skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My job is to build frontends on top of various client management systems and figured out, that I get more maintainable code and am more productive using the templating of the CMS itself instead if decoupling the frontend from the CMS entirely.

So since two years, I use the Hotwired stack on top of PHP (and now with Vite as bundler) and that is so far the best solution I found. I can like use the CMS integrated solution for handling forms, as an example, but can plug in Hotwired Turbo and some Stimulus controllers when I want things to happen async on the client. I now have my own set of generic stimulus controllers I reuse in every project. But at the end of the day, those websites work without JavaScript.
Is this something like LINQPad[0] but more structured?

[0]: https://www.linqpad.net/
But like.....what kind of things can you do without interacting with people when using a blockchain? Name anything. My insurance policy I bought online and I can manage entirely online, change the address, the car, the add-ons, add and remove drivers as well as cars......what exactly is blockchain allowing me to do here that I can't do already?

Same with the bank. I don't think I ever had to speak to my bank in the 8 years I've been with them, or even been to their branch for that matter. You do everything online or in the app.
It probably doesn’t interfere with cellular function, but that doesn’t mean it has no impact on your health. EMFs at virtually all ranges of artificial (and natural) magnitudes have been shown to cause a vast variety of health problems.

The OP neglects this entirely. Maybe you save on the respiratory illness by converting to electric or induction from gas, but you now expose yourself to EMFs instead of dirty air. I don’t have solid info on which is the worse environmental contaminant but am reasonably certain there is no “safe” way to cook.
You missed the “once-” before “Marxist:”

Sowell described his serious study of Karl Marx in his autobiography; as a former Marxist who early in his career became disillusioned with the philosophy, he emphatically opposes Marxism, providing a critique in his book Marxism: Philosophy and Economics (1985).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sowell
That's only because he wants the product to be used, not only bought, a developer point of view. From an MBA point of view, the ideal product is shelfware i.e. something you buy and immediately forget about. Users who actually use what they bought are a regrettable cost of doing business.
> key layout is a minor part of the ergonomic harms of keyboard use; keyboard type (i.e. ergonomics of design) and posture/positioning both seem more important (70% confidence).

Fully agreed. I was lucky enough to be acquainted with an elderly piano player when i was learning to type; they emphasized "you're holding your hands out and wiggling your fingers all day, that's not natural or easy" and the importance of posture and ergonomics to me. Also knew a person who had a >200 WPM rate on manual typewriters from a long career as a typist; they had a similar set of habits and postures. Their examples and advice have been invaluable. "Wrists UP!"
They are two sources linked in the article stating this. You should be able to finde some more if you google for it.
maybe I'm just an ignorant Eastern European, but this honestly boggles my mind. every medical handbook would classify this as mental illness, no?
> Since 1970, there have been 27 leap seconds applied. But these don't show up anywhere in any computer system I have ever used (OS, languages, applications, third party APIs). If I create a date object of 1970-01-01T00:00:00 and repeatedly add 86400 seconds, should I not end up with a date/time that is no longer midnight?

The timestamp on your computer is is in a timescale (called UNIX time) which is defined as not including leap-seconds, so no. The advantage of this system is that there is an algorithm for converting the integers to points on a calendar and back again. Kinda as you mentioned (ie. just keep adding 86400 to go forward a year, a bit more if it's a leap year, etc.). The downside is that you can set your timestamp integer to some value and it can refer to a second in UTC which happened twice (like those 27 leap seconds), or not at all (if a negative leap second is inserted in the future).

If you want to use UTC as your timescale, then you would have a different representation (something like TAI) and you would need to know about leap-seconds in order to do the integer-to-calendar-or-back-again type of calculations.

As with all things in engineering, it is a trade-off and what is the best choice depends very much on what you are trying to do.
> Currency is inefficient? It's sure better than trading cows.

Currency is a problem that's already solved much more efficiently in a lot of countries.

> Smart contracts? Writing things using english and then every side involved hiring lawyers to be used as bad just-in-time compilers for what was written is way more inefficient.

Writing a bulletproof smart contract is difficult, as demonstrated by endless exploits despite the contracts being written & reviewed by specialists paid lots of money.

The advantage of the legal system is that when shit hits the fan, humans (in court) can step in and determine what the intent of the contract was despite potential loopholes, whereas in code, there is no difference between "loophole" and "intended behavior". Now you can of course have an authority that has power over smart contracts and can step in and rollback exploits, but that's just the current legal system with extra steps, at which point you may as well not use a smart contract at all.

> And I can't imagine much more of an inefficient system than the state and central banking.

There are obviously edge-cases and cryptocurrency is valuable in those, but in the vast majority of the world banking is a solved problem and much more efficient than cryptocurrencies. Compare the total cost (fee + environmental impact due to energy use, etc) of a card transaction or bank transfer with a cryptocurrency transfer.

I'm not saying that cryptocurrencies are useless - there are use-cases for them including in countries where the established monetary system is broken. But outside of those edge-cases, cryptocurrency would be a very wasteful downgrade from the status-quo.
No, older furnaces draw their combustion air from inside the building, the direct vent draws combustion air from outside.

Modern furnaces release a lot less heat as waste, one result of that is that there aren't a lot of hot gases to deal with, a flue isn't necessary.
The thing with gas for me at least isn't that the heat is better or anything like that but that I feel like I can control the application of the heat better. You can move the pan around heat-surface (or an isotherm, technically) in 3D whereas with induction (I imagine it's better if you spend enough) for the same price it seems harder to get that feel.

Definitely an electric oven though.
This is waste to keep throwing resources at something because maybe someday something good will come out of it.
There’s many more areas like sequencing genomes and fighting cancer that these programmers could be spending their time on.
12V car batteries are recycled. You actually get money back when you return one to a store.
Here's the Himawari-8 satellite viewer, centred on the eruption.

Press the right arrow icon in the bottom right to advance to the next 10min snapshot.

https://himawari.asia/himawari8-image.htm?sI=D531106&sClC=&s...

You can also download high-res images (11000x11000 PNG):

https://sc-nc-web.nict.go.jp/wsdb_osndisk/shareDirDownload/b... (you might have to click this link twice for the search to work)
Man. This has got to count as the largest explosion on earth within any of our lifetimes. Anyone got a figure on how much pulverized rock would have been displaced into the atmosphere had this taken place on dry land? How long a nuclear winter we'd be in for? Or how this compares to Krakatoa? From the imagery it seems orders of magnitude larger as a single explosion than all the nuclear weapons we ever detonated combined. That shock wave goes over Tonga within the first couple frames.
Ask HN: What Happened to Nanotech?
HN,

Nanotech was supposed to have exploded by now. Yet I can't recall news in that space in recent times.

How far away are mass produced programmable nanobots?
Convincing people to trust you is hard. Once they trust you, they'll believe nearly anything you say.
> "pretty green" is not a unit of measurement.

PoS is just a bunch of computers largely idling. Whether it's 1k or 10k, it doesn't matter - there is no energy use to speak of, at least none that society has a legitimately interest in regulating.

The Tezos Foundation, who's interest is in advertising how green they are, claims in a year they consume as much electricity as 17 individuals (https://tezos.com/carbon/).

It is up to critics to provide evidence of PoS energy use being a concern; no one has done so, because the outcome is essentially is predetermined.
By all accounts the adoption of that tech in El Salvador has been a disaster, the app is slow, buggy, not everyone has access and it’s easily exploitable for crime. Protests against it. Etc. I anticipate a reversal of this by the next government. Current governments cannot admit mistakes, so it’ll take a new term for it to be dismantled.
Never knew the term roguelike or similar until way after the fact, but I really enjoyed Castle of the Winds[1] when I stumbled upon it as a kid. Countless hours sunk into that game, and now I want to take another stab... Thankfully the author has released it into the public domain[2], awesome!

Now to see if I can get it running on 64-bit Windows[3], it being a 16-bit Windows game.

[1]: https://www.mobygames.com/game/castle-of-the-winds

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_of_the_Winds

[3]: https://github.com/otya128/winevdm
What kind of effects?
Reminds me of another Polish pianist (now past): Mieczysław Horszowski.

Horszowski, also a child prodigy, had his debut in Vienna in in 1902 at the age of 10. [1]

Horszowski's final performance took place in Philadelphia in October 1991 [age 99]. He died in that city a month before his 101st birthday. He gave his final lesson a week before his death. [2]

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[1] Liner Notes: Horszowski- Mozart, Chopin, Schumann. Electra/Nonsuch E2 79202

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mieczys%C5%82aw_Horszowski
It isn't so much average temperature control as much as being able to very finely choose where you want to apply the temperature. If you're making a stew that doesn't really matter, Induction is easier to clean, nothing wrong with it, for searing a steak I've always felt slightly limited by induction.

I'd take anything over the awful "student house electric oven" I have now though.
How is a torrent less efficient in data transfer? Do you mean protocol overhead?
Well now I’m curious. I just got a new high efficiency furnace and gas range, all venting outside. Whats the cheapest air sensor I can get to monitor no2 levels? I have spare rpis and arduinos if that can drive cost down (and fun up.)
Whoa, I wasn't expecting much and wow, really nice! Thanks!
As someone who is an indie dev loosely making a roguelite (that is more Slay the spire/ pokemon nuzlocke combo) I purposely avoid calling it a roguelike anywhere because some people are obsessively focused on keeping its traditional definition, which is probably linked to the Berlin interpretation definition of a roguelike.

I think in general the term is changing, and in terms of how languages naturally shift it is an interesting case, but I also do not envy the author for the e-mails they are about to get.
This is wrong. The original purpose was cashless payments between untrusted parties.
What's wrong with USD monopoly? I am genuinely clueless, it's good to have currencies that are accepted anywhere in the world, isn't it?
In some alternate universe 1984's "The Terminator" is a movie with a similar plot to "Pitch Black" in our universe (yes I know it's an eclipse in "Pitch Black").
I wish there was a monthly HN "what are you listening to" thread. :)
PlanetMath subject index
If I want to boil water as fast as possible, I use an electric kettle instead of my gas hob.
Induction works with magnets. The electromagnets in the stove induct energy into the pan and that's what heats up.

The ring does three things (probably). Keeps the wok supported, transfers heat to the pan, and tricks the sensors in the stove into thinking there's a flat pan on it.
> If it has a flat bottom, then it’s not a wok.

It has a flat bottom "outside", inside it has the same shape as a normal wok.
The hype around the blockchain reminds me of the hype around XML around 2000. People were blown away by the potential... but no one could quite demonstrate it with a product. Now the blockchain can point to cryptocurrencies as a success story, and XML can kind of point to HTML, but it is a reminder that real change in tech happens when someone comes out with a product where the rubber meets the road. When everyone is talking potential potential potential, I am very skeptical.
Suggestion: show chords commonly borrowed from the relative scale.
Low tech magazine did an in-depth look at this a while ago:

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/05/bike-powered-electri...
> Clone this git, pip install . where the git has been cloned, and you will have access to communism.

This cracked me up. If only it was this easy, lol!
As this series of blog posts detailing why the crypto/bitcoin/ntf/web3 ecosystem is bad and wrong, I am continually reminded of two quotes from people worth listening to:

“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”

― Mark Twain

"Don't believe the hype!"

-Flavor Flav
Some of our current financial systems are deeply embedded and difficult to replace.

We're in a situation where we need bankers to finance lawyers to work on issues that would negate some of the need for bankers and lawyers.
Denaturation of proteins? ;)
If you have been in a house more than 40 years you may well be old. You have paid off your mortgage, retired, and living, maybe happily, on a lower income. No cause and effect.
This is the perfect example of a critic response and exactly the phenomenon I'm describing.

On 1, you're somehow conveniently ignoring the "without permission or interference from a third party.". I never mentioned against a car, stock, or house. Nonetheless the functionality still exists. Using ETH or other crypto assets. It gets so much easier. Have you tried it?
No talking to advisors, no documents, no discriminatory requirements. Pretty much 1 click and 30 seconds. Fully expect the next question of validity "aha! Well that's against a useless asset!".

2nd example. Yes it can be a hyper link or a hash, is there something particularly wrong with that? The use case I described has still been achieved, it's a digital object. Are you really questioning that people exchange assets using a digital identity? I'm not sure how that invalidates the use case.

By the way you're incorrect that digital objects don't fit on the Blockchain. First it depends which Blockchain. Second, there are some objects that do fit. Look at ENS. A domain name, address mapping fits on the chain. That is an NFT. That exists today.
Exception of course being the X-37B spy "satellite"
I wonder if the debris this puts up into the atmosphere will help slow the effects of climate change
It’s a dangerous attitude because it has a paternal edge to it. Any “enlightenment” naturally leads to seeing others as unenlightened.
Obligatory Tom Scott videos:

Why Electronic Voting is a BAD Idea - Computerphile | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI

Why Electronic Voting Is Still A Bad Idea | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs
> if the buyer can secure the premises by any means necessarily

How does the blockchain know that said access has been secured? Is it up to the original requestor to confirm this? If so, what if they're malicious and don't want to do so as to not give up their collateral? If it's down to a neutral third-party acting as an oracle, what prevents said third-party from being bribed/coerced/hacked into providing false data to the blockchain?

All of this can be solved by the law (eventually escalating to people allowed to use deadly force), but at that point why do you even need a blockchain?

Blockchain only works for assets that live entirely on the blockchain, such as cryptocurrencies. Anything that lives in the real-world is a bad use-case for blockchains as you now need a centralized, trusted third-party to sync the state of the blockchain with the state of the real world, at which point you may just do away with the blockchain entirely and let the third-party run a good old database.
"Start at the very beginning,
A very good place to start."
Nano tech was dependent on nuclear fusion reactors to power their sentient AI which runs on quantum computing core. So I expect we are only 10 years away from widespread mass production.
It would... if it weren't underwater.
I moved from induction to gas recently (not by choice).

Anecdotally, the gas feels slower. It seems to take an age to bring things up to the boil compared to my old induction.

Also, cleaning up after spills is a pain compared to a glass surface.
Strange about the whirring noise.. The motors are only to do the initial alignment, the tracking of sats is done purely with the phased array which should not make any noise (nothing physically moving)

I think with cats sitting on it it would heat up more due to the insulation provided :)
No one should be suggesting that 100% of crypto is a scam and that there will never be anything useful in the crypto space. Vitalik seems the be operating with best of intentions and IMO the threat of decentralized money has already effected the central banks in their thoughts around inflation.

My main problem is similar to the original article here. In 2014 Bitcoin was "The future of micropayments" 6 years later and now the narrative is that "Layer 2 networks are the future" It would be great if the crypto people could stop talking about how great the future will be and just deliver what they are promising
The LED strips are somewhat replaceable - you should be able to find them on either eBay, AliExpress or ShopJimmy.

I will warn you however that it's quite an involved process - I know a fair few people who have managed to crack their LCDs or rip ribbon cables in the process of trying to fix backlights.

Unfortunately it seems that backlight issues are becoming more and more common - especially as most sets have a "Dynamic" mode or similar which sets the backlights to full brightness and drastically shortens their lives.
How do you think those canisters are being filled?
Imagine writing malware with this!
I did not, I was merely pointing out that former-something means they hold a grudge against that something, hence not actually to be taken as an example of some kind of neutrality.

It's like asking Talibans what they thought of USA when they financed them and after they invaded their country and bombed their villages.

With the difference that no communist ever harmed Sowell.
That's a pretty awful hot take.

Unless this is some terribly poor trolling, in which case I've taken your bait...
FWIW- Story picked up by NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/01/14/world/omicron-covid-...
Do you mean effects of gas on health? Those are well documented.
Have you offered to pay him market rate to implement it? If yes and he doesn't want to, fork the project and pay another dev to do so and then see whether he is willing to merge the feature. If not, maintain your new fork. If you haven't done the above then you have no right to demand that someone performs work for your benefit for free.
Good induction is light years better than good gas stoves.
Ours has 4.5kW _per plate_, and its awesome. Silent, instantaneously hot, instantaneously cold, full control over the heat, no gases, etc.

For heating and hot water, "remote heat" is infinitely cheaper, both in acquisition and maintenance costs, and infinitely more environmentally friendly than gas and electric heating.

Sure, if you live in a remote region or a third world country, then you get what you can get. But in any modern first world city, there is no quality in the solution space in which gas is better than the alternatives, and as a whole, gas is just substantially worse.
Of course, the public can mistrust a paper vote, for good or bad reasons.

But, it's not possible to reasonably trust an electronic voting system - the people installing and maintaining the system have myriad ways to manipulate the vote that are almost impossible to discover or prove (at least as long as you don't accept public voting, which has different issues).
For the wok, you can get a ring for heating the sides of it.
Allowing dating apps to use other payment systems.
Check out the SammyGo stuff - https://forum.samygo.tv/ - quite a trove of information relating to the Samsung firmwares.
B-CORE slab. Honeycomb like construction panel
Looks like quite interesting solution. Cheap, fast production of strong and durable panels. "Build everlasting civilisation" they say. Im just curious what about thermal insulation properties.
Apple's internal software leaked (DMCA takedown request)
I have been trying to figure it out and my guess is this.

At that factory Karen Silkwood worked (fuel for the FFTF) at they were making the workers wear respirators 100% of the time because they couldn't eliminate detectable particles.

I think in the US that's considered unacceptable. I think the French consider it OK.

The French tried to build a MOX factory in the US near the Savannah River Site last decade and it was never completed. I think there was some circle they realized they couldn't square. The UK was able to reprocess nuclear fuel and produce plutonium powder but they were unable to turn it into quality MOX fuel.

Metal fuels have a small particle problem too but you can melt the metal, pour it into a glass tube, then break the tube... All things straightforward to do with remote handling in the 1950s.

On paper nitride fuels are very high performing but I have no idea what goes into making them. It seems that with advances in robotics remote handling in fuel fabrication should be capable of much more than it ever was.
I think it's interesting that people on both sides of the states-rights spectrum see themselves as defenders of liberties. Even if there is conflict in the details, that is legit common ground!

There's a lot of common sense power to the idea that smaller political units can reach an acceptable compromise more easily, and that having multiple governments offers some choice to those who can move. But there are big factors the other way too:

- The issues that most divide our definitions of liberty are aligned with differences in urban vs rural, majority vs minority, and rich vs poor. These are clustered such that they exist at state levels as much as federal.

- Smaller political units are more vulnerable to outside forces ... National parties can airdrop money into local campaigns to get strategic outcomes that have little to do with the constituents.

- The citizens of smaller units tend to have more direct power relations with each other, pulling them towards policies that explicitly maintain or redistribute power. This creates big problems for the less powerful, who see their position become more engrained and who often don't have the resources to vote with their feet.

None of this is an answer to "what's the best unit". I think that whichever personal liberties you value, you have to be pragmatic about who is protecting them where.
Maybe for a reason, no?
Eh, that's what I was thinking too (except it's underwater). One good belch like this from Yellowstone and we'd be back in an ice age.
Show HN: Inventedby – Inventions that changed the world
Wireless stitches, I can't see why someone would hack them, but I bet someone could come up with reasons. I hope their security is good.