skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hang on. Let's assume the story is false. Why would you want to discourage anyone from having the courage of their conviction that they could find a better way to do something their bosses say is impossible?
In US colloquial English the term 'college' is used to refer to ANY academic (non-trade) schools where a 'college' degree (above 'high' school) can be earned. Like it or lump it.

This is hardly a 'slam' for St Andrews; aluminum is more concise than aluminium, as is 'math' compared to 'maths'.

In the US a 'public' school is -not- elite (fee-charging); the general 'public' is welcome there. Not just stuck-up nit-pickers.
It does seem a little grotesque if we're going to stick them with the problem and not even be willing to make aesthetic changes. Particularly when we're disproportionately responsible for the problem in the first place.
This can not be a serious question.
And everyone just uses the competition.
English's spec doesn't really define precedence for operators vs. function arguments. Adding parentheses makes it clear: Windows (Subsystem for Linux) vs. (Windows Subsystem) for Linux.
This is awesome Brandon! Really like the design and feature set.

Looks like you intend to have seamless support for existing vanilla modules. Which is a very worthwhile goal IMO, and something I really like about Typescript compared to ReScript/Fable/Elm.

Have you considered how to enforce the func/proc seperation when 3rd party modules are involved? Maybe have them only callable from procs as a start?

Good luck!
Barium sulfate based coatings have been used for decades, maybe a century, as the 'whitest' reflecting standard for optical instruments. I hate to be that guy, but there's nothing that new here. Though Purdue and this prof sure are hyping the heck out of this, it's pretty funny for anyone in the optics world.. we buy it all the time for integrating spheres! This wasn't published in a high profile academic journal for a reason...

The actual challenge with any solar reflective paint is that it loses its solar reflectivity after multiple years of outdoor exposure. This can be seen at the third party Cool Roof Rating Council's website: https://coolroofs.org/directory

Outdoor white paints that start at 90+ % solar reflectance drop to the low 80s with time. Same thing will happen with this one, so the added benefit of the high reflectance will decrease quickly. Figuring out how to maintain this high reflectance in a paint exposed outdoor remains a very hard problem.
Lead is in the same group of elements as carbon and silicon so I imagine it’s not very toxic. — Flint, Michigan City Manager, probably
I can buy pre-paid debit card from convenience store, that can be used for PayPal with an one-off email.

In traditional world, it's not hard to pay. But hard to receive.

With cryptocurrency, it's still not easy to convert to/from transitional money. Unless you can stay within the cryptocurrency for the whole cycle.
Huh, I had a different reaction, I think his conclusion is: Technical correctness isn't enough, the enterprise is a social organism and you need to get people on board to come with you seeing how it will achieve their own goals and include them, and that's the lesson I learned from this experience.
We rewrote everything in Rust, and our startup still failed
Non-IT related opinion: compassion is vastly overrated. I think it is similar to tribalism and moralistic fervor; it's good as an abstract motivator in small quantities, but if used continuously, it makes you feel great about yourself while always producing terrible results.
How is this affected by the new pact between US, UK, and Australia? The news here made it appears as that caused some bad blood between EU and the US/UK.
A lot of research has shown that in general humans (at least in English speaking countries) look at top left side of page and scan left to right, top to bottom.
People do not look first in the middle of the page .
A rainy day at a beachside café, lofi beats float on the breeze. Distantly, church bells ring, alien spacecraft hover ominously over a crowd of hungry zombies. The nuclear air-raid sirens sound. Brilliant. So 2021.
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Both of these would only serve to amplify the power of Iranian government many fold. And there is no "maybe" and no "time to time". We're talking the de-facto tools of surveillance capitalism here. When their interests aren't aligned with Iranian government, they'd be aligned with American government, and the latter is what brought upon you the former in the first place.

To be honest, I think that tech has no solution for you, and that you're only looking there because tech's what you're good at.
> I can't mount my TV to the wall or make any changes to make the small space more comfortable (like hanging shelves or mounting hooks)

For what it’s worth, I’ve done this every place I lived and never had a problem. I always make sure to patch the holes and paint the entire wall when I move out though.
Gmail / GSuite.

Because I use rest of their services as well. I understand privacy wise it's not most the optimal solution and I might consider using alternatives in the future.
i live in an apartment building in LA with a vented attic and a flow-through design, as the building was built before air conditioners became popular. it’s cooler than ambient by a few degrees (haven’t rigorously measured it though) even without a white roof.
If you are going to create an expensive, outdated when first created machine in an effort to create jobs... why not create jobs and solve an actual need / problem at the same time.
Uh, no. The Texas grid is not winterized now.

They’ve pledged to start work thinking about doing something, sometime soon, maybe.

That’s about as far as they’ve gotten.
The least relevant defense margin for the aforementioned states.
I think the light reflecting into a neighbors property would be negligible. Light follows an inverse square law. Most of the reflected light would end up being dispersed before hitting the neighbors house I would think.
Yeah the last two times I bought a car I just bought new with the plan to ride it out until it started becoming unreliable. Well, the first one I totaled instead so it didn't totally work out, but the second one is paid off and still running great, plus I know it has been maintained to a reasonable standard.
You have to wonder why these military muppets feel the need to turn up to an interview in full camouflage.

What happened to 'step-outs' ?
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It's a response to the general comment about legal precedent on vaccines.

Since the definition of vaccine has changed to denote a new category, it remains to be seen how the precedent will be interpreted.

Prior to this CDC revision, there has been widespread confusion about the relationship between immunity and Covid vaccination.

"Prevention" is a bright legal and scientific line, which rapidly stops contagion. "Protection" is debatable, as we see from the many studies on efficacy.
All of these still sound awkward. "Windows Audio Subsystem", or "Audio Subsystem for Windows" both sound better. The fact that it's an audio subsystem is more descriptive than the fact that it's a windows subsystem, so it sounds strange to group it the other way.
Tone policing is also how truth and justice are buried in the name of fitting in.
At what point does the ideal approach just become building a LOT of cheap drones that carry minimal ordnance?
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> This is a silly headline, but what can I expect from yahoo. Help certainly, but it does nothing for humidity. Down south we have to leave ac on somewhat even we go out of town, because the humidity damages stuff.

Wouldn't it be wiser to get a dehumidifier for this purpose? A cursory glance seems to indicate that it would consume less energy for the task of managing the humidity-levels, when cooling is not required.

>I also wonder what this much reflective stuff might cause as other effects. Would reflecting all your sunlight onto other, non super white houses count as a negative externality? Seems like you'd double your neighbor's AC bill to halve yours.

This would likely be trivial, given the relatively small amount of light that would get reflected onto the building in relation to all of the reflected light - most reflected light would not go towards neighbouring buildings. Plus, they can paint their houses with the same type of paint as well, negating the issue entirely.
This is probably a thing, but to me it is more about having the house to myself when everyone is asleep. So it's also an introvert thing IMO.
> Highway on/off ramps https://a-b-street.github.io/docs/tech/map/geometry/index.ht...

It's hard to say which is better here, to be honest. A giant blob of gray is less helpful than showing some lanes, but the original version is much closer to the actual shape: https://www.google.com/maps/@47.6564275,-122.3223112,203m/da...

Though apparently even google can't handle this intersection. Where did the middle layer of road go, google? https://www.google.com/maps/@47.6556467,-122.3191587,69a,35y...
I think it could literally be just about any large company that's at least 15 years old and doesn't sell software.
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Because the conclusion is usually more nuanced and putting it in the title makes you start to form an opinion before reading the article.
I really wish there was a standard pixel format for terminals that was better than sixel. iTerm2 and kitty each have their own custom mechanism, but AFAIK, they are the only ones that use their respective protocols.
Yep, it's not gonna go over budget or fail to be produced! /sarcasm
This is why being a solo dev kicks ass, and why it's incredibly painful for me to read the stories of people who care about doing a good job getting crushed by these managerial hierarchies.

First of all, a good CTO would probably fire the lot immediately. But secondly, there's this human dynamic - did you ever have to work on a chem project in high school with 3 randomly assigned classmates? Were you the one who made sure nothing exploded, and then found yourself writing the paper and sharing the grade with them? Sure. Because they knew you would pull the weight. And they would go on to be middle managers just as lazy and work-averse as they were as teenagers. They prey on us... the people who think hard enough to do better. I don't know why you'd ever want to join an organization like that, but it's good you found a booming way out of it.
Fascinating, thanks for the insight.
Does the interpreter know a whole lot about computers? I wouldn't say the employee is useless here.
It’s mostly France with the bad blood, as they lost a lucrative submarine deal.
And I think it's pretty random which ones have lock-ups and which ones do not. Generally speaking their lockups are more liberal than traditional IPOs, correct? So it may depend on how disciplined the company's large shareholders are.
Another comment referenced this article which seems to suggest the valuation is based mostly on "promise".

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/08/24/1032308/is-ginkg...
Thanks for sharing, I've been in a similar emotional position, it's a bunch of bad stories to come before the good one, if there is ever a good one. Sounds like there was!

Hope you were able to find a better fit!
And imagine that… it hasn’t stopped other sites from making their successful products around a free and open backbone.
Thread here
https://twitter.com/rosetechnology_/status/14328496098613534...
The truth is that you don't. All that's required for almost any training run is a pair of shoes[*]. Everything else is an extra; it's up to you to decide whether each of those extras is worth carrying.

[*] That's true where I live (northern Europe) for pretty much all of my runs up to ~20km. In hotter or sunnier climates it may be necessary to carry water for shorter runs and/or put on sunscreen.
I think you misunderstood the quote as a kid. People (or at least those without ADD, narcolepsy, etc) are taking amphetamines to compete in a fast-paced city. And besides from my limited personal experience city people may misuse amphetamines at therapeutic doses, but it seems like it’s rural people who abuse them at toxic doses.
The navy was in a conflict with illiterate goat herders?
I don’t know anything about this, but wouldn’t low 80s still be far better than standard roof material? I’m guessing your average roofing, like shingles, absorbs +90% of solar energy?
Enterprise Slack allows full logging of even 1:1 DMs. DMs are not E2E encrypted.
Sinagpore and ASEAN signalled neutrality, US tried to get them to host IRBM that can reach within SCS within 1st island chain., No takers. QUAD drama means no military alliance, especially India. Leaves JP, US, AU. JP too close to PRC to be relied on if things turn hot. Leaves just US, AU. Add UK who has spare capacity for SSN with US tech. It's pretty much the only option left. The TLDR is there aren't any credible partners who will commit to PRC containment in region except AU whose far enough that protection can be guaranteed by US. Not in terms of security commitment, but just reality. US simply not in position to challenge PRC within SCS especially in 30 years. It's economic suicide pact for everyone else if regional war over TW breaks out. EU Indo-Pac policy also diluted. Arguably UK isn't fully on board but needs the business.

AU is just whose left. It's solid position near relevant 1st island chain SLOC choke points, but also signals how weak US posture in region actually is after lobbying under Trump + Biden. US sharing SSN secrets and pissing off France + timing of EU indo-pac strategy announcement should really raise eye brows. But again, west AU is solid location for now.
I find it absurd as well.
Sorry I misread thinking you meant since it’s founding (until now), when has it been a welfare state.

I was caught in a weak moment I guess.
Someone with real conviction isn't going to be talked out of it by a two paragraph comment by a random internet stranger on HN.

You are reading way to much motive and way too much power into a casual observation about how so-called courage is sometimes anything but.

People who seem "brave" may not feel they are at all brave. They may feel fed up, resigned to their doom, disgusted, defeated, like arguing or cooperating with known liars is utterly pointless, like they are screwed anyway and nothing they do will ever fix it.

Sometimes it's nice to get closure and know you weren't imagining things, it really is as bad as you feared and you can stop wasting your time and energy on a situation that simply will never go anyplace acceptable no matter what you do.
Based on the cost of drones vs the cost of an F-35 we hit that point several years ago.

In fact I remember watching a military channel doc in 2010 where it pointed out that was the ideal strategy at that point anyway.
Might be overshadowed in the news by France recalling ambassadors over the nuclear submarine plans for Australia.
Because otherwise some of the stealth fighter engineers go to China and there's a chance you get stealth-fightered. Or that's what I think the argument usually is.
Because then the money wouldn't get pumped into the coffers of the military industrial barons.
Honestly if you frame it that way, the framework is very well done. OP, if you can read this, this is the way to market your product.

From the developer perspective, I would not call this production ready also
I heard the diesel’s were better, but I can’t confirm that firsthand since all the car2go ones were gas. They rolled out some all-electric ones towards the end and those drove quite well with none of the jerking and rocking
So your blog post is contradicted by the research I cited.

How to explain the difference? Well, the blog post doesn't control for other variables. Such as, crucially, how much crime do people commit and how severe are those crimes?

The UofM study did control for such factors.

And yeah, how much crime people commit varies and, yeah, has a pretty severe impact on how much incarceration happens. If you didn't control for these variables, the male/female disparity would be incredibly more severe, as the vast majority of inmates are male.

And if you look, you will see that the research the blog post references comes from an advocacy group.
Personal tracking devices heading towards a precise, dangerous new era
Actually the Smart chasis is pretty well designed, like a roll cage with plastic panels. It would certainly not fall apart but feels that way because it's small, not very well sound proofed and they put the engine inside (!) the habitacle.
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I run two dehumidifiers in my basement and they consume similar energy to an a/c (400-500W), but separate from that they also increase the temperature because the exhaust has no where to go, defeating part of the purpose of the white roof. Main purpose of my humidifier is to keep my basement from growing mold, not keeping cool.
Ask HN: FOSS low-code/no-code platforms?
I know visual scripting is an old idea, but I've noticed an uptick in people adopting low-code/no-code solutions, allowing them to build entire websites, apps, and startups like never before. Quick Examples: Bubble.io[1], OutSystems[2], Microsoft Power Apps[3] that targets this sort of niche, but there's plenty of more. They're far from perfect, but they don't feel like a fad this time.

Most of these low-code/no-code platforms are proprietary and often expensive; I want to contribute to alternatives. What FOSS low-code/no-code platforms exist, and which have the most potential?

[1] https://bubble.io
[2] https://www.outsystems.com/p/modern-development/
[3] https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/
Sounds like you know a thing or two about physics. In your opinion, are particles like higgs bosons or gravitons or even electrons real?

Coming from a coding perspective,
making a physics simulation is about tradeoffs in effort/performance/complexity/fidelity, and there's often multiple ways to implement the same feature. From that perspective, theres no reason to expect a 1-to-1 mapping between theory and observed reality.

How solid are the grounding posts that anchor the idea of particles to reality? Are electrons more real then bosons? Are they all just an implementation detail that makes the math look good?
The comment was that for the small guy, it's too expensive and complicated to set up these companies. Imagine if there was a cheap service that would allow the small guy to structure his business "just like the big boys".

Big companies use complex international structures to dodge taxes and regulations legally. Currently, there are no reasons to do that for a random small business; if there is, there may be demand. Kinda like people register their companies in Delaware even though it doesn't make "logical" sense; just to (legally) get the regulatory advantages.

This is speculation, obviously, based on the direction this goes with the account surveillance.
Does this make you better off besides feeling great for an afternoon?

At best you put yourself into the middle of a political fight fought levels above your head.

Why put your job on the line for no reward? Who cares if their Oracle queries are slow?
As far as the whole WSL topic, I wonder how this is going to play out long-term for MS. I understand why MS' hand was forced to streamline *nix development workflows on Windows in order to retain any relevance in modern software development, but what's the incentive to run windows at all if it's just a host environment for the OS where you get the real work done?

I guess there's proprietary software, but for instance Proton is getting good enough that this might not be a major selling point for so much longer.

For non-technical users, linux is a ways off from being a serious option as a daily driver. But as a developer, why on earth would I choose Windows over Linux in 2021?
That’s called cruise missiles
I agree there is a spectrum of compliance for your average person with the letter of the law and the reality of everyday life (and the meaningful consequence of breaking them). Jaywalking is very unlikely to have any meaningful impact to anyone, and mostly unlikely to be enforced.

But the big thing that separates your everyday person and companies is that corporations will gladly and willfully break the law, even in cases where they weigh the risk (perhaps they have a legal argument about how it’s not actually breaking the law, but it’s probably paper thin) because it can often be more profitable to commit the crime. and pay whatever fine is imposed than not commit the crime in the first place. It is incredibly rare for anyone to go to jail or be prosecuted individually for corporate crimes, and so the risk to any particular individual is exceedingly low.

I can’t really think of any reasonable example where I could commit a crime as an individual and come out the other side with a net positive, despite being caught/prosecuted.

Corporations aren’t playing with the same deck, and their bad behavior is constantly rewarded. Sure, they can sometimes go over the line and tank the entire operation but that is far and away the exception instead of the rule.
The article also provides us with this info:

"The :executable t keyword argument includes the SBCL runtime in the image to ensure that the image is a standalone executable. This is why the executable for even a simple hello-world program tends to be quite large (30 MB to 50 MB)!"
A video like this shouldn't be copyrightable. There were no creative aspects in developing it.
very cursorily, apparently this paint reflects ~99% of light and a decent mirror will reflect about the same. white surfaces scatters light randomly while mirrors reflect it incidentally (initially thought white might somehow ‘even out’ reflectivity across wavelengths vs. a mirror, but quickly realized that makes no sense). so if you could sufficiently flatten a white surface so that light bounces off it uniformly, it becomes a mirror.
I assumed this was because they wanted “windows” to be before “linux” in the name, either just for marketing or to indicate that †he one is running beneath the other one — completely ignoring that it’s nonsensical.
I can decode this rant.

The Zumwalt class started out as a requirement from the armed forces committee in congress for a replacement for the old battleship Naval Gunfire Support mission. That is sit a bit off the coast and go boom with big guns to help the boots on the ground.

Just one wee little problem with that: anti ship missiles have made that a suicide mission since approximately the late 60s. And no, all the stealth in the world wasn't going to make a difference in that when a simple counter battery radar would spot you, not to mention other means.

The Navy tried to get out of it but couldn't, so we got stuck building 3 rather useless boats and then canceling the program. Some neat naval design and engineering went into them which may be useful in the future, but it wasn't worth it for the sticker price at all.

The people created this fuster cluck are the same folks that kept the battleships operational or semi operational post WW2 when it was clear they were obsolete, at non trivial cost to taxpayers.
Self-deception in the terminally confused is always sad to see.

It is extremely rare, nowadays, to "create a destructor" to manage memory. The destructors generated automatically from templates in the Standard Library suffice.

Creating classes is just programming.

So, no, that is not manual memory management.
Stick them with the problem? I'm not sure what you mean.

And whether we're willing or not to make aesthetic roof changes has little impact on the climate.
> You'd expect that as visible matter gets weirder, the invisible stuff must get weirder still in proportion. Oddly, that is not really the case.

How does one measure that which is invisible to our instruments? Isn’t that just wild speculation?
It is in the interests of the political left AND the political right that the definition never become crystal clear, they both profit off the confusion.