm an untalented, unproductive waste of oxygen.

Then I see a post like this and know for sure that I am.
LibreOffice is an actual active project; OpenOffice is a political ghost entity.
Isn't it why Japan, Europe and now the USA have 0/negative rates? The government literally makes money to borrow money. They can't default with negative or zero rates. They are basically being bailed out by the "economy".

It's sensible to be afraid of hyper-inflation. At some point the economic actors are going to be fed up with it and off-load their investments.
No, you have to use up the whole meeting with the bike shed then slip in the nuclear reactor at the very end.
https://www.lynalden.com/global-dollar-short-squeeze/

Kind of explains the problems with China having too much USD debt. Even without times of war.
Maybe because it's the same year they announced they were dropping support for it?

Time to get a newer piece of gear. This is the problem with software - it doesn't age like a fine wine; it has to be maintained - and that usually means someone is going to have to be paid to do the not so fun work of maintaining and fixing old stuff that is no longer "OoOh tEh sHiNeY!"
Yep, we're in agreement.

I'll concede that if you replace crappy housing with nicer housing (and don't increase the number of units overall) some of the demand that wouldn't consider it before now will so the market price goes up (and the market price of other fancier housing likely reduces a bit).

This is the crux of the problem. There is just so much pent up housing demand that the market is totally out-of-kilter and below-average units get replaced with above-average units. And even if that nudges the average down marginally, the residents of the below-average units are now priced out of town.
The south coast of Portugal and the east coast of Spain have the mildest winters in mainland Europe, but it can still get a bit nippy (15c/60F highs in the day) during the coldest parts of the year. If you want to travel a bit further the Canary Islands will be warmer.

Compared to northern Europe where this year has seen 5 months of winter, that's like paradise though :-)
Looking like a photo is quite distinguishable from human vision.
Yes, the useful unit is light-milliseconds:

$ units
You have: 340 mi
You want: light ms
* 1.8251859
/ 0.5478894

So, 3.6 ms round-trip. In practice, the route will be slanted, so could just exceed 5 ms.

$ sudo apt install units

Once the constellation is mature, certain very-high-paying subscribers will get the packets forwarded from one satellite to the next via laser links, across oceans, before being downlinked, and get there a few ms before packets dawdling along on fiber links below 0.7c, to trigger securities trades ahead of the crowd acting on now-ancient information. The time by fiber from Singapore to New York is on the order of 90 ms, where Starlink ought to get them there in well under 70 ms, leaving a good 20 ms to arbitrage. In investment banking, they say "a microsecond is an eon, a millisecond is an eternity".

Even just between New York and London, they can gain a few ms headway, enough to dominate.

It would not be surprising if the US military, and maybe some others, will have access to satellite-to-satellite routing. (They have their own WGS, "Wideband Global SATCOM", but it is GEO, thus high-latency.)

AFAIK, only the polar-orbit nodes have inter-satellite laser links, thus far, so this is a phenomenon of the near future, not the present. Other things to expect in the near future are lofting them with a few TB of storage, to minimize uplink bandwidth by edge-serving Disney and Netflix blockbusters; and multicast downlinks for real-time soccer games and maybe even time-binned shows.
You couldn’t find a way to give the OP props without writing yet another negative comment about the code that some people submit?
> as another commenter points out, it's incredibly obvious that its most important function is to edit documents.
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The Fed balance sheet increased by trillions during covid because they were "printing" money to buy treasuries in order to keep interest rates low.

That is new money. Trillions of it.
Houdini is amazing, especially because it does all its work in worklets (not the main thread)

To that I say: Houdini isn’t the enemy here. Some gripes about performance will be had for bad implementations but at the core CSS is still the foundation.

My core problem is that progressive enhancement or graceful degradation[0]

This of course is a symptom of bad industry practice and bad developer habits, that’s where I have a serious issue with our industry.

Houdini though? It’s the right technology for the job IMO

[0]: https://www.w3.org/wiki/Graceful_degradation_versus_progress...
You really don't have to go that far back. Considering every decade a beach community gets wiped off the map by a hurricane and is immediately rebuilt, few rarely care about the consequences. People are always building in fire/flood/disaster zones. I suppose with insurance and the ability to flee these destructive forces of nature are an acceptable risk. Taking this a step further, climate change could make the whole planet uninhabitable and we still can't get anyone to give a shit.
Help Desks That Address the Needs of ECommerce
Historical Hackers: Emergency Antennas Launched by Kite
Just came to congratulate the human effort! One can only imagine the hours of frustation to bypass to produce this (oneman) production. Enjoy the first page of HN !
What is not useful about threading in slack? My organization uses it to great success.

Sure, it could be improved, but so can anything.
Yes which is exactly why banks and brokerages don't lend to LLCs without significant collateral and/or co-signers.
No, you put in 100 and then made 300, so your equity is 400 hence your leverage is down to 1.25x. Another way to see it is that the size of your loan is always 100, it doesn’t grow just because you made a lucky bet.
This is huge. I have a pet RTS project too, and the stuff is really complex. The information on large-scale pathfinding for example (ClearPath etc.) is scarce. And I do it on Unity3D/C#, doing this on homemade engine is pure insanity.
a conspiracy theory going around is that Bill was pumping up stocks that he and Cathie (ARKK) were buying through the use of “gamma squeeze”, ie buying far out of the money call options.

An example of how this works is let’s say Tesla is trading at $500. You purchase call options to buy TSLA at $1,000 that expire in two days. These options are super cheap because the idea that TSLA will double in two days is ludicrous. But the market makers who sold you the call option have to buy TSLA shares to hedge their risk, driving TSLA’s price up, and costing you much less to do it than just buying TSLA shares directly.

This theory is mostly advanced by short sellers who were betting against some of Cathie and Bills key positions. It started with GSX, where widely circulated short research demonstrated compelling evidence it was a fraud. Yet it kept going up for months after, and didn’t collapse until Bills fund did (Cathie did not own it AFAIK).

So they have pointed to a weird set of far OOM calls being bought right before expiration on other Cathie positions like Tesla during their big runs. And that since Bill Hwangs collapse they are all down sharply.

It sounds intriguing but could easily be coincidence. ARKK is down over 30% in last few months, but that was likely inevitable. If there was a magic gamma squeeze technique for keeping high fliers airborne she clearly isn’t using it. She’s stuck with concentrated bets in some illiquid positions of dubious value, and as her investors sell she will be forced to sell her positions in enough volume to crush their prices worse, driving ARKK down furth forcing more redemptions in an un-virtuous circle that ends very badly.
Thanks johnnyanmac, I was going to reply to cmsj but it was not worth the effort.

As you guessed correctly I am not from the US neither live there. It may be hard to believe for some "americans", but I wasn't following the latest US presidential election in detail, should I apologize for that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯?

Thanks for the linked article, the only I was getting on Google were stuff from sites like tabloids; me being diligent, wanted to find a more reliable source.
https://twitter.com/mbbroberg/status/1392190437213999113

The reception has been so bad they emergency retitled the blog entry "5 Linux commands I never use"
> Minus the proliferation risk of somebody stealing this comparatively small reactor and builds a dirty bomb with it - oh, and you still have to dismantle it and store safely for millenia after use.
No, thanks... looks to me like nuclear is dead in the water.

The proliferation risk seems like a valid concern, but that we have to store radioactive material for millennia isn't a valid criticism of nuclear in general because we already have to store nuclear material and the costs associated with storing more waste are marginal (if you can safely store a little nuclear waste then you can safely store a lot of it).
I see, we're using different definitions. I'm using the Oxford definition of bailout:

- an act of giving financial assistance to a failing business or economy to save it from collapse.

I personally wouldn't consider a zero-interest loan to be a bailout. If I buy a car and receive a no interest loan I wouldn't consider myself to be "bailed out", per your definition; nor would I consider receiving a dollar from a friend for a pack of gum to be a "bailout".
Lol, that's both a hilarious and great model for sure.

But I wonder, it seems to me doomers lost their fuck faster. Is it because they have fewer initial fucks? Or is it because they lose fuck overtime even if they don't a fuck about something? Or every time everybody else gives a fuck a doomer gives two?
Who does the artwork? It’s definitely pro quality. Please tell me it’s not also the developer because I may want to kill myself at this point.
> minus the proliferation risk of somebody stealing this comparatively small reactor and builds a dirty bomb with it

Using that logic, we should stop production of ammonia fertilizer.

> and you still have to dismantle it and store safely for millenia after use.

The fact is that the entire worlds nuclear waste can be contained in about one swimming pool, which can be placed in the middle of a mountain or some other geologically stable area. You can't say that about coal, or wind (junk turbines that can't be recycled), or solar. The death rate per terawatt-hour of generated nuclear is far less than any other fuel source.

The idea that Nuclear is a dead end has been made popular by pop culture from the 1970's and bad science driven by an agenda to keep everyone on a globalized fossil fuel monopoly run by the military industrial complex.

Deaths per terawatt-hours comparison chart:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/494425/death-rate-worldw...
That salary is a gigantic joke and you should immediately start looking elsewhere or be clear that for that salary you expect to work for about 10 - 20 hours a week, flexibly.
>Attitudes like this are why the state of education in the US is abysmal.

sounds like a death spiral. The attiude is teachers are unskilled jobs, but you also propose that teaching is more involved than engineering (which I don't disagree with: the thought of dealing with minors undergoing puberty increases my stress levels). But if they don't get enough training, the quality suffers and the reputation of the profession and education as a whole is "abysmal".

However, are teachers getting the proper training for that? is 2 years of certification post undergrad and a few more years acting as a TA enough to prepare them for these conditions?

Compare that to university professors, who need a PH.D and much more research to teach. Should that be the low bar for teaching even more rambuncious students "lower down"? The answer is ultimately theoretical, because I imagine the issue is similar to police; there requires a LOT of positions to fill, more than what they could hope to get if they set such high requirements.
I don't mind JavaScript and the expanding functionality of browsers. I do mind that there is no clear separation of "web site" and "web app". When it comes to the later, these new apis are great. But when web sites (ie, primarily documents) start using these features, as a user I feel they almost always make my experience worse.

I hope in the future something like Gemini takes off, so we can stop stepping on each other's feet.
Work for a company in the US via an agency, company pays agency $70/hr for my time, I get $50/hr.
I appreciate the attempt at analysis, but I'm not sure the numbers are so easy. The number of people I know of who had COVID a year ago runs around 5-10 (this is all second degree connections), so that'd be 1 in 100-200. True, we don't know how many people visiting this page are willing to share similar anecdote. But as a personal matter it's enough to change my behavior and concerns.
If they're suddenly asking you to log your hours, they're looking for a reason to terminate/replace you.
Well if you don't need multi device sync(i don't), it's literally as useful as a FTP server that is reliable(i just use backblaze b2 with rclone).
In my experience the combustibility of det fuel and similar petroleum products depends primarily on whether the context of the conversation is praising modern safety engineering or heckling someone for using diesel as a cleaning solvent.
> I'm currently making 6,000 USD per month. After paying my taxes, this leaves me around 3,000 USD to spend each month.

Just curious, why is your blended tax rate 50%
If I could be 16 and be paid to teach, I sure would "love" teaching.
How to Create and Download a Zip File with Node.js and JavaScript
It's sort of clear they intend to do a rewrite of Google Docs in C++ or some other systems language and compile it to webasm because of better tooling.

That's why they went went canvas instead of webgl, since webasm+gl was never widely adopted or complete.
> To do this well, you want to think about your message and then about how to convey that message

We all have to do some version of this in PowerPoint for school or for our jobs. We can go nuts with PPT transitions and animations, but we usually don't.

This is the same principle. You can use it to make a nice Squarespace like site, or go full lo-fi punk rock zine if you want. IMO that's what computers promised in the '80s and later with desktop publishing software. It's been missing from the web for far too long.
Some cities do sell street parking spaces as real estate deeds.
I expected scrolling to feel janky and "non-native" but it was fine. Text rendering, on the other hand... it was a bit of a blurry mess, compared to Chrome's native rendering (on Ubuntu 21.04).
Agree that large holdings should be reported but disagree they FO should need to publish their portfolios, that seems like a massive violation of privacy.
They probably reimplement entirely from scratch by getting the position of the mouse and listening to click events.
What’s Old Is New Again
Especially with the Epic lawsuit, Coalition for App Fairness, etc. so active right now. They could've had real sway here.
> Which is why if you don't want government to suck, you have to actively push on it from the outside.

The only reason they suck is their payments are guaranteed and they have no competition. If we get rid of this comfort, they'll have to stop sucking. Not that I expect this to ever happen.