skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Juniors often make the call too. Seniors make the call on major things, but there are a lot of little things juniors get to decide, and some of them become bigger over time.
Considering I can now press '.' on GitHub and get vscode, not including codespaces or opting to run in vscode on the desktop, why would I use one of these alternatives? And to be clear, I'm not advocating anything, genuinely curious what makes these better then the alternatives.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/df03168c-a307-11ec-9096-4...
> I don't comprehend how people can develop on windows

They want to distribute their app on Windows?
Without federally subsidized HFCS added to 80% of supermarket products the average American's BMI might drop dangerously below 30, devastating the large sectors of our economy based around mitigating the effects of obesity!
Bhai lang – Indian Toy programming language written in TypeScript
s/Everyone/municipalities/

An individual mandate (esp. an unfunded mandate) to resolve systemic issues is definitely an anti-pattern.
Note that its generally much more difficult to develop a voxel based game than a polygon one.
Or if you can't use a different line or mobile phone, intentionally dial a different number, if it rings through to "the bank" then you know they have hijacked your line.
Vain billionaire says outrageous thing for attention. What else does this kind of pointless blather accomplish?
"global leaders in porn are the U.S, taking a 60 per cent share "

Where something is produced and where the money goes are two totally different questions
That's kind of taking Amazon's word for it as to reason. Amazon has been gearing up to reduce it's Seattle presence since the Tax Amazon campaign in Seattle.

The situation on 3rd Ave is bad, but Amazon also wants to show the city council that raising taxes on them would result in them loosing an employer, not getting any revenue.
The document you linked proves my point. Included in the number of civilian casualties are those killed by Russia shooting down a civilian airliner. Putin's fabricated claim is that Ukraine is responsible for these deaths - when in fact, he is, since he started the fighting - not Ukraine. Your earlier comment was "I guess the 3000 dead civilians just bombed themselves" which implied Ukraine killed them.

It isn't semantics to suggest terms should be used correctly. People dying because Putin's ruthless ambition is not the same as genocide. Attempting to eradicate a people is. That is not something Ukraine was doing in Donbas - they were protecting their own territory, and yes civilians die in combat. Again I point out, combat started by Russia.

Bringing this back to the earlier topic, this is different from Kosovo because Russia (Putin) are the ones causing the conflict and getting people killed. There was no ethnic cleansing that Putin stopped with his invasions into Ukraine.
Some breakdown by state from the NHTSA

https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...

Anecdotally I've driven in Texas, California, Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania over the past 6 months.

Southern Florida, Miami in particular, was far and away the worst (again limited sampling and anecodotal) in overall 'quality' of driver. I was nearly hit on several occasions by people making up their own rules. Constantly seeing people just do whatever they felt like (huge exotic and performance car scene down there though). Horns honking almost nonstop. It honestly felt like a good portion of people behind the wheel didn't actually know US driving laws or dgaf. But possibly to the point in the article, congestion was so bad that you didn't achieve the energy levels to kill a person in a modern vehicle. Zero chance I ride a motorcycle or scooter in that area though.

I drove a couple thousand miles in Texas from Dallas down through Austin, San Antonio, South Padre Island and back over the course of a couple of weeks. Overall the drivers there were middle of the pack, but the speeds were off the charts. Regular excursions into triple digits just to keep with the flow of traffic.

Also drove several thousand miles in and round San Diego over the course of a month. It was kind of a mix of the two, moderate amount of poor decision making but also very high speeds punctuated with traffic accordion stops out of nowhere. More whisps of tire smoke and whiffs of scorched brakes (and, lets face it, weed) on the highway there than anywhere else I drove.

Ohio and PA didn't feel out of the ordinary at all. Basically a toned down San Diego, some bad driving and some high speed. But I'm from the midwest so it's probably just acclimatization, statistically all of the above are within spitting distance.
I will just wait first . Last year they had to take down their flawed paper.
China is against the West (or anyone else) intruding on other nations issues (specially China's and its neighbours)... so, it's not suprising they won't wish to take sides on a fairly regional fight they have very little historical or economical interest in. Other distant, large but non-aligned countries like India and Brazil seem to have taken similar positions - not taking sides, just hoping for peace.

The interested parties in this war are NATO countries and Russia, besides Ukraine, because the war is a consequence of decades of hostilities regarding the re-alignment of the ex-USSR territories East of Poland towards the West and against Russia.
There are workarounds, like "Luna Display" (I haven't tried it and I'm not affiliated).

I also wonder how well running something like a VNC client fullscreen on the old iMac with universal control might work. (I've also used Jump Desktop's "Fluid" protocol which is the same general idea as VNC, though provided a higher-quality lower lag connection in my case.)

I think there are some decent solutions for a secondary display, but I kind of doubt any of these would be good enough for a primary display for most use cases.

I would guess all of these have tradeoffs in terms of lag, frame rate, quality, reliability, etc. though I'd love to hear different.
The author forgets (among other things) that he has the attention span of an above-average adult.
Millimeter wave doppler trained to identify human movements and behaviors
I think batteries should be replaceable, but not necessarily customer replaceable.

When I got a new battery for my iPhone SE I spent €30 on it (in total: battery + labour costs). I think that's a reasonable amount for a repair/replacement. It's not even super-hard to do and could have done it myself, but I don't have the right tools and didn't feel like buying them as I'm unlikely to use them for other things.

There are real advantages to "battery packs" like this too: it makes the devices smaller, cheaper, sturdier, and overall just better, with the downside that replacing the battery is more difficult. But as long as it can be done in ~20 minutes by a technician it seems an acceptable trade-off to me.
That might be the case today, but will that be the case two decades from now? I.E. if you had to optimize for friendliness for the next several million programmers around the world, is there potential to simplify the tooling and improve the onboarding & deployment experience?
Having part of Ukraine in EU is not impossible and I think with the current state of matters, may be accepted by many. The other option is a full NATO-Russia confrontation that will tip the scales in one or the other direction. Of course all this assumes that it doesn't escalate up to a nuclear exchange. It looks like the desired outcome for the US is to remove Putin from power and to bring democracy to Russia. Whether this war is seen by US as a shortcut to this or as a long term, strategic move to achieve it is currently not very obvious. It looks like the desired outcome for Russia is to have a clear border with NATO, that is sufficiently distant from Moscow, to gain some territory in the process that is rich in natural resources and inhabited by many Russians and dare I think about it, to push the world's financial system away from USD.
>AWS has never afaik increased prices which is a pretty strong selling point even if specific services

Technically true, but they do it a little different, where by they add different SKU;s with higher prices, and discontinue the old SKU's forcing you to move to a "new product" instead of just increasing the prices.

Not all services are like that but they just did that with compute instances, I believe this is the second time they have killed off a "generation" of compute
There is, and reddit has always been the former. If you just joined in the last 5 years maybe you'd be surprised to learn.

Digg was not the exact same way; reddit in contrast had a huge Ron Paul audience (pretty much everything but mainstream republicans), I was surprised he didn't have a subreddit.
Of all the in-car distractions I don’t think these are the problem. I’d argue using either of those is much safer because they don’t allow you to do most of the more distracting things.
An event of this magnitude is going to change alliances.

If you look at a map of the Belt and Road initiative it makes no sense why India would be allied with the West long term. That is the next world order and now Russia is absolutely a part of it.

IMO the history books will view this event as an utter disaster for the West and a gain for Belt and Road that would have been tough get otherwise.
Bayesian modeling of human–AI complementarity
Night photography, pinhole photography and a number of other common applications absolutely do encounter perceivable reciprocity failure, so there’s nothing wrong with my description.
Map Compasses (Part 14): Lodestone Loader and First Compasses
What exactly is your interest in this war? The way you appeal to emotion and make everything personal, stigmatize others is just as damaging to discourse as so-called Russian trolls.

This is a place for having genuine discussions. If you don’t want that… the rest of the internet is currently a Russian bash-fest. So you’re welcome to partake, but remember that those that splash around in mud get dirty.

600 civilians and 1200 soldiers killed doesn’t satisfy anybody’s definition of genocide. Especially since the average HN user doesn’t know under which conditions those deaths happened. This might yet turn into a genocide, but that seems unlikely.

Finally, Russia is an authoritarian state. It is not totalitarian, although it could become so as a consequence of this war.
Virginia lawmakers OK lifting ban on facial technology use
Perhaps in a further destabilized future, Russia could emerge stronger and more independent. Russia may be forced to become more self reliant.
We are a species that is as of yet not very good at long term planning and consensus. All of our physical and cultural evolution to date has more or less revolved around dealing with relatively immediate threats or short-term goals. So it would seem that unless we can find a way to make the threat of climate change feel more imminent to most people, we really won't start to move in earnest until it actually becomes a more immediate threat or something like nuclear fusion becomes viable and too attractive to ignore.
> The mirage of the clean, surgical war was created by the Clinton administration for the first war in Iraq.

Come on, now. The mirage of a clean and easy war is probably as old as war itself. Hell, just look at the media just when WWI was getting started. I can criticise American imperialism as well as anyone but this is ridiculous. Besides the fact that the first Gulf war was under Bush.
> hint: the answer to the second question is 'no'

Of course it's 'no'. It is mostly produced on the savanna and semi-arid areas.
I don't think it's controversial that Putin deserves to be ousted by a foreign military as much as anyone. He's certainly much more powerful and dangerous than Stalin or Hitler because he can unilaterally end human life on earth at any moment of any day.

> Install anyone else that's not insane, say Navalny.

Well, we definitely couldn't install anyone. We'd have to administrate an open election.

> I read they have 50% of their total combat brigades in Ukraine now.

This is a pretty antiquated assessment of military power. Boots on the ground show only that Russia wants to take Ukraine rather than completely destroy it. They can level the entire country with tactical nukes if they want.

> Installing a leader that is open to integrating with the west, along with India, we could encircle China and force them into peaceful deescalation.

I think it's more likely that we'd make China very dangerous and hostile, and we'd also re-open the world to the possibility of foreign regime change.

If we can decapitate Russia, why couldn't someone say, "Hey, this Biden guy stole the election, we should murder him for the good of the American people!"

Biden didn't steal the election, but I think you see where I'm going with it.
A study guide for software engineering students
Show HN: Streamline Funnel Analytics with Dynamic UTM Tags
I build a JavaScript code snippet that automatically tags all inbound links with UTM parameters if they are missing.
That is the really cool thing about them-- they're actually making new computers and the software and firmware to go with them.

Everything else "new" seems to be a rehash of the IBM PC (my "server" has an ISA-- ahem-- "LPC" bus... >sigh<). It's so refreshing to see something actually new.

The same goes with software and firmware. Any "new" systems software the last 10 years seems to be thin management veneers over real technologies like the Linux kernel, KVM and containers, GNU userland, etc. And it all ends up running on the same cruddy BMC's, "lights-out" controllers, embedded RAID controllers, etc.

I get a little bit of excitement at ARM-based server platforms (and RISC-V, for that matter) but everything there seems to be at even less of an "enterprise" level (from a reliability, serviceability, and management perspective) than the PC-based servers I already loathe.
I mean, think about how many people scammers are killing prematurely as is. Once these countries that we previously let shit on Americans for a long time have some serious sanctions, I'm sure they'll find ways to deal with the problems themselves.
You'd probably enjoy the content of Jim Browning, a guy who tries to flip the tables on these kinds of tech support scams: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBNG0osIBAprVcZZ3ic84vw
Back when I was doing network engineering I used make to localize configs from boilerplate code templates. Not a common use for it or maybe even the best tool for the job but because I already knew Makefiles it was an easy solution for me to implement. Saved me endless hours of tedious error prone text editing. Just an example of why it's worthwhile to learn how to use these fundamental tools that have survived the test of time. Even if you don't have a specific use for it today it's a very useful tool to have in your toolbox.
Maybe if you were developing on a Chromebook. But yes, I don't see any other reason. I'm curious too.
Is storing wood really more difficult than nuclear waste? The Endurance was pretty well preserved after 100 years and was never at risk of burning up. Perhaps we can build a carbon silo down there?
Better question is why? If we get WTI out of the ground here, why don't we have WTI refineries here too?
This is a ridiculous view of composting. Even if you assume everyone's organic waste is appropriate for a no-worm no-turn pile (hint: it isn't), it still won't work in the winter in most of the world, lots of people simply don't have the space, and everything will be fucked up the first time a raccoon finds your pile.
The visual equivalent of a syntax error is not being able to find the button/block/thing you need on the screen, or using the wrong block and wondering why you can't find the right control on it, or not hooking up some required reference/wire/whatever.

The advantage to syntax though is that it's all verbal which makes it far easier to communicate. Visual stuff needs multiple images and often video to fully communicate which is slow and more constraining.

>Learning syntax as a filter

Syntax is one of the most universal things about our psychology. The idea that some people have it and others don't seems a little absurd to me.
I'm glad this is an MIT-licensed project. This seems very lightweight, covers a lot of edge cases, is accessible, and seems to be fairly performant. Very good for a web editor. For websites like Pastebin or something where this comes in handy, I applaud the project.

But I agree, I will still never leave Emacs :) though, I don't think this project is aimed at replacing standalone editors.
The USB-C connector was present with the 20xx series, but was sadly abandoned for the 30xx series.
You might as well assume your entire SSN is public. Most of them have been leaked someplace or other, and for anyone who was an adult before about 2000 it was common to have them pre-printed on your personal checks. It's only in the past few decades that they have suddenly become "secret."

That someone who called you on the phone happens to know your SSN last four or even the entire number should not confer any trust on your part.
Depends hugely on the testing team and scope :) I've been a customer and tester over the years and I've seen everything from obvious scanner output, through to actually good bespoke content.

There is going to be some boilerplate though, especially on lower price testing, that's one of the reason why testers would prefer just to file bugs.
Russia’s war: Why The BMJ opposes an academic boycott
Ask HN: How would you go about starting your own small webdev agency?
Hey guys! I'm looking into starting my own small webdev agency. My goal is to find small and simple projects I can quickly design and develop by myself, without hiring anyone. All I need is to start making $2k-$3k per month, and then grow from there. I'm looking for some advice from more experienced people - how would you go about doing that?

What I'd really love to do is to help non-technical startup founders to build MVP web apps (using my React/Node/Next skills), but there are a few problems with that:

- People who are just getting started don't have any money.
- People who are already successful have better options than myself.
- Big and complex apps have a larger scope than I, as a solo designer/developer, can handle. And I don't know where to find people interested in smaller apps I can realistically build on my own.

So I'm trying to come up with a more realistic plan that I can use to get started. I'm thinking I could start with much simpler projects, build the agency-running skills and portfolio, which I can then leverage to land more interesting SaaS clients. Here's the plan I currently have:

- Find local "boring" niche businesses (gyms, cafes, restaurants, barbers, etc) on google maps and yelp. (Do you know if there are better ways to find your first clients?)
- Make a list of the ones that don't have a website.
- Cold email them and offer my services (that seems like the most straightforward way to get my foot in the door, are there better approaches?)
- Quickly design and develop simple landing-page style websites for them. Using WordPress, Squarespace, Ghost, or something similar (which tool would you use to make it easy for non-technical clients to manage the website?)
- Charge $1000-$2000 per website (does that price range make sense?). Build 2-3 of those per month.
- Potentially upsell them on setting up the google/facebook ads, so that I'm offering them leads and clients, not just a website (is that a good idea?).
- Build a portfolio of small projects and testimonials, and level up to more interesting projects after that.

This plan also has problems:

- I don't know whether people need this kind of service.
- I'll probably be joining the race to the bottom, since anyone can do this.
- It doesn't sound too fun or technically interesting, I don't know whether it'll result in a good portfolio.
- I don't quite see how I'd grow from there into achieving my dream of building SaaS apps for people.

But that's what I have so far.

Does this strategy sound reasonable, at least in terms of starting a small agency that makes money?

Do you have any tips or advice for me?
> the point is that it has happened suddenly

My point is that invasions don’t happen suddenly. Even if the spark happened in the last few weeks, the preconditions to make this war possible had been laid for years. People pretending that they never saw this coming are the very same who have been cheering Putin and Russia on for years.
sealed typed are union types, granted they have been introduced very recently.
Interesting. So, in those places RSUs are looked at / treated like a one-time performance bonus? Do those places also have performance bonuses?
It’s expensive to setup your own hot compost process. It’s both complicated and requires a volume of material most don’t have.
Composting should be done at scale really
Why not go to your local library, maintainers of an ad free search index, and find out?

This isn't novel work, and is likely even cheaper than the dead tree variant. The most expensive parts are the hardware and storage costs for the index.
It's in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30666403
194 comments from earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30665140
Using a browser based IDE is really powerful as an option, but comes with a major cost of having to co-exist with the browser in terms of keyboard macros/chords.

Personally, I've found it to be really annoying.

Using VSCode as a desktop connected to a remote code server, or using JetBrains Projector, is the true sweet spot where you combine the remote capabilities with a native app. Also fits well with vim/emacs TUI-style dev.

If I were building an IDE today, I would absolutely be building it as a client-server app from day 1.
I'd be interested to hear some of those examples actually, i know what it is. But I haven't used it in practise ( yet).
you have safety, privacy and quiet in those areas as well. And instead of backyard you have open parks with soccer, tennis and basketball courts in walking distance.
What prevents you from using a different distance than Euclidean distance?
900 angstroms = 90 nanometers
I doesn't matter why, what and how are damning enough on their own.

A legit change in some deal does not explain several aspects of this update.

When something doesn't add up, you are supposed to scrutinize it, not just assume it's fine. If it was fine, then why wasn't there an honest explanation?

Mozilla did a bad thing. If our speculations about the why are wrong, it doesn't change anything about what is wrong with this update.

But even the speculation is fair game in this case because the update lacks all the normal and expected justification and explaination of any other merge request. Feel free to explain the above-board reason they made quite this nature of update in quite this peculiar way.

What other updates to your browser should be ok to just take blindly with no explanation? The immagination staggers.
Honestly I just bury compostables and let the natural processes happen. This takes very little work. Not so easy to do in an apartment though.
On the other hand, Kiev is just next to Belarus. I would not expect them to take entire control of the whole country that quickly (look at how long it takes in Syria where the insurgents have nothing like the Ukrainian military), but it was certainly possible for a competent military to blitzkrieg their way into the presidential palace.
vscode is built on top of Monaco. These are all lower level editors with very well exposed APIs that let you build on top of them. It's more for developing something with a code editor versus directly using them everyday as your editor, though I'm sure people do.
Living Carbon and/or Maddie/Patrik never claimed this would be a "one simple trick" solution to the climate crisis.

Solutions that address 1% of the problem are worth doing-- no single approach will be able to dig us out of the hole we are in and we need to attempt to address it from all angles.