skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> But when was the last time that came in handy?

Every time I need to add or subtract two measurements.

Quick:

What is 2' 3 5/8" plus or minus 1' 2 19/32"?

or

What is 701.7 mm plus or minus 370.7 mm?

Seriously I work with both everyday, and while I grew up with inches & feet and I still intuitively know how deep two feet of snow is better than 61 cm of snow, I'm really starting to hate the US measurements, and use metric whenever I can.

Also, whenever we deal with things from the rest of the world, it becomes a mashup of US and metric measurements.

The US almost converted to metric in the 1970s, but Nixon squashed it, basically on the complaints of what are surely the ancestors of modern US right wing know-nothings who didn't like "foreign" stuff.

Looking at it historically, the fractions made a lot of sense when things were more coarse, and the ability to split things into even sections, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4... was more common.

OTOH, Metric was designed for doing calculations - we already use the decimal system for all other math, so we should design a measuring system to use the same calculation system. It really does work better.
About 10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_States

About 2/3rds of new capacity being added in 2022 is renewable: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=50818
I know this comment is not very helpful, but the lack of a module-system and the lack of threading are unfortunately the biggest issues that JavaScript had from the start.
Years ago now, I was building baby monitoring tools, and putting BLE implemnentations into place on ESP8266s might have been worse than smoking cigarettes. I swear, my life was shortened, but I love the idea of device-to-device mesh systems. These 802.11ax systems are basically intelligent wireless backhaul systems, the devices that actually connect to the backbone could be boring, but it'd be so cool if devices helped to expand the mesh...
In your scenario, is the theoretical Google GmbH a subsidiary of a US corporation?
I’m not sure exactly what you’re asking, but it’s just basically writing a C header file as an API, but the implementation is in a source file that is in C++.
To some extent the main limitation for a truly federated, decentralized and open network like this is that hosting capacity is, for purely practical reasons, not democratized to the extent that internet access is.

Somehow this used to be better, it looks like ISPs used to (and in some cases still do) provide each customer with some way of hosting files and even publishing static webpages. But while this may have been (barely) enough for the early web it's simply not flexible enough to support the current social networks.
I assume I am not alone in thinking that Duck Duck Go would be far more popular if they had not selected such a dumb name.

Great work, but they desperately need to rebrand.
Ask HN: Anybody else exhausted by code discussion?
I don't mean discussing the logic of algos or the business logic, but the code cleanliness, the tech debt, the endless refactorings, etc is really getting to me.

I'm fast approaching a place where I'm going to implode if I have another argument around whether service A talks to service B and it should instead be talking to service C because of magical boundaries that we've setup. I'm so tired of dependency arguments and what should be exposed and what shouldn't. Even more tiring: arguments about process and story points/estimation and what should be the ideal workflow and people whose entire jobs it is to facilitate these arguments further.

I just want to build cool stuff.

Every company is the same, with the same problems and the same arguments made by the same personalities. You'd think all of the accumulated human hours we've spent arguing about the perfection of code over the decades of computing we'd have arrived at something decent by now, but spaghetti is spaghetti and it's everywhere. Is there a world where we just embrace it all and save our breaths? Can we build something new that will ultimately remove these discussions? I want to go to a place where people are passionately arguing about the direction of the product and what to build next, not mindless code structure arguments that will happen all over again in a month when someone leaves and someone new joins and shoves a new dependency into the mix.

Before everyone starts furiously typing that thinking about clean code for the future is critical for a good engineer, I'm well aware. I'm just so exhausted by it all. I don't know how to phrase it properly about the dichotomy of "I understand, but...ffs" that I'm feeling
I’m working on making robots to collect bottles and redeem the California refund value. Basically so you could bring your bottles to a big mechanical sorter, dump your bottles in, and get maybe like 2c per bottle paid to you, then 3c pays for the cost of transport. Currently based out of Mountain View. My background is in machine learning and I’m muddling through the electronics and mechanics, would definitely like to have help with that stuff or really just find other people interested in this intersection. If interested send me an email at contact@treasurerobotics.com
Woah, I had no idea you posted on the Orange Site.

I can also highly recommend tjic's Escape the City. Even if you don't actually homestead, the recipes and tips on workshop/garage organization are fantastic.

And if you like Heinlein mixed with Vinge, Powers of the Earth is also quite good.
No, I haven't. Thanks for the tip.

(I've been trying to use as few Google services as possible, but it seems very hard on Android.)
Coal is still the primary source of energy for Germany.

https://jancovici.com/en/energy-transition/long-series/germa...
Yes, references have nice constraints that makes them harder to misuse than pointers. The gap however is smaller than it first look: dangling references are still a thing, and one does not simply make pointer arithmetic by accident. Don't get me wrong, I do like references enough that my C++ code is littered with them. I'm just saying they don't add that much to the table. They're nice, but I never really miss them when I write C.

Yes, writing your own virtual table in C is mighty cumbersome. On the other hand, I need those about once every 3 years, even in C++.
Here are some things I have built in the past that I would be open to collaborate on:

ScreenBud.com: Chrome extension to taking and annotating screenshots.

- Example (best viewed on desktop) https://screenbud.com/s/8c0HkzGxZDv

- Basic stats: Tens of thousands of uniques per month.

- Internals: Rust on backend, TypeScript+Svelte on frontend

- Potential for colab

- Open sourcing some Rust libraries (e.g. auth)

- New features (video support, payment subscriptions)

WordBueno.com: dictionary without clutter.

- Example: https://wordbueno.com/word/hello

- Basic stats: Tens of thousands of uniques per month.

- Internals: Rust on backend, TypeScript+Svelte on frontend

- Potential for colab:

- Better data

- Nicer frontend
Will make no difference for what really matters...

"BND helped NSA to spy on Austria, EU partners: report"
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/world/bnd-helped-nsa-to-spy-on-aust...

"Alleged NSA post in Austria becomes state affair"
https://apnews.com/a3537677459e41b9ba4d21d8208dd28a

"UK, Dutch spy agencies curb intel flow to Austria over Russia ties: MP"
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-austria-security-idUSKCN1...

"Vienna Is the New Havana Syndrome Hot Spot"
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/vienna-is-the-new-h...
Alice, the first all-electric passenger airplane, prepares to fly
You can get better data points from levels.fyi and teamblind
You only need 3 hours worth of storage. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26355-z

Take a look at the graphs at the back. It shows a 99.99% reliable grid made up of an optimal mix of solar & wind, 3x over-provisioned along with 3 hours of storage and a continental grid.
And GCP.
You are implying that you have an objection, so what is it?
I totally hear you - personally, I don't have the time to organize online play and I just ignore that aspect of these games. I just play the single player campaign and don't worry about farming the best equipment.
Yes, but my point is that it's still just as deadly for a human. It's like asking whether you want to be in a plane crash going 300mph or 600mph - it doesn't really matter. The #1 improvement in home safety when it comes to the electrical system is the socket design to prevent foreign objects entering(like the British plug design for instance), and second one is a working RCB fuse to kill the power before you even feel a tingle. 110V or 220V doesn't really matter.
Hm yeah, that last catchall slipped by my read. Whatever that's meant to refer to, it should have been enumerated specifically. It sounds like a catchall added to appease the "moderate" supporters of freedom of expression.
Where I'm tempted to compare C++ and copyleft…
Shortage and Cost are 2 sides of the same coin.
In a dynamic capitalist economy you will only have Cost issues.
In a mixed or socialistic economy you will have shortages due to rationing.

> "The likely long term effect will be an acceleration of replacing gas with other things. That was already happening anyway. Higher prices will make it happen faster."

This is a bit of "when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again" thinking.
I reject the premise
Humans have a tendency to view the very first thing they experience as "normal". This is a warped perception. I mean 120 years ago there had never been human-powered flight. Look where we are now. Some embrace changes. Others try and resist it. Most just accept it.

Beyond personal experience, this colours collective consciousness. The earliest human writing that we still have record of is only 5000-6000 years old. There is archaeological evidence os civilization going back 10,000-15,000 years. We've found settlements at the bottom of the English Channel from ~8,000 years ago [1]. This should tell you something: we've seen massive sea level rises in recent Earth history.

The last 10,000 years have been relatively stable, abnormally so. There are a host of events that affect life on earth. Just to name a few: solar flares, meteor/asteroid impacts, supervolcanoes, earthquakes, magnetic pole flipping, rapid climate change (cooling and warming), sea levels rising and falling, Milankovitch cycles (ie eccentricity, axial tilt and precession) driving long-term climate, cosmic events (eg gamma ray bursts) and so on.

Some of these things are relatively common too in the sense that they've occurred multiple times in the short span of civilization. Beyond these superflare events there are others that cause massive death and destruction (eg [1]).

I guess my point is the best we can do is put off the next such event temporarily. There will be another Ice Age, for example. There will be future mass extinctions. Yes, we're wreaking havoc on the planet but anything we're doing now still just feels like tinkering on the smallest scales.

Ultimately we're just going to have to learn to adapt.

[1]: https://www.livescience.com/1759-stone-age-settlement-englis...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_winter_of_536
Usually you setup a transpiler to target both. For example, my packages are bundled with rollup towards both cjs & esm:

https://github.com/arcanis/clipanion/blob/master/rollup.conf...
I think the people blaming fear and brainwashing for the demise of nuclear power are of the opinion that the prices are the result of the fear and the brainwashing.
This looks really good! Signed up for waitlist :)
Ancient Lifehacks
You are talking about something different, I think. Of course, if you need Objective-C features, you don’t get those from C. But if you simply need C features, you don’t need Objective-C just for that. In the context of a C api exposed over C++, objective C is not necessary.
An open source bicycle computer.

The goal: a privacy-preserving, standalone fitness assistant on which you can load custom apps.

I always wanted a bicycle computer that I could program, which would help me not gethurt while training, and which would remember where I like to cycle. The modern ecosystem is full of devices, but I haven't seen a programmable one, much less one that can also survive for weeks on battery and wouldn't sell my data.

The moment has finally come, and I found a decent base!

I bought a Bangle.js 2 smart watch and a couple sensors, and have just started adapting it for this purpose. I'll need help getting the Bluetooth stack running, as well as creating an application to download and compare GPS trails.

The project is not formally announced yet, but feel free to contact me over email or Matrix (see profile).

Edit: obligatory mention of Rust as the preferred language ;)
Same. I'm beyond excited. I thought we would never get them since Apple wants their App Store cut. Today is a good day
Progressive Extremism: How to Be a Better You
I coached kindergarten soccer together with a woman and found that kids were scared of my beard so I shaved my beard. After that I did that I felt like I fit in just fine.

(Personally I can't stand soccer on a large field, it's an exercise in unaccountability, be it youth soccer or pro soccer but I find small field soccer really exciting)

I think the early childhood education is critical, more so than the most of the 'bias' situations that people are concerned about because: (1) a lot of boys get the message that education is a girl thing and tune out, and (2) it feeds into the "fear of males" which is toxic to relationships and may lead to women feeling more welcome in more workplaces.

Generally it will have an impact on diversity and bias issues 20 years down the road. Rather than endless handwringing and ineffective actions 20 years from now it will add to the right candidates being available for more jobs and getting hired.
> spread radioactive particles over most of Europe and Russia making them uninhabitable

JFC, this is the perfect capture of the level of debate surrounding nuclear

If it was true, don't you think every single country in the world would obtain such a world-destroying weapon?

If it was true, then a single nuclear reactor would be able to power the whole world for eternity
It’s about 150 eur/month in some places in Europe (all inclusive)

https://www.reddit.com/r/breakingmom/comments/qtk3d8/how_we_...

So the difference is conservatively 2000 extra per month per child.

The point is this scales linearly so two kids is 4000, three is 6000.

The amount of child expenses in Europe goes up hundreds per month. In USA it goes up by thousands a month. That’s an order of magnitude difference.

More kids, the better Europe becomes compared to USA.
Elon Musk offered a Florida teen $5k delete Twitter account tracking his jet
If you read the paper, you'd know it was lead by one of their researchers.
WOW! That's amazing! I just learned about bookmarklets, and made one for this script. It requires us to remove the comments. Else it works like a charm! I love it. Many thanks! :D
Please don't cite nations with 33K population as evidence of global public health efficacy. Especially if 50% of the people in country are from outside the country on a daily basis.
Focus instead on large nations.

I'm not sure what the detailed semantics of "is pro-vax but anti-mandate an anti-vax" position. There's a distinct difference from "anybody should be able to get the vax to protect themselves" and "we should impose mandates because vaccines are most effective when 95+% of the population takes them." If the latter were an extremely strong scientific position (IE, if there was a guarantee of herd immunity at 95% rate) then I think it would be a slam dunk.

I believe the mandates would be done when their effectivity is over. It's not like the people who want to impose these things are doing it because they enjoy exerting power over people. Anyway, there weren't any real large scale mandates forcing people to get vaccinated, so it's kind of moot?
Swedish guy here, can confirm that it was often called "Blåtand" in various circumstances in Sweden at the time (20ish years ago). I have worked with Ericsson-employees who also called it "Blåtand" but nowadays it is less common and "Bluetooth" has taken over as the way to refer to it here.
This is a great project. Orbi systems are so expensive. Are you basing your work on any open source mesh projects? Do you have a project site or GitHub where people can follow along?
The typical recruiting-house recruiter has a script that was given to them by someone else, has no particular job in mind for you, and does not know the difference between Java and JavaScript. They are, in short, one small step above spammers. Unless you are currently thinking about changing jobs, you should definitely ignore them.

None of that applies to an in-house recruiter. Someone who works in HR for the hiring company, directly, may have years of experience, good training, and have a good idea of what the hiring manager is looking for. You shouldn't ignore them, although if you're entirely happy you should have a short message prepared -- "Thanks for thinking of me. I'm happy with my current position, but you never know what the future holds. Feel free to check in with me again in six months or so."

TL;DR: reputation counts.
Have you looked at Workflowy (https://workflowy.com/)? Allows you to share a subtree of your overall knowledge universe, works on all platforms, etc.
Maybe it's a mobile issue? I've never adjusted zoom in my phone.
kW*h is the unit that absolutely kills me. Especially because people will just say "kW". And before long they're talking about "kW*h per day"... Kills me. "What do you people have against James Prescott Joule?!"
Ask HN: What Are You Up To? (Feb 2022)
What are you working on? Any new ideas you're thinking about?
I'm working on https://ubikom.cc, end-to-end encrypted email service based on the concept of self-sovereign identity. Basically, you keep the encryption key, and all your messages are encrypted, on the wire or at rest. The core platform is open-source, the code is available here: https://github.com/regnull/ubikom

Billions of users use GMail (or similar services). These companies are making money by selling ads, and their "free" email service is just another way to improve ad targeting. Furthermore, your account can be disabled at any time and for any reason. Sure, you can switch to Protonmail, Tutanota, etc. because they are "good" companies. But why do you have to trust to any of them? Keep your encryption key, and have communication providers move around encrypted bytes on your behalf. Store your identity on a blockchain (maybe), so that no one can take it away.

That's the idea. If you'd like to work on something like this, get in touch. lgx (at) ubikom.cc
Have SPACs rebranded as Blank Check Companies?
How will these vaccines continue to fare in 2 years? Don't know? Sounds like we are testing some sort of hypothesis with observation.
That's Silicon Valley meets a regulatory environment where the consequences for non-compliance translate into "cost of doing business".
> And the people who made the brittle architectural decisions

Bitrot is unavoidable, unless code is rewritten from scratch. Complexity rises proportionally to the number of links, which is `n(n - 1) / 2`, where n is a number of nodes, or `n²/2` for large n.

It takes significant effort and lots of experience to beat n², to keep code simple. The easiest way to reduce complexity is just to rewrite code from scratch. The harder way is to drop some old nodes (concepts, files, database columns, cases, fields, steps, etc.) when introducing new ones, which may shock somebody who has no formal training in software engineering.
This is essentially doxxing.
Are you American ? In Europe, sugar is much more common than corn syrup. Germany and France are massive sugar beets producers.

In any case, you might be right in this instance.
Picture and summary for the curious

https://www.eviation.co/
Tendrils of intergalactic mind control drugs! Wake up space-shaliens!
Could WASI grow into this role?
The alternative is to switch to renewable energy and storage faster
Really happy to see fetch() merged into core! Looking at the PR, what are those WASM blobs in Undici and how is it that Node.js accepts a random very large compiled blob instead of asking for the source file + compilation step? https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/6ec225392675c92b102d3c...
Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians
The Farenheit temperature scale makes a little bit more sense to me then the Celsius one. It covers the temperatures we care about in more or less temperate climate, with 0°F being the lowest temperatures one will witness (-32C) and 100°F the highest (38°C), the latter being also a body temperature above which one has to worry about.

This said as a French and ex-physicist.
Groundbreaking in a cybersecurity context when you're writing regexes to match bad things in a fat network pipe.
There's no point in me continuing this discussion with a closed mind.

No offense intended.
Oh I meant it as - he's slightly-wrong-by-omission. NYT are (somewhat weirdly) the OG online word game hustlers.
If usage is down than that's a chance to catch up on all the maintenance they aren't doing.
This. It works. And it saves time for both sides ( and remember that recruiters have no motive not to disclose it -- the more you get the better it is for them ).
Or you can make a bookmarklets like I just learned from one comment here.

Follow this process to make that bookmarklet:

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-are-bookmarklets/

and paste the code:

javascript: (() => {

function refreshData()

{
x = 3;

try {

if (document.querySelector('.cards-replacements_labels-itemRemove') !== null) {
var newclass = document.querySelector('.cards-replacements_labels-itemRemove');

newclass.click();
}
else {
var newclass = document.getElementsByClassName("cards-replacements_labels-itemInsert");
newclass = newclass[0];
newclass.click();
}
} catch (error) {
if ( document.getElementsByClassName("wrapper_fipkee2") !== null) {

var cli = document.getElementsByClassName("wrapper_fipkee2");
var vli = cli[0];
vli.click();
}

}

setTimeout(refreshData, x*1000);

}

refreshData();

})();

I hope this helps! :)
I assume you're being sarcastic. Hydrogen can escape through solid metal, making it brittle in the process. It's cheap to produce from natural gas, but that's not green hydrogen. Green hydrogen is a lot more expensive. It's also very voluminous unless liquified which requires a ton of energy and refrigeration to maintain.
Only if your anxiety is reasonable in the first place and your emotional regulation is normal.

I've been driving more than 20 years and almost none of the anxiety I experience because of it ever went away. If I know the roads already it's a little better, but every single day I have to power through the anxiety to get to where I need to be going. It doesn't get better.

Hotels give me anxiety even though I actually lived in a hotel for six months.

My husband developed anxiety later in life doing things he has done for years.

What you're talking about is just normal human emotions, when people refer to "performance anxiety" they are usually referring to an anxiety disorder. Crippling anxiety that doesn't spontaneously resolve.
> Before the end of this year, TEDx events will be held in Barcelona, Tehran, Kabul, Hanoi, Wuhan, Anchorage, Jakarta, Algiers, Lagos, and Tomsk, the oldest university town in Siberia.

The Kabul one surprised me, but it is listed on their website:

https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/43400

> TEDxKabulUniversity

> Theme: Breaking Barriers

> February 3, 2022 8:30am - 12:00pm +0430 (UTC +4.5hrs)

> Kabul, Kābul, Afghanistan

> This event is open to the public.

> Tickets are available.

I wonder if it's still a real thing.
Actually, no. hCaptcha has always been very privacy-focused, so in this case there are technical safeguards available: enterprise customers can pre-blind all data on their end, meaning hCaptcha gets no PII at all.

(disclosure: work there)