skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“A shed-shaped tent will catch and reflect the heat like a Yankee-baker, and you may be drying while you are sleeping.” Page 124: http://www.thoreau-online.org/the-maine-woods-page124.html

“ We had no sooner pitched our tent than the thunder-shower burst on us, and we hastily crept under it, drawing our bags after us, curious to see how much of a shelter our thin cotton roof was going to be in this excursion. Though the violence of the rain forced a fine shower through the cloth before it was fairly wetted and shrunk, with which we were well bedewed, we managed to keep pretty dry”. Page 99: http://www.thoreau-online.org/the-maine-woods-page99.html

“Our bed was made with as much care and skill as a roof is shingled; beginning at the foot, and laying the twig end of the cedar upward, we advanced to the head, a course at a time, thus successively covering the stub-ends, and producing a soft and level bed. For us six it was about ten feet long by six in breadth. This time we lay under our tent, having pitched it more prudently with reference to the wind and the flame, and the usual huge fire blazed in front.” Page 27: http://www.thoreau-online.org/the-maine-woods-page27.html

I didn’t find anything about a tent catching fire, but I only skim searched.
Once the party has turned fascist

Says the supporter of the party that literally used impeachment twice to try to get rid of a President they didn't like.

Says the supporter of the party that is big into political correctness in order to control what people say and how they say it.

Says the supporter of the party that is canceling people who don't toe the party line.

Says the supporter of the party that controls academia, the mainstream media, and social media - where censorship abuses are an ever-increasing problem.

Says the supporter of the party that did billions of dollars of damage to cities across the country last year in looting, rioting, arson, and vandalism.

Says the supporter of the party that is actively trying to prosecute the most recent opposition party leader. No charges, just hunting for a crime.

Says the supporter of the party that raided the private attorney of the most recent opposition party leader to seize privileged attorney-client communications, based upon normally ignored FARA accusations.

If there is a political party in the USA flirting with fascism, it's the Democratic party.
Idk if that’s something to celebrate.
There's literally a comment in there about Fedora having packaged it.
There seems to be a wave of no code hype, much of it coming from the VC community, and I’m baffled as to what has happened to convince people it’s going to work this time. Is there some breakthrough tool I’m not aware of? Or is it just like this article, a bunch of pitch decks saying “if we can take just 80% of the tech market we’ll be zillionaires”?
This principle as presented is not universal, it's built on a set of assumptions that are true for Scala but not for other environments.

For example, it assumes that refactoring is easy, making it easy to switch your initially simple solution to something more complex if / when the need arises. That is true in Scala thanks to a rich and safe type system, but in other languages it may not be as easy, and it's certainly not easy to replace a python app with a Scala app.
A (Small) Pre-Emptive Strike Against the Doomsday Asteroid
This is a song we've heard before: the 4th generation programming languages [1]. They failed completely.

Programming is no more about "the codes" than writing novels is about spelling.

The difficulty in writing novels is being able to tell a story well (just like some people a good at telling jokes, others not). It is not about how good you are at spelling words. Most winners of spelling bee competitions never become good authors.

You can't make most people into being good authors by handing them a tape recorder.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation_programming_...
Note: despite the github link, it is not open source so no telling what's in the binary

edit: now it is :)
I had a university professor with the same near term horizon stating this in 2006. If it wasn't a mandatory class I would have dropped it right then
At the moment it’s just a reader so login is not yet available
There is no fixed energy B. If the bump only deforms a small part of the tire, that's little energy. If the bump makes the whole rider jump, thats lots of energy.

The bump is basically static.
In my experience with no-code tooling in the past, it works great as long as you stick to the narrow use cases it was designed for and are satisfied with that.

As soon as you want to do anything advanced that the no code tooling doesn't already handle, it gets ugly and complex, and you have to bring in specialists who know how to modify the system or work around it, and that requires coding and IT specialists.

It always happens that people want the application go beyond what the no-code tooling was designed to handle and behave in some particular way that requires advanced functionality and coding. Not once have I ever seen it go any other way. Organizations are attracted by the simplicity and speed of no-code development, but they always want it to something that goes beyond that tooling.

Does that mean that no-code tooling is useless? No. Just expect that it is limiting and you will likely require coding specialists to supplement the things that can be done without code.
Ireland isn't part of the Five Eyes though.

I don't really think Helen McEntee's maternity leave is relevant either because she's in the same party as Heather Humphreys, and they are in a three-party coalition government. There's no main partisan divide like there is in the US or UK.
If you've ever been carded at a bar/liquor store in a foreign country, then that random small business has seen your passport, no? How do you feel about that?
In my experience self hosting email is more pain than it is worth. I switched to fastmail and am very happy. Don’t let anyone dissuade you from giving it a try if you are interested though.
Yes, give me a week and it will be open sourced. I just need to clean the code a bit

Edit: open sourced it!
I agree that some things should be hidden in "developer mode" (as it's called on Android). That might work for Arduino.

But the audience for WebUSB might grow. Many consumer electronic devices have companion desktop apps to configure them. Wouldn't it be nice if we didn't have to write them multiple times, and you could use the same software to configure them on Linux or a Chromebook as well?

You're claiming that Google just wants this for flashing Android but how do you know? Maybe they're thinking bigger.
Very very well said. This needs to be shouted from the rooftops. Along with a line from a reply below: 'There’s no “labour” shortage. There’s a “wage” shortage.'
lots of other cool rust goodies in his github account as well.
Someone who gets it!

Lowcode isn’t designed to replace all code, it’s designed to replace boilerplate CRUD apps with only a thin bit of logic. Often these are the internal apps too that aren’t worth the investment of a “fully coded” solution.
yeah, left/right are total cesspools. Left = right in toxicity. (Sarcasm, not trying to be snarky) but you really can't equate the far-right to the far-left.

On the one hand you have people passionate about:

- Equal access to schools, careers, pay, universities, healthcare...

- Ending global warming.

- Racism is real, and we should learn about it in school.

- End poverty

- More regulated capitalism

- Higher taxes on wealthy, less on middle class.

- Science is cool, we like science.

Respected Orgs: ACLU, Trade Unions, Post Office, Defamation League, EFF, Palestinians (going back to equality - w/ regards to Israel), Science Orgs, Colleges / Universities

On the other side you have people passionate about:

- California wildfires > caused by Jewish space-lasers.

- that all guns should have zero regulations (nobody wants to end guns, just maybe ar-15s outside gun ranges)

- that tourists were just being tourists on January 6th.

- Gun violence isn't a big deal

- Cops deserve immunity cause their cops, and we love them and they can't do bad.

- All unions are bad, except cop unions. See previous.

- Ending all environmental protections.

- Racism ended in the 60s, let's forget it ever existed all lives matter...

- Who cares about poverty, I got mine, that's all that matters.

- No regulations on capitalism.

- Lower taxes on everyone, including the wealthy.

- Science is bad it destroys our world view, let's ignore science.

Respected Orgs: KKK, Boogaloo Bois, NRA, <anything> of the confederacy, Confederate Army (retrospective), Israel, Fascists, The Pillow Guy, Trump Empire.

From wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left%E2%80%93right_political_s...

Generally, the left-wing is characterized by an emphasis on "ideas such as freedom, equality, fraternity, rights, progress, reform and internationalism" while the right-wing is characterized by an emphasis on "notions such as authority, hierarchy, order, duty, tradition, reaction and nationalism".[16]

Political scientists and other analysts regard the left as including anarchists,[17] communists, socialists, democratic socialists, social democrats,[18] left-libertarians, progressives and social liberals.[19][20] Movements for racial equality[21] and trade unionism have also been associated with the left.[22] Political scientists and other analysts regard the right as including conservatives, right-libertarians,[23] neoconservatives, imperialists, monarchists,[24] fascists,[25] reactionaries and traditionalists.

A number of significant political movements do not fit precisely into the left-right spectrum, including Christian democracy,[26] feminism,[27][28] and regionalism.[27][28][29] Though nationalism is often regarded as a right-wing doctrine, many nationalists favor egalitarian distributions of resources. There are also "liberal nationalists".[30] Populism is regarded as having both left-wing and right-wing manifestations in the form of left-wing populism and right-wing populism, respectively.[31] Green politics is often regarded as a movement of the left, but in some ways the green movement is difficult to definitively categorize as left or right.[32]
The Universal Markup Converter
Since this is done by market cap it leaves out a lot of private companies (which don't have a market cap by definition). Probably wouldn't change the status of Europe too much (although Glencore would be on the list if private companies were included).
NDAs?
I'm for small and lesser government and anti-war. I also like freedoms including gun rights.

I think less taxation is great and believe in the free market.

I believe in a nuclear family and traditional marriage for a healthy society, but not to the point that I'd ever try to force it on someone else, but in that I think it's proven to be the best way for people to rise from poverty and build a healthy community.

I don't think abortion is okay, but I won't stop you from having one.

I don't want the government to provide welfare though I do think that minorities have been hurt by our current system. I think welfare has if anything propagated said system.

I'm skeptical of big pharma and in particular the systems that both hyped COVID's danger and provided the vaccine.

I'm not anti-science, but anti-scientism.

My point is, I'm mostly conservative--to the point I get downvoted a lot when I express my opinions and I identify with a lot of opinions that are removed from twitter and youtube.

I think global governance only leads to more inscrutable bureaucracies and less freedom and privacy.

I believe that governments everywhere are doing their damnedest to scare everyone into believing more governmental control is the only way to protect you from `the other`.

I'm pretty clearly in the conservative camp. That said, I don't wish to control you, simply not to be controlled.
100% agree that journalists emphasize the sensational for the clicks instead of the moderate and reasonable.

That said, I don't agree with this framing of your question with regard to "individual" journalists. It's unlikely that any "individual" journalist has economic, political, and social power. Journalists' power results from their collective efforts as a group. I would be hard-pressed to name more than five individual NYT reporters but collectively, the NYT has unquestionable social and political power, if not economic. The NYT's angles on stories, its decisions to pursue certain trends and not others, its portrayals as somethings as good and others as not good, etc. - these efforts have tremendous power and shape society.

Why do you think someone like Bezos was so interested in buying WaPo? To anyone who fails to appreciate the power of journalism, start with Walter Lippmann's Public Opinion.
Are you ok? I don’t know you but your recent comments are hostile and I assume abnormal.

Please seek professional help outside HN. I don’t mean this in an insulting way, there is no shame in asking for help, but the internet is a bad place to get it.
There are two problems with this phrase, one is that it shouldn't. Really, if somebody a bit worse goes way into the negative value for you and you are a large company, you have some procedural problem that should be fixed. Long-time employees also have bad moments, and you should be able to survive those.

The second problem is that the onus is on you on making sure those bad interviews decrease the odds if hiring bad people, instead of increasing them or being irrelevant. Without that evidence, this is a non-argument.
No, but also yes. I mean DNS and DoT have the same relationship as HTTP and HTTPS but unlike the HTTPS rollout large projects aren't waiting around for the world to upgrade all their software and are just connecting to public DNS servers that speak DoT/H.

DNS the global database is still just as decentralized but DNS thing you connect to do the actual work is now a little less so.
I only have apple devices and I enjoy developing apps in swift, way easier and less tedious than other systems imho. Also SwiftUI makes UI design a lot easier than standard
Fantastic. I'm pretty sure I'm the wrong type myself and it's a bit of a worry. Hobbies are a lot more exciting when I don't have time for them.
Former Cat 2 bicycle racer here, "Cat 2" meaning I was in damned good shape, and I still am even if old age has slowed me a bit. That climb up next to highway 520 from downtown Redmond to the Microsoft campus? Yeah, if I had a hankering to do so, I'd drop most folks going up that hill.

And yet I own an electric bike, and love the thing. Because I can go up that hill in my work clothes, and not show up a dripping, sweating, stinking mess. I can go down the hill from the house and get supper without having to don the clown outfit and the special shoes. Just wheel the bike out the garage and go with whatever I have on. Back up the hill to get home, give that electric motor an extra kick if I'm feeling lazy, sorted. And that's for an old ex-racer who is in probably better shape than 90% of his peers. Imagine the worlds that open for the elderly, overweight, or other "differently abled".

Bicycles have had over 100 years to "become primary transport" and unless one lives in the Netherlands, it obviously isn't going to happen. Stick a battery and electric motor on one, though, and suddenly one's practical range and power band is extended enough to make it a viable transportation alternative for not just the fully-abled and in-shape, but for nearly everyone.
Because that only allows for you to sight in at that range.

Unless that range also exactly matches the range to the enemy targets, from your current nest, you won't be properly sighted in for your intended targets.

The ranges over which snipers make kills is sufficient that even a very small miss-alignment of the sights translates to a miss (often by many yards) at the target. According to Wikipedia [1], the sniper record is 3,540m (3,871 yd). That is 3.5km - imagine targeting something 3.5km away, firing, and having your shot hit the target.

Even in 1916, while sniper's may not have operated at 3.5km distances, they could easily have been operating across 500-1000m distances (the Wikipedia article lists a 1918 record of 1,280m (1,400 yd) or 1.2km). Even at those relatively shorter ranges, the margin for misalignment is still tiny. You have to actually sight the rifle in for the actual range, the actual elevation (whether you are shooting uphill or downhill) the current wind conditions, etc. And still hit a rather small target. Aligning to some other fixed berm will not be nearly accurate enough.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_recorded_sniper_kills
> It is worth noting that software salaries are artificially inflated HEAVILY due to a general unwillingness or lack of interest in hiring overseas developers.

Yes that's right; business hates saving money and loves hiring super expensive US talent.
Using a different material is in effect irrelevant, they still get maximum grip from maximizing contact area because of how rough roads are. Ultra narrow tries need higher internal pressures, which limits how much the deform and thus reduces grip.

Also, F1 cars are going up to 246 mph and doing heavy acceleration and breaking throughout the races, which seriously heats up the tires. Normal road tires would actually die sooner under those conditions. Just read up on who long tires last when people are doing street racing, burnouts, etc.
We have a new gas cooktop - we also looked up about the electric ones, but since the existing one was gas, we didn't know how much more it would cost to add wires across the house. It's pretty good and there are a few things you can't do with electric (like roasting a sheet of seaweed), but in general I think they're more or less comparable.

One problem with gas is that so much heat is lost to the rising hot air - in addition to inefficiency, it makes all the pot handles burning hot, so I always need to have mittens ready. Never had the problem when I had electric.
For a nicely documented and clean Matrix client implementation in Python, see weechat-matrix[1] and the matrix-nio[2] library it's based on. There's also Mirage[3] which is also based on matrix-nio and is a GUI client.

[1]: https://github.com/poljar/weechat-matrix

[2]: https://github.com/poljar/matrix-nio

[3]: https://github.com/mirukana/mirage
I'm the co-founder of Budibase, an open source low code platform, and 70% of our signups 30,000) are from IT.

Low code abstracts a lot of the coding effort, but it's still inherently complex to build applications. The code is only one part of the puzzle.

For us, it's more about speeding up the dev process for IT profs and removing the repetitive, grunt work.

For ref:
https://github.com/Budibase/budibase
Yes.

I swapped RH tires onto my road tandem, 26x44 on the front and 26x54 on the back (from schwable 40mms), and the average ride speed I saw went from the 16mph range to the 17mph range, and the first time out on the new tires we increased our fastest average ride ever speed from 17.25 to 18.25 mph.

And, the stoker is happier because the ride is that much better.
My theory is that for mass adoption to take hold, you've got to have a pioneer set the bar, and once that bar is set and successful, then people will be inspired by that bar, imitate it, and eventually exceed it.

We're in the interstitial space between the technology becoming available and widespread, and what will foster that adoption is for someone to make the first great AR game.
The build out of the Sound Transit light rail is taking 30 years for the following reasons:

1. ST only has the funds to build out a small % of the project at any one time. The work has to be staged because they can't take out all the $ at once.

2. Project managing the build out of the whole thing at once would require a much larger organization, which would be more expensive

3. Building the whole thing at once would require a much large workforce and much more equipment, which would be more expensive.

4. Staging construction gives them the time to work out the details of the next phase while working on the current phase.
For the moment it’s just a native HN reader, nothing more. But it’s going to get more complex hopefully
I don't have this experience at all - first, I have slide decks that have 100s of slides and it works fine. I have no issue finding documents either - however I do struggle with the invites to documents inside of Gmail.
Fully agreed.

A former employer once decided to empower non-technical users to design their own integrations using zapier. It was fine until someone wrote an action that changed a cell on a spreadsheet, which triggered another action that, itself, triggered the original action. A more software literate user would likely have noticed the infinite loop. That was not a fun week.

And anyway, this specific case was all to keep two calendars in sync, for which there are simpler and more reliable solutions. Even this awareness, of knowing when to look for something instead of making it yourself, is part of software literacy.

It also strikes me that the hyperfocus on UX that we've seen in the past, say, 20 years, has systematically removed users' ability to gain software literacy the way it was mostly done in the past: by tinkering. Current young users are mostly clueless about the workings of their apps, since their attention is so well held by apps' prescribed interactions.
e-bikes dramatically increase the number of people who can bike commute: you go faster for the same effort so the range is _much_ better, especially if you have hills; more people can avoid needing to take a shower when they arrive, which is great since so many employers do not provide facilities; and it means that people who need to carry kids and/or cargo can do so without sweating it. It also opens up quality of life improvements: you can trade a little extra weight for durable tires, more comfortable rides, BIG lights for night safety, etc.

According to my logs, I go about the same speed and heart rate on my cargo e-bike with my son and our gear commuting. The difference is that it saves enough time and helps with one notorious hill enough that I do it every day year round except for the worst weather whereas before I used to skip a few days a week — and I say that as a fairly fit cyclist who has ridden centuries at gun-timed speeds in the low 20s, so we're leaving out a LOT of bike commuters if we're saying that's inadequate.

I see e-bikes as a transformative technology for cities. If we want to stop the death, pollution, and quality-of-life impact of cars we should be rolling out bike infrastructure as quickly as possible — it's the cheapest, most flexible option we have. (Buses are second: more accessible, all-weather capable, but less flexible)

Since we got ebikes, we've averaged 2,000-2,500 miles per year on bike and sometimes go a couple months without using our car, which we are likely not going to replace when it dies.
Do slightly less intelligent people have non flawed brains because they were forced to do more work in an allegedly poor education system? Your brain is not flawed, and certainly not cursed, except perhaps by its own silliness.

Agree with your comments on leadership!
EU is about 15% of global GDP (and rapidly declining), so perhaps this isn’t that out of line (~12% of top 50).
If you have big ambitions, you'll probably need to work a lot
Really confused why this blew up so big when there are so many such KYC options. Someone enlighten me?
Very few people decide the value of a fetus on a binary. Some leftists say it’s always just a clump of cells, some rightists say it’s always a human life.

Most people just don’t know. Immediately after conception it’s clearly just a clump of cells, immediately before birth it’s clearly a baby. Hence why most Americans are between lots of exceptions and few exceptions.

In general, if lots of people feel a certain way, and your conclusion is completely contradictory, you should assume you’re wrong until strong evidence says otherwise. You’re essentially assuming you know better than everyone.