skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still use the muscle memory gained using Turbo Pascal 3 at 15 in 1986 in VSCode at 50 in 2021 as it maps _similar_ shortcuts using ^K-...
Not sure that is necessarily a green issue.

More of a being “poor” issue in general. Many cost savings require up front capital.

Be it not paying rent or leveraging credit cards (and paying them off on time)
Same reason you'd go to a bar to have a few drinks rather than pick up a six pack on the way home. There's more to these things than the substances themselves, something silver bullet salesman often forget to point out.
> ...Excel could have gotten better, except AFAIK they never fixed the problem with reading genes as dates so they get no benefit of a doubt from me.

Not that this is only Excel's fault: Before entering your gene names, select the column they're going in* (by clicking the column header), right-click, select "Format cells" from the pop-up menu, select "Text" from the list on the left of the formatting dialogue, click "OK", and you're done. Now it won't turn text that looks like dates into the numeric representation of a date value.

Not exactly rocket surgery.

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*: Or, if you're just using it for data entry and/or all your data is textual, select the whole sheet by clicking on the grey square in the top left, at the intersection of row numbers and column-name letters.
Drive Failure over Time: The Bathtub Curve Is Leaking
n=1 but I thought myself computer science while skipping high school and smoking copious amounts of said "awful herb" and I'm convinced I would of never chased that dream sober. I also have fond and clear memories of said period.
It's "melting up" due to Fed QE injecting money into markets. It's NOT REAL. Just money that is increasingly becoming Monopoly money.
Wow is that a PDF of a Microsoft Word document with inline comments written by the judge? I don't think I've ever seen a document in that style in PACER before (linked in the blog post at https://cdn.sparkfun.com/assets/home_page_posts/3/9/7/0/Alta...) .

I think there's a typo in the blog post ("parent" should be "patent" below):

> Do you ever wonder what parent trolls tell their children they do for a job?

I read a story somewhere that claimed that "Captain Planet" had to be edited to feature cartoonishly evil villains, rather than the mundane day-to-day polluters, because they were worried that kids would ask uncomfortable career questions of their parents in sectors like disposable consumer goods, plastics, petrochemical, cigarettes, etc.
Vercel Edge Functions: Standards-based runtime and no cold starts
Regen network or IXO
The same way they went bankrupt?
> why would you trust ANY 3rd party with your so sensitive data

Because trust is not a binary value and I don't have the time to do literally everything myself
I assume any translation service would account for this.

As far as I know, commas as the decimal separator aren't used anywhere in the English world. Although, perhaps the author was not a native speaker, but still personally writing in English and made the mistake.
Reminds me of the days when you needed written permission from the telco in order to connect a fax machine or modem to the phone line. I remember standing in line at the local phone company office and explaining to a nice chain-smoking office lady (you could still smoke in windowless offices in those days) what a "modem" was and why I wanted to plug one into their sacred network.
For offline-first use PouchDB can connect directly to a CouchDB installed on your desktop PC as opposed to storing user data in your browser's built-in IndexedDB and syncing that with a Cloud based CouchDB.

Syncing that local CouchDB to your web based CouchDB is very fast and it's done in the background so it doesn't affect the performance of actually using the app. You can click "Save" and move on with no waiting at all.

So in this scenerio the speed of the DB is not necessarily a reflection of the speed of the app for the user.
The vast majority of those are not running multitheaded workloads written by complete randos.
Mob: She's a witch!

Accused: Hold on. Let me explain. Some frogs hibernate and it was merely awaking after...

You: Just apologize. You were holding a frog that reanimated. Whether you intended to appear a witch or not, the mob thinks you are. That's what matters. So just bend to their demands and all will be well. The mob won't grow in power with yet another victim. Certainly they will never come for me. I'm an ally. Educate yourself. Be better.
The lawsuit that ended US gene patenting
There were statements made when they recognized parts of the FSD money.
This is it. What kills a game isn't its platform, but where and how you sell it. Sales and user eyeballs matter more than even what game engine you use.

We use Steam, Xbox Live, PSN, etc not because we wouldn't prefer to use our own store, but because no one cares about anything else.
I paid $0 for a Computer Science degree in a poor country. It was absolutely worth it. We used the very same books as the most prestigious US universities as a basis for our courses, we learned the exact same things, and now that I work with people who paid a ton of money for those degrees I don't feel disadvantaged at all. Cormen, Knuth, Hennesy & Patterson, Tanenbaum, Ulman, you name it.

Sometimes I know a little about a topic but, but the University gave me the framework so that I can learn anything computer-science related with a much smaller effort compared to those without a degree.

That said, I do recognize the name of the university on their CVs does draw more attention and may make them have an advantage during job hunting. Also, their powerful contacts acquired over there. But once we're in the same room, we're equal.
Totally different context, but somewhat same story. The estimate for network hookup plus meter, panel, and car charger installation for me is CHF 6000. The difference in charging cost between public chargers and home charging is 20 cents a kWh. The payoff time for home charging would be a decade or more. Instead I'll continue using "expensive" public charging until I can afford to make an off grid car charger in my garage.

Network connection costs are a necessary evil of legacy power networks. But paradoxically, they accelerate the financial un-viability of the legacy network, by making off grid way, way more financially viable.
The Tragedy of Status-Income Disequilibrium (1996)
The fact that Photopea is better than GIMP in so many ways (does GIMP still not have adjustment layers for non-destructive editing?), and was created by one person is a little depressing, but also inspiring at the same time.
I may not had to much nerves to just wrestle the initial learning curve, but my experience for PlatformIO was so bad that I do not plan to touch it ever again...

All you need is a compiler, a flash tool and maybe (nice to have but for a lot of stuff not a requirement) a JTAG debugger, so why the heck does I need that half baked, overly complex monster of pseudo IDE?

The tooling shown by ESP-rs seems nice and simple, I like that way more.
Definitely less elitism and snobbery, but we have a sense of humor and and awareness of what's currently blacklisted elsewhere. It doesn't make much sense to me, to criticize Gab for highlighting things which are VERBOTTEN elsewhere, when that is the entire flipping point, isn't it?
For those wondering about the math: a SODIMM channel (e.g. DDR5) is 64 bits. An LPDDR channel is 16 bits. M1 has 8 of those (128 bits), M1 Pro has 16 (256 bits), and M1 Max has 32 (512 bits). That means the M1 is equivalent to dual channel RAM, the Pro to quad channel RAM, and the Max to octa channel RAM, in typical desktop/laptop RAM terms.

Modern embedded SoC integration is insane. Yes, the "two" memory chips you see on the M1 are really 8 discrete dies/chips (4 stacked together inside each of the two packages), and the "two" big fat things around the Pro are actually 2x8; double them up for the Max and that's how you get to 32 channels. Good luck putting that through a connector...
From what I've read, it matters a great deal what time period you're talking about. Like the Ummayyads were pretty tolerant, but the Almohads were quite oppressive.
Even if the building is lost, the firefighters still want to put it out to keep it from spreading.

A few weeks ago, the Mount Charleston Lodge in Las Vegas burned to the ground. Firefighters put most of their effort into saving the surrounding national forest.
TL;DR: will show ads in channels (one-to-many chats) with 1000+ subscribers. No paid opt-out for channel authors yet. Ads should be of Telegram channels or bots, no external links. Advertisers may target specific channels.
No subscription is an option. I'm not sure how much of your own sync you could setup, but the subscription isn't forced upon you.
I really love libpurple plugins for pidgin and how they can be combined.

For example, I was able to communicate using OTR on vk.com (russian facebook clone). Probably other niche messaging plugins work with OTR too (it's just plaintext messages, after all).
For men in the US at least, there is a book called "The Book of Numbers: Analyzing the ROI on the Pursuit of Women". It should make men at least consider how much time and money they put into dating.
I have a ReMarkable 1 and II (which I bought for my partner as a gift). They are nice e-readers that are well built. They really do fail on their key promise as a paper replacement however. The one saving grace of having spent so much money on the device is the "Send to ReMarkable" extension in my browser.

I received the email a few days ago telling my that those cloud based services, which were advertised as part of the product when we purchased it, would be switching to a subscription service.

Thew new service appears to be offered for FREE to us because we already purchased the devices. Phew!

That said, I think this is going to tank their sales going forward. The TCO on the device has now increased dramatically.
Drugs are a great way to raise cash for other criminal enterprise, the same way you have to mine ore early on in Red Alert. Maybe they'd argue that they're cutting at the root here?

Don't people do weapons and human trafficking on the markets? I think it would be cool if there was more progress made on that front.
> because a grid connected system is supposed to shut down when the power fails, the only way out is to stop being grid connected

I've just had a tour of a hydrogen fuel cell setup we have here at our OB. I'm no electrician, but from what I could tell, it's plugged into the mains, currently drawing about 3KW, and hydrogen is producing another 12KW (we haven't got much demand for this event - the generator will produce 250kW if we want).

It comes in from the mains through an isolating transformer, into the generator and UPS, and then outgoing power to us goes through another isolating transformer (to stop mains hum that we saw last time, in both directions)

It seems it's perfectly fine to have this sort of setup connected to the grid in the UK. Obviously it's more expensive to do so than just wiring in your own diesel generator.
We didn't have smartphones little over a decade ago.
Element CEO here, this comment thread made my day!
The map you linked suggests that dots are standard in both China and India as well, which probably means that the majority of humans and economic energy use dots not commas.
you are implicitly excluding proof of stake... is it an omission or do you have an actual argument for that?
Is there evidence that Amazon treats warehouse workers worse than other warehouse/fulfillment companies do? All the anecdotal evidence I've heard is that Amazon treats people about the same, but pays better than the competition.
Totally lame. I have tried so many note taking services and apps that my head spins when I think about it. Notion, Notability, OneNote, Evernote, Apple Notes, Google Keep, Squid, and more...

At this point, I am 100% OneNote and a physical paper notebook. I use OneNote on every single device I own including a Raspberry Pi. I use the handwriting features of OneNote with an iPad pro to sketch ideas while researching. I can also keep handwritten todo's for bigger projects organized with OneNote. I use klipper from my Desktop and Laptop to capture websites into OneNote books all organized by topic. I can get these on my iPhone and iPad. My garage houses my CNC and 3D printers running on Raspberry Pi's. I can look up settings and configurations for my machines inside the notebooks and modify them as needed or just copy and paste from notebook to commandline... all sync'ed to EVERY.DEVICE.I.OWN with a browser or native support in most cases.

These walled gardens are sooooo tired. My paper notebook is the backup and used when I want to sketch or think without distraction from the internet's ubiquitous pull. I take pictures and post those notes into OneNote every now and then to develop the idea further. OneNote on the iPhone makes that super simple and the friction is literally two clicks.

Sometimes, my handwriting will be legible enough to strait OCR into a notebook! I find the OCR to be remarkable for most things, but its not perfect and fails too. However, the whole ecosystem is very much worth the price!
That must depend on the area.

People in the Netherlands or the UK have reliable power anyway, but there are still some home solar installations.
I think a lot of people were turned-off by:

1. the device without subscription is crippled in unnecessary ways (access to third-party cloud-services like Dropbox, for instance)

2. the already high cost of the hardware relative to other options.

I've been looking at ReMarkable since I saw a prototype that a friend was using. But in the end I just knew it would join the pile of unused gadgets (with good intentions) that litter my home.

A subscription service really is the nail in the coffin for me.
Yep, I use this all the time when I need to do some quick image editing. I tried to get used to Krita, but PhotoShops hotkeys and menus were already burned into my brain. PhotoPea does a great job emulating them.
> I had issues with my college curriculum as well, but the biggest thing college did for me was end discrimination.

This isn't what you are talking about but one thing college did that I haven't mentioned is expose me to different people, cultures, etc that I was not exposed to in the bubble I grew up in. That is something I do value and I think there are social aspects of college that are useful. I'll also say that as a white male in the US there are doors that were opened to me that were not open to everyone so I can absolutely believe that college might be necessary (if only for a stupid piece of paper) for some people because of a number of factors outside of their control. I hate that our system works that way.

> I will also say that there are companies to this day that will not hire someone without a college degree, and I think it's stupid.

100% agree it's stupid but I just use it as another flag to not work at a company that is that short-sighted or stuck in the past (same way anti-remote-work companies are immediately written off for me).
This is what Figma is doing for their main UI, they reimplemented everything [1]

[1] https://www.figma.com/blog/building-a-professional-design-to...
This misinformation spree of the last few years is really worrying. A wealth tax would be completely disastrous to the US economy. It would cause shares to be a depreciating asset and cause mass selloffs. The rich would still get around them by shoving all share ownership into another corporation that is off-shored into a tax haven country.

And no "it's only for the rich" is not a valid argument. Once it's in place it will gradually be expanded downward. (It's exactly how the income tax started.) It will act as yet another wall for the middle class getting into share ownership and preventing retail investors from getting into the market.

Politicians and media are also doing things like renaming the wealth tax a "unrealized capital gains tax" to disguise what it really is to mislead the public.

Edit: If anything I want to solve wealth inequality (or at least the perception of wealth inequality) so that draconian politicians don't propose draconian laws that would ruin the economy.
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> make simple provably correct and safe hardware and a small and minimal OS that has browsing and communications built in.

https://puri.sm/products/librem-5

https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor
We probably have not heard about their ethical competitors which returned -100% to the investors.
To any who might see this, I'm the author of the blog post, and led the engineering team that built CockroachDB Serverless. I'll be monitoring this thread in case there are any questions you'd like to ask me about it.
Unfortunately, choosing to not use Steam, GoG, or similar is simply out of the question.

The reality of you selling your game at a profit without the help of one of these app storefronts is improbable. Keep in mind that even if you somehow become successful in this regard, these storefronts have a vested interested in making sure you and your technologies fail.

Edit: apologies if I seem dire, I'm actually on your side and WISH that the world was a free market without all these gatekeepers. Myself, my partner, and many of my close friends constantly battle with these "gate keepers" as game devs/designers and I wish they would go away, but the market (users) love (to use) them even when they hate them.
It changes regularly, and by significant amounts. Magnetic north can drift 45km to 55km per year, and in the article it was talking about a major airport in Canada, the Calgary airport, where even slightly out of date maps were off by as much as 7°. Source: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/tracking-changes-earth-magnet...

Will it require repainting? Probably not, but the further north you go, the more noticeable even minor drift or fluctuations will be.
Unfortunately, however, looks like the nice people[1] at Blackbird still keep on working their stuff, so it was not a fight to the death.

https://www.blackbird-tech.com/blackbird-technologies-settle...

[1]that was sarcasm.
In theory, signal could work with matrix people to support bridging with e2e encryption.

But as far as I know, signal wants to be walled garden. So then it is expected that people create work arounds.
It takes at most an hour to setup the tooling on windows. My first intro into embedded development was setting up the esp32 IDF. While there may be simpler platforms out there, it’s not overly complex for anyone doing embedded development.
Not too familiar with it, and pretty concerned about the riskiness of owning it, but do you know if BABA is a Cayman Structure?
And $BABA is a “variable interest entity” if you’re buying it as an American.

You don’t really own any of the operating corp if you buy its shares, so you have both regulatory risk and contract default risk with ??? recourse.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-and-chinese-regulators-are-...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_interest_entity
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Hey everyone, Lee from Vercel here! Happy to answer any questions about Next.js 12. Personally, I'm extremely excited for the new Rust compiler.
Propane freezes. It takes some extreme temperatures to do so, but it does so at temperatures experienced in rural Ontario.
You can do your own sync in a hacky manner - but if I were going down that route, I'd just choose one of the more open (and cheaper) alternative devices.
Hehe, are you me? Dropped out in my 2nd year too. I went to university in Europe though, and have no loans to pay back.

Being a student definitely helped me get my break though, mainly due to the tax status. I had been programming for a decade when I got my first job, but everyone's shit and a drain on resources for a couple months regardless. Accepting peanut pay (relatively) + tax benefits made getting that first job easy.

The amount I learned in my first couple of months does not compare in any way to university. You cannot just go and get personal tutoring with a professor when you are having problems designing something. Meanwhile, it's the job of the senior engineers to be your babysitter at the start (bless the patience of the ones who taught me). And the few times you do get an audience, it's very short (as they have to see 50 other students), and much too vague. There's too little "you idiot, you do that and in 6 months you'll be sorry the DB is deadlocking". More "hm, do you not think you could turn this O(n*log(n) into O(log(n))", which, at the end of the day, I could probably care less for but not by much.
I don't think "the bulk" is true.

Last year's deadly winter storm in Texas showed that a lot of natural gas infrastructure does indeed rely on electricity.
our individual experiences are greatly different. I'm right next door to you in NJ, an hour train ride. I have a daughter now in 2nd grade, a son in public pre-k (special needs with autism), and a son in private pre-k. all three kids have absolutely learned a ton from pre-k. im always surprised at the things they know and talk about that i know they obviously learned there since i never taught it to them. both the public and private are very much in lined with your "its insect unit time" blurb above from my experience. to my children it has really kept them engaged.

before i put my first kid into pre-k i said to my wife "well i don't care what they learn, i just want them to go and have fun and socialize" and she was the opposite and argued we should find a place that also emphasizes "kindergarten readiness" (whatever that is). as things would have it, she won. it was hard to argue against it since my parents didn't send me to pre-k or anything and i wasn't accepted into kindergarten my first go at it.
> Equal opportunity not equal outcomes is a huge red herring when talking about equality.

No, it's an extremely relevant debate because a certain political faction has been trying to redefine "equality" from its original definition of "equal opportunity" to a completely different one of "equal outcomes".

> Which is the correct approach?

This is a false dichotomy. You can want equal opportunity in most places, and equal outcome in a select few (just like you can want freedom of speech for everything but a select few edge cases).

This is the correct way to do it, actually - enforced equal outcome is inextricably linked with tyranny and oppression, and invariably results in massive loss of human life when it has been ((ostensibly) attempted to be) implemented in the real world.

If you have to pick one, tell me, which is better - for tens of thousands of handicapped people to not be able to access some public bathrooms, or for tens of millions to die in another Cultural Revolution?
Every time a company does something controversial, the canard “well they said they were going to do this” gets used to take a position to justify it. It is bizarre, given how much of a non-argument it usually is to say something’s permissibility is highly dependent upon if you were given a warning it was going to happen. (And this is coming from someone who supports what Apple did here.) The argument only works if the warning will lead to mitigating the harm so thoroughly that those negatively affected by the change have themselves to blame for failure to react to it. This is almost never the case when it comes to the kinds of changes in these debates.
Ditto: Cross Platform P2P Database
> Is it so hard to accept that "momentarily" refers to the period of time before arriving, rather than after arriving?

Yes?

I don't need to make up a different subject for the sentence when it's laid out precisely. If it were "I'll be there briefly", would you still try to contort the words into something like "The time required to get there will pass briefly"?

(Though to argue the other side, "I'll be there shortly" doesn't bother me in the least...)
Seems fair since rich men caused most of the problems to begin with.