skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Throughout the British dominions the sun no longer rises on a slave. Yesterday was the day from which the emancipation of all our slave population commences; and we trust the great change by which they are elevated to the rank of freemen will be found to have passed into effect in the manner most accordant with the benevolent spirit in which it was decreed, most consistent with the interests of those for whose benefit it was primarily intended, and most calculated to put an end to the apprehensions under which it was hardly to be expected that the planters could fail to labour as the moment of its consummation approaches. We shall await anxiously the arrivals from the West Indies that will bring advices to a date subsequent to the present time.
I learned this with my email forwarding app (https://hanami.run) as well. I have tried to bootstrap a few ideas, and just like the ops, I got married, I got kid, family problem, change jobs.

Then COVID happens and I promise myself to wake up at 3-4AM everyday to write code and ship https://hanami.run during that period.

I don't even worry about competitors, I just want to build a platform that I enjoyed to use and iterate every single day. Many small features were take for granted.

Such as we auto refresh DNS constantly so users with like 100 domains don't have to check DNS one by one to activate domain. I then supported cloudflare auto config dns to make thing even easiser. And auto refresh DNS means we're easily to got block by CloudFlare DNS servers, but I put the cost on me to make our user's life easiser.

Another effects of this showing up everyday is you are allowed an unlimited time budget and can try out cool thing.

Such as I recently expriment with OpenResty autossl to make our URL redirection work with HTTPS. Other day I experiment with leaky bucket rate limiting.

With a time budget, I'm probably won't work on that, but sometime I feel down, and knowing I have tomorrow I can use today's time on something that make me happy.
Battery swaps could be viable, barring some complications in gate infrastructure and airframe design. Obviously this would be impossible if airframe designers incorporate battery cells in structural members, as some suggest to offset the weight penalty.
Sweeping “Green Deal” promises to revamp EU economy
Another take on it is that Mac decided to go a different path on a few different UI things in the past, and that has persisted to this day.

Look at how *nix, Windows, Sun, BSD, Chrome OS (which is basically a linux anyways) all use Ctrl, Meta (alt), and Shift for their hotkeys, compared to how Mac uses Hyper (cmd).

Also look at how Mac has one instance of an app's tool bar/menu that all windows share.

I'll agree that the consistent UI is a boon, but there's a large lack of discoverability imo, and some things that are just entirely lacking, like the ability to move windows around with hotkeys.
We need to stop saying that the next great technology will solve our issues. We already have the means to do it, and we need to stop procrastinating before it's too late.

If we do get a very efficient way of capturing GHGs on a large scale, then great. But it really is not a given.
Ah, see I was going to take the opportunity to complain about shutting down the gateway from Hangouts to Google Voice!

I'm a Fi customer with an iPhone, and when April of this year rolled around, I was living juuuust outside of cell service, thus relying heavily on Hangouts to forward SMS and provide voice calls.

Google was supposed to replace this with something called, I believe, Messages by Google. But somehow they didn't manage to release this for iPhone... like ever as far as I can tell? Or at least not so far.

So I was stranded without the ability to make voice calls for two months. Paying customer mind you.

To be fair, Fi was an amazing deal when I was doing a lot of international travel, and I've stuck with it because the pay-as-you go aspect is still pretty nice (and because international travel will presumably return someday).

But part of me wishes that after Reader was canceled I had just pronounced anathema on the whole company.
Ask HN: Why GoogleHome stumbles with simple math if it involves 135?
Anyone know why GoogleHome is unable to calculate 135/4 or 135*4

"Hey google, what is 135 times 4" or "hey google what is 135 divided by 4"

Result is always: "I dont know " and displays a google search. But it is able to calculate 136/4 or 135/3.
135 +/- 4 works, just not 135 * 4

Tried it in Google Smart Display (1st gen)...

Any guesses?
While all (most? many?) extraordinary renditions are kidnappings, not all kidnappings are renditions. The difference is that when doing extraordinary renditions, we are delegating the incarcaration/torture/interrogation of the victim to _some other actor_ specifically so that we can technically not be performing horrible acts. That's what makes it a special kind of kidnapping.

Kidnapping is only one of the ways we ingest people to treat in this manner, if I recall right. Presumably one could be arrested and then renditioned elsewhere -- the rendition is the part where we send someone elsewhere to be harmed in ways that our laws don't permit us to do ourselves.
that's (imo) the downside to bootstrapping -- you're likely putting a ceiling on the company. There are only a handful of bootstrapped multibillion dollar companies (github, atlassian, patagonia) and even single billion (mailchimp).

Still, that ceiling can be quite high; I know a couple folks doing north of $100m annually that bootstrapped.
> Twitter is great when it comes to transparency

Pull the other leg.
This part was always the most surprising to me. How are people expected to travel long distances individually in the future?

Wouldn't other carbon-reducing initiatives lessen the need for banning gas-powered calls altogether?
Forgings are 3x stronger than the equivalent casting. I'm not a materials science guy, so my knowledge of the details is a bit vague, but the grain of the metal follows the shape in a forging.

When I amped up the horsepower of my Dodge, I replaced the cast bell housing with a forged steel one, because I like my feet. (I've seen pictures of the flywheel coming through the side of a car.) All the spinning parts in the engine were replaced with forged ones, too.
You are right in that I haven’t seen any Indian merchants offer subscriptions anymore. And yes that e-mandate, I believe that UX is not ideal so there’s not much adoption. E-Mandates were launched as part of UPI 2.0 but there are hardly any merchant offering them. I wonder what’s holding them back besides bad UX.

But I have a gut feeling that international merchants are exempted from this rule. Because I can go to JetBrains even now and subscribe to their products.
I would _love_ to see a book on modern (like C++2021 modern) programming in C++ for Python developers.
Which looks better to be honest
> I think if you're afraid of memory corruption inside the WASM heap, it's better to use Rust instead of C or C++.

Agreed, but as consumer from WASM modules that isn't your option to make.

> WASM's job is to prevent code inside the sandbox from escaping the sandbox, not to prevent memory corruption inside the sandbox.

That is not better than a typical OS process, just it happens to be randomly downloaded into my computer.
Do people use Spaces and like it?

Feels like if they want to engage more people to participate they need to figure out how to build communities that aren't just hashtags, and make twitter threads/conversations more conversational.

Everything just seems to fragment into a mess anytime there's a discussion... it's still best as a one-way medium, which is why there's more consumers than posters.
Basically Postgres SHARE lock will ensure that there is no active transaction in this table before executing query over table. This is a table wide lock and as I said it's not a best solution, as it will slow down a bit other events producers/consumers.

In our case - active data export process, will slow down a bit main application while reading new events.

Best solution would be using external tool to handle streams, like Event Store, Kafka or new RabbitMq Streams. But we prefer to stick with Postgres.
Won't nuclear waste decay to safe levels long before the fiberglass windmill blades that last twenty years break down into something that no longer takes space in a landfill? Not to mention the significantly lower volume of waste.
https://archive.is/mKOSJ
I've suggested two books you could take a look at:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27835835

They are oriented towards how we got here and solutions to get us out of it.
As an industry leader on this specific subject matter... I agree: the problem space is much smaller, in theory.

However, certification requirements and safety assurance needs will drive both cost and time into realizing fully autonomous aircraft. They will be here, but we are 10-15 years away.

The problem is in how to certify machine learning code. Today, you can't. Existing AMCs (accepted means of compliance) are incompatible with the nature of ML. (The breakdown is specifically with assurance architectures focused on code traceability and coverage.) A new architecture for demonstrating safety assurance with AI/ML is needed, and is being built, but is still 1.5-2 years away from being released, and then it will take another year or two before a CAA (civil aviation authority, like the FAA or EASA) will certify a component with ML code--and that will not be an autonomous pilot. That will come in time, but the industry is conservative--especially on safety-critical matters--and it will take years to develop trust in both technology, human factors, and methodology to work up to autonomously flown passenger aircraft.

From the regulator perspective, EASA has taken poll position in thought leadership. Google their AI Roadmap or their Concept Paper for Level 1 Machine Learning Applications.
The point I got from that that it's unacceptable that it's keeping data on their servers. The issue wasn't that it's encrypted at rest - the issue was that they got data they need to encrypt to begin with.
There is no need to violate the principle of charity or HN norms. Whether or not the gp meant Democrats, do you really think that atheists, agnosts, members of all other religions, scientists, artists, spiritualists, conspiracy theorists, and rationalists of all stripes form a monolithic political faction?
> If we are being honest with ourselves, a lot of shops that are 100% on-prem probably have worse security practices than AWS, et. al.

Does it matter? You have the same freedom to fuck security up setting your AWS infrastructure as you have setting your on-prem infrastructure. All the very competent AWS staff is able to do is add less risk, they can't save you from anything.
The wheel does work when just hovering over many sliders, at least on Mac and in Firefox. However, whether that works in any particular app or a site is a gamble.

In some apps and sites with a specific purpose the wheel is often mapped more generally: e.g. to volume control in video players regardless of the position, unless it's over the time slider.
> How to reduce social division in America in the long-term: ban private schools, fund public schools at the national level, and do it quickly, utterly, and irrevocably.

We tried this to tame the savages [1], and I don't think people really look back kindly or positively on that choice.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_American_Indian_sch...
I got into the World3 model and its offshoots a few years back... somewhere online I found a JS implementation of the model that let you fiddle with the various inputs that the model was sensitive to. I don't remember the details, but I quickly discovered that one of inputs was extremely sensitive and would impact the model dramatically, and in the opposite direction that you would expect. I think it was something along the line of business growth - if you increased business growth just a little bit, the worst projections of the model disappeared.
> It's an even bigger echo chamber than FB.

The trick is to block early and often. The feed is what you make it.
By having someone to pay me a proper salary. I don't do charity.
Club of Rome hiring people to preach The Apocalypse 7.0, again and again and again.
Show HN: Trove – Curate and collaborate on internet knowledge
Twitter has many friends in the government and vice versa. So politicians enacts policies keeping twitter in power, and twitter enacts censorship keeping those politicians in power. This is completely fine and not "real censorship" since there was no formal agreement to do this, just some friends helping each other.

Either we can keep that corrupt view, or we can agree that huge corporations are inseparable from governments and reign in their freedoms in a similar manner.
I couldn't find any clips.

My parent comment has been downvoted a bunch. Why?
Have you ever worked with radians?

Suppose you were teaching radians. Which is an easier explanation of a 90 degree corner. One based on pi, or one based on tau?

The advantage of tau is largely didactic. It helps highschool students a lot more than it does phds.
What? You'll suddenly need 5 people to chat about that multiline command you're about to type?
Not sure about the Grand Canyon, but at least around the Alps, lots of wide, deep river valleys were carved into close to their current form at the end of the last ice age, when rivers carried hundreds of times their usual water for quite a while as the ice shield was melting away.
Yeah this explanation smells. Reading between the lines, I'd say that twitter fell prey to a couple of bad predictions. The widely-maligned "pivot to video" that ended up being based on FB fudging the numbers for how much engagement video got, and the idea that duplicating the success of IG or TikTok is just about enabling 30 second video snippets.
Hey HN! It's been 3 months since Trove's original Show HN [1], and since then we've released tons of new features and improvements including:

- a fully-fledged WYSIWYG + Markdown editor
- a Chrome extension [2] to take and save notes directly from the browser
- image uploading
- collaboration (can invite others to add to your trove)
- feeds (to see new blocks from people you follow)
- a new logo!

Trove can be used in so many different ways, e.g. for saving and annotating articles, organizing your recipes, sharing book recommendations, planning trips with a group, doing product research, creating a syllabus for self-teaching, or even just jotting down ideas. Use it long enough, and eventually you'll have a curated "knowledge library" for every topic you're interested in — see my profile [3] for instance.

Give it a try and let me know if you have any ideas or feedback!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26582658

[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/save-to-trove/fioh...

[3] https://trove.to/wes
60 years after the collapse of society, if the date in the heading is correct.
It is really interesting that there's even a debate over this. US and EU have long had similar policies in the name of "national interest" or "protecting the consumers", but if other countries have similar policies, it suddenly becomes a negative thing.

I think the hard reality of it is data needs to be localized, to ensure companies comply with local laws. Every country has independent authority on how they want to run things, and whether it turns out to be good or bad, companies need to follow them.
> As much as I try, I can't seem to escape the oversaturated bubble

Pro tip: Mute words and people.

I can't tell you how much better my experience has been since I started growing my muted words list.
The problem with nuclear power right now is that we can't build enough of it for it to matter in time. Even if we cut away half the regulatory burden, a plant that's started today would only come online at the end of the decade.

In [0], they give a figure of 5-6 years for actual construction. Add in a year or 2 for regulatory and other delays, and we're looking at 2027-2029-ish before we see a single megawatt of electricity out of them. What's more, there is probably only enough uranium to last about 5 years, if we could wave a magic wand and replace all existing power plants with nuclear [1]. Moreover, the plants themselves also have a finite lifetime of 40-60 years [ibid].

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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_nuclear_power_pla...

https://phys.org/news/2011-05-nuclear-power-world-energy.htm...
For languages with relatively uniform package ecosystems (like Rust and Go) there are tools that can generate Nix code for you from lockfiles with exact versions. In practice this usually suffices, because these ecosystems also have to remain compatible with other environments where OS-provided dependencies like C compilers and libs have wildly differing versions.

For most C ecosystem stuff you can try overriding the version, but you'll quickly notice why this is a hard problem: Different software versions want to be built in different ways! Someone would have to therefore maintain the quirks of each package version's build process for each package for all eternity, an insanely huge endeavor.

Also, even if it were possible this would break the Nix binary cache model, because suddenly you'd have an insane combinatorial explosion of not just package versions, but also versions of their dependencies. In order to preserve purity and reproducibility, a change in dependency version means that all dependents have to be rebuilt, taking up insane amounts of CPU and storage on the build farm.

I don't think that your request is unreasonable (I'd love to have this feature!), but it's probably not fully possible in any software distribution ecosystem.
Dinosaurs is a clade, which by definition includes a species and all its descendants. You can't outgrow your ancestry.
Maybe it's the way I use it, but iTerm2 crashes (or hangs) fairly regularly for me on macOS. I usually need to restart it at least once a week, which means losing ~dozens of tabs with context in them.

I use urxvt on Linux, and I don't have any problems with it.

Edit: I should also mention that I see plenty of non-crashing, non-hanging bugs with iTerm2 that look like memory misuse to me: split-workspace mode (tiled with a text editor) causes wonky graphical errors, and I've seen what looked like buffer reuse artifacts when switching between monitors.
I spent a day trying to smile at strangers. The result was that half of them gave me a "do I know you?" look, and the other half looked at me like I was crazy and backed away.

Not encouraging...
The leadership principles are an important part of Amazon's solution to the problem of getting hundreds of thousands of employees pulling in the same general direction. They are easy to get people to sign on to because they are, for the most part, obviously good ideas succinctly stated. People at Amazon actually use them to make decisions daily.

Other companies don't propagate their corporate culture so explicitly, so it seems a little weird and cultish. But if you're a big company doing things the same way other big companies do them, you're going to get the same results that other big companies get. Amazon wants to get better results than other big companies.

When I started at Amazon, I felt like 14 was simply too many. I tried to do a Carlin-style winnowing, but darned if I could get the number below twelve without starting to lose things that the company obviously thinks are important. (They recently added two more, by the way.)

As a bonus, after a stint at Amazon, your familiarity with their leadership principles can make you very desirable to other companies. I know a number of people who were individual contributors at Amazon and were snagged by Microsoft for leadership positions, either team leads or product managers.
I have my own horror story, and that's not even about the cloud, just how centralizing a service magnifies issues.

I work for near FAANG company who still sends important email information out to people. One day, many years ago, a new gmail feature landed: automatic smart tabs - and ALL of our email started landing in promotions. And those mails were send from IP addresses which were dedicated for these and only these kind of email, so we started to panic.

We started going through the correct channels for reporting this as a problem, at which point we got a "cheers, we'll get back to you in 2 weeks". At that point we were certain we were loosing money in the millions soon, so we walked over to marketing - Google PPC (pay per click) to be specific, and asked them to get hold of someone high enough at Google, we don't care how, or over what channel.

Within an hour, the change in gmail to put everything in promotions that was "noreply@" was rolled back, and our arses were saved.

If we were still in the early 2000s with countless small email servers and providers, if one of them done this, their customers would be angry at them. But since people believe Gmail is their saviour - and because nobody can get hold of anyone at google to report a problem - now it was our fault, despite the fact that we had absolutely no idea what went wrong, and there were no changes on our side.

My summary? Fuck the cloud and the centralized services; I want the small, loosely connected internet services back.
It’s not just about waste. It’s about control. See my other comment in this thread.
There is a JS companion to this proposal that splits up the information in a similar way

https://wicg.github.io/ua-client-hints/#interface
You really just need to follow one good Twitter account and they will usually retweet other people who are interesting and usually share a characteristic that led you to followed the original account.
My hypothesis is a major push on gpu-based compute. Specializing in ML training.
You are referring to Fire and Motion.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/
I think some young people don't view family as obligatory if it negatively affects them. My sister and I would certainly classify ourselves as such. My sister rather intentionally after graduating college cut contact with my mom to a very minimal amount, and I remember vividly my mom being in tears on a frequent basis because my sister had blocked her facebook account and wasn't responding to her daily emails about rather invasive topics that frankly, were none of her damn business. One time my mom asked me to do some chore, and after I came in I realized by looking at my browsing history that she had snuck into my room to use my facebook to snoop on my sister. It's absolutely mental.

Not that she has any real room to protest here, she deliberately estranged herself in the very complete sense from her parents and sisters, I've never met a single person on that side of the family despite them living an hour away.

In kind of a macro sense I appreciate my parents raising me, but I do not consider continued contact with them obligatory in any way, shape, or form, and certainly not at the level that my parents in particular want that relationship.
Then you're arguing for abolishing the state in general. Because otherwise individuals would have no way of preventing the state from either taking away their non-inflationary money/coins or banning which would result in significant reduction it's value.

> There was the debasement of the currency of the Roman Empire,
War was the reason why Roman empire existed in the first place. In fact some argue that the Roman economy was only sustainable as long as Rome continued conquering new lands, enslaving their populations and taking away their property. As soon as the empire stopped expanding they were long able to maintain their army. Arguably, without debasement the collapse might have happened sooner they would have ran out of gold to pay their soldiers anyway.
That's a fair point - it wasn't meant to mislead since we are using Github for feature requests and issue tracking, but I think you're right. We'll remove the link.
I liked "Collapse of Complex Societies" by Joseph Tainter but I'm not well-read in the area: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/477.Collapse_of_Complex_...