skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been learning and using Nix and NixOS for the last few months. Learning how to use it has been a tremendous effort. Often, I wonder if I'm actually at the butt-end of some sick and depraved joke by a disgruntled sysadmin (they are all disgruntled always, no?). Nonetheless, the reproducability keeps me coming back. I enjoyed reading about how a big player like Shopify is using it. It makes me feel like I haven't wasted so many late nights.
Maybe I’m alone with this but when I’m on GitHub, for some reason it feels more like I’m part of a community. For some reason gitlab doesn’t convey that when I write an issue there. Maybe it’s due to the packages that are on GitHub and gitlab themselves. That’s why I prefer GitHub over gitlab, although everything we do in my team we do on gitlab.
Oh that is not tyrannical at all
Very cool.

In a less-artistic application, you could use this idea to print multiple sections that could be assembled to make a large pseudo-parabolic mirror for a solar concentrator. You wouldn't get telescope-quality imaging, certainly, but if all you needed was to concentrate a lot of light on a small space (for a steam generator, say) it should work fine.

Congrats on the upcoming wedding!
But the increased supply of the top would put pressure on the lower end as well. It's not isolated.
Saying it is objective but not mentioning the reason really makes your statement subjective.
My experience with the tool chain was abysmal. It's been almost 3 years away now for me, so I don't know the current state of things. I hope it has improved.

But every update was a large effort in bringing the app back into compliance with the new changes. The debugging platform used a different interpreter than in app resulting in things that worked in the debugger but not in production. Odd bugs at boundary layers nobody could (easily) decipher. The inability to even catch or do anything with some crashes.

It was the worst experience I ever had with a development tool chain in my entire career.
That isn't circular. The conclusion should be that git, a decentralized vcs, should not take on changes to make it a centralized vcs.

If you think that git needs to be "fixed" or "updated" to support a centralized vcs server to do partial updates over the network, then I think you've missed the point of git.
I have experienced a person using a space in a password for Windows login.

I still don't know how to process this emotionally. Either it is somehow naively really genius, or stupid.

In any case, it scares me, mostly because it is a non-IT person.
> that could just bring this idea into existence from nothing but a bit of code and some basic principles of physics.

You're putting yourself down here. But congrats on the proposal!
Where Covid vaccination could work (remains to be seen) is if, combined with other mitigation measures, it brings the effective reproduction rate down low enough and for long enough to eradicate the virus. Problem is, the long tail can last for years, and every time the goal has been within grasp, people would see the falling numbers and assume that meant it was already over. Vaccination makes that less of a problem.

Polio and MMR vaccines aren't 99.9999% effective, either. More like 80-99%. A breakthrough is extremely unlikely because you're not likely to be exposed to those viruses at all anymore. But it took decades to reach this point.
Pfft. Dreamweaver (and even FrontPage) were perfectly fine back in the pre-IE6 days when they dominated.

People today crap on using <TABLE>'s for grid formatting, just as we crap on 1990's Java code for its `AbstractStrategyFactoryFactory` excesses. Because it's "what people did back in the bad old days", and is a glaring red flag that one's skills are out of date.

But whereas OO design patterns are a matter of subjective debate, early HTML4 and prior just flat out didn't have modern mechanism for separating presentation and content. CSS 1.x was very limited, and no major web browser even seriously supported that until the year 2000. CSS 2.x didn't get real until the 2010's.

Would any professional use Dreamweaver today? Of course not. But it was an appropriate tool for its time.
England may invade the US to get its territory back. And then again, maybe not.

Bloomberg is a site for 'millionaire wannabees'. If you listen to them, they'll take all your money, and leave you worse off than before. But hey, go ahead. "After all, it's your money, Ralph".
Indeed, it’s false. React is 8 years old, and when React was first released jQuery was only 7 years old. I follow this stuff pretty closely and I can only think of maybe 10 JS UI frameworks that have attracted remotely significant use and active development at any point in the past 15 years.
This appears to demonstrate the full range of abuse.

$ mkdir hold
$ cd hold

$ cat ../wildname.c
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{ char n[256]; int i,j=0; FILE *fp;

for(i=1; i<256; i++) if(i!=47) n[j++] = i; n[j] = 0;
if(fp = fopen(n, "w")) { fprintf(fp, "hello world!"); fclose(fp); }
}

$ cc ../wildname.c
$ ./a.out

$ ls -l
total 16
-rw-r--r--. 1 luser lgroup 12 Nov 11 16:32 ??????????????????????????????? !"#$%&'()*+,-.0123456789:;<=>?

@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

-rwxr-xr-x. 1 luser lgroup 8464 Nov 11 16:32 a.out

Just because you can do something does not mean that you should.
not that easy, almost everybody does or used to do this.
People are talking about how this will make it difficult to get good information. And that is true. No one will downvote videos now, because publicly expressing your disapproval was the only reason to do so.

Now, the only people who will downvote are people who are technically savvy enough to realize that downvoting will help YouTube recommend better videos to them.

It's a shame, YouTube is one of the last platforms where publicly expressing your disapproval via a voting system is possible. And I think this has an effect on the nature of internet discourse. Look at the difference in conversations on Twitter vs Reddit. On Twitter, if you see something that you disagree with, you leave an (often ad hominem) comment. On Reddit, you just downvote, and feel equally satisfied.
I'm confused about the intended audience.

Power FX has a level of abstraction squeezed between MS's other options (excel formulae,power query M/DAX, Powershell, C#).

It gives the impression of a pet project rather than something users actually asked for.
The “concerned citizen” is quite weird.

I suspect hybrid is the best next goal, followed by electric. Cold turkey to electric is bound to be messy and uneven. Anyplace that is cold or remote won’t be served by electric, so we will need to retain some petroleum processing. Call it weaning as opposed to setting up to go cold turkey.
> no code is very much a mature technology now

How is "no code" a technology? Aren't there a variety of "no code" technologies?

I'd be interested to hear which ones you are seeing that can produce applications similar to ordinary software development! Like... it's probably not WordPress or SharePoint.
New Way to Experience Cinema?
Blockchain technology has been growing exponentially for the past years. We have different apps for many famous use cases: loans, entities simulation banks, and now NFTs which have brought bring a new platform for art and collectibles, allowing creators to earn more for their work.

However, while traditional cinema and television are moving into the domain of the popular streaming services, this industry is still ripe for innovation and disruption due to its financially centralized nature.

Read more: https://dev.to/_xirapo/watchit-new-way-to-experience-cinema-...
I have been following the guidelines from this presentation for all my filenames, everywhere and it has been working well so far - https://speakerdeck.com/jennybc/how-to-name-files
> The Efficient Market Hypothesis has been effectively disproven

No, the opposite of "effectively". That's like saying you can't plan an effective route because CSP, or you can't use SAT solvers to design things.

Markets aren't perfect, and that's all that proof manages to show. They could still be 99.99% accurate based on that logic. It's a cute thought experiment, not something practical.
> put it on your own roof, that way nobody can remove it

I imagine you’d need a permission; just like you’d have to get one if you wanted to use a projector and project something onto parliament. (TINLA)
Ask HN: What is the tech scene like in Charleston?
Partner is moving to Charleston for work, I’m trying to figure out what that means for me.

I have no idea what tech companies/startups/cutting edge tech using companies exist in Charleston and am worried I may not find a job that uses my skill sets.

What’s it like living in Charleston?

How is the tech scene there?

Who are the big players?

Who are the hungry up and comers?
Aluminizing it would be way cheaper than silver.

For that matter, you could probably glue down pieces of aluminized mylar rather than using mirrors, since you all you need is a spot of light, not a full-blown mirror image. Aluminized mylar is pretty cheap!
Hey! I'm the creator of Paper Website. This is the seventh tiny project I've built over the past 18 months - I've been documenting the whole process on my blog: https://tinyprojects.dev

I built Paper Website because I wanted a quick and easy way to start a daily blog. I get distracted when I write on my laptop, but I love writing using pen and paper - so I set out to build this.

I'm obviously very biased, but there's something about writing blog posts using pen and paper that is extremely fun and liberating. It's given me great joy just publishing my unfiltered thoughts onto the internet straight from my pen - it reminds me of all the unfocused blogs of the good old days.

I'm also weirdly very consistent at writing now - I've been posting for 40 days straight using this method (here's my daily blog: https://daily.tinyprojects.dev). It's not for everyone, but I love it.

Thanks for submitting this - if you have any questions I'm happy to answer them!
I'd caveat this with code change.

Its very common to need to wait for some version of a binary to be live before updating some associated configuration to enable a feature in that binary (since the dynamic configuration isn't usually versioned with the binary). It's possible that some systems exist that fail quiet, with a non-existent configuration option being silently ignored, but the ones I know of don't do that.
> I'm making good money and barley able to pay rent.

How can this be both true? If you can barely make rent, it must be that you're not making good money. Surely good money means you have excess after paying all necessities.

If you mistakenly believe you're making good money, but is in actual fact struggling, you must start looking for a higher paying job, lest you end up homeless due to a sudden economic shock or accident causing you to lose your income.
Not everyone lives in a city center.

For me, the are two international airports ~20 euro by cab away, while the rail stations are like ~30-40 euro away through unpredictable traffic.
Let’s assume this is the case. Anecdotally [0], I’ve observed (and seen many reports [1]) of the labor market being especially tight in low-margin, low paying industries (e.g. food service, agricultural work, trucking).

Perhaps the costs of goods that are now experiencing inflation (dining out, groceries, shipping) were artificially deflated due to severe underpaying of workers. In order to pay people who work in those industries living wages, prices must rise, since margins are so thin that they can’t absorb higher labor costs.

Pessimistically, I wonder if this will mean many businesses in those industries will close, since demand will suffer. If wages in the restaurant industry rise significantly (without concordant pay raises across the board), many people will no longer be able to afford to eat out.

[0] I recently went to a fast casual Mediterranean place. They recently increased starting pay for workers to $25/hour. A simple pita wrap now costs $15. I went somewhere else.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28834365
Look into Cactus comments! https://cactus.chat/

Not affiliated. Just think it's cool.
Rich Harris has done a lot of great work. Until esbuild came along, Rollup was the only sane JS bundler for those of us who can’t stand Webpack. Svelte has some interesting concepts, albeit I am planning to stay with React. His code is always interesting to read.

Then there’s Vercel. I was a big advocate for them years ago, back when they were Zeit. I used them in production at multiple companies and I contributed to their CLI to improve its error handling. But they really screwed me as a vendor with changes to their hosting platform and then again with changes to their authoritative DNS service. They broke every promise or expectation they ever set with me and reversed practically every facet of their original philosophy as a platform. They are bordering on being on my “never again” list. I hope Rich is genuinely able to stay independent creatively.
A lot of times I reply with economic theory, deadpan

“Supporting local businesses helps money circulate in the local economy” and don't really acknowledge the copyright infringement, misogyny, exclusionary ideas of empowerment, moral policing, or the specific actions the performer, content creator or sex worker does. Can pivot to vilifying Amazon for more fun.
This is perennial, and no less terrifying for it.

There was briefly a 3D version integrated with Google Earth that was even more depressing.

Also check out (by the same developer, Alex Wallerstein) MissileMap, where you can plant a launch platform on a map (sub, silo etc.), assign it a missile and a warhead, and see which parts of the earth you can turn to glass. Stiff drink helps; all a bit close to home for this cold war kid.
If you have ADHD, you are likely to be depressed
I'm "still afraid to use more than 8.3 characters in file names" years old!
I completely agree with you, and I've yet to see a compelling argument against this. I've been doing this since the rise of the SPA, all the way from vanilla, jQuery, Backbone, Angular 1.0, Ember and React and after reading your comment all I can think of is "great, we're going back to handlebars templating again".

There is no net-gain in re-inventing the wheel. It just becomes yet another thing to master to stay relevant. In a decade of doing JS front-end applications things have only gotten more complex and more time-consuming.

Thankfully I've found a sweet spot where complexity, velocity and quality are in balance using technologies considered no longer cool and that's fine with me. I get to focus on the actual problem at hand instead of trying to figure out the inner workings of this new shiny thing.
If portability/battery longevity and a high resolution is what you are after, there is always going to be a tradeoff. The monitor on my new laptop is 165hz IPS sRGB and I couldn't care less about build in monitor only doing 1080p vs Retina/4k. But I am willing to get more of what is more important to me vs what apple offers. If I get an M1 it will be a Mini, not a laptop. And if I need 4k I just output to an external monitor in docked mode anyways.

Trying to find a cheaper apple quality device that is as good... you'll really be limited to the cheaper Yoga 4k screen models and their ilk. But I have no experience with those devices.
It is low hanging fruit as far as the software is concerned. Simply parameterize all paths.

Will upstream accept such patches though? Sounds unlikely to me.
> maybe I am just overthinking it

Making relationships directly transactional is corrosive - that's the problem with OF.

Making relationships transitory is also corrosive - that's the problem with Tinder.

OF and Tinder are in the process of destroying the West by destroying women psychologically. Already 25% of women are on head meds, and that's rapidly climbing.

You can watch the Fresh and Fit YT channel, which has conversations with mainly OF women, to see the effect.
Congrats Tejas and team on the launch. Great to see your progress and broad innovation in this space (Census/Hightouch/Grouparoo/us@RudderStack).

It's a huge market and we can all help push each other.
I did the math for that one, though not exactly for an airplane, but for a boring land vehicle (think Ford Traffic). I assumed futuristic photovoltaics with 40% efficiency, a factor of 0.7 to account for angle-of-incidence inefficiencies, pretty much all of of the van covered in panels, for an area of about 16 square meters, similar to the wing area of a glider Schleicher ASW 22 (I couldn't find the wing area of a Cessna 172).

The result I get is somewhere from 3 to 8 kilowatts. A quick search in the Internet shows that a typical car has engine power starting at 130 horsepowers, which is 95 kilowatts. A van the size of a Ford traffic probably uses twice as much, and the Cessna uses 132 kilowatts.

So, no, I don't think we are getting aviation as it exists today with solar panels and batteries, but one hour twenty minutes in good weather will be enough for some recreational pursuits.

I also did the math for sailplanes with solar panels. That looks better, if all you are looking for is activating the propeller for a small fraction of the total flight time, or having an aircraft that can go very slow (that, in fact, has been done). I'm just an amateur, but my opinion is that, without solving the energy density issue, about 98% of the aviation we enjoy today will be gone.
I'd argue that one of the main benefits of MD is the portability, but it is remarkably stupid how different various platforms subtly tweak MD syntax. I swear ADO, Slack, Reddit, etc. all have slightly different rule sets and it takes me two or three tries when swapping between then to get it right.
> Especially if there was more money flowing into R&D, and more regulatory efforts.

You won’t hear any argument from me there.

To put it into perspective, the annual budget of the entire (US) National Science Foundation is $8 billion. Now compare that the revenue or even profit of google, apple, etc.
Have you met assembly?
This is really amazing.

Bandwidth fees are ridiculous because intuitively they should be dropping as the world becomes more interconnected.
Once I read Debt, I decided DeLong criticized a book which Graeber had not written. Like @heydenberk, I unfollowed DeLong.
E-cars and other technology have also "hidden" costs, your cobalt does not grow on trees.

Yeah perfect idea using farmland that could be used for growing food wasting on PVs. Do not get me wrong, there has something to happen but perhaps only solar and wind will not safe us as long as we have no good battery technology. Therefore it would be better to store this in some fuel.
Agreed. I really, really hate it when someone shares something cool they've made and HN people dump on it.

I'm not saying that HN has to be all mindless cheerleading, but non-constructive criticism is not helpful to anyone (except the critic's ego, maybe).
> Plus there was a general sense of the project being pushed through by stubborn DB officials and state government as a kind of vanity project despite the aforementioned concerns.

A public referendum was held in 2011. 58.9% voted for the project to be continued.
The shelters _are_ unsafe and I wouldn't blame the average person for choosing a tucked away park over a hive of mentally ill and violent people. The solution is difficult though. I'm thinking we need some way to provide secure shelter. Something like those pod hotels where you get a private, lockable pod so you don't have your phone stolen or get raped in the middle of the night.
Yes, I was including emotional, subjective needs in there. I think GP and I mean the same thing
You don't personally have the strength to significantly change your vector. If you try to jump off the bike you are going to end up hitting whatever you were going to hit anyway. You may have an instantaneous power of perhaps 1-2 horsepower if you are superbly fit and are for some reason braced for action. The brakes on your motorcycle can decelerate you as much as 1g in dry weather. It's better to stay on.
> Make it legal to build homes where people live (looking at you California, specifically LA, SF, SV)

Sorry this is BS. Better solution is move people to where the homes are. Lots of cheap empty houses in America, just not on California beaches. Yeah I'd rather live in a tent on Venice beach than a run down house in Ohio too, but homeless dont have a right to live anywhere.
Sounds like I need to move to the East Coast because that's the experience I get half the time I get on a bus or BART in the Bay.
In that case, be thorough and insert a Chinese and an Arabic character to enforce a Unicode check.
I would rather sleep outside than in any homeless "shelters" I've been told about by people who have stayed in them.

They're horrible places designed only for one purpose: keeping the undesirables out of the public eye.

It was that way ~100 years ago when Orwell wrote "Down and Out", and very little has changed since then.
If it's your own property that you've made unsafe, then sell it, I'd consider it on the buyer, unless you hid that it was unsafe.

No one should be able to build houses or establish habitations on poisonous and polluted area. You can sell poisonous land to someone else but anyone owning poisonous land needs to take precautions to keep people off.

It's like one should be able to sell spoiled food (to eat) or lead contaminated toys. Warning people here isn't enough because some people will be foolish or desperate.
As far as I can tell, OpenBCI already is that thing.

It's just very hard to sustain a business on one-off low volume hardware sales so the prices on the official site are relatively high compared to BOM (but perfectly reasonable and necessary to sustain further R&D).

It seems many hobbyists will buy off aliexpress while institutions / researchers tend to get the "official" hardware.

If you're happy with 8 channels wired (run laptop off batteries and use a good USB opto-isolator...) then you can get that right now for about 200 USD (not including headware).

(Note: better to get a 32-bit board not 8-bit one).
That would be silly. Why would you lug all that weight around? That's just a waste of load-carrying capacity that could be used to transport more money-producing cargo.
There is official data and it's these reunification programs. Plenty of rich cities will give you a bus ticket to live with friends and family. Most of the time it works out. Sometimes it doesn't and that unsheltered person is right back in the same place they left. But the person has to agree to house them before a bus ticket is purchased. They simply don't put them on the bus and let them figure it out.
I generally understand the construction.. (you know, the canonical example of splitting a string of words by spaces, which returns a collection, which is then flattened). But there seem to be so many ways to use it differently.. resolving futures, spark dataframes, scala collections, all have their idiosyncratic ways of processing the results The dsls of the transformations are the most confusing for me. When I’m bored at work like I am now, I think of all of the ways that flatmap gets used and I try to refresh my memory on how it’s used. For some reason, it’s harder for me to grok than any other idiom.
Outside Moses Lake is far outside Seattle's jurisdiction.
>we have, for decades, been siphoning money away from them to fund private schools

The link I provided shows a 375% increase in funding to public schools between 1970-2010, adjusted for inflation. Spending rose from $2.9 billion for ~46 million students (per https://nces.ed.gov/pubs98/98018/#chap2a) to $73.3 billion for ~50 million students - per-student spending actually rose, even after adjusting for inflation. Where are you getting the idea that money is being siphoned away from public schools to fund private schools?