skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really like this design due to how compact it is. Italy has an almost identical historical design*, but the earth is not offset so LN can be swapped.

Both plugs and sockets are very compact, which is a far cry from the emerging standard which is the shuko/europlug which takes twice the space. Almost all new houses are equipped with shuko sockets.

But the sockets here do not have the additional prong to avoid swapping the neutral, so they're effectively just a waste of space.

* at least, we have two sizes for it, a smaller one rated for 8A, and the newer for 16A which we commonly have today.
If we're talking about inspiration, then maybe it goes the opposite way? Given Turbolinks existed many years before even elixir or phoenix existed. In fact the creator of elixir was a very prominent rails dev.

But I insist, they have almost nothing in common other than maybe the end user result. The approaches they take are architecturally very different and with very different trade offs.
I’m under the impression that London’s tech market isn’t particularly hot apart from finance.
In this world, all that matters is money.

Preferably going to large companies.

I do not make my shopping decisions on price alone. Sadly many people do.
i too find the "fullstack developer - printer problems" memes pretty funny but i can also sort of understand the other side and to return to the analogy, a tire-guy car-mechanic probably has a better chance to diagnose and fix your car than any bicycle-mechanic.
In the field of programming, we have many great programmers who praise their workaholic ethics. Do you know some great programmers appreciating idleness? Rich Hickey with his Hammock driven development comes to my mind. Anyone else?
> There are some smaller startups doing interesting things such as using superconducting coils with much higher field strengths. They might be able to leapfrog ITER. If any of them can demonstrate net positive energy, then and only then the human race should throw tens of billions at that.

Show me examples of startups and private ventures that did completely fundamental research required for their engineering efforts on a product. At least one that wasn't mostly based on technology and research created by the public sector.

I really don't understand how neoliberalism got so powerful as an ideology to force people to think that smaller startups are really better at fundamental, unprofitable research than tax-subsidised government research programs.

There is no place in the neoliberal "free market" ideology for private companies (even less smaller startups) to pour money into expensive research for 10-20 years with the unknown if it's even feasible and possible, much less profitable.
> This is gonna be some hefty GDPR fines in Europe.

I keep hoping this is gonna be the case, but the years roll on, I'm still clicking some stupid consent-popup on every single website I ever visit, and in the meantime TV manufacturers continuously spy on their users, sell their user-data, and push unwanted ads into their interface and even in programs being watched, and apparently no-one (apart from a few of us on HN) seems to care.
Tokyo sprawls as do many chinese cities but people bike to the train
That’s not actually true though I don’t think.

The majority of their revenue by way of ads is handled via AngularDart in the web interface and Flutter on mobile devices.

They literally put billions of dollars of mission critical stuff into Flutter at this point. Same with the entire Google Pay ecosystem and soon to be with Fuschia.

I don’t think Flutter is a great tool for a bunch of use cases but that list is shrinking a lot with each release. It certainly has all the moving parts needed in terms of technical capabilities to investment to make it a default choice for a lot of things in the future.
Spreadsheets and their role in the data warehouse
I think that the key question behind the discussion is control and self determination.

When we say 'work', we sometimes mean productive effort, and we sometimes mean labour for someone else for which we are compensated in extrinsic ways.

Putting forth productive effort in support of a worthwhile goal is praiseworthy but there's nothing particularly praiseworthy about the arrangement where one person does so primarily because they feel like they don't have a choice (they need to eat, live, support their family).

Some variants of that are relatively benign and some are coercive, abusive and unhealthy.

The ideal would be a world where economic coercion didn't exist, and those that worked for others did so only because they truly thought that working on this vision and with these people was a good use of their energy.
Feh, HONY... http://warscapes.com/opinion/sentimentality-critique-humans-...

> HONY presents photographs derived from this tradition but divorced from its vast potential for social import. Its brand of “humanity” requires no scrutiny, for it is designed to do what photography’s critics have accused the medium of doing at its worst: to capture, to possess, and to provoke in the viewer unprocessable, useless emotion.
ages ago there also was always the recommendation that you should have two drives, so if one gets out of alignment you'll notice when it starts to create tapes that proper drives can't read anymore. Not sure if that's still a concern with modern ones?
Lawmakers want to check runaway AI. Research shows they’re not up to the job
Nest gives you a structured project with strong conventions. On top of that, their document provides plenty of recipes to get common tasks done quickly (authentication/authorisation, persistence, queues, etc). Very solid framework.
Maybe the OLED displays are in a different class in their lineup. I only ever owned this one Panasonic OLED from 2018.
Compared to the French standard, Schutzkontakt lacks polarization (bruh), fails to accept cheap ungrounded Chinese plugs lacking the cutouts (it’s also harder to incise those properly for Schuko, unlike the French ones where you just punch a hole straight through) and is subjectively flimsier in general.
> It will be forced to change, if the masses shop personally and don't like paying delivery fees

The masses mostly just shop personally; delivery is the new thing (the change). Delivery volumes are small as of now, and can only increase. The problem (according to a lady who helps with our cooking) is not that delivery is expensive, it is that BigBasket prices are higher than local prices. But BigBasket will eventually figure out how to bring prices down.

If you're suggesting that volumes are going to top out soon, I disagree. Smartphones have made it easier for people to order stuff, and hundreds of millions of people from various economic backgrounds are comfortable using them. India's large enough for the trend to continue for a very long time.
My first "public" software creation is on the IF Archive. A game I've created with a friend in, on an old 286 PC. It got some pretty bad reviews but it was niche and we were young...
Developer Tools, find the overlay DIV, hit delete...
Jio totally destroyed the telecom sector. It used to be affordable earlier.

Then jio made it pseudo affordable for the rich

Companies collapsed and merged and now the duopoly is jacking up prices so much that poor people have to pay 100rs just to keep card active
Double integration - brings not very nice memories back of my hand aching from writing upto 5 pages of workings out
If you’re watching tv shows or movies that way, they know all the same. ACR works based on the image being displayed, not the source.
You seem to be unfamiliar with the idea of a *personal web site*.

Hosted on one's own domain, hosting whatever content one chooses to throw up on a server, intended primarily for oneself and one's acquaintances, these things are as old as the web and among its most fascinating treasures.

Notice how all the videos are also self-hosted.
This unhappiness seems to me why it's so important Calendly exists: if it's not important enough to merit a visit to an online form, it's sure as heck not important enough to merit interrupting my flow.
Reliance did the exact same thing with Jio

First it was free

Then it was nominal

Then every other month rates rose.. and now everyone is raising rates
Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
Deaths per mile of bikes is 1/4 that of motorcycles in the UK.

https://www.motorbikeclaims.org.uk/blog/these-shocking-accid...
I too spent 2 days in bed shivering after my first vaccine... But I'll be getting a booster and all after that.

If my body reacted to the vaccine like that, I dread to think how it would have dealt with the real thing.

10 hours in bed is a minor inconvenience.
The Tolkien API for Middle-Earth Lovers
>Photography of public space is allowed, but if the subject is a specific person, you must obtain permission.

Sorry but then it is called 'Not allowed' If you need to ask any permission.

By the way it seems that it never occur to those people who adapted such laws to ask the basic question : Why right for artistic expression should be 'allowed' by them? Who are they to allow other person to perceive the world in a certain way and express it in some artistic form or another? The freedom of speech and freedom of artistic expression as part of it can and should be protected if society wish to flourish and be free. The nature of the right suggests that no majority or authority can take away your right.

>I live in a country where surveillance cameras can only be used, in most cases, to investigate crimes. (although the government is trying hard to change this, lately).

I especially loved this part : "in most cases"

If this country is full of people who cannot respect artistic freedom It would be foolish for the gov. not to abuse them further.

This is exactly what you pay when you disrespect artists. No surprise there. You pay with your own freedom and you sacrifice freedom of the society itself. Is that is such a difficult concept to grasp in your country?

By the way in one such country or presumably this very country I was almost attacked even for walking with camera. No pictures where taken at all. Talk to me about 'allowed'...

In Germany turns out people think that they are entitled to posses pictures they never made. They think it's their pictures failing to understand that it's never them on pictures it is what artist see in them or about them on artist's picture. When fools starting to dominate and take freedom of artist to express himself the payment will come and it will be much much worse then arguably such a little discomfort of someone taking picture with you on it.
Yes. And the article explicitly states “over 60” ;)
Govt won't grow a spine they have to win elections.
Maybe the bubble will be popped deliberately like it was back in 2017.[0]

[0]
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2019/10/22/trump-administra...
The SEO strategy behind Zapier's 1.5M in organic traffic
Reduction in corner shop numbers = ruin of those who had to close shops
From my point of view, Unpoly is just more "full stack" than the others. You have the functionality of several of the others in one single package, plus awesome things such as automatic loading indicator (turbolinks style), very good error handling, modals, layers, popups, sidebars, slow network detection, caching, eventbus, server provided instructions via custom http headers, polling, keeping elements across page transitions, compilers (kind of "stimulus" for creating custom behavior based on html attributes), etc. And all of it in an awesome and very clear API: It's all custom and data attributes on standard elements.

HTMX, in my opinion, has a smaller scope. Of course you can do everything, but you'll have to do more yourself.

Alpine seems to be even more low level, kind of a lightweight Vue. I don't like it, it really turns me off adding code in html attributes.
>I can get ~1ms latency with shared-mode WASAPI

I seriously doubt it. I don't think it's possible for shared WASAPI to go below 20-30ms. How are you measuring it? Input, output or round-trip?
For easy RTL measurements, you can use this: https://oblique-audio.com/rtl-utility.php
Ask HN: Why is machine learning easier to learn than basic social skills?
(and any advice on acquiring these basic social skills?)

A year of haphazardly watching YouTube videos and reading papers and I learned enough to start contributing to real research. But 18 years of human interaction and I'm still missing out on social skills apparently. It's like everyone else has a degree in all these unwritten rules that I'm just supposed to know.
Climate is one of those excuses that are only made by those with no experience. In countries where biking is popular people drive in all climate conditions without much problems, snow, wind, rain, heat.
I can feel the same about people looking at me without my permission. Is there a difference between the two?
Most: no.

I have this: https://lunacycle.com/sur-ron-x-bike-black-edition/

The Sur Ron has a 7000W motor. I weigh 260lbs. It climbs hills. At 30-40mph and is awesome!
Well fortunately in most cities here in Karnataka, even more so in Bangalore almost every area has these small-medium large buildings where you can set up these stores, and these are reachable through two wheelers.

You need to understand why Kiranas existed at the first place. People buying stuff at Kiranas are generally buying shampoo sachets, and chickpea flour in 250 gm quantities, this was needed because people didn't have the cash liquidity to benefit from buying a 1 litre shampoo bottle for 50% cheaper price than you would have to buy in sachets to make up for a litre of shampoo. Same goes with things like Atta(wheat flour), detergent, soap, biscuits, t-shirts, cheese or whatever. If you have the cash to buy 6 kgs of Surf Excel, DMart bundles another 3 kgs extra for free. If you pick up two bags of Atta, they offer that for you at 50% discount.

The other part one needs to understand, I remember the early days of credit cards in India. Before that there was no way of getting a cheap, low collateral loan. The only way was going to the local marwari sait pawn broker, and pledge your jewellery for a insane interest, and often under shady terms. When the credit cards got hold, the pawn brokers went out of business almost over night. I personally know of a friend whose dad's business went out of business this way, they have a Lassi shop today.

It was a net positive for India. In time people will realize mass retail super markets are a net positive.
Do vaccines protect against long Covid? What the data say
> Now our illness should be mild for everyone, even the older and more vulnerable people.

Well, data shows it sadly isn't, that's why we talk about booster shots, because data looks like they help with that.
Perfeggt brings in first capital to shell out plant-based egg alternative
The team thought about that obviously and the answer is probably not:
https://go.dev/blog/ismmkeynote
For those looking for a more exercise-oriented approach to cryptography, the Cryptopals challenge (https://cryptopals.com/) is an excellent way to discover cryptography step by step with 64 exercises with an increasing difficulty level
Switching to ZeroSSL helped me when some clients failed to handle the root cert switchover did Let's Encrypt at, what, the end of September? The ZeroSSL root goes waaay back: https://help.zerossl.com/hc/en-us/articles/360058294074-Zero...
If I had to choose a plug to use all over the world, it would actually probably be the UK one (or perhaps a slightly less bulky version of it). See https://youtu.be/UEfP1OKKz_Q
You should be getting considerably less latency than that. Is the Discord server perhaps set to the wrong region?
Here in Amsterdam I feel it's the opposite. Next to the car roads we had beautiful biking infrastructure used by bikes going typically 10 to 15 km/h, averaging say 12km/h, used by virtually everyone, poor and rich, kids, students, parents, grandparents, there being more bikes than people in this city.

Now the bicycle lanes are taken over by e-bikes going 25km/h and sometimes (illegally, as these must be on the car road) 'speedbikes' going 45 km/h.

It used to be that if you go say 12km/h, virtually every other bike will also go that speed +/- 3 k/m. With a speed difference of only 3km/h, that meant two things: 1) overtaking each other happens, but only every now and then. And (2) you only need to watch a few metres behind you before overtaking, because no bike in the bike-lane could overtake you from further away at such small speed differences.

Now with e-bikes going 25, you're sharing a lane with people who're on average going twice as fast as you. That means you're being overtaken constantly. It also means overtaking yourself requires much more thought and you need to look much further behind you.

Overtaking is statistically the area where most accidents happen, increasing the frequency so much is causing a lot of issues. Second, the 2x as high speeds increase the brake distance by a lot, requires much faster reaction times, and increases the force and damage upon accidents.

It's making me less prone to cycle, and for my parents its becoming outright dangerous to share the bike lane with bikes going 2-3x his speed. My dad broke his hip last year biking already.

I'm super enthusiastic about electric bikes, it makes a lot of sense on many levels. But I'm also a bit scared of what the future holds. In Amsterdam the shift from bikes to e-bikes I feel is turning a great situation for everyone, into an even better situation for some (young e-bike users without issues) and a horrible situation for others (young children, elderly, those who get caught up in accidents)

There's a reason that in recent years in Amsterdam gas-powered and electric scooters were taken off the bike lane and a mandatory helmet was introduced. Yet when recreating such a scooter similarly with some pedals, it circumvents the regulation.
Here's a series of comments discussing why status pages are unreliable:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25213817

Edit:

My main takeaway is that it goes against the human instinct of self preservation (losing one's job, opening the company to lawsuits, status pages being used against you by competitor, etc.)
acmed uses 3 weeks (28 days), seems reasonable as well.
The typical user also doesn't want file picker thumbnails when you ask the Gnome devs ;)
But was the point of the infrastructure built for cyclists or commuters using bikes?

In the absence of intentional malice, I don't see why a throttled e-bike user should not be able to use bike lanes and bike paths. Seems like the solution is just a speed limit.

If I have to travel a few miles on a standard road before getting to an area with bike paths... I can't really switch to a different bike. But having a electric scooter type bike makes a lot of sense if the purpose is commuting.

Cyclists in NY are infamous for being obnoxious/dangerous to pedestrians and even car drivers and they accomplish that without electric bikes.
Supercharge Your Node Productivity with Debugging
You might want to check out audio processing on Linux with a (soft) real-time kernel. The choice of plugins is limited, but it is reasonable to run a 5 man band (including three guitar amp modelers and voice processing) at 2.8 ms (internal) round-trip latency (plus some ms for AD/DA) on a "some what beefy but still just a laptop"-laptop.
Connected maybe to the excerpt you mentioned, here is this excerpt (hopefully not too nihilistic or pessimistic) from E.M. Cioran - who seems to have become so apparent to me this past year - and his aphorism-filled, philosophical book titled The Trouble With Being Born:

"A zoologist who observed gorillas in their native habitat was amazed by the uniformity of their life and their vast idleness. Hours and hours without doing anything. Was boredom unknown to them? This is indeed a question raised by a human, a busy ape. Far from fleeing monotony, animals crave it, and what they most dread is to see it end. For it ends, only to be replaced by fear, the cause of all activity. Inaction is divine; yet it is against inaction that man has rebelled. Man alone, in nature, is incapable of enduring monotony, man alone wants something to happen at all costs — something, anything. Thereby he shows himself unworthy of his ancestor: the need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla."
For the Brain, Context Is Key to New Theory of Movement and Memory
By that logic the value of all consumer goods is down by almost 10x as well.
I guess they saw the success of Riot's Arcane series and wanted to give it a shot too
If you want to feel nostalgic of dos era, it’s fine. Otherwise, any modern library will do better for a beginner.

provides an easy way to create graphical applications and eliminates the rigmarole of the X Window System. If you have even the most rudimentary grasp of programming in C, then you can use SVGAlib.

I’d just use gdk+cairo mixed with sdl iff needed. Even x11+cairo isn’t too hard: https://www.cairographics.org/Xlib/

Or löve2d.

The level of functionality of svga-like libs is far behind what you usually need, beginner or pro.
Firefox Lockwise Password Manager is shutting; how to deal with the passwords?
In Slovenia/ex-Yu we had a very similiar (but bigger) 3 phase (400V) plug/socket like that (https://www.plugsocketmuseum.nl/Obsolete_3hd.html #9,10). You can still find it in old houses.

One probably could force the Europlug into it (looks very close), I haven't tried.
Because the US has been ruled by incompetent and corrupt imbeciles since the 70s. And there's now a second generation of incompetent imbeciles in the government who were students back then. If you think they can avert, let alone win this, you're out of your mind. Our best play here is to not intervene on another country's behalf seeing how we couldn't win against a bunch of semi-literate cave dwellers with Kalashnikovs after 20 years and 2 trillion dollars. War against today's China would be unwinnable in _any_ shape or form whatsoever under any circumstances even if we had competent leadership, which is something we do not have, and haven't seen in 50 years.

Watch the YT video linked in the article. China is in the position of strength now. They're on an upward trajectory. We're on a steep downward one. And that won't change until we at least acknowledge the realities of our present predicament, and begin the serious, careful work to rectify it. I see no signs of that even being possible the way things are right now, let alone likely.
> apparently Nano is trivially DDOSable for very small amounts of money

Do a little more research - Nano had real life spam attacks, then mitigated the spam problem with an innovative 'bucket' method. This put the lie to the common Bitcoin Maxi claim that "There has to be something expensive to compensate for the lack of central coordination."

As for Nano not being a blockchain; hint: there are chains of blocks. Look at the Nano Wiki page (very short): "Nano uses a block-lattice data structure, where every account has its own blockchain (account-chain)."

I'd say it's funny how confidently wrong your comments are; but it's just way way to common to be anything but tedious. Which was my original point precisely.
Nyxt 2.2.3
Ask HN: Have you experienced a (positive) drug-induced outlook while sober?
Some drugs change our perception, some more so than others (coffee, cannabis, LSD, etc).

The states/thought-patterns one can reliably find themselves in can be objectively better than the default. Maybe less anxious, more positive, more energetic, more empathetic, etc.

Being dependent on a chemical to achieve peak mental clarity isn’t ideal. Is it possible one could acquire these properties without the consumptive aspect?

Or is one doomed to think their potential remains untapped on the far side of a chemical input?
>the only FAANG that existed yet was Apple.

Which back then was seriously on the ropes, with SJ coming back to turn it around. Nobody would have listed Apple as an industry leading company. How times change.