skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
bioRxiv converts PDFs to full-text already. They're right there on the bioRxiv web site—just click the "Full text" tab. For example, our most recent bioRxiv preprint:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.07.475366v1....

If you want to do URL munging instead of using the UI, just add `.full` to the end of the URL ;)

This doesn't require that the manuscript be submitted in any particular format either. There are humans involved in making sure the full text formatting from PDF is good.
One nuke plant a week for 50 years sounds like a lot, but they aren't really that complex, and 52 a year isn't really that many construction projects worldwide. Your talking 2600 plants.

If every mid sized+ city in the world started building one today, and it took 5 years to construct, and they started a new one every other year (so they were being built in parallel). The problem would be solved within a decade.

A year or so ago, I looked at the cost of South Texas Project in Texas, and how much power it generates and figured out that for roughly a single year's state budget one could build 10x those plants, which would remove all natural gas, and coal electric production in the state. Do it a second time, and there would be enough to actually move a significant part of the cars to electric too.
Democrats Decried Dark Money in Politics, but Used It to Defeat Trump
The sky is blue and so is the ocean
Sure - and apparently we're all happy to claim that "today is the worst - yesteryear was fantastic!"

And then ignore all the stinking piles of garbage that actually made up the past.

This is nostalgia in action. Those rose-tinted goggles have slipped down over your eyes. You remember "Windows 2000 was great", you don't remember "Windows ME was so bad it was literally (not metaphorically literally - literally literally) unusable, and Microsoft STILL SHIPPED IT!".
I've been approaching it from the other end. The web hasn't gotten boring, but the signal to noise ratio has gotten really bad. The big problem for both creative websites and their long tail audience is discoverability.

There still seems to be a lot of interesting creative content out there, but it doesn't play by google and social media's rules, so what you find is listicles, blogspam, click funnels, various forms of low effort crap made in bad faith.

Here are just a few links to websites I've found that I thought were interesting (I'm not affiliated with any of them). Tell me, when was the last time you saw that type of stuff on google, facebook, or reddit, or twitter, or HN?

http://sod.jodi.org/index.html

https://dreamcult.xyz/

https://www.floppyswop.co.uk/

http://godxiliary.com/

https://dannarchy.com/

https://www.toiletpapermagazine.org/

I think it should be possible to build something genuinely useful in this space. I'm not exactly sure how or what, so I'm still experimenting with various ways of bringing audiences to websites off the beaten path, but it feels like I'm closing in on something.

I've been approaching this in a sort of independent R&D fashion, just trying things and seeing what sticks. If anyone is into this general space, maybe shoot me an email. Not really sure what's a good format for collaboration though.
Cool sounding project, are you thinking of this as a hardware project or something that would run through a browser or as a stand alone app?

Also what kind of art do you make? Im an artist working as a dev as well. I know we're out there but we're a bit rarer than I was expecting.
The roots in c being a problem to me doesn't indicate the blame for them is necessarily inherited from c. The confusion about 'auto' elsewhere here is demonstrative.

C++ is superficially similar to c in a lot of ways that don't actually translate well across the boundary between the two.

So some c things get misattributed to c++ and many c++ things get misattributed to c and disentangling these is nearly impossible if you aren't intimately familiar with both of them.

Being intimately familiar with either is a detriment to maintaining unmuddled working knowledge of the other.
> That is true for easily testable truths.

It is true for everything in existence. It doesn't matter how complicated something is, or how difficult it is for humans to grasp: There is a single reality, and an explanation or assumption that does not explain it is either incomplete, approximative, or plain wrong.
I've asked around a bit, and so far I've found no language or tool that can directly access C++ libraries without manually writing bindings. I hope that can change sometime in the near future.
I read this as "sues patent troll for $600M" what a disaster.
Not a working group, but a library does exist: https://cxx.rs/
does someone sell one of these that survives more than 10 disconnect cycles now?
> That would mean only large companies would own patents.

Wrong. If you applied a tax to IP that increases relatively fast over time (say doubles each year), you could "easily" select the parameters so, that it makes cheap to hold your patent for a while after the invention ( assuming you have some revenue at least on sight), while making it too expensive to hoard patents for nothing, and make keeping the patents closed unnecessarily long for even the largest corporations.
Maybe have a look at pyqtgraph: https://www.pyqtgraph.org/
This dead tooth (top right) looks pretty blue to me: https://tracewellness.com/what-does-dead-tooth-look-like/ (careful, you might not like to see these images).
Goodness, I'm running a zero-warning policy with -Wall -Wextra all the time. They have removed tons of bugs in my code before I even touch the first sanitizer, they're my first line of defence.
How could anyone come to this contrarian conclusion, even after reading the article it is baffling.

There is a time and place for in-house recruiters and third party recruiters. This article does not identify them and obsessively takes the contrarian view with no supporting rationale for doing so.
Does anyone know which patents? I'm curious since my name is on a number of them.
You are incorrect. They are advocating against the greens and support the social democrats, because of gas gerd. Google it
I give an extremely simple answer, where I state that in the present, for $real_reason, I'm not looking for other opportunities, but in the future, I may. It worked!

I actually spend a little bit of effort to filter out (block) incompetent recruiters, but that's all.
Freedom Convoy: Trudeau calls trucker protest an 'insult to truth'
It looks like, statistically, each person in Gibraltar has been vaccinated 3 times. So either they are vaxxing children (couldn't find any articles about that), or not including them because they're not eligble (which means saying "99% vaccinated is not correct unless there the population of Gibraltar is 1% or lower).
We considered Flutter, React Native, Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile and pure native as solutions. The factors we looked at were size of hiring market, ease of conversion of web codebase and the effectiveness of the current team in that framework.
Isn't it you are exhausted with people rather than code?
How will 5G continue to fare in 2 years? Don't know? Sounds like mobile phone companies are Nazi war criminals.
I'm not sure if the article is poorly worded or the study was poorly implemented. If the study consisted of having test subjects watch a 30-second face morphing, and afterwards the subjects selected the face at the 15-second mark as the one most representative of what they saw, it would tell me that they chose based on the face that averaged out to the morphing face they saw. The average look of the morphing face would likely be right in the middle, 15 seconds in. I don't see how anyone could assume that it meant that their brains were processing images from 15 seconds in the past.
> Low quality clickbait is almost always tied to a commercial end,

Not everything with a commercial end is a scam. I get spam for legitimate products or services all the time. It’s spam because they are abusing a communication channel as an advertising channel, not necessarily because they are trying to scam anyone.
What It Feels Like to Die from Heatstroke
Another data point: I have these same headphones, listening to them now in fact and they are great.

However the problem the original poster has still exists I think, when you use it across multiple devices it's annoying and I get that sound of it disconnecting and reconnecting to other devices while I am listening, so i have to find that device and turn the bluetooth off.

Case in point this afternoon when I went to listen. Connect bluetooth on my iPad, connect the headphones, iPad shows that headphones are connected, listen to music, nothing, no sound... why? Ahh, have to go on my mac, disconnect them from my mac and then boom sound starts.

It's just annoying with multiple devices and we live in a very multi-device world. I should just be able to press the device I want as a sound source and boom. It's silly to still be having this issue.
Meanwhile nuclear plants come with months worth of energy storage, as fuel is storage.

For long term (like seasonal) variations in wind/solar output, you're probably not going to be building enough batteries to bridge that gap, so to stick with just wind/solar you would need to either overbuild (perhaps massively) your generation capacity, or build a global grid.

A global grid introduces geopolitical risks (your neighbor becomes not-so friendly and cuts the link when you don't have sufficient generation), whereas massive overbuilding would be expensive. Having some nuclear plants may be cheaper route.
Even 0.003 m/s, since the moon is about one light secon away.
I also recommend a response to every recruiter, but you don't need to explain your privilege, you don't need to suck up to them, and you don't need to justify your actions.

"Hey ____. Before we move forward, can you provide me with the company name, a job description, and the expected compensation. Regards"
Lost YouTube Channel with 11k subscribers due to horrible UX
We had our YouTube channel for "erpnext" and a few videos in an older channel called "webnotestech". To consolidate our videos I tried to move the old account to our main "erpnext" account and it deleted all our old videos with 2M views and 11k subscribers!

I am a pretty proficient user and I wasn't drunk or anything, this is just bad UX. Agreed I may not have read all the details, but there is no way YouTube should be doing this.

My feelings: Life is transient and my faith in platforms has been so shaken. There is no way to contact any kind of support for this other than "Feedback". To all engineers, product managers out there. Please be cognizant of the impact your UX decisions make on your users. And PLEASE MAKE IT HARD TO DELETE data.

If any kind YouTube engineers out here, please check if you can undelete our main channel.
I am perplexed how anyone can think this is somehow better than UI we have today.

Looking at the picture I have no idea what I am looking at there are million arrows on the left and weird non identifiable pictures in the top.

You can say that modern UI is more boring but I argue that when it comes to UI of software boring is good. If boring means understanding instantly what does what on a pleasing look than I take boring over the old exciting UI where the cognitive load is so big that Id probably had to resort to hovering over every single icon to see what it does.
It's usually pretty easy to wire it up so that it shuts off with the car. A fuse tap can piggyback off of an existing ignition-switched fuse.
I'd love to work with people who want to create free educative games for kids, games fun enough to keep kids playing while developing their brains in positive ways. Most games I found are infested with ads (hence not free), sprinkled with lots of dark patters and the games are not good enough I'd even pay for them. Maybe there are some free gems out there already but are quite hard to find. My kid is 4yo and it has been quite hard to find anything worthwhile for his screen time (something free at least).
How to track time for classes using QuickBooks
Note that the US is absolutely capable of passing a data protection law at any time. I wouldn’t hold my breath, though.
Bacnet for Field Technicians [pdf]
Very similar to motivation for starting a startup:

"And my main takeaway from this was: Committing to big, messy, creative projects is a reliable way to increase the number and quality of healthy, talented archetypes within your orbit. The highest signal you can send a busy, accomplished person is that you are someone who makes, not just talks."
QNX, that thing I received like 30 years ago in a magazine on a bootable floppy? With X Win of course...
You might want to check out https://climateaction.tech/ and join the Slack.
Would you eat bacteria to help reverse climate change?
I encountered a pop-up that required providing an email address before I could read the rest of the article. I invented a plausible email address and it was accepted. Sorry about that Sir/Madam N**n.

Nice article that apparently was published a couple weeks ago.
It sounds like a perfect way to wash money. I am surprised any mafia or cartel have not taken part in this business yet.
Those wasm blobs are Node's own llhttp https://github.com/nodejs/llhttp in wasm to speed up HTTP parsing. The project itself added as a dependency is also by Node https://github.com/nodejs/undici .

The question is totally legitimate but please assume core doesn't make "load random binary" level kind of goofs :)
Protably there are some metadata changes. You can try diffoscope to look into the detail.
Ask yourself "what part of this allows them to prevent rock concerts during exams in the exam halls", it's only the parts that you seem to wish they would remove. I think we can both agree, that MIT does need the power to prevent rock concerts during exams in the exam halls.
The other way around. "Blank check companies" have existed for many many years, but were a relatively rare instrument and did very bespoke deals. Most investors never heard of them. In recent years, a standardized deal emerged that became known as a SPAC (and all the recent flavors of the month). If you look in SEC regulations, you'll see references to "blank check companies" all over the place.
And because websites used to link to other websites for non-profitable reasons (blogs, directories, and webrings).
I used to give that story, in one of my Bluetooth classes. I ended up removing it, to save time, and also, because I used an Albert Uderzo character, from Asterix, as an illustration, and couldn’t share it online, with that image.
Hi scim-knox-twox! Dope name! I used Grammarly because it's the tool I use.

I just discovered Language Tool from your comment. I see similarities between the two apps. mmhm, how's LT for your needs?
My current approach:

I don't have time ... the volume of messages is too high, and the amount of 'legitimate' inquiries are too low. And the odds of getting ghosted by the recruiter too high.

If they're a recruiter from a company that I know and they WORK FOR that company, I'll respond.

Having said that I think that is a good article and I really like that email.
Refreshing for hiring thread
That depend on where you live. Regardless of how extreme, I trust every single politicians in the Danish parliament a lot more than both Google and Facebook.
Same. Also to normalize discussing salary up-front. I'd say at least half of recruiters are forthcoming with this information.
Interesting point on drastically different moral codes. I'm curious if, during the height of immigration to the US, the "melting pot" tended to consist of people immigrating from areas with mostly similar moral codes.

It appears that many immigrants retained much of their culture while still integrating in ways that let different cultures work together, but maybe that is because the moral foundation was similar enough to allow cohesion as a whole while retaining some sense of cultural identity.
https://twitter.com/shs96c/status/1488480089700503558
Go-zero v1.3.0 is released – a simple Go microservice framework
Great article, very thoughtful and definitely a useful template/ concept
My parents were part of the "Back to the Land" movement in the 60's. They bought a parcel of land in rural Maine in the late 60's, built a small log cabin, and lived there until the early 80's. No electricity, no phone, no running water (just a dug well; had to break the layer of ice to get water in the winter). Two mile dirt "driveway" out to the nearest town maintained dirt road where other people lived. Had to use a snowmobile to get in and out in the winter and for a month or so in the spring when everything turned to mud, it was nearly impossible to drive anything in and you just had to walk the two miles every time. My older sister was born in the cabin (I came during a hot spell and my mom wanted air conditioning so she made my dad drive her to the hospital to have me). My dad took on occasional part time jobs and seasonal work so they had a little bit of money coming in for gas, store bought ingredients, and property taxes. Otherwise, they were pretty much self-sufficient with a garden and raising animals. Eventually, we had to move closer to civilization so my sister and I could go to school more easily (the home schooling movement hadn't really reached Maine yet and they were starting to threaten us with truancy charges) but I still have a lot of memories of that time. The house we moved to after that had indoor plumbing and electricity and all that, but it was still a rural farm and we still gardened and raised animals for the majority of our food, so even that's probably pretty close to what people are now calling "homesteading".

It's absolutely a ton of hard work and sacrifice and people shouldn't underestimate that. There are aspects of my childhood that are really idyllic and memories that I'm really happy about. But I also remember outhouses (and a honey bucket in the winter), and a never ending series of chores for all of us (weeding, picking rocks out of the garden, harvesting plants, shovelling out stalls, getting up at 5am to go out into the pitch black freezing cold to feed the chickens and fight broody hens to get them off their eggs, chopping and stacking firewood). I've probably got an above average work ethic and ability to grind out hard work without complaining as a result, but experiencing that life also kind of pushed me in the opposite direction. I now live in a city thousands of miles away, work in tech, and while I still love hiking and camping, I absolutely loathe anything to do with gardening, landscaping or outdoor work. I have zero desire to do anything like homesteading myself (though I will admit that I occasionally think about living somewhere that I can have a pet goat. Goats are obnoxious but awesome and I miss them). Something about having to do those kinds of things for survival makes me never want to do them as a hobby.
Consider a browser where the DOM is implemented in Rust and exposed to Javascript via some form of FFI.

The same DOM API could be exposed directly to WASM via WASI-like calls, without going through Javascript.
You could almost even say that the past is just like today! :D

It turns out it's not all roses and bliss. It's basically the same half-baked, mostly unusable, bucket of dirt you dig through to find the diamonds.

But everyone only ever remembers the diamonds.
I believe it does, because "reality is what it is and doesn't care about opinions" has an interesting implication:

It means, the more we rely on factual evidence and the more we act based on knowledge based on it, the better we can cope with the universe.

To my perception, a central problem of civilization is how much we value opinion, and how much we base our actions on it rather than on hard fact.

If humanity acknowledges that its opinions don't matter, and reality is indeed what it is, then our way forward as a species will become a lot easier.
I think it's safe to say that modern civilization will be positively fucked when a Tambora-level eruption (let alone a 536 AD-level one) occurs. Like, decades-long economic depressions. And no nation is equipped to handle that. It's easier to recover when civilizations weren't as connected as they are today, in addition to no electricity grid to have to worry about.
Show HN: Peel – Distributed Serverless Social Network in the Browser
pretty great. I've been using undici for a while now and very happy with the speed and experience.
Extortion is a crime in many areas.
File managers might do file sharing just fine, but they’ll never be easy to use by most people.
what is the orange beam in the pictures with the telescope?
> Why the fork? Originally, the ARM porting was supposed to be merged into Intel's own Hyperscan, and 2 Pull Requests had been made to the project for this reason (1, 2). Unfortunately, the PRs were rejected for now and the forseeable future, thus we have created Vectorscan for our own multi-architectural and opensource collaborative needs.

Karma's a bitch.
Crashing at 300mph is guaranteed deadly. Being shocked with 120v is not. I've been shocked a half-dozen times and I haven't been injured in any way.

Current code in US/Canada also requires RCDs (we call them GFCI) in some places (and AFCI everywhere, which the rest of the world hasn't really adopted) and shuttered outlets... but these do not catch all types of faults. For instance, if a human conducts electricity across two conductors connected to an RCD/GFCI, it won't trip. It only trips if current is drawn to ground or to another circuit. Layered safety is a good approach.

That's not to say that 240v systems are unsafe -- they just have different characteristics and requirements because of it.
I would also add East Asia (China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hongkong, Macao) to that list. The rate of HIV positive ("seropositive") status is still incredibly low. Ignore China for a moment because it is hard to believe any of their official gov't stats! These countries are definitely much more sexually active (more lifetime partners) than more socially conservative neighbors in South Asia (Indian subcontinent).

Interestingly, in these countries, there is still ready access to sex workers in any medium-sized city and above, yet infection rates are still very low.

I must confess: I wrote the above post strictly about heterosexuals. I have never read anything seropositive rates for gay men in these regions. (I write the last sentence with the assumption that gay women have a tiny risk to contract and spread HIV.)

More about "seropositive": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV-positive_people
If y’all write a blog post about how your preblinding option makes you GDPR-compliant for silent embedding even though you’re a US entity, that would be front page material right now.
I’m not quite working on stock trading algorithms, but rather designing a blockchain based game where the goal is to predict the state of the players of the game at the end of each round.

The twist is that users can provide any answer they chose, but honest/consistent answers will win more of the prize pool over time.

Would be happy to chat and see if there’s any overlap if this sounds interesting.

My email is blueberrychopsticks@pm.me

Here’s a write up on the game rules: https://enoemos.notion.site/Overview-of-Gameplay-ELI10-a9be0...
The creator of MySQL named it after his daughter, "My". After it was forked, the fork was named after his other daughter, "Maria".

He has three children, so we've got one more go at this with a MaxDB if needed.

edit: I was wrong -- He already used MaxDB previously. We're out of names.
I have been accused of being dim for not understanding a common word. Or alternatively of intentionally playing dumb.

Then I layout out six reasonable definitions for the word that could fit this context. Then I am accused of making other people feel dumb. Unless it's my wife, who simply claims, "You know what I meant." :)