skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Studying EE in the late nineties, I can remember coming across EPROM microcontrollers a few times, but definitely not in new projects.

IIRC, students recently graduated when I was doing my freshman year had used them for projects in their freshman year, but not since - so they were probably commonplace until 1990 or so. At least in Trondheim, Norway.
I’m still using qiqqa for my open source pdf search engine but the qiqqa team has moved on. Qiqqa has been a secret weapon for me in pulling up relevant paragraphs from research papers, ebooks, and standards that I have previously saved but not fully read.
Vintage Startup Employee Swag?
Any startups you know that have unique & cool employee gear? I'm looking to buy ($$$)

Stripe, YC, Airbnb, Twitter, FAANG, etc (open to cool stuff from pretty much anywhere).
> Every single project you listed uses Github as a mirror meaning when they go down internally, Github is the backup which from my perspective is a little ironic.

And? It is a read-only mirror. It just 'pulls' changes from the self-hosted copy. It can't be used for direct development for the maintainers. If the main official repository was on GitHub and that goes down, then everything will be down as well including (issues, pull requests, actions, etc). Then you will be totally reliant on GitHub for 'fix it'.

There is a reason why those same projects do not use GitHub as their main repository and tell you 'We don't accept issues or patches here'8. They have control over their issues trackers, review process and CIs and their projects won't halt due to GitHub's unpredictable and intermittent issues.

For those projects, GitHub is only* used as a read-only mirror for cloners, but useless for anyone to send patches, track issues, PRs, etc. which that is done on their self-hosted repositories and it has been like that for them for years.
Stories like these reminds me how a lot of talent is going waste trying to improve CTR on Ads and other futile jobs.
Sure, it's a modern conglomerate. That's nothing new. Conglomerates have been around for literally a hundred-plus years.

What's fascinating is that the traditional industrial conglomerate has been declining for decades now, with the most notable recent breakup being GE. Meanwhile, tech companies are going the other way:

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/11/23/1057446470/the...

I think it's a wide open question as to whether the conglomerate is, in fact, an economically efficient entity, or if in the long run, Amazon, too, will break up.

I'd argue the only reason modern tech conglomerates exist and succeed is because antitrust regulators have failed to recognize the impact they've had in destroying a competition.

As a result, these modern conglomerates aren't making money via the standard argument: increased efficiencies, market diversification, etc. Rather, they're profitable because they're leveraging their horizontal and vertical integration to monopolize whole industries.

If world governments return to a more forceful anti-trust regime, I suspect we'll find these tech conglomerates will die off just like their ancestor industrial conglomerates have been.
Is it still based on the XUL platform?
The rise of the academic science humble brag
I know. I fixed it shortly after I posted the comment.
My post is two sentences, come on.

I could put "salt peter" in scare quotes but I think that makes it harder to understand my point.
For the vast majority of people, a program being open source does not make it more useful to them. The program just existing is the useful bit.

Also, Germans don't have words for things. They just remove all the whitespace from their sentences and then run around, "look at this neues word Ich hab!" :D
Correct me if I'm wrong, but AFAICT no-code is just vaporware, while Excel is being used right now practically everywhere.
I thought Jobs was the sales guy and Cook was the logistics bean counter.
That's my question! We need a falsehoods explained page
I spent most of the day yesterday chasing down crosses for P-Channel FETs.

They are all GONE. No stock of anything (except the crappy ones, super-tiny packages, high Vgs(th) or high Rds(on) and other leftovers).

I've never seen anything like this, it's kind of frightening. Like walking into a grocery store and seeing the aisles all EMPTY except for a few scraps.

I don't even know where they all went. It's not like you need a TSMC slot to make a FET.

And whatever you look up, Chinese brokers have 10K-50K pieces of them for $25 each. Don't know what to think of that, either.
They'd rather have no vaccine than one that was made by the other political side
We look back on the 60s with nostalgia. The 90s? Not so much. I think that colors our definition of what is "vintage".
Does graphviz take edge lengths as input? One could let it do its magic and should, for correct data, get a map.

(I've used it with street intersection data from Wikidata and it came up with a surprisingly good map of Berlin, only mirrored.)
I have three branches: macbook, imac, and develop.

develop is the mainline branch that other people could pull from.

macbook and imac are each backups of their respective machines. I use git merge --ff-only to rebase commits from one to the other when I change machines. If I need to change machines midway through a commit, I'll push a WIP commit to imac, fastforward macbook to match, and then git reset HEAD^ to keep the WIP files (but undo the commit) on macbook. I finish on macbook, make the commit, and push it to origin's macbook and develop.

Like the others here, I make liberal use of git rebase -i to reorder commits, etc. If imac and macbook ever diverge (e.g. I forgot to push a commit before changing machines), I also use interactive rebase to resolve it.
Great question. We believe it becomes an issue of storage, logistics, supply chains, transport, and so on. We approach it this way: if we build & install 1,000,000 decentralized car-sized capture systems that capture, say, 1 ton of CO2 a year, that is going to require 1,000,000 CO2 absorption/desorption systems (cost/energy/embedded CO2), 1,000,000 high-pressure compression systems (cost/energy/embedded CO2), as well as installation, delivery, system maintanance & repair, etc. Then we have to collect the CO2 when the decentralized units are full - again, not easy, since CO2 likes to leak when stored/transported under pressure. When deployed over a large geographic area, the problem gets more complex since it must be monitored & managed with many nodes in the system.

That's not to say a decentralized system can't be done. If someone can do it & it costs less than us, that's good for the world. But coming from years in the chemical manufacturing world, we believe that humans have learned a lot, especially over the past 2-3 centuries, how to build huge chemical production facilities that make (relatively) efficient use of power & resources to process ton-scale quantities of materials. We have experience in bulk-scale chemical facilities for other chemical processes, and know that when they work, they can work really well. So we believe that bulk industrial scale is the fastest/cheapest way for CO2 removal from air in a way that can be deployed fast enough & in an economically-sustainable way to meet existing/forecast demand for voluntary CO2 credits & eventually to tip the needle through large-scale deployment.
If I remember correctly there is such a thing on GitHub, although it is against Discord's ToS. I have a Discord bot that I have written in two different languages as well. It would not be difficult to turn either of them into a pretty TUI. I probably would give Tk a chance, too. It is very lightweight, and can be made really pretty with ease.
But still, what's the actual risk?

Is the cumulative risk on the order of 0.01% to 0.1%? Or is it like 1% to 10%? If it's the former, then it's not worth thinking about. If it's the latter, I may change my behavior. Or it could be expressed via expected life years lost. If 1 year, eh. If it's 10 years, that's another story. Also how much would need to be consumed. Are we talking about bacon every day? Or once a week? Or month?
I would say the main takeaway from these lists is: Use a library where the library author has a much bigger vested interest in the edge cases than you do.

Don't implement date and time calculations yourself, just use the library, even for things like "add a day".

Don't parse addresses yourself, use a library. Don't validate email yourself, use a library. Don't validate input yourself, use a library.

Unless the runtime or memory space is absolutely critical to your application, using a library won't make things noticeably worse.
> Simply saying "my door is always open" doesn't get much in the way of engagement. You, as a mentor, have to put in some footwork attracting people and maintaining the contact.

The pandemic has made me realize I have so much to learn here. "My door is open" somewhat worked when we were all on site, and I sat in a place that everyone passed. But, people will not reach out to seek help, they don't really want to understand, and they're comfortable with confusion, and will just carry on with their work. That sounds negative, but I think it's the reality for many, and I need to learn to work with that reality. More importantly, I need to make sure that reality doesn't make me bitter.

I've found that just reaching out and asking if they have any questions isn't enough. They'll say no, because they don't know what they don't know, and are comfortable with the confusion that they're aware of.

So, what's a good way to maintain contact? Reviews? How do you get people to want to review code, without policy?
Ask HN: Your brain gets connected to a supercomputer. What do you do next?
I would go one step further with the first one, because I was completely forgotten about for the first two weeks of my first job:

You will be onboarded to your new company.
I worked on a project where I extracted the motion vectors from the h264 encoded stream from the camera, to detect motion. It's like a basic motion detector for free.
Just because we haven't discovered giant planet-eating space aliens yet doesn't mean they don't exist.
Note: the 4th edition of this book will likely be out by the end of this year, and cover GPU pathtracing. (I believe the free web edition will be released a few months after the hardback)

The Early Release (still in-development) version of pbrt-v4 can be found here:

https://github.com/mmp/pbrt-v4
> And I imagine the old standard of a warning email that message hasn't been delivered but retries are ongoing isn't handled well by many people.

Can you expand on this? It's been a while since the previous century but I don't recall those messages ever being confusing.
There is for example the book "Sets for Mathematics" [0] by Lawvere, one of the inventors of category theory. Those sets he talks about in his book are category-theoretic sets. Which kind of implies that ZFC sets are NOT for Mathematics :-)

[0]: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/sets-for-mathematics/E8...
Weight a container in a vacuum chamber. Then put the air inside it, seal and weight it again. It's enough air that the full container weights a ton more than empty.

If you compress it, it keeps the same weight (to any reasonable precision), but you won't get it into a solid.
You also can't compare games that don't run on MacOS :)

Most popular games used in a typical GPU review... simply don't have native versions to compare.

If Apple wants to look better in these reviews, they'll need to put some effort into getting native versions available.

(And yes, I understand it ultimately falls on game studios, they need the support from Apple to make it happen. Whether that's financial incentives, available libraries, or marketing that creates a market for gamers buying Apple products.)
So apparently Linux libc (ie. soname 4 & 5) was a fork of glibc 1.0:
https://man.archlinux.org/man/glibc.7#Linux_libc
For context, Global Natural Gas production is approximately 4,000 billion cubic meters per year.

To sequester the world's carbon emissions, we would need to move and store <1% the volume per year.
It's probably partly aimed at Xerox.

They basically invented the GUI and because they were a monopoly in other areas, they didn't have people in place to recognize what an amazing thing they had.
glibc serves multiple purposes, and these purposes are broken up into separate libraries on Windows. One of those purposes is to act as the C standard library, which is what is provided by msvcrt.dll. But another purpose is to act as the library of system services, which is provided by kernel32.dll instead.

The actual functionality that glibc broke in this specific ABI break is really the sort of functionality that is provided by kernel32.dll (i.e.., that's where the SEH functions live) on Windows. And you can't provide multiple copies of kernel32.dll on Windows, just like you can't have multiple copies of glibc.
ive been trying to find some power mosfets to certain specs for a BOM for.. over a year!
> Does similar confusion exist when asking people what the Childhood Cancer Data Initiative or Sustainable Energy Initiatives are about? Do you think there is a similar level of misperception among laypersons about the meaning of those initiatives?

I think most lay persons, upon being informed of the existence of a "Sustainable Energy Initiative", would readily admit when pressed to a lack of sufficient familiarity with the subject that would allow them to answer with confidence about what does or does not meet the standards of being deemed "sustainable energy". Likewise with anything involving "cancer"—most people cannot define it.

But this is beside the point, because we're not talking about the work activity of the OSI. We're taking about the definition of "open source". This is not the first instance of your moving the goalposts in this discussion.

> The common misperception regarding "Free Software" is that people think it means "gratis" rather than "libre". The common misperception with "Open Source" is that people think it means "source-code publicly available".

Right. The key thing being that those are misperceptions.

Misperceptions about the distinction between "cancer" versus "viral infection" versus "bacterial infection" would not lead us to say that because the public does not have a good understanding then the definition of "cancer" changes to something that it isn't.

> if the argument about common misperceptions being muddied water is not entirely convincing

That's not what's at issue.

> The Free Software Foundation disagrees that "Open Source" and "Free Software" are the same thing.

The FSF agrees that the definition of "open source" is the one that was formulated at the end of the last millennium; the FSF doesn't disagree with the OSI about the definition of "open source".

We started with your claim from the ahistorical definition of "open source" that a given project may not actually permit people to make their fork available to others. Any argument you make here needs to support that.

So far, you're making a lot of facile "water _is_ wet*"-style observations and, I dunno, hoping that no one will notice that that was never the point of contention.

* Try substituting "FSF was founded in 1985" (or any other factual statement) here that while true nonetheless has no bearing on the actual substance of the current dispute, despite whatever surface-level relevance it may appear to have to someone who is only halfway paying attention.
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Its true that the dose makes the poison and in the case of processed meats, the dose that people normally eat is enough to increase their risk of bowel and stomach cancer. Its telling that you are comparing it to alcohol, another substance that many people drink cancer-causing amounts of.

I believe the acrylamide that forms in roasted or fried potatoes is only a probable carcinogen and only causes cancer in studies with doses much higher than people eat.
Quite a few contractors sell themselves. Also a real staffing agency can have a human connection.
Seems like you sorted out what to say, now just paste it into any thread that mentions IDEs.

I don't see what reason there is to be curmudgeonly about your editor. Try new ones, go back to old, write your own... but for heaven's sake don't assume you know everything.
The Apple Pencil support is still pretty rough, but it's been getting better every update version. I've been using it for the last couple of months.
Google open sources solar atmospheric water generator
I remember the a.out to elf transition because the first distro I used had Doom in its repos. When I installed it complained that a.out format wasn't supported anymore.

IIRC I tried kylix in 1999. It still requiring libc5 is strange. Well... those were not best inprise/borland days indeed.
A jpeg pixel is 64 (=8 x 8), 8 bit coefficients which are summed together for each pixel. That result is not 8 bits, but more; that is a misunderstanding, often repeated. A jpeg is capable of over 11 bits dynamic range. You can figure out that an 11 bit dynamic range image has more than 8 bits. See the wikipedia.
Inferno: A small operating system for building crossplatform distributed systems
I haven’t used their new iOS app, but it’s a welcome addition. In the past you had to sync your Zotero library with another app for PDF annotation that was synced (papership). It was never something I’d call robust or seamless and the papership app has felt like abandonware.

I’m looking forward to trying the new app today.
This specific issue affected s390x which is pretty niche but the general principle of not breaking ABI affects all architectures.
We also got calculations that yielded literal mountains ranges of carbonate... That's not to say carbonate cannot be part of the solution, but maybe it is unlikely to be the only solution.
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And what happens if ATC directs the airplane to hold on the runway for a few hours? The space shuttle used cryogenic fuel, and after loading they had to continuously replenish the liquid hydrogen due to leakage and evaporation for several hours until launch. That can work for a rocket with a huge operating budget on a dedicated pad but I don't see that working at a busy commercial airport.

Jet fuel is much more stable. It can sit in simple fuel tank for months with no special cooling or containment measures.
In keeping with my confidently-wrong-on-the-internet theme:

Nobody is trying to run multiple incompatible versions of glibc in a single application. The point is to run multiple different versions of the same application on a single OS, where each version uses a different version of glibc.

NixOS is wildly over-engineered for this purpose. Just use lib.so.versionNumber, full stop.

And, scene. :)
Is anyone else getting horrible stuttering when scrolling that page? (I happen to be on mobile with a bad connection right now, but it's so bad it makes the page almost unreadable)
> But, the jury is still out until he actually finishes his work.

I don't think it could possibly matter. Assuming he writes the most amazing ending in the history of the written word, it could not possibly change anything he wrote before to suddenly have mastery, depth and/or beauty. You wouldn't need to read the second half of Camus' The Stranger to determine whether the first half has any good writing in it. You can divide a good work into sentences, and even phrases, and randomly pull them out, without context, and still determine whether the writing is bad, ok, good, or exceptional.

I certainly don't think Martin is boring, nor do I regret the time it took to read, and I liked it in pieces and overall, even if it at times is a bit indulgent. But let's not insult the masters. Just because we like something doesn't mean it must intrinsically be any good.
Bill to Authorize Letter of Marque and Reprisal to Whoever Steals Putin’s Yacht
Upgrading Next.js for instant performance improvements
You can also tap "alt" to make it appear, I believe, if it isn't enabled.
It's a shame that b.org has been domain squatted since 1993. Not even a placeholder website.
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On a practical note, I'm struggling more and more to find dishes that I would even put pork in. At this point, the only pork dish I eat is pulled pork and that's not exactly something you can make a staple in your diet without some serious work at home.
CPUs and GPUs account for more dollars spent than solar cells, but solar cells account for most area/mass of semiconductor devices made today.

A gigawatt of solar cells represents about 5 square kilometers of silicon wafers at 20% light conversion efficiency. The world installed 183 gigawatts of solar PV in 2021, almost all of it based on silicon wafers:

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/02/01/bloombergnef-says-glo...

That's in the neighborhood of 915 square kilometers of wafers.

Silicon for solar has risen meteorically over the past 20 years.

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/10/26/whats-next-for-polysi...

Until the early 2000s, demand for polysilicon (often simply referred to as “poly”) was dominated by the semiconductor industry, which required a fairly steady 20,000 to 25,000 metric tons (MT) per year. But semiconductor demand for poly was quickly outpaced by PV as the solar industry began to grow rapidly, from a rounding error at the turn of the millennium to almost half of global polysilicon demand by the middle of the decade.

...

By the end of 2013, the manufacturing cost of polysilicon had tumbled to below $20/kg among industry leaders. Meanwhile, capacity had grown from less than 50,000 MT per year in 2007 to over 350,000 MT per year by 2013.

Polysilicon capacity at the end of 2021 was in the neighborhood of 700,000 metric tons, with more big expansions on the way. The extra 350,000 metric tons added since 2013 is almost entirely for solar.
Hadn't heard about Pivotal TBH, but ty very much for your insights.
Thanks for this suggestion. I've been using Contexts for this, but it looks like Alt-Tab may be even better.
It’s on the documentation home [1] and on the GitHub README [2]:

Why Hurl?

- Text Format: for both devops and developers

- Fast CLI: a command line for local dev and continuous integration

- Single Binary: easy to install, with no runtime required

It’s maybe too succinct, but, at least, it’s here! We have also a more detail view on our FAQ [3]

[1] https://hurl.dev/#why-hurl

[2] https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl#why-hurl

[3] https://hurl.dev/docs/frequently-asked-questions.html#yet-an...
How would they know that it's your data?
You can always block the sun with blackouts but you can’t create sun in the morning in the winters
The Pink Panther series of movies ("live action", not animated) is among the most hilarious creation I have ever consumed.

I highly recommend them if you want to laugh hysterically.

(Note: I watched them a long time ago, and there is wee chance that I am remembering them differently.)

I am waiting for the Prime Video catalogue to include them!
Can you provide a reference where one could get started with this?