skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These were being exhibited at the Penn Museum around the time of the blogpost. I have a photo of one with some nicely rendered B-52s dropping bombs.
I completely disagree, I'm using GNOME on a laptop from 2008 now. It's working fine for me. I did tweak it a little bit however.
Yea, this seems more like a tool insurance companies will use to deny coverage.
I imagine Google will eventually have to go there. If more publications move to paywalls, and the search results are almost all paywalled, surely Google would have to do something?
CTemplar catastrophic incident with complete data loss – July 2021
So you're paying $60 to get your earbuds replaced, but you can't use the service if they have any external/cosmetic damage. Something here doesn't add up, is this just because Airpods don't have replaceable batteries?
Reddit doesn't necessarily have a "main page". I generally don't subscribe to any sub that you would typically see in /r/all, and stick with niche subs instead.
Hi friend, it's same as, different than.
You should have showed this to that idiot CEO, just before the middle finger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er8g6D_PqvY

They got rid of the only people that, assuming it was your error, wouldn't have made it twice. Making mistakes is part of learning, which is part of doing things.
Also, you had been put under excessive workload due to absurd time constraints, and the pay was ridiculous.
Your only "error" was to accept from start working in that environment, but that's an error most of us do as young devs; sometimes the enthusiasm after landing the first job plays tricks on us. Been there done that.
Disclaimer: Don't know if I believe (at this point in time!) that water has a memory or not...

However, it's a very interesting premise -- for future experimentation...

If it turns out that Water does possess memory, and/or under certain circumstances (i.e., dilute DNA in it) can be made to remember past states of what it previously contained -- then this would set the stage for further experimentation to see if Water could be used for some sort of computer memory and/or data storage device...

And, if in fact possible...

Then, what strange technological marvels -- the next century might hold...
>However, only in hindsight is it obvious that Afghanistan could not be turned around, to reverse the decades-long descent into tribal mob rule.

I don't think this is true at all. I think we knew from Japan, Korea and other "projects" that it works but it takes generations.

We knew that before going in.

We know it now even though it suits people to pretend it's impossible and that people in Afghanistan are somehow different to people literally everywhere else...

Its exactly this sort of ignoring of known facts that gives the US a bad name. The US is great at shock and awe and giving up.
Yes, the lack of reproducibility is really Excel’s biggest weakness in data analysis. Is this 5th workbook that is a 4th generation derivation from the original data statistically valid? Can you go back to each step and verify it was valid? A script that does all processing and analysis starting from raw data can be validated and audited.
I think my microcontroller class used a variant of the 68HC08. I didn't realize it's a cousin of the NES chip.
Ask HN: How would you redesign HN?
This one I presume:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TthFh27Mx5k
Well if you are happy that you found someone that can follow a checklist then fine. I doubt the top tier grad would want that type of job anyway.
Our posties are always littering the streets and even my driveway with regular brown rubber bands!
Not to sound rude, but are you simply renaming the crx to zip and sending the zip file via API or am I missing anything?
> only in hindsight is it obvious that Afghanistan could not be turned around

It's exactly this kind of stupid, arrogant, historically illiterate rhetoric that gets us into trouble.

Between the Brits and the Soviets, Afghanistan has been occupied half a dozen times in the modern era. Each time the occupiers have sought to reshape Afghan society from the bottom up into something resembling a modern western character. Every one has ultimately failed in a similar way. So now Americans act surprised that the seventh attempt failed? Are you fucking joking?
Simple: The US is the wealthiest country in the history of the world and we don't have a lot of low hanging fruit in terms of easily preventable/treatable diseases.
what's frustrating is that while batteries are consumable products they could last much longer if they stay between 80 and 20% capacity without overheating. (this is similar to what tesla does) I wish there was a "battery care" settings on all electronics that would respect limits like this so that I could get thousands of cycles out of my devices instead of only <1000.

Apple has added a feature which tries to do this intelligently to some extent but it's not the best at guessing what my needs are.

The majority of the time I do not need max or even half of max battery life from my devices. airpods I only use for an hour or two at a time for example and my phone is usually close to a charger.
I'm not sure, have to try it out but text fields can be delineated by starting with a single quote ('), that might be a special case. It might not be though, I don't have Excel open to check. Pretty much everything is left alone if you specify "text" at the import stage though. (This is using the text import wizard, or text-to-columns)
I don't think you can charge per article. It makes opening a new article too high-stakes; people don't want to think about spending money each time they click on something, even if the amount they're spending is super small.

I'm also concerned that your ratings system would perpetuate the sort of think-piece journalism in which authors proclaim whatever their readers currently believe, as opposed to challenging their assumptions. We already see this sort of thing in what types of articles get shared on social media.
Fan-Out Packaging Options Grow
> So, if you want to empower a distributed network of personal websites, you also need a powerful "indexing" engine that continuously fetches and catalogues all the new content being published by all these people for easy discovery

Isn’t this just rss with extra steps ?

If I’m interested in content I will most likely subscribe to his RSS feeds
> Maintain a low waist circumference and maintain muscle mass

Is there a reliable, proven (i.e. actual science, not broscience) way to do both of these at the same time without drugs in middle-age or elderly people? I was under the impression that this was an unsoved problem because many (if not most) people undergo age-related changes that cause them to put on fat way more easily than muscle.
"The elements of computing systems" aka "Nand to Tetris" takes you through the process and I could understand it despite not having a degree. Highly recommended.
I don’t think it would take long for the MIT CS grad to start out performing this “good” experienced dev. The experienced dev could be a principal engineer by 20 years if they cared more about CS.
https://www.home-barista.com/ is a great forum for espresso and coffee enthusiasts. It has some particularly engaging threads of people who take old, rusted out machines and restore them to glory. One good example: https://www.home-barista.com/repairs/conti-prestina-espresso...
I’ve found that herbs like cilantro taste extra strong when unflushed (even I taste the soapy thing, which I don’t normally)

I take my cues from the cannabis hobbyists, and they’ve largely moved away from hydro because of the taste. Unflushed bud is known to be harsh, give a nasty headache, and leave extra salts in the ash for those who smoke it.
My personal moral injury occurred when I had spent my best decade in the military, had an issue with depression, then my entire chain of command and ask of my friends in the service stopped talking to me and transferred me to another command where they shoved me in a room alone with no windows to suffer and eventually do what I had to to quit, aka trying to kill myself, because they wouldn't let me leave to do something other than sit in that room. I had always thought they were my family and that military folks always took care of each other, but I found out quickly I was just a warm body. It destroyed my sense of community and I still have problems making close friends.

Love the VA big brain article about this when they are a part of the system that absolutely FUCKS it's own people. Luckily now, I'm starting to feel more like myself before they screwed me, it only took a decade after I stopped seeing the VA quack.
Random question... is hn_throwaway_99 your main HN name or you still maintain a main account? I know a lot of folks use a throwaways for controversial stuff or for 'anonymity', but it seems yours is quite prominent.
Architecture and design forums don't, in my experience, work.

They attract amateurs.

Amateurs generally repel expertise.

And experts are already busy doing the thing their expert at...serving clients.

To put it another way, working architects and designers don't have much if any upside from arguing with do-it-yourselfers, people who have only heard of FLW, and the general public which think of commercial construction as just like their house only more so.
Could you explain? I'm not sure where I went wrong.
You can turn on nuclear (look under the advanced assumption setting; it's called "Dispatchable technology 2" for some reason.)

And yes, this modeling site is about designing an energy system from scratch, not operating existing plants.
"The Graeco-Roman pantheon was a better fit with reality - a group of morally mediocre gods with their own agendas, mostly indifferent to what the mortals were up to."

It is a better fit in terms of The Problem of Evil, but it raises a different problem: What happened to them?

They seem to have been conquered by the other major religions and pretty much disappeared.

So the world's not really a good fit for them either.
I really dislike how open source has evolved over the last decade. A lot of open source isn't much more than a feature anemic demo and IMO is only there so companies can generate sales leads. Getting good quality bug reports or contributions from the "community" members (aka suckers) are a bonus.

I don't contribute to projects that have stripped down, almost unusable versions for their open source variant and that's most of them. Years ago I saw someone on HN say something like "charge for features or scale, not both." Personally I think that should be "charge for scale, not features."

I like the way Drone.io has done their licensing so far, even after being bought by Harness. Before, it was something like "do what you want if you have less than $1 million in revenue." Now, with Harness.io it appears they've settled on charging for scale. When I looked at their pricing a couple days ago it says the "free" (open source) version is limited to 1 server. I'm not sure how that works (or how they enforce it), but the main thing IMO is they don't appear to limit features. I can actually use it without reading their feature tiers like it's an API that changes every time the marketing department waffles on the pricing.

I think the current models for pricing SaaS suck and Harness is closer to a model that makes sense. For me, the reality is that I only want 2 tiers; free where I self host and SaaS where I pay someone to do it. The problem is they always want to charge enterprises more per user which makes sense since it's harder to scale and support to the level needed.

IMO, just have 2 tiers; free, self-hosted with full features and community support and paid, but with a different pricing model that's based on user count and support. For example, give the first user for free with community support. You always keep the price for lower tier users. Give the next 4 users for a low cost with email support. Give the next 20 ish users for a mid-tier cost with phone support. Make the remaining users the price you actually want with priority support.

That brings the cost average down for small users and makes it much more attractive to adopt a product. The pricing curve looks more like a camels hump (assuming you negotiate if you're huge) instead of a staircase (like GitLab) where you hit pricing cliffs that are tough to swallow.
Except the turtle of matter and physics aren't creators and don't need themselves to be created if they always existed.

Mass and physics aren't sentient or acting with purpose.
Nice to see the latest version being seen here. Been really happy with LogSeq so far apart from some bugs (which are expected since it is in Beta). And I definitely agree regarding the development. The devs put out a release every week or so with lots of bugs being fixed and new features being added.
You can see an example of the platform agnostic embedded video in use at https://www.tubeshift.info/extension/ and with a slightly different integration at api.tubeshift.info/1/embed/youtube/YxyW_mttnQ0 which is supposed to be suitable for direct use inside of an iframe.

I'm working on implementing a public JavaScript API for finding a specific video from different video websites as a part of the TubeShift browser extension and project. The API is currently used by the browser extension and the website at www.tubeshift.info and I think it might be handy for other people.

This is the first time I've tried to create a JavaScript API so I'm looking for feedback on how usable it is and how bad my accent may be. I also don't have a lot of experience with Promises and I built the API specifically to be fault tolerant. This code is also fairly knew but is working in testing so far.

The API implementation supports either querying the TubeShift web service for information about locations for a video or it can optionally querying Odysee and BitChute directly to find out if a specific YouTube video is being hosted there. Because of CORS the discovery does not work on a normal web page but it does function inside the TubeShift browser extension.

My goal with the API rewrite from the version currently used by the production version of the extension was to allow the extension to function usefully even if the TubeShift API web service is offline. This makes TubeShift function like the Watch on LBRY or Watch on Odysee browser extensions but still offers more features even when the webservice is not available.

I'm not a web developer either and tubeshift.info is the first "real" website I've ever built and definitely the most I've ever done with DOM. The experience has been really interesting.

I really focused on fault tolerance so that the API could be used for critical user experiences even though the web service it talks to is not always available. For the use case of the TubeShift extension the tolerance for service outages on the webservice are much longer than something like having an embedded video on a website. The website implementation itself was built so that even if the web service is offline or the JavaScript faults internally that the user still receives an acceptable though not premium experience. That has been a really fun challenge to think about.

I hope the idea is interesting for others and I'm happy to answer questions.
It's a completely useless endeavour that only an unenlightened civilization would find attractive.
The lunatics took over the asylum long ago.
Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution | Meaningness

https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
It seems crazy to me that someone would demo something that important without first doing a practice run-through.

Things do sometimes go wrong and it’s the presenter’s job to make light of it and carry on like it’s not a big deal.
Alloying carbon represents a minute fraction of coal use in the steel industry. The vast majority is used for heat and reduction of iron ore (removing oxygen). This carbon addition does not release carbon dioxide (at least not directly, some is released in the coking process, but that process can have its own improvements). When people talk about replacing carbon in steel production, they are talking about the fuel coke.
Cue DFW's rant on silence and Pulp Fiction's uncomfortable silence scene [1, 2].

The author mentions Japan but doesn't mention aizuchi, a constant backchanneling that signals attentiveness that I'd classify as the opposite of silent pontificating [3].

[1] https://youtu.be/iGLzWdT7vGc?t=1794

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnVX-uv-QPc

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aizuchi
Most decently sized apartments in any major European city are in that range.
The most obvious thing would be a better mobile view. doesn't need to be fancy, but some things like the vote buttons really could use larger touch targets.
Reminded me of late 80's when I had an Amstrad PPC640DD which had a built in 2400 baud modem. Was in an Hotel and spent a couple of hours on a BBS...£50 charges for phone when checking out for those two hours usage.

Soon learned some tricks and list of outdials (ICL had some nice ones as did IBM, if you had the number, that was all you needed). Though doubt anybody wardials thesedays.
Please ping a colleague for chit-chat. You'll figure out pretty quickly who is interested in this. Just like face-to-face some people will want to talk and others won't.

I chat about kids, hobbies, side-projects, etc. with coworkers on a daily basis via Slack. I really stepped this up during the lockdowns specifically to help maintain sanity. One coworker was in Canada with her son while her husband was trapped in the US and they could not see each other due to travel restrictions. I checked in on her regularly and she seemed to really appreciate it.

This has lead to one former coworker and me starting our own small business and significantly increasing our income. As well as other friendships where we do things like vacation together even though we don't see each other on a regular basis.
I’ve been thinking about this myself lately. I’d like to create something that nurtures curiosity like HN but is more broad-based. In considering this, I suspect that moderation is far more important than any technical aspect of HN (thank you @dang, Scott, et al). There’s a challenge when moderation is more democratic and fungible.
An ugly hit piece from a rabid right-wing journal.
Couldn't agree more. The only reason i'd call myself employable as a developer is because i've taken on many self-projects and reinvented many wheels, which resulted in lots of sharp corners and hard lessons learned.

It's a definite time sink to learn these lessons, but it's of real value to me personally.
High quality public news is also still available. BBC, In Germany ARD/ZDF and even English language offering (DW), NPR in the US I believe, in reality you don't need to pay for news at all if you're an ordinary citizen who just wants to stay on top of what's going on. If you're some kind of think tank employee and read four hours of news per day surely you can afford it.

Normal people being informed today costs 0 bucks.
What’s crazy is that they seem to be using a js (wasm) port of skia.

https://github.com/ExpressiveSuite/SkiaJS

edit: upon closer inspection it seems to be a wrapper, not a port.
He was talking in a press conference after Virgin Brides was already closed down. The journalist asked him why it failed, and he said “no customers”, which was pretty funny.
Range of possible reasons -

Maybe because issues in poor nations are straightforward to solve: if you resolve the issue with clean water for a village, that improves lives of hundreds. Issues that plague 'The west' don't have a known solution.

Maybe because of most issues in poorest nations is lack of funs / tech, which he can provide, but cause of suffering in western world is usually political or mismanagement, which he cannot 'provide'

Maybe because for the same resources deployed the choice is between saving 100 kids from disease in Africa vs helping social mobility of 1 kids in US

Maybe you do not believe that from Alaska to Hawaii is 5,000 miles of "we", but 500 miles South from Texas it's "they". Nation-centric worldview is a relatively new idea that only existed for a couple hundred years, even today many people associate by faith, by town/province, by ethnicity or other things over nationality
This is the specific off grid inverter I'm using - SPF 3000TL LVM-ES. You essentially place it between your loads and grid and it will intelligently switch to grid when your solar output is too low and your battery voltage is at a certain threshold.
Quebec, Canada, blue bands here...
Sounds the typical "I have an idea" leadership who wants slaves to implement their "vision", but who have no clue or skills to make a real product.
The way in which the design reverts to the norm is so profound in a way, even though it's the product of "mistakes". Entropy, evolution, and economies follow parallel patterns.
How about Dev A = Chromium, Dev B = FF, Dev C = Safari?
Not pounds, euros. Sorry
The Sunday NY Times of the 90s was like a science project. The thing was about 4 inches thick.

No other paper was like that.
> these are not people we want in our country

You're disgusting.
Maybe for rooftop solar. For utility-scale solar it won't work out like that.

Imagine it's 02031 and you're running a utility-scale solar company and you want to put in a bid on Egypt's latest PPE RFQ for a 100-megawatt solar farm. The market price for PV modules is down to US$0.018 as you predict above, but the labor cost to install them is US$0.18, so your construction costs are US$198k + balance of plant. So, to break even, you need to make at least US$0.198/Wp from the PPE, and so do your competitors who are trying to underbid you.

In this scenario, if you can find some way to automate 10% of the installation labor, you can save US$18,000 and underbid the competition by 5% (more realistically: 2.5%, because of balance-of-plant costs), guaranteeing you win the PPE. That's an environment that produces extremely strong incentives to invest in automation, and extremely favorable circumstances as well: on site at the solar plant, you control the entire environment except for, like, dust storms. And there's plenty of room for even very large machinery.

Think about the scale of the draglines, excavators, and shovels used in open-pit coal mining. Some of these have hundred-meter-long booms; they can reach across an entire city block without walking. (They move by walking because they're too big for wheels or tracks.) Now consider that the available solar energy resource is three orders of magnitude larger than coal ever was, and instead of a mountain-sized coal seam you're mining a country-sized "seam" of sunlight.
> An average house in most Bay Area counties costs over $1,000,000.

Not unless 2 (San Francisco and Santa Clara) is more than half of 9.

> That’s even outside SF and Silicon Valley.

Nope, its pretty much exactly SF and Silicon Valley.

https://cdn.nar.realtor/sites/default/files/documents/2021-q...
There's a comment on the bottom that links to various psy-ops leaflets the US dropped around Afghanistan that's also pretty interesting: http://www.psywarrior.com/Herbafghan02.html

Edit: Also, more war rug photos: https://warrug.com/warrugs/styles.php?ids=37
You’re right, besides its business purpose, there is no business purpose.
The second example is almost haunting in its abstractness. While I understand the “copies of copies” nature of its existence, it nevertheless could be easily interpreted as a reflection of the “lost” nature of the retaliatory war effort, and the way the original attacks had been weaponized into ways that caused America and its values to erode and turn on itself.
- AJAXify the flag command

- Clean up the horrendous HTML
As it would have to be ;)
I think the sane are locked up in the asylum these days, and the loonies are in the spotlight.