skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> About 90% of the (GUI) software ever developed? I'm happy to hear that there are quality Linux alternatives nowadays, but there's just many order of magnitudes more choice on Windows

Most of the people don't need this though. I've migrated many individuals and middle offices from Windows to Ubuntu (for myself I prefer Manjaro though) starting from 2007. They only use Firefox/Chrome, Skype/Telegram, Thunderbird, LibreOffice, PDF&picture viewers and VLC (so it's not even about alternatives - all the essential apps already are cross-platform and even easier to install/update on Linux) and never asked any questions - everything feels intuitive and works great. WiFi used to be hard to set-up in 2007-2009 but not anymore. Printing and scanning works slightly unstable with some printers (mostly because they go to sleep and disappear or stop working in Ubuntu). The only Windows app I really miss on Linux is Paint.Net - to me it seems the ultimate perfect non-professional graphics editor while its Linux clone (Pinta) is slightly crappy, although does the job generally and I still am very grateful it exists. If only Linux also had full Visual Studio and Adobe Illustrator+Photoshop it would be hard for me to name a reason to use Windows at all. Most of the new apps I encountered during the recent years (e.g. Obsidian, Typora, MS Teams, etc.) just use Electron and work seamlessly on Linux as well as Windows and Mac this way (I know MS Teams is deprecating Electron and worry about this). The situation with games has also changed (to good) significantly during the recent years AFAIK and probably is even better than on the Mac OS now.
For the sake of clarity I just add something.

The reason why Walmart or GameStop wouldn't be counted in Game Revenue is because they belong to Retail segment. Even if they were to be counted I think retail label would have to be inserted somewhere.

Neither Walmart or GameStop contribute anything to the actual making of Games. They have added zero value to the making of Games in that value chain and act as distribution only ( and arguably discovery in terms of foot traffic ). Since Retail is a clearly defined term, It is perfectly valid to suggest ( Apple's ) App Store as similar to Walmart and GameStop. But I dont think anyone would agree Apple == App Store. Apple as a Platform ( providing tools and support ) Apple as a Publisher ( Buy apps from you and resold to their customers ) and Apple as a Distributor ( App Store ).

It is all about the value creation and where the cuts are taken. It is also the reason why most of the debate about Apple becomes pointless where these aren't clearly defined in the argument. Although Judge Rogers seems to be able to dissect all of these in a very clear manner.
Ask HN: How much traffic did your HN frontpage post create for your website?
Curious about what one could expect in terms of traffic increase when hitting the front page.

Maybe you could share some stats, like:

- amount of points your HN post had

- clicks 1 week before the post

- clicks on the day of the post

- clicks 1 week after

- anything else you may find noteworthy.
How would a database store time when the associated timezone is not yet defined?
Just use http-proxy to set up a local domain so you can access your dev environment at frontend.yoursite.local (proxied to localhost:3000) and the api at api.yoursite.local (proxied to whatever 3rd party api). Boom, problem solved. You can even rewrite headers and content of the requests in and out.
Fairphone 4 review: ethical repairable phone gets big upgrade
Seems quite intentional. As it is a levenshtein distance of 2, along with i being physically far away from e and a on most commonly used keyboard layouts.
I think doing the same might not work because the problem is pretty solved now. I recommend trying new niches like for ex crypto and web3 jobs or whatever trend is next.

I started Remote OK in 2015 when remote work was still HEAVILY frowned upon. Perfect time to start something. After COVID, remote work is now almost the default.

So go to a trend that's nascent and jump in, then strap on and ride it for years until it hits mainstream.
Computers are better than humans at dynamic stabilization, so this would be an argument for not having a pilot.
They saw fit to bring online a new Coal plant, replacing existing coal plants that they are old, old builds with old tech, and way past their expiration dates at a cost of serious coin (billions).

Billions quickly become very abstract things.

As part of its stimulus package, Germany intends to expand the role of green hydrogen to help end the country's reliance on coal. The government agreed on a plan on how to spend the €9 billion earmarked for the project.The plan, which could see hydrogen eventually make up about 10% of the country's total electricity capacity, was unveiled as part of a €130 billion ($147 billion) stimulus to help reboot the economy during the coronavirus pandemic. The hydrogen commitment is part of some €40 billion earmarked for climate-related spending.
Or they could be saying that centralized monopolies are rarely efficient. That is certainly my experience. For example, SpaceX undercut NASA by a factor of about 10, according to this FT report: https://www.ft.com/content/25e2292b-a910-41c8-9c55-09096895f...
This seems to be a pervasive attitude here.

Pessimistic, cynical, backwards-looking to a golden age that never existed, anti-marketing and sales, etc.

If this is such a huge problem, and you seem to have a lot of passion for it, why not try to create tools to solve it for people?

And if you think business is evil, it doesn’t even have to be a product or service! You could simply create a political organization to try to lobby government to right these wrongs you see in the world.

Your comment is the most upvoted one on this thread so a lot of people must feel the same way.

There’s only one problem.

People are irrationally resistant to change and new things. Even changes that might make their lives better.

To affect this change, you’ll need to get a lot of people’s attention and buy-in via this process…

…called marketing.

Awww crap. This means becoming the thing you hate.

Maybe this is just how the world has always worked and will always work?

And maybe it’s not so bad?
Is there a npm package for this service? I ran into a situation where yesterday where I had to use localtunnel. I tried searching on npm but didn't find a package.
"Do the needful" was a Britishism originally; Indians got it from the British. Somewhere along the line the British stopped using it but Indians continued.
Nomad seems much simpler to use and manage if you need to do simpler things, but Kubernetes allows you to do more.

We use Kubernetes instead of Nomad at work but we are also using Consul in the Kubernetes cluster.
Robot-sumo?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS-L2fpV1Is
Just looking at the raw numbers they all seem outrageous. But if you take a look at some of these companies it makes a lot more sense.

The FAANG I work for makes a PROFIT of $2 mill/year for every employee. So it's easy for them to think, lets pay this lot $300-600k and use em to keep our advantage/keep them away from competition. For all I care they could be paying all of us $1 mill and still be making a good sum of money.
no, increase virtual screen size
Last I checked SBCL and CCL (both open source native compiled CL implementations) are quite a bit faster than Clasp.

However, if you are primarily e.g. calling computational chemistry libraries written in C++, Clasp is the way to go. It's the only non-C++ language implementation I know of with actually usable C++ support.
Streisand Effect in action. I never would have paid any attention to this but all the negative comments have made me aware and vaguely curious.
Ruby is not Rails. Ruby has been my primary language for 16 years by now (my work projects are in Ruby; my text editor is written in Ruby; I'm close to switching to a terminal written in Ruby), and in that time only a couple of side-projects have involved Rails. For web projects I prefer Sinatra or Padrino depending on requirements.

While the loss of the Rails hype has certainly made things quieter in the Ruby community, for people like me who never liked Rails in the first place the reduced Rails hype has been a blessing, because it means I don't get asked about Rails every time I bring Ruby to the table anymore.
Ecomax helicopter is about the same size (10m rotor dia), is targeting similar flight time (40+20mins) and payload (600lbs). So not obvious how much the difference between single vs multi rotor is significant here.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/erictegler/2020/09/30/this-may-...
I don't get the user account limit in products like this.
On the free tier, sure.. limit me to 1 account. Fine.

But on a $450 plan a 1 user limit is just absurd.
So what? me and my other fellow senior dev can't BOTH access your service for this amount of money when clearly the real limit you are paying for is the amount of databases you can monitor.
This sort of character is often not the most agreeable person when the lights are off, so to speak. It takes a lot of self-confidence and disregard for the opinion of others, to put yourself out like that - maybe even a hint of actual mental-health imbalance.

Where I'm from, there was this guy who basically started playing electric-guitar solos in the central square of the city, and then went on "performing" like that for about 30 years - including various spats with local authorities (who didn't necessarily appreciate it when he showed up without permits). Everybody knew he was a proper knob in real life (or he'd be in a band, right?), even though he had become a bit of a local institution (even ran for mayor, at one point, with predictably bad results).
4/20/80 doing part time due to cfs
Note that going to Visitors->Install tracking code (when you have no visitors) the Install tracking code links to a 404 page: https://squeaky.ai/app/sites/123/settings?tab=code
Researcher lets random people on the internet control his fingers to play guitar
>people have is quite naive and distinct to the idea of God in the great Christian thinkers, such those mentioned by the comment.

But that would mean people would need to drop their condescending sense of superiority over others... come on, don't take that away from people for in their eyes it's an easy win.
How does text search in Postgres compare with Elasticsearch?
AI Artist generates NFT abstract arts
At least in the US, by the way, it's nowhere near "overwhelmed": https://protect-public.hhs.gov/pages/hospital-utilization. These are fairly normal numbers this time of year. Yet if you listen to the "free" press, you'd think we're piling up the bodies in the freezer trailers at this point. Horseshit, all of it. We're being lied to.
Because all of Silicon Valley has a strong/long history with the military industrial complex and various intelligence services? It's not exactly a secret...

Now take a look at how many ex-intelligence run tech companies (may i remind you that former NSA head is on Amazon board?) and how many tech companies happily collaborate with intelligence services (Microsoft, Amazon, Palantir).
I think the biggest cause for geopolitical instability is some sort of ecological disaster or global nuclear war and I think that's if anything more likely on a planet with large, young populations rather than smaller, older ones due to intensified resource or territorial competition.

People have coined the term 'geriatric peace theory' for the effect that aging populations tend to be remarkably stable politically. Today if you think of who can wipe a few billion of the planet India and Pakistan come to mind, less so Germany or Japan.
I'm currently in EE and kinda underpaid

I think there's a decent chance to get 5-7x salary increase...

On the other hand FAANG/CPU companies don't even write rejection email to me; or I'm just used to different response time + my tech stack doesn't really fit them.
What if the total energy of the whole universe amounts to zero? If - what we call „everything“ - and that what we call „nothing“ is essentially the same? Structurally they clearly are: Both are „unbounded“ - „borderless“. What if a „void“ isn’t the only form „nothing“ is allowed to take?
Setup build series: New motorized desk
AFAIK government terms often require FRAND licensing for technology developped with public funds.
Pretty much this. He pontificates from a position of authority that has nothing to back it up.
Sure, i'm just disappointed they would force this on everyone. First, because it means they vet the practice while we should strongly discourage it (if not for ethical, at least for security reasons). Second, because Framework laptop sounds good otherwise, but i really don't want to financially support corporations who buy into this biometrics hellscape.
WordPress already has its own htaccess file for rewriting URLs into query string parameters. I wonder why it doesn't include a cache command as normal. The number of times I've gone to a page only to be faced with a MySQL error for too many connections.
You can serialize closures (and continuations) in Common Lisp using Common Cold. The serialized representation of a closure contains a tag instead of the actual code, but the forms are also available in case you need to serialize them as well.

CL-USER> (write-to-string
(let ((y 4))
(common-cold:slambda (x)
(* x y))))
"#.(S:F '1 '(4))"
CL-USER> (funcall (read-from-string *) 3) ;; * here means reference to the last returned value
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Pieter had a successful YouTube before starting online businesses

His Twitter account was powerful and perfect for reaching wannabe nomads and remote workers.
Based on https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Software_Engineer/S..., while the average income for a software engineer is pretty good, the low end of their reported scale is 63k/yr. Personally, my first salaried job as a software engineer paid 40k. I can attest that I was not able to save much money on that income after expenses like rent, food, and gas. I think it is unreasonable to assume that racial disparities in wealth will vanish just because someone writes code.
very nice, enjoyed playing around the game examples.

Is there a repository where such kind of puzzle games come from?
> Do you really think "old" Microsoft thought that far into the future for this back then?

I always assumed so, and same for Adobe. For many years, their software was trivial to pirate. My understanding is, they let individuals pirate Windows/Photoshop to ensure widespread popularity, especially among people who wouldn't be able to pay for that software anyway - and applied pressure to any business using their software.

There's only so much money they could get from the cohort of teens and their parents trying to play games or trim their photos, but every year, a part of that population graduated to becoming employees and business owners, preferring to use the software they already know, and having money to finally pay for it.
I had to double-take because CL also has a THE also for declaring types, but it's a bit different; THE declares the type of an expression, not a variable (there is a separate type declaration for variables).

so e.g. (the fixnum (+ x 1)) would assert that (+ x 1) produces a fixnum.
> Analysis on most technical or important FOSS projects prove otherwise, with EU having the brightest.

Such as? All of the prominent Europeans I can think of live in the United States: Linus Torvalds, Bjarne Stroustrup, Guido van Rossum, etc.
Lisp is definitely not as functional as for instance Haskell is. Side-effect-freeness was never really a topic for Lispers.
I heard they simulate all signals for robot model training
There is no unilateral renunciation of citizenship. The tax treaty between the US and the Netherlands has what is known as a 'savings clause', which basically states, regardless of what else is in the treaty, nothing will stop the U.S. from taxing the US person based on US laws as though the treaty did not exist, except for specified circumstances.

https://hr.vanderbilt.edu/international-tax/tax_treaty_savin...
I don't know if it's related, but Carbon is also the name of the pre-Cocoa MacOS windowing/UI library.
One of my first graduate tasks in a previous life involved managing the impact of switching to phthalate-free flexible tubing. We went nowhere near biological systems but were struggling to get hold of the stuff anyway.

It got to the point we were redesigning components to take into account vastly decreased maintenance intervals.

Whilst I don't want to defend the plastics industry, I have to find my delivery today funny: a small plastic part carrying a prop 65 warning. The part is made of polyacetal, and so contains no flourine, amine or cyano groups, no aromatics, not even a double bond.

How?!
I commented on the wrong thread, woops
The Midas Formula (BBC, 1999)
Millions of CS students build their own language for compiler classes every year.

As learning exercise of everything that goes into making a compiler/interpreter is very worthwhile endevour.

As means to make the next big thing, maybe not.
Programing languages are products, like everything else, adapt, or stagnate and slowly die away.

Even C23 isn't the same as K&R C.
It's a feature, not a bug. The US system is built to be inefficient with the checks of power.

Checks and balances of power is naturally inefficient, and tends to result in a more stable system.
Big discussion of the original source a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28830328
> Nomad seems much simpler to use and manage

Agree, Nomad is so easy to get started and because of the simplicity of the architecture, very easy to maintain as well.

> but Kubernetes allows you to do more ... We use Kubernetes instead of Nomad at work

Same here, Kubernetes at work, Nomad for personal projects. But I have yet to find anything I cannot do in Nomad that you normally do in Kubernetes. Could you provide some specific things you've tried to get working in Nomad but couldn't (or simply doesn't exists in Nomad), while it worked in Kubernetes? Would be useful to know before I get too deep into Nomad.
He's always welcome in Melbourne! Can protest outside Tecoma Maccas with Baba Desi.
You're correct, somewhat like clojure's Vector, the default collection at runtime in Carp is an Array which is heap allocated C array with an attached length. At compile time however the dynamic language uses more standard lispy lists.
>Portability: Snaps works on most distros.

The sandbox doesn't work on any distros that aren't using the latest AppArmor, such as Fedora and derivatives.

Flatpak tries to solve the same problem at least for desktop apps, but with a few key differences:

- The sandbox is implemented entirely using user namespaces, not using Apparmor or Selinux, hence works on basically any modern distro.

- The user remains firmly in the driver's seat in terms of when applications get updated. Yes, you can enable automatic updates, but unlike with snaps, you can also opt out.
> Being written in a language that isn't well-suited to large projects and refactoring efforts doesn't help either.

I know that Borg was written in Java and Kubernetes in Go. Though the latter had a reputation in the beginning as a systems programming language, its purpose was actually to build large-scale cloud infrastructure projects with it and it proved formidably well suited for the task. It compiles fast, anyone can read it, good tooling and it is efficient for the layer on which it is meant to be deployed. Go, as Java is one of the most productive languages in use today, judging by the ecosystems they have spawned.
The channel is about restoration, and the regular viewers are there for the first 42 minutes mostly (including yours truly)
Can this be tagged with 2012?

Otherwise people might think Andrew Chen is advocating for mobile notifications and Open Graph in 2021...

Here is the 2012 discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3804055

The dated URL is: http://andrewchen.co/2012/04/05/the-law-of-shitty-clickthrou...
Honestly? In some way, maybe they've actually had a point. Beyond all the good things that FOSS gave us, what it also did was to commoditize software, forcing software companies to make money in extremely abusive ways - through advertising, surveillance, and forcing everything into being a service.
This might sound like a bit of a weird question, considering
that there is an ATOM feed, but is there a way to receive these
by E-Mail? The format seems almost perfect for a regular-ish
subscription list.
No, not yet. This is just the first step, which allows passing handles to JS/DOM objects to WASM, but they are opaque to WASM and they cannot yet be interacted with in any other way than passing them back to JS.
If someone's interested, i wrote a deeper dive into the matter a few months back, with concrete examples:

https://atodorov.me/2021/02/27/why-you-should-take-a-look-at...
You can use stuff like VS T4 templates or compiler plugins via annotation processors.

So at compile time, just like serde works, you create your type safe serializer.
Autonomous helicopters are a thing

https://www.theverge.com/transportation/2019/3/5/18250996/si...

https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/17/21024988/skyryse-autonom...
Also Rosalind Franklin, although her untimely demise to cancer complicates things.
First flights have to be approved by authorities, in order to get that approval safety if flight has to optained through testing. Obviously, you gonna have insurance. Also, flight scenarios and flight paths are pretty limited. E.g. flying of inhabited regions is a non starter. One of the reasons in Europe more ambitious flight tests are done in Spain where you have a lot of space. And one of the reasons Jobi for example is testing at military airports and airspace.
It doesn't matter. If she has bank accounts abroad exceeding the threshold, she's obliged to file just to disclose her foreign bank accounts.
The problem is the analogy doesn't map. You (supposedly) do agile to produce software faster/cheaper/better, but what is baseball making better? Playing baseball is the sole goal. So in that respect it's actually accurate...doing "agile" is the only goal.
I assume that Nomad is simpler since the other features are provided by other hashi corp tools (e.g. secrets, auth, etc).
I was treating the AGILE rendering as a warning. DANGER! AGILE!
reminds me that emacs used to have an html export with css formatting support ..
When you have Go you don't need another similar language
The saddest thing about it so far is they didn't bundle the most recent GNOME.
Ah thanks, we updated all the tabs 2 days ago and some of the empty state links must have been missed! Just pushed up a fix for this now, good catch :)

There's also a feedback item in the nav if you catch any other things, and do let me know if you'd like a demo or any other help getting started ( *・∀・)ノ゛
And then they land in your garden? Warehouse to warehouse transfersaybe, but for that proper planning can make that work with trucks over night.
I like F# quite a bit, but the main selling point for me besides my algorithm stuff would be data science/ML. Sadly, the F# libraries like the R Type Provider, JSON Provider, etc. don't seem to work.
In Germany? These will hit the same problems as improving existing infrastructure.

Want to pull fibre under the road? 18 months planning permissions. Dig ditches in rural areas? Well, some of the locals don’t like the noise or mud on the road, tough luck. They object and the whole process extends by months. Want to replace the roof? Better make sure you don’t make it higher than what local code allows! And use the same colour for the tiles… New road? 2 years. Improving drainage? 2 years. Everyone has something to say, everyone can object and block the nice things for everybody else.

These will hit the same issues. People will complain about noise or just simply drones flying above. Soon it will turn out they can’t fly here, or there, or from there, or to there.