skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you are saying is incoherent.

First you berate someone for talking about bicycles because "footbridge" is in the name, then you ask how people would get to "this bridge", which makes no sense because there was no specific bridge in the first place, then when asked what bridge you are talking about you jump to "cultural context".
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> The free market allocates resources properly and will provide better and less expensive broadband internet, at no cost to the tax payer

I really hope nobody thinks that applies to Internet service in the real world. All evidence suggests that there is no free market, the resulting service is not better, nor less expensive, and it has cost the taxpayers a significant amount.
Is there any chance you can point out some other Rice alumni that come to mind for their communication skills of engineering topics?
"Plus fossil fuels" is, again, a markedly temporary situation. Numerous storage methods are still vying for which will end up cheapest. Batteries look like they will end up the most expensive, but easiest to field. Underground and underwater compressed air are being proved out. A GW-scale liquified-air system is coming online in UK. We will need efficient electrolytic H2 and NH3 processes anyway, and both are good for both storage and fuel.

So, burning LNG continues for a while because the equipment is already in place, and nobody wants to invest immediately in what might not end up the cheapest storage, or anyway is not yet nearly so cheap as it will shortly be when volume balloons.

Underground compressed air is compatible with existing LNG turbines. Liquified-air storage has useful side products. Fuel you will make anyway is a good storage medium too.
Update: Nat Friedman answered this as part of this thread on twitter:

https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1409883713786241032

Basically they are building a system to find explicit copying and warn developers when the output is verbatim.
Ahh so "How to Work Hard" is really "How to Work Hard for the Privileged and Unsuffering."

I was confused as there was no mention of privilege, no disclaimer, no recognition of his revelation as an innate human need as fundamental as those for connection or play.

Graham figured out work folks, pack it in. Maslow, step aside.
Apparently I also don't? I fail to see the connection you are making.
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Light text/scripting oriented alternatives to graphical/big tools.

- Typesetting documents: Groff+MS / Groff+Mom

- Spreadsheets: sc-im+gnuplot/visidata+gnuplot/awk/perl

- Accounting: ledger

- Music: streamripper $URL + find . -iname "*.mp3" >
~/music.m3u

- Video/Audio production: sox+ffmpeg. Yes, really.
"The irony is that of all people the leaker to whom Apple no longer wanted to pass on information was the first to bring information of these drastic measures to the public"

If Apple made this up in order to find the leaker, sounds like it worked.
So hear me out... plugins ;)
Arguably both the amount they make and the number of people is increasing. Plus Internet access may be a push for people to stay or move to a more rural location.
I wonder if there should be a thumbs-up / thumbs-down mechanism to help teach it, or even flag snippets as bad/insecure/whatever.

I'm picturing the StackOverflow problem where the accepted answer is actually wrong, and actively pushing it into more peoples code is just proliferating the problem into more places. Making people faster at building mostly the write but sometimes the subtly wrong thing.
Are neutrinos produced in these mergers?
I read somewhere that the pattern displayed by the CM-5 in the film was referred to as 'common and pleasing #6', as close as I can recall it. I've not seen a definition of the pattern other than it's actual output.
I love this. Most crypto price interfaces are super complex and this is a nice simple take on it! Please keep in-mind that my critiques/feature requests are because I actually really like this =)

Piggy-backing... Contrast as a whole needs some adjustment - keep in mind that people's light situations drastically will affect (effect? hell I don't know) how readable text on a background is. I have a window behind my most used monitor which sometimes causes issues with light text on light backgrounds, or dark text on dark backgrounds. There's also color blindness, age-related issues, and many other situations in-which you will want more contrast than what has been implemented here. This is very low-contrast, and I think it wouldn't detract from the "clean look" by swapping some of your white/off-white text out with black/near-black/navy equivalents, and I promise you it will make this software accessible to more folks!

I also would love to see a general "cryptotemp" solution that allows this same thing for different currency pairs. ex: "https://cryptotemp.com/ETH-USD"

Great solution. Bookmarked. Sorry to nitpick!!!
My phone is more of a portable web browser that can send messages.
> why do people keep inventing languages which are not lisps

Apparently people like to make syntax optimized for what they do most frequently.
I like C programming, and not having a concise syntax to dereference, index, and access struct members would drive me nuts. Something like foo->bar.baz += quux(42); is not too rare to have to write, but feels very natural to write this way. In Lisp, that would be terrible in comparison.

Sometimes, just sometimes, I try to add some metaprogramming and imagine how nice it would be to code in Lisp, only to realize soon after that I was overthinking it. It's a rare situation that the "special" syntax that is in my preferred language causes friction for what I do. 99% of the time, it is there to support me, to help me read and write code faster.
Did the same (with PostgreSQL). Markdown notes in the browser. Text and images, attachments. Only the essential functionality I really need. Used Evernote in the past, but got more and more disappointed.
Yes, I was really disheartened when I learned that my city only recycles a few types of plastic, and most of it just goes to the landfill. And now its being theorized that oil industries encouraged recycling as a solution, even knowing its deficiencies, so that plastics would be more readily accepted.

Regarding nuclear waste disposal, this is the coolest solution I've seen so far:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoy_WJ3mE50
codepen would be even BETTER if it weren't for frames being coopted into the defacto medium for ads via iframes.
Official Who Said Champlain Towers Was Sound Is on a Leave of Absence
I would suggest the opposite: natural ability falls in the luck category.
So… doesn’t affect you so doesn’t matter?

Ignore the data points, I’m fine?
I dont see why disabilities necessitate a mobile armored living room? Maybe an electric scooter or golf cart sized apparatus?
C’mon guys, your standard backend schema with endpoints is like way easier to automate away.
The Netherlands beg to differ, 17% of it is reclaimed/created land and more than half is on life support thanks to dikes, dunes and pumps. Singapore's Marina Bay area is reclaimed land. There's an airport in Japan that's also made on reclaimed land.

On the other hand, nobody is re-zoning Central Park anytime soon, Monaco is unlikely to expand its borders, and the imperial palace in Tokyo is unlikely to move out and allow new developments on its grounds.

Nobody wants to live in Wyoming even if it's cheap. And Japan is literally giving away houses in villages to try to slow the decay of the countryside.

Maybe some industrial zone or office space might be re-zoned to inhabitation, pushing the industrial zones out. I guess gentrification is some way of making more value out of the same land.

But generally new developments or gentrification doesn't degrades the value of earlier developments.

On the balance, there are more people, with the rich having more money that they don't know what to do with except park it in real estate with deleterious effects on the affordability for less fortunate people (for example Vancouver and London where investments are kicking the middle class and the rest of the classes out of the cities, or Black Rock paying 20% / 50% above market rate for houses).

The scarcity applies to places people want to live or work, not to land in general.
No current company makes any of their modern cars deliberately easy to work on. No matter the %, the fact is you can get a car from VW, BMW, Daimler, Hyundai, Nissan and so on.
Question: how much time do you typically spend outside in something approximating "natural" surroundings? Worked wonders for friend, is why I ask.
Interesting idea. One could imagine a kind of Actor-Smalltalk where each object is actually its own "thread" (whatever that means at the VM level). The issue then becomes the asynchronous nature of the beast and how to "respond to" senders -- as you know, in current ST-80 like systems, returning from a method is the same as "responding," but this would no longer be the case.

Another idea is this: in the ST-80 VM, the only "real" thing at the OS level is SmallInteger. Everything else is a true object reference. One could imagine expanding the base integer size to 128 bits and having all references also described at that size. The reason to do this would be that IPv6 uses 128-bit addresses, and therefore we could bind object references to IP addresses at a lower level.

That aside, the fact that the Opensmalltalk VM is made inside of Smalltalk means that -- in theory -- a team could iterate to that point using the environment itself.
I guess the difference is that you can put in a weekend of effort on an Arch Linux installation and get a machine tailored to your workflow, few bugs, fast boot times, easy to maintain for the future, etc.

But no matter how much work you put into your Windows install it will be just as slow/fast, uncustomizable, and unoptimizable as it was out of the box.
Can someone recommend a dead-simple music library for a user whose technical skill level prevents them from using the web? This would be for Apple products, preferably cross-Apple-platform (iPad, Mac, iPhone).

I don't even want GUI elements to ignore; they just cause confusion. Just sort music by track name/album name/performers, and play/pause, and that would be optimal.

Better would be something that integrates with some streaming/download service, so the user can also easily find and play music they don't already own.
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Tbh what do you expect from a 3 month intro to web dev? You have 12 weeks so you spend a week learning HTML, a week learning JS, then CSS, SQL, etc.

With that in mind, of course it’s pumping out bad devs, just like every other boot camp. I wish it were different but that’s what happens. What’s worse is they charge over $10K for the pleasure.
WSL was slower than dialup internet last I used it...
1980's original Bill-Joy-derived vi can do this: it has a :set lisp mode for indentation, and % for jumping between matching parentheses.

"Can it match and indent parentheses" is pretty much a minimal viability test for any programming editor from the past 40 years.
Treemaps for space-constrained visualization of hierarchies (1998)
Thank you blockchain for funding its advancement
I had the same question, I found this site to try and answer it: https://legislature.ohio.gov/publications/rules-of-the-senat...

I read everything that mentions amendments, and it appears that they either must come out of committees, or be sponsored by a single senator. It looks like the Clerk would know who sponsored an amendment. Though, I'm not sure how this plays in, but at least one of the rules specifically says, "This rule does not apply to the President Pro Tempore, the Majority Floor Leader, the Minority Leader, or the Assistant Minority Leader of the Senate," in regards to limits on number of amendments to a bill.

My guess is that it's not "anonymous" in the sense that no-one knows who added it, but that it's not "transparent", i.e. came out of a committee or was put in by one of the leaders (above) in the Senate.

I'm sure they know who added it, the question is do they have to tell anyone (they should have to for government transparency).
Be careful, reader, there are errors in the article.

For example one egregious erorr is here
on https://demofox2.files.wordpress.com/2021/06/image-34.png along with the surrounding text which consequently repeats the same error.

The voltage divider is no magic, it can't create 12V of potential from 9V source. It would be more correct to replace -6V with 0V, then it would make sense.
This is like analyzing hedge funds and pretending every investment earns a profit, and no fund ever goes out of business.

By that I mean: the word "risk" is absent. Someone risks capital trying to develop drugs. Most of the drug candidates will fail, at some stage. The problem is, no one knows which ones. If a drug succeeds, its price has to cover all the ones that didn't, not just its own manufacturing costs.
It's like the Protestant work ethic, but denuded of any religious connotations.
I really don't get how it's an ungenerous reading. It's funded by taxes.

Grants are paid for by taxes.

Many tax pennies were spent.

Just because it didn't come out of the city council pot makes no difference.
As it happens, the state legislature and the attorney general are not one in the same.

If it's a question of local politics, Ohio has recently leaned red but historically been considered a battleground state, so they're somewhat diverse.
350 euros for 6 inch? 450 for 9 inch‽‽

Just buy some very cheaply-available electronic price tags [1] and use open-source firmware[2] which supports greyscale + yellow. Save literally HUNDREDS of dollars/euros/etc. For extra credit, they are not only black and white eInk screens, they are BWY, so they can add a splash of yellow!

[1] https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?LH_Auction=0&_nkw=Chroma74

[2] http://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=29.%20eInk%20Price%20Ta...
That's a really good point. Something like that could be used to make a "dirty bomb" which aims to disperse material, rather than try to make it react as in a typical nuclear warhead
I will not be advising him of that because I share his opinion that the web is fast becoming/has become an application delivery system and not a document reading system with some media additions; in fact many here reading this will say "duh!" because they assume this is a good thing.

I don't think it's a good thing, I think it's inefficient and used against people as much as it's used _for_ people. Standards such as "WebUSB" are just incredulous.

The fact that some very smart people managed to get a javascript renderer to go real fast seems to have spawned millions of people just to dump garbage into it constantly, and -require it to be enabled- to do things that used to be possible without it.. it's shockingly bad for accessibility, bad for performance, bad for my ram. But I guess you don't have to worry about _my_ ram.

I'm very sure it's profitable to turn the web into an application platform, and it _is_ delivering a lot of actual value to a lot of people, certain things would never be possible, but it's abused too, and honestly it takes a lot away, privacy among them... but we can't talk about that as an industry because half of the people in it depend on that ecosystem being maintained.

I'm not going to go as far as to say that "the web" is the new oil industry; because we have no oil spill equivalent and we havent gone to war about it (though the e-waste due to inefficiencies and "everyone has 8G of ram, right!?" is likely not helping the ecological situation).

But the industry is propped up because it's too big to fail now, and you're damned if you get in the way.
Yeah, makes sense. Just to clarify something though, I didn't mean it in terms of "dumbing down", but rather "intended to be taken like a college course". As in, with the same amount of attention and effort dedicated to it as you would "full-time" in a college setting. Ergo, people who are looking to do dishes, jog outside, etc. in the middle of it would not be the target audience of MOOCs.

I actually see MIT's OCW as different from MOOCs in this regard, since that was intended as "here's the material we teach, use it at your leisure" (e.g., feel free to wash dishes in the middle...), whereas edX/Coursera/etc. were (as I see it) intended as "here's a 'college-equivalent' course you can take remotely; we need to assume you'll treat it similarly and in return we think it'd give you similar understanding of the material as a college student would get in a classroom".
My issue with beets was the musicbrainz API was severely rate limiting and slow. I fixed this by running my own MB database using linuxservers docker container which has been discontinued. One thing I did was write a custom script which would identify any missing media from artists who I had other music from - this helped me discover music I wasn’t aware of and was reasonably good at finding new albums rather than me manually googling each artist. Alas with the death of the docker container, I can’t do this anymore.

Has the rate limit constraint of MB changed in recent years?
the enormous difficulty of the task seems dead obvious apparent to me. this situation got corrected real fast. it's hard as heck for me to imagine large secret conspiracies or top down machinations to manipulate this stuff. it's not bottom up. if it were top down I feel like the thousands & thousands oflwer level employees would taddle on it real fast. almost all obviously shit decisions get corrected quickly.

buying into the sourest, meanest, most anti-corporate party line is ultra popular. but I think Hanlon's describes things well. there is enormous difficulty applying tasteful moderation at scale.
Structure helps people understand programs better. Because lisp has basically the minimal amount of structure required to make it parseable it is harder for people to understand than other languages that enforce structure via syntax.

Yes, I know that lisp programmers often structure their programs well, but there is a reason most of the good parts of lisp got incorporated into other languages and yet lisp stayed relatively niche.
That.

users_get_users could be users__get_users.

Also not using linters and being trigger happy about adding third-party libraries in the package.json.
Wait, what? No; that's not how that works at all. Where did you read that?

The shortfall between Federal government spending and tax receipts is the deficit. The government has to borrow that money, which it does by having the Treasury issue debt securities.
i want a web browser with javascript execution permissions builtin.
Most of the offices use cloud based patient management apps. In my anecdotal experience, as soon as they enter my phone number into one of those, I start getting significantly increased spam call volume. The spike lasts a few weeks.

edit: typo
That is what I meant to say also.

So not to beat a dead horse, but there is no meticulous data gathering from unvaccinated people either, and we know that also suffers from vast underreporting. The one data set (being unvaccinated) simply also has a very strong signal of known serious health issues, while the other data set (getting almost any current vaccination) has a very weak signal of very rare, usually minor issues.
Then that would no longer be an Open source license.
This is absolutely a common feeling in PhD programs - I think partially because it is a transition out of structured programs and a more nuanced idea of "done". I wouldn't beat yourself up about it, part of the process is learning for yourself how to deal with finding the right balance of focus and exploration.
Bluemail. I've used it for years and am very happy.
Also piping out to stdout when you should be piping out to stderr, fauckin hell
I'm not sure I follow - what doesn't matter?
I was talking more about those that used to be decent self-defense weapons.
Because you need to pretend the spending does depend on them. Otherwise the magic of Fiat currency starts to waver
When can we expect golf ball size hailstones?
To say more: if a large timber beam is exposed to fire and comes out charred, you can often just scrape off the charred part, but for a steel or concrete beam the damage may be fundamental (introducing cracks or permanently changing the size or material properties) requiring the part to be replaced.
Very HN question, but are they hackable? I'd love one of these as a daily calendar; I've used an old/decrepit Kindle before for the same sort of thing, but something like this would be much more attractive.

I could assemble something myself, I guess, but I've got other projects taking up time and don't mind paying a little bit to turn the physical assembly problem (I'm bad at) into a mostly software problem (I'm mildly better at).
I suppose the next logical step is to not allow a user to log in unless the camera is operative and can detect a face.
For people complaining about price, large eink panels are insanely expensive. The cheapest 13.3" panel with a min order of 1 is around $400-450. That's for a panel with no driver board. If you're interested in an easy diy approach, you can pick up a 10" panel with an arduino hat here for $200 [0]. Although if you step down to normal ereader sizes, you can easily pick up 6-7" panels for around $30 on aliexpress/ebay.

[0] https://www.waveshare.com/product/displays/e-paper/epaper-1/...
Yes. I can see this being used for other financial instruments. For example, daily variations of GME could be visualized in this manner.
The author has just described WebPositive, the Haiku native browser. None of those (mis)features ;)
How is it getting ketamine prescribed in the US for depression? Do they give you 30 lozenges to take one a day? I've had no success with SSRIs and want to go that route, but don't know how to ask a doctor for it without looking/sounding like I want to get high, when I just want to be functional and normal.
This is definitely not true for German law.
There are some plugins that allow you to customize your library. The "Inline" plugin is very helpful with specifying custom template fields. This allows you to base your file organization on other things. That should allow you to create folders for session-dates and things like that.

https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/inline.html

There is also a plugin that allows you to add keyword tags to files. I haven't used this one though, so I can'
t really say if it will be useful to you:
https://github.com/igordertigor/beets-usertag

The beets documentation lists many other useful plugins here:
https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/
That depends on the implementation, some verify and settle every block.
I was answering a specific question, "How is it possible to determine if you've violated a random patent from somewhere on the internet via a small snippet of customized auto-generated code?" The answer is that many companies have forbidden that specific action in order to remove the risk from that action.

You are expanding the discussion, which is great, but that doesn't apply in answer to that specific question.

There are answers in response to your question, however. For example, many companies use software for scanning and composition analysis that determines the provenance and licensing requirements of software. Then, remediation steps are taken.
"Neovim 0.5 will be released this Friday (7/2/21).

We will be having a launch day stream on TJ’s twitch channel with brief segments by various core maintainers & contributors about the headline features of Neovim 0.5. The stream will begin at 12:00 pm EST, or 16:00 UTC."
You mean, if only there was an economically viable way to store electricity. Still waiting on that one.
Public doesn't mean "open to some but not others". This isn't public but geo locked sign-up for trial.
except they are charging 350 euro even for 6 inch, and you can buy a hackable 7.4 inch panel WITH a radio mcu/ battery/ case/ etc... for $40

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?LH_Auction=0&_nkw=Chroma74