skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good points about JS being a target and that currently evolving. Lots of people these days code without any knowledge of assembly, maybe one day JS will be like that too. On the other hand, if your risk profile is more conservative (like many companies), you may want to let early adopters try out this "JS-less" world before investing in it. Since TS has a huge focus on large projects, and thus large companies, being conservative here makes sense.

For Dart, I wouldn't be so enthusiastic when describing it. The VM, hot reload, and all of that are impressive, but I'm not impressed by the language itself. The language seems to be an incremental improvement on 2005 Java and 2005 JavaScript, which are themselves not great. For example, it lacks data classes (records) and sealed classes. It took a long time to get nullability, the type checker (and system) are not impressive (things can easily fail at runtime).
So not only are subscriptions "bad", but they are not allowed to raise their prices either?
I'm not into astrology but I guess since they are humans and want to continue making money they will stop themselves before insulting my intelligence and my wife at the same time?

Edit, referring to my comment from an hour ago about mangling searches, proposing crazy ideas and serving insulting ads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30022208
Or the single greatest human mistake. At least, ADSL and faster might be our greatest mistake.

If we had kept it at no faster than 56Kbauds, I’d be more inclined to agree.

EDIT: incorrect pronoun
Software is made and supported by software developers and the developers want a recurring pay. Basically they want their employers to subscribe to their services. No wonder the employers transfer the subscription model up the value chain.

While there are cases of obvious abuse of the subscription model, in general, the subscription model for complex software is here to stay. Simple, one-off applications that don't require support or further development may not need subscriptions though.
Funny given that Starlink itself has potential to be one giant synthetic aperture radar installation.

From Casey Handmer’s excellent post (https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2021/11/17/science-upside...):

“Starlink SAR is great for Earth observation, but the same principle can be applied looking outwards. Starlink is a network of thousands of software defined radios with highly precise PNT information and high speed data connections. It is practically begging to be integrated into a world-sized radio telescope. With 13000 km of baseline (trivially extendable with a handful of GTO Starlink launches) and the ability to point in any desired direction simultaneously, Starlink could capture practically holographic levels of detail about the local radio environment. Literally orders of magnitude better resolution than ground-based antennas like the Very Large Array. Cheaper than repairing Arecibo and independent of Earth’s rotation. Potentially capable of resolving exoplanets.”
Ask HN: HN's tech stack?
Out of curiosity, how is hacker news built? What is the tech stack powering it?
For now.

Planet have shown that for earth observation constellations are not only possible but cost affective.

Now imagin if SpaceX stuck a camera/telescope facing outwards on even 10% of their constellation. With modern ML image proccing pipelines I could see that providing us with very valuable additional astroid detection.

I really hope to see SpaceX “renting” space on some of their constellation for uses such at this.
Can I ask how you find the fastest links between countries and the servers for them? (Background: during my vacation last month I was playing an MMO from the APAC region but with servers in Germany, and it was crazy high latency. It made the experience quite bad. I wanted to rent my own servers and build a faster link for myself.)
Well, I know we all have our kinks and perversions, but it's a bit unfair to push them onto unsuspecting joe
I happen to agree, but I feel the need to explain why “rape” is used this way.

The original meaning of the word was “to take by force”. Using it to exclusively describe sexual assault is a more modern thing.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/rape

This kind of double meaning in English is very common. The word murder can also be used as “to perform badly”.

A way to look at it is English often has two forms of words like this. There is murder (general) and there is Murder (specific).

As someone who is bipolar, the “misuse” of labels around mental health is aggravating. The misuse of “rape” is the same.

The general usage of words dilutes the impact of the specific use. I’d love to bring back capital letters to English nouns. That way we could use Murder and murder to clarify what which meaning is used.
maybe, but you better pay what it costs. For snows of 15cm or so you can plow whenever, but anytime there is around 50cm you need to keep everything plowed during the storm no matter how much equipment and manpower it takes, otherwise you fall far enough behind you can't plow and need equipment for mining to clear the snow, at great expense. If even once in 10 years a snowfall expected to be 10cm turns into 60cm you will more than make up all the costs of just treating every snow fall as 60cm expected.
That's great but sometimes it's nice to be able to see the stars unobstructed on a cloudless night.
> as they include their own OS

That is not required.
> I have an odd feeling many people like in person work so they can socialize. We have bars and concerts for that.

The splitting of society like this is awful for humans, we really aren't built for it. There are ways of addressing this and still keeping remote work, but removing socialisation for 8 hours a day is not it.
Recent discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29973626 (12 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29995026 (11 comments)
Same. I don't program in N++, but use it to open random files outside the project every day.
Advertisers want the attention of people with disposable income. If someone's paying for something as superfluous as a streaming service, then they must have more than enough money to spend on whatever they want to sell.

The more you pay in general, the more they want you to pay them specifically.
IIRC, Yemen was offline in 2019 right before the pandemic. I hadn't heard any news from Yemen since then, so I had thought the situation there was still abysmal, and that there was probably little, if any, internet.
A night with the freegans
>Analysis of blood plasma levels in healthy patients taking 1500 mg daily of FDA-approved CBD solution (Epidiolex) showed a maximal concentration (Cmax) at 7 days for CBD and 7-OH-CBD of 1.7 μM and 0.56 μM

This is at the bottom of the suspected effective range of concentration, and that's one hell of a lot of CBD to ingest

Very interesting study though, I hope more follow up with replicates and human studies
I think the most egregious example I have seen recently was that company charging $30/month to give you a cloud hosted Chrome instance that you view with a stream ala remote desktop... through an electron app[0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26957215
The UK Has a Voyeuristic New Propaganda Campaign Against Encryption
Is there progress on general structured/relational/graphed data modalities?

In practice, you spend time and expertise to reform the data into previously-known-to-work form.

FWIW, our datasets are huge, with dense data/noise ratio.
"So far, ZTF science operations have not yet been severely affected by satellite streaks, despite the increase in their number observed during the analyzed period"

So it requires processing for mitigation, but isn't as dire as the title suggests.
Crazy, but who thinks AI is not moving forward? I don't think anyone on HN.
PSPad is very similar in both regards! If you are looking for a lightweight editor on Windows, give both a try. Though I found that PSPad has become a bit more buggy in more recent versions since 64-bit support was introduced (which, I think, has lead to several components being exchanged or upgraded, which caused these bugs). I ought to give Notepad++ a try again.
Humans had no NEO monitoring for about 500k years, we'll do ok for a few years of diminished capacity
A slow UI is bad UX. UX should have pushed back in releasing a slow UI until the developer fixed it.
Does this justify harassing users over and over again?

I know many people are annoyed by the dialogues that popup these days where they ask your something they want ("do you allow xyz?") and the only two choices you have is "yes" and "not now" and they proceed to ask you again and again.

Same with with cookie dialogues. The vast majority of cookie dialogues employ dark patterns that make you give up the maximum amount of privacy if you click the most visually enticing option.
WASM is like K8S in that 90% of projects don't need it.
See it like this. A = Pedestrians, B = Cars. A has no protection and no engine help to get forward. They have to go in deep snow that resists every step. Try walking on those 30 cm high gymnastics carpets that feathers the fall. It's like that. They won't stay on the unplowed bike roads. Bicycles can't travel in 10 cm snow. They will be on whatever surface have been cleared already. If that is the highway, that's where they will be.

Category B on the other hand have a clear advantage. They have the engine and the antispin which makes them able to go through 15-30 cm snow without much problem as long as there aren't too many snow drifts, wet snow or packed areas. They are not allowed on the bicycle roads anyway and would not fit there.

Besides, the main roads are taken care of a completely different entity so they already have their roads plowed anyway. They just have to get the first few hundred meters out on the main road and they are fine. Bonus if you have a buss road close by because they are priority -1, if anything is plowed, you can be certain it's the buss roads.

Yes, I bicycle all year round but I also drive a car. Trust me, it's fair to do the walkways first, my car can handle the snow just fine most of the time. If not I'm not supposed to be out anyway. :-)
It is fast, lightweight, uses a native Win32 GUI and by the time i have released the mouse button to launch it via right click in a file or the F4 key in Total Commander (which launches it to edit a text file) the UI is already open.

Also it has a neat feature where when you exit and open it again it "remembers" changes you made to files if you don't save them and new files you created and didn't save (basically saves modified/unsaved files to some temp place i guess) which i find useful to take quick notes.
I don’t see it as nerd shaming. It seems to be more poking fun at the skills people list on their résumés.
According to body cam footage, marijuana is also very easy for police to plant on civilians.
Endocannabinoids have been known for a while, I'm not sure what you're attempting to communicate with your comment. Could you please explain?
Youtube video from independant not-for-profit CRIIRAD in december which alerted the french regulators about potential design issue following the EPR Taishin incident:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1bn5ZKQuM0

Nuclear incident at the EPR at Taishan (China)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_for_Independent_Res...
Nvidia – GauGAN2 Web
Starlink doesn't stop you from doing that, the satellites are only visible when they are in direct sunlight (dusk and dawn).
Does it? Smoke is still smoke
>Hobbes gets a bad rap because it sounds pretty horrible sitting in the peace and comfort of the 21st century. But we have to remember that the general attitude of "I better kill him before he kills me" (a kind of fear) has been the dominant cause of violence for most of human history.

Only naive Europeans, mostly western and the Anglophone countries, still believe this.
The rest of the world laugh at us and our political leaders who don't have a backbone. Just look at the situation in the Ukrainian border.

And your notion that the use of Violence is related to fear and not power speaks volumes.

A quote from someone who understands this really well:

“To the meaningless French idealisms: Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, we propose the three German realities: Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery.”

— Prince Bernhard von Bülow
Companies are creating costs for the sake of creating costs.

Remember any recent big UI redesign in an app you use? Were you unhappy with the previous UI? Is the new design a big improvement compared to the previous?

Most likely not. But many hours have been spent on meetings, designs and implementation to ship a new UI to all end users.

I think if you have a lot of employees you need to find work for them. Growth, new features and redesigns are good for everyones career. No one except for already happy customers benefit from keeping the status quo.
But pretty much everyone involved in the company and _maybe_ most customers will be happy when the software changes.

No one wants to declare software as 'done' or at the very least 'feature complete'.
But the 'take by force' meaning does not make sense, as nothing is being taken from anyone. While its a literary crime, Black Sparrow Press is not doing something they don't have the right to do.
In the US (or at least in the Northeast) it's the responsibility of the people who live in those buildings or who own the commercial buildings to clean the sidewalks of snow.

This is like a time honored tradition of everyone pitching in to clear the snow so we can all get on with our lives. This is for commercial zoned areas as well as residential.

Further, neighborhood streets are often cleared by private contractors hired by the city, while the larger plows do the big roads. Apparently you can make 300 dollars an hour if you've got a truck and plow attachment when it snows, but you need to be ready to jump into action.
Why not put sensors on them that can used to help detect asteroids. I’m guessing if the signals were combined in an array and integrated you could gain quite a high resolution image.
Assuming there is a large demand for more user-friendly pricing models, shouldn't companies start popping up that offer similar services with a better pricing model. As mentioned here, JetBrains has a model that more or less supports both.
There's latency in every part of the VSCode experience, not just on startup. And the startup delay is bad enough that it needs a harsher word than "latency". I made the mistake of associating VSCode with *.txt files and had to quickly switch it to something else, as I was otherwise waiting each time I tried to glance at a text file. Programs like Notepad++ and Sublime Text come up instantly.
Well the Houthi movement's official slogan is "God is Greatest, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam". Can't be a coincident?
When I'm on GNU/Linux, my N++ equivalent is Geany: https://www.geany.org/

It's a bit different in some ways, but works well enough.

I haven't tried it, but it looks like there's an (unmaintained) FTP plugin for Geany: https://github.com/caiguanhao/gFTP
> How can it be fairer?

Because the two groups are not necessarily of exactly the same size?
Power users are using the keyboard and probably hide the ribbons.
The Replication Crisis has taught me that "a scientific study shows X" only gently hints that X might be true.
Yeah. Someone else in the thread said they were more like computational puzzles, which I kind of agree with - they're a lot of just logic - but some background knowledge of etymology is also helpful. For the first puzzle, if you didn't know Brazil might be translated as something like "brazilia", then you would have struggled.
Microsoft engineers rewrote the notepad.exe app. You can load a 10GB text file. Something you can’t do in almost any other text editor.
AFAIK you don't really get native performance, although it's hard to find good data on this (https://nickb.dev/blog/wasm-and-native-node-module-performan... was one I could find on the fly).
WASM is still virtual machine based and not compiled to a native executable so this is to be expected I guess, it's supposed to be faster than JS and it achieves that goal. Maybe it can be an alternative to Unity, which would be good enough for a lot of games, but I don't know how that compares.
I don’t understand how WebAssembly compares with Kubernetes. It seems like WebAssembly is a nice replacement for JVM / CLR but it does not provide standards for service orchestration.
Talk is cheap. If you have a better idea, build it.
It's gone too far obviously. Software like Photoshop should be available to buy, if you don't want the latest features you don't pay for this year's update.
I'm really excited to see this post! I've actually tried doing something similar -- I want to use/create a smartcard reader on the web that works with gpg.

The goal was to port pcsclite or scdaemon to use webusb instead of libusb.

It's been a while; I forget exactly where (very early) I left off/felt defeated. I definitely didn't consider making an additional backend for libusb!

Very cool -- I can't wait to see part 2 ;).
It's just rock solid, super responsive and takes no memory.

Sometimes all you need is an editor for editing text. No sidebars, consoles, widgets, tree views or anything. Notepad++ serves that purpose perfectly.

Sure, you can configure VS Code to behave like that. But then you have to undo all that again when you want to actually use it as an IDE. And what for?
Your subjective experience as a caffeine addict is not really applicable. Caffeine definitely impairs me. I can't sleep, can't sit still, can't poop, can't focus on anything. Weed, on the other hand, keeps my thoughts focused and doesn't interfere with sleeping or bowel movements. See? Our personal experience is irrelevant to the discussion.
Probably numerous sources, but for what it's worth my own recollection on this subject is based on this article:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/pregnancy-drinking...
Windows 3.x by default had colourful (yellow) borders and white backgrounds (except maybe the "main container" window in MDI apps; was that perhaps gray? Or teal?). The grey came with W95. Both were fully user-configurable via a quite user-friendly dialogue box, as were NT 3.x, NT4, and W2K.

Can't recall whether XP, Vista, and 7 also allowed you to change colours directly -- if it was only the "Fisher-Price", "Glass", and, uh, "Glass 2?" that were locked-in in the standard UI setting -- or if you needed to switch to "Windows Classic", the 95--W2K-style UI, to change even the colours. Can't recall, because I of course switched to Classic first thing I did on any of those.

That all went away with Windows 8, of course, and AFAIK didn't come back on 10 either. Actually, they'd started to sabotage it a little earlier: About halfway into the lifecycle of W7, you couldn't change the window border width in the dialogue any more; you needed to hack that value in the Registry (and re-hack it after any change via the dialogue box). And towards the very end, even that hack didn't do anything any more.
> better monitoring system

There's the Vera C. Rubin observatory:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_C._Rubin_Observatory
https://www.lsst.org/

> NASA has been tasked by the US Congress with detecting and cataloging 90% of the NEO population of size 140 meters or greater.[68] LSST, by itself, is estimated to detect 62% of such objects,[69] and according to the National Academy of Sciences, extending its survey from ten years to twelve would be the most cost-effective way of finishing the task.[70]

https://www.universetoday.com/153620/nasas-new-asteroid-impa...

> The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will be a powerful tool for detecting NEAs. It’ll image each area of the sky about 1000 times in its ten-year survey. And it’ll do so with a powerful 3,200-megapixel camera. The Rubin will image the entire visible sky every two nights, and Asteroids will have nowhere to hide.

And there's NEO Surveyor which is a satelite which does exactly that as well from orbit to get full coverage.

https://www.universetoday.com/151539/nasa-has-approved-a-spa...

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-approves-asteroid-hunting-...
IMHO its the time, that is more important. I also had big plans to build up a potential unicorn (LOL!). We're two. The other one did the programming investing a lot of his health & time. The essence, as we both are in need to earn the monthly money for paying the living - there is not enough time to concentrate on the project and thus, it get slowed down and may be end at some point.

There is one saying "never start something up if you dont have the time to be able to work up to 100% on your baby" (I admitt, I just invented it)

so, the time is much more important from my point of view. I hope to see some arguments against my theory :)
The other big one that comes to mind is Laravel (PHP), heard good things. Node doesn't really offer the whole batteries included experience to this day, at least not as consistent as good as Rails does. I'm sticking with Rails.
I don't have any experience with telescopes or satellites but I can imagine that the cost of running a satellite in space is not just the cost of launching it. Everything after that is necessarily more complex and expensive: repairs, corrections of orbit/trajectory, availability windows if it's not geostationary, monitoring, protecting from debris, limited bandwidth, etc.
If you think some product has too high price, then that's a market opportunity. Grab it or let's talk about it more!
wow, that is cool!
The noun "boxen" is only used as a joke ("Unix boxen"), which is precisely why I thought it would make a cromulent example.

And you're of course correct that "fishes" exists as a plural form too.
VSCode is heavy and slow. Not so much by IDE standards, but as a text editor, it is awful. It is what keeps me on Sublime Text.

On a decent computer, VSCode is completely usable, but it is slow enough to be felt, especially when compared to a more lightweight editor. On the old, underpowered and bloated corporate laptop I have to use from time to time, VSCode is slow enough to impact productivity. On the same computer, Notepad++ is fine.
It works great but you won't escape the merriad of system folders in Documents or Pictures that way. Apps, games and the OS itself flooding these folders is the main problem why file management on Windows sucks.
Sure, but this approach generalizes quite well. Especially in ML you have have a lot of matrices, many of them of known size (e.g. convolution kernels).

Also, while it looks like the matrix sizes have to be known at compile time, this is not the case. You are still free to use the same matrix types with dynamic sizes (or even mix them, useful for said convolutions).

In Haskell there that is achieved by using a "KnownNat", basically you elevate an integer from the value into the type level during run-time.
Hetzner announcement: Price changes for servers ordered via the Server Auction
"Unfortunately, energy prices in Germany have been increasing dramatically, and electricity plays a big role in the operating costs for servers. We have always calculated the prices for the Server Auction to be as low as possible. The current prices for many Server Auction servers do not cover the increasing operating costs."

In my case, server price is going from €26 to €35, a 35% increase(!!!). Still cheap for what I'm getting but quite a price hike, new pricing starts in March in my case.

Received via email, no article on their website yet.
I'd say that article compares WebAssembly to Docker/moby/other container runtimes, not k8s.
Agreed! And it's mostly just one dev! https://github.com/donho
In a conflict between equivalent militaries, the idea of establishing air superiority doesn't exist - otherwise you've already won.