skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great! That means NYC can get more economies of scale and be even more efficient!

Huge dense city like NYC would be a perfect place for district heating and cooling. No reason for apartments to have boilers, really.
I presume so you can build firmware in the cloud. It looks like another large part of the idea is to support development remote from the device. This could be a clever move considering the state of things at the moment.
Some might call it trolling…
Why would anyone buy a new Xbox? Most people I know still have regular HD TV's, and six year-old Xbox one or PS4 will do just fine for most of their needs.

There are very few games that won't work -- or have performance issues -- with the previous generation. Most are just the regular FIFA/NHL/Madden stuff, with the occasional overhyped mishap like CP2077.

It's the same situation as with the Xbox 360 -- as long as the previous generations can play the currently popular games, people won't upgrade. Hell, in the Microsoft Store, it's still remakes of 360-era games like GTA V and Skyrim that are being used to advertise the new consoles. No thanks my 360 still works fine! :D

The supply chain issues are only making it worse.
There are several Git-based CMS options, like Forestry: https://forestry.io/

Note that these include editors that aren't as good as a standalone editor but work fine for most content.
I tried buying a series X for 4 month with no luck. Everything which shows up online is sold out within seconds. So yes - the supply chain issues are very real.
Neat :) Slight nitpick: The images are blurry/too low resolution on my iPhone Xs.
OP’s point is about costs and affordability. PhD in physics is kind of irrelevant here.
Seems to me that if you want to solar heat a cabin, a solar panel is going around the horn. Design the cabin to be a solar collector, like a greenhouse.
If you don't like some area and you think prices are too high, don't buy there. The solution is so simple.

Population growth alone would bring an expectation of rising housing costs.
> Now we’re getting very insider though.

This is exactly where a legal process would start.
Wasn't there actually an "inflation" of used car prices in recent months because of supply issues?
It's going almost half the speed it did yesterday (1.8km/s vs 3.5km/s). Why is that?
Completely unrelated to the software itself but I'm impressed to see Taiwanese flag in the translations list.
> The 800k is disputed as being far too low.

Interesting, but since it is said without anything to back it up it can also be as easily dismissed. I based my data on https://usafacts.org/visualizations/coronavirus-covid-19-spr...

> Including for excess deaths that aren't directly attributed to Covid, the count is well over a million US deaths during the pandemic.

Correlation doesn't mean causation. Isolation also creates excess deaths. Economic hardships also creates excess deaths. Stress and anxiety create also excess deaths. Alcohol and drugs also create excess deaths. All of these increased since the pandemic.
You're likely coming at it from the angle of already having a powerful gaming PC. A lot of people buy them hoping to end-run around that. The Quest can let you do that, but the promise turns out rather empty when people find out VRChat is much less capable without a PC.

The other obstacle is full body tracking. Turns out this just works much better if you have lighthouses to begin with, plus a headset that uses them.
Strictly speaking not a markdown editor. But markdown-mode (with M-x markdown-toggle-markup-hiding) definitely counts.
> Sounds horrifying

Let's break this down.

> Macports is generally much slower to install packages

MacPorts and Homebrew are both source-based package managers. Distributing source code to be compiled on install is the basic design of both. And both also have binary caches. I think compared to the size of each package collection, Homebrew's binary cache is more complete, so it might save you some time sometimes.

(As package managers go, though, Homebrew is extremely slow.)

> Macports installs packages under “/opt/local”

This is much better behavior than taking over /usr/local, which is generally for packages you install manually. It's much more portable and much less prone to compatibility problems.

> Macports uses root, which can lead to users goofing up their system or workplace policy issues

Homebrew uses root and it just hides from you that it uses root by giving ownership of /usr/local to your particular user, which constitutes a system policy issue. It's a security problem and it's also just a disgusting thing to do on a nominally multi-user operating system.

The only one of these issues where Homebrew wins is with the binary cache size (which has apparently come at the cost of reducing customizability for many Homebrew packages, if the comments of longtime Homebrew users on GitHub and HN are to be believed).
Not sure about the accuracy of this article, but it was a fun read.

Tangential: Early this year I read the book The Spy and the Traitor. It’s about a Soviet KGB man who worked secretly for the west for decades. I won’t spoil it, but one of the greatest stories I’ve read.
> the proposed euro 7 standards are so strict that it will also alter what the car fleet looks like.

What do you mean by this? Got any links handy?
It is so negative though.

Live in the now and make the now the way you want it to be.
Coal price instability accelerates closures of coal plants. It basically pushes them to being unprofitable faster. The recent gas and coal shortages are a great example: it's accelerating closures in a few places. It's also scaring off investors seeing that promised life times of plants are worth nothing. Coal plants delivered last decade are already being closed. E.g. the Germans just opened a plant that will now close in 2030 (the new government is planning that). That's expensive. It's one of those things that happens more because it's happening more. Even in heavily pro-coal states in the US they are closing plants.

EV sales vary world wide. In Norway, it's >70%. The Netherlands has 32%. Germany is not far behind with 28%. The US is indeed lagging a bit. An interesting effect you are starting to see in the EU is people worrying about not being able to sell their ICE car second hand, being faced with additional fees and cost for fuel, or being denied access to cities and regions. Fear of these things is becoming a big driver. And there's quite a bit of FOMO as well.

Both with coal plants closing and EV adoption, fear is accelerating what was happening anyway.
House prices also appreciate when the surrounding area becomes more attractive. People call it "gentrification" and hate on it, but the reality is that the surrounding area is being improved (meaning nicer shops, better facilities, access to jobs and hospitals and so on), which is a good thing.
Or about making a product
Happy 60th Birthday to the Transistor (2008)
I thought it was gonna' query everybody's name-o!
If your only target from Markdown is LaTeX, I recommend the LaTeX markdown package which uses lua to parse and convert the input markdown: https://github.com/Witiko/markdown

Pandoc shines when targetting multiple backends, like EPUB, HTML and LaTeX/PDF. But the LaTeX markdown package has one advantage when only targetting LaTeX, especially in academic settings: it translates everything to the LaTeX you'd expected. For example, citations are translated into biblatex calls, while pandoc generates all of the citations and the bibliography by itself, bypassing the style and behavior you and your professors might expect.
For those not doing the time warp again, the transistor has just turned 74.
Yeah, but the PC is quite a large fraction of the cost of going from nothing to full Index system. If you don't already have a good gaming PC then the Quest alone can't help you, and once you have one you might as well get a system that can also easily do full body tracking.
Show HN: I'm building a non-profit search engine
> No, a bank can't go to prison, but its executives can. Further, a bank is a registered corporation and a legal holder assets which can be seized by courts. This means it can't escape legal action. The courts would seize the stolen money and return it to the rightful owner, while the bank would be fined and/or stripped of its license. The size of the bank is irrelevant, as far as the rule of law is concerned, because a key principle behind the rule of law is equality before the law.

But the principals of the bank can abscond with the value before the law has a chance to react. The thing that prevents them from doing so is their investment in the bank's reputation. The size of that investment is correlated to the bank's scale.

> Therefore, no, nobody thinks that because a bank is small it's more likely to steal their money. That's a bizarre idea. The size of banks, and firms in general, is explained entirely by economies of scale. It has nothing to do with reputation, or the fear that they will steal your money. (No offence, but you sound like someone from a communist country who is unfamiliar with how the capitalist system work.)

I work in quantitative finance. I think i'm doing capitalism just fine. It's understandable for you not to be aware of the dynamics of these things, because you probably don't deal with large enough amounts of money to think about what percentage of assets you are at a bank or financial institution. However, anyone who has started a hedge fund has confronted this problem: Nobody wants to be more than 10% of your assets under management. If all you have is a million dollars, all anyone wants to invest is 100k. The same is true for banks, or any depository institution.

You wouldn't deposit $10,000 at a bank that only has $1,000 in other deposits. Google isn't going to deposit $10bn at a bank that only has $1bn. You can't trust someone to hold your assets that is small relative to your deposit, for a few reasons, but a big one is that the incentives are all wrong.

> The problem with DeFi is that it's crippled because of its intrinsic limitations, namely the fact that smart contracts lack coercive power. As a result, most real-life contracts (such as a simple signature loan agreement) are unenforceable in DeFi, and therefore not possible at all.

DeFi does not require coercive power to do what it does. DeFi is structurally incapable of violating its own contracts. They do what they say, always. They do not require a legal system to enforce their tenets.

This has advantages, and it has disadvantages. The disadvantage is that it is highly inflexible. The advantage is that it is deterministic and certain. Sometimes you want one, sometimes you want the other. They are both useful in different circumstances.
> A lot of people, and that includes British Black and Asian people,ironically, didnt like the feeling that they were being swamped by people who spoke a different langauge, that were crowding their schools and health service

The English school system is an undefinable classist mess, where you either spend a fortune in housing or in school fees or you surrender to your child being practically illiterate. The NHS is a burning barrel of crap, compared to its continental homologues. They are sources of complaints among expats and of morbid curiosity for those living in the continent (I went to the GP with a broken arm, and all they gave me was paracetamol, do you know an Italian doctor in the UK? - random Italian on the NHS). Nobody moves to the UK for its public services and nobody swamps anything.

Anybody suggesting that Germans or Frenchmen or Spaniards are flooding the UK (read London zone 1 to 3, for the rest is closer to Ukraine than to Germany) is either ignorant or racist or a combination of the two.
Can't wait for this. I'm still on his 'patterns' book. He's such a good author.
I didn't claim they'd be freedom loving leaders. You're projecting assumptions onto what I said.

What is a matter of fact is that both attempted to get US support before they turned elsewhere. And that support could have come with strings that might have produced much better outcomes.

Just like it did when Castro turned to the Soviets. He proved he could be bought, but the US was unwilling to buy.

As for Ho, he was more concerned with self determination and anyi-imperialism than the specifics of the resulting regime. US support with strings there too could have avoided millions of dead and gotten a more moderate regime.
Joplin also have a few plugins [1], e.g. Obsidian-like graph plot of the notes [2,3], math mode [4], or tabs interface [5].

[1]: https://github.com/joplin/plugins/blob/master/README.md#plug...

[2]: https://github.com/agerardin/joplin-plugin-knowledge-graph

[3]: https://github.com/treymo/joplin-link-graph

[4]: https://github.com/CalebJohn/joplin-math-mode

[5]: https://github.com/benji300/joplin-note-tabs
> (I wouldn't call "Marketing" a hurdle either - it as much work as writing the software and requires as much skill!)

It can be a psychological hurdle for people who hate and haven't accepted the concept of marketing.
This is true of most consumer electronics. As another anecdote - I haven't played computer games for 15 years, but the Quest 2 is a complete game changer, the level of immersion breathes real life into games. I now play 1-2 hours a day, every day and have done for nearly a year.
just for scale: most ppl (also families) live of considerably less than 4k a month in most parts of germany.
Brightness isn’t necessarily the problem if they are pointed at the correct angle. Lights within spec are annoyingly blinding if set too high.
What about summer? Those batteries also need to stay cool...
> But this all falls apart near and below freezing temperatures.

There are heat pumps designed for cold climates that work well into the -30C range or so still holding a COP of 2 or more.

Here are some test results from Finland from a few years ago https://www.scanoffice.fi/vttn-testiraportit-ilmalampopumppu... (Lämpökerroin = COP)

And if one is doing it at district level just pump the heat from the ground or sea where the temperature stays the same all year around.
Have they included emissions and healthcare considerations in those cost estimates?
TikTok.com became more popular than Google.com in 2021, according to Cloudflare
The Soviets actually had an entente(?) with the japanese right up until the end of the war. Presumably, if the US hadn't asked them to break the entente, they could have just continued that indefinitely (although it's pretty likely some war would have occurred at some point). The Germany-Japan alliance was very thin (for instance, the Germans did not notify the japanese they were planning on invading russia). I think it's arguable that the eastern and western theaters of the war are essentially two separate wars that just happened at roughly (if you squint) the same time.

For what it's worth, the japanese were absolutely terrified of the USSR, for good reason - and when the russians invaded manchuria they basically threw in the towel.
I've seen a few sites that actually communicate with scripted-in ad providers to verify you have downloaded and watched their ads, visited partner pages. For "free" downloads, for example.
Well, he did get caught immediately (in less than the 28 hours his trip was to cover) for the reasons you outlined.

Perhaps he was intending to get caught?
You alone won’t but how else do crappy areas get nicer?

You’d be surprised at how some of the most desirable neighborhoods in SF were once “crappy” only 20 years ago.
I bought an induction cooktop for around USD 350 a few years ago. That was the premium unit of a cheap brand. They also had a cheaper one for around USD 200.

The cheap, government-controlled rentals in my town started switching to induction for all new cooktops a decade ago.

This is in Europe, though.
Maybe this is because of GDPR just simply? That those newspapers are not GDPR-compliant and won't bother getting compliant?
Right, but those were the motor companies behind that. IE: Concrete, spendable money. Urban planners get very little cred unfortunately.

If they were smart -- the urban planners -- they would get all computational and build highly accurate models of the cities they work for that people could just go online and check out. Then planners could create new versions of the real city, testing different ideas and sharing them interactively with the public.

Most planners these days seem to just say "mass transit GOOD!" and "cars BAD!", without really any substance behind it. This often doesn't really convince the public of much.
The problem in the States is that while there's always more land, there's not always the supporting infrastructure, public transport or even affordable accessible private transport. The author is shrewd, but sweeping a lot of inherent risks under the carpet here too.
My apartment is 325 square feet. I wish I had a bit more but I have a washer and dryer in my unit too and it’s awesome and cheap for the area. Ideally I’d have 450 or so.
MacPorts has binary builds for a lot of packages these days–pretty much everything that they can distribute without licensing issues.
According to the docs in the article (a picture with his planned route), he had a visa.
The only Electron application people can mention that’s actually good, seems to VSCode.

Electron has it’s place, but I think you can go to small. VSCode can use 2GB of memory, because it’s an IDE with a ton of feature. The overhead of Electron doesn’t matter in the context of an IDE. For a markdown editor, Electron alone will push the system resources way above what’s reasonable.

Then there’s the problem that Electron application fails to provide a native look and feel on all platforms.

I don’t know that the look and feel can be fixed. Solutions like QT and WXWidgets never really got it right, so assuming the Electron can seems unrealistic. What can be fix is resource requirements and performance. We should push for a more lightweight Electron, if we want to use it for smaller application.
I don’t believe sin is inheritable and I didn’t steal land from anyone, I was just born into a system that I’m doing my best to take part in.
> Edit: would be really happy to see some good open source compilers with extensible encoding support being listed here

I think that's the reason of ASN.1 being trapped in a very restrictive space. From Olivier Dubuisson's ASN.1 -- Communication between Heterogeneous Systems, p. 86 et seq. talking about use of ASN.1 by the IETF:

> the definition of many macros and macro instances to represent semantic links instead of information object classes and information objects although no ASN.1 compiler properly takes into account the macro concept (on the other hand, no compiler of the public domain does with the information object class concept unfortunately);

In essence, ecosystem failure due to a non-existent overlap of the telecom industry (full of commercial and expensive solutions) and the Internet community (working in a standards committee that tracks pre-existing permissionless innovation distributing the standards at no cost, strongly affiliated with free software ideas) caused ASN.1 to fall by the roadside.

Now that ASN.1 is considered uncool, the ecosystem certainly won't be coming anymore, so we'll be forced to reinvent ASN.1, probably re-learning every lesson along the way.
Interesting problems have interesting solutions. In my mind, it's rare that an interesting problem would have a run-of-the-mill solution, because if it did, you could hire a freelancer off Craigslist for $30 an hour. Interesting problems are rarely ones that can be solved with a Wordpress install, a few plugins, and a downloaded theme derived from Bootstrap.

Boring problems don't usually have interesting solutions. I mean, you could make the solution interesting, you could over-engineer it, or choose to solve it in a novel and unique way, but it is not often that you'll be given that opportunity. Un-interesting problems with un-interesting solutions usually get given to the lowest bidder.

I built a cat toy, it's a 42" LCD screen with a touch interface overlaid on top, and then wrote a "bot" that exhibits prey response and can be "caught" by the cat. Fun project, had to figure out how to do multiple toe bean rejection. And a whole bunch of other tech too.

Built a cat toy, it's a home built 3D printed robot arm, that has a plastic rod as the end effector, with a feather on it, that is radio controlled, and can be controlled via a 3D application running in a web browser.

I built a semi-autonomous, self-driving radio control car that can race a human controlled radio control car, and can also give the human operator a first person view, like a racing drone. It used various solutions from computer vision, low-latency video streaming, low-latency, long-range WiFi, and so forth.

I built a human controlled robot to clean the litter box, which then farms out the job to people on Mechanical Turk.

I built an app that helps you find the jigsaw puzzle piece you want when solving a jigsaw.

I built an app that can scan your Scrabble tiles and the Scrabble board, and tell you which word to play for the most value.

I built a number of bots and assist bots that play a popular MMORPG.

I built a dashboard for my home that tells me what the weather is like, where my cats are, where the family wallets are located, where I left my phone.

I built a resume website with a space invaders game embedded in it.

Plus there are hundreds of other projects. Each one interesting in their own way. But what I studiously do is avoid the CRUD apps that are solved problems.

Currently I am tinkering with a Star Trek Picard-like, flight deck transparent "holographic", curved display with head/eye tracking and touch interface. I am also building, as my day job, a computer vision solution that will do full body and face tracking for a new VR HMD.

But yeah, the cat shit was kinda interesting.
Hotly contested? Uyghur oppression is some figment of our imagination? Will you assert that without the "hotly contested" weasel words?
Agreed. Definitely something most people here could benefit from.
If you consider a "promotional content" as a blog post talking about a developer story that includes sharing creativity and experience that may help others who create their open-source project, then yes, please stay clear.
Drive up the rent?

“We are renting to willing tenants at the fair market price.”

Landlord’s cant “drive up the rent” any more than employees can be unfairly paid too much.
If we get enough requests :), also thanks!
I can't believe that anyone who actually lives or has lived in Japan and who has also lived outside of Japan could defend the property market in Japan, so I am willing to presume that you are not in that group.

It's a corrupt, poorly regulated market that suits the construction industry and produces - on the whole - ugly, poorly insulated and tiny living spaces, surrounded by concrete (again, the amount of concrete used seems to be driven by corruption) that leads to overpriced land and buildings that depreciate so much that they are destroyed within one or two generations.

A quick search of this site alone will bring you reams of complaints about Japanese housing and plenty of good reasons why it should not be held up as an exemplar.