skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I would argue that gasoline is in fact still the "best" option if by "best" you mean the fuel source that balances energy density, ease of storage, and combustibility. Yes, it is environmentally unfriendly but so is the very notion of billions of personal vehicles to begin with, even if they were fully electric (which we are several decades from plausibly achieving).

At the end of the day, Excel is spreadsheet software. This is a class of product that is very old and there are few major innovations really left, which is also why Excel remains the leader. When you have a technology that has matured to such an extent, you are now chasing the margins in terms of improvement and that is where the largest and most well funded companies hold the advantage.

However the next step beyond a simple spreadsheet, the desktop database is still a sector that is quite nascent, especially in terms of products catered towards lay people. As you mentioned, currently databases are not particularly user friendly to the non-technical crowd but products like Notion are making such things more accessible. That is the area where I can envision something emerging that makes Excel or the very notion of spreadsheet software itself obsolete.
If somebody wants to register and use an email address with a bang path, that unix beard is out of luck.
'What have I told you about chewing my shoes and getting embroiled in geopolitics?'
YouTube had a chat feature at one point recently.
Having some issues with this on mobile (ios). Opens page but soon Safari displays and error.

Anyway, I wonder if some of this to the cheap $10 chinese gameboy clones (500 in 1). Will try on mine soon.

I'd love to clean up and improve the game selection on mine.
It's a pretty ergonomic way of scripting smaller tasks, at least. The first time picked it up for the sake of a meaningful experiment I stopped short of actually deploying a full project on it -- the key limitation being that I couldn't find anything comparable to Mongoose -- but did end up building a companion tool that turned out to be pretty useful, and for stuff like API calls and bulk file manipulation I would reach for it every time.

Specifically, it was a minimal simfile parsing/conversion/seeding tool, as part of a DDR workout tracker I was working on a while ago. (Everything from COVID to a mouse problem in my workspace kind of undercut me doing the cardio I had built it to track, so it sort of stagnated :-/ But the tooling itself was pleasant enough here.) Basically it had three core pieces of functionality:

- Parsing .sm files and converting them to .ssc (the former doesn't label its fields, so doing this first simplified everything else)

- Extracting metadata from simfiles in .ssc format and exporting it to JSON

- Uploading extracted metadata to the accompanying API

This is something of a moot point since it's been added to Node now, but at the time having access to server-side `fetch()` also saved me some frontend work, because then all of my client-side requests became isomorphic and I could just mock out what I was eventually going to need for my UI without actually having to make any other decisions about how the UI was going to be structured.
> They mentioned that likely you'll pay the same for heating as before.

You will not. You're describing city heating, which was easily 4-5 times as expensive as equivalent gas. That was before the > 2x price hike recently.
They state that a next task is hire the technical lead https://careers.who.int/careersection/ex/jobdetail.ftl?job=2...
Build your own GitHub readme with widgets
Is there any other kind? SPA is the only port knocking I use!
Do you mean inedible as in indigestible, will make you sick, or taste awful? Do you mean viable as in produces any fruit, produces edible fruit, or produces enjoyable fruit.
I'm familiar with crab apples. But I'm curious in what the avocado equivalent of a crab apple is and what it's characterics are.
You could, but the biggest benefit of staged builds (IMHO) is that you can use a heavy base image for the build process (classic Ubuntu for example, where it's easy to add repositories and install dependencies), and a very small image for runtime (i.e. Alpine, busybox).

I find that it's easier to debug the build process with a "standard" distribution.
Is there an easy way to display a diff which shows all the new links since the last time this was on HN? (Sept. 8th, 2020)

Partial list:

Falsehoods about Airline Seat Maps https://duffel.com/blog/falsehoods-about-seat-maps

Falsehoods about Biometrics https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/falsehoods-programmers-beli...

Falsehoods about Plain Text https://jeremyhussell.blogspot.com/2017/11/falsehoods-progra...
I'm not a big systemd fan, but the logging aspect of it is a feature that I like and use. It provides a standardized way to search logs by relative time intervals, per unit. Without it, you'd have to deal with whatever arbitrary format an application decided to log its format in, and write some adhoc scripts to do the same thing.
It's one thing to "write an app" and something else completely to bring it to a standard consumable by lay users.

Having published and maintained an app that is in active use by even a couple hundred users gives you an advantage in employability and quite a big one at that.

Your post makes it seem like you have neither published an app yourself nor hired single devs who have, and it's easy to not appreciate.
I'm pretty sure that Amazon bought MGM to prevent Bezos from being the next James Bond villain.

(Not him specifically, but a bald man described as an "Internet mogul" who is "the richest person on Earth" with "tentacles in every aspect of daily life", and is now "building his own private space program".)
It's really out of the ordinary when you're in the top 1% and can't afford a decent life - meanwhile lower middle class people who bought before QE (15 years ago) can afford a decent life.

We shouldn't be lowering our "unreasonable" standards. If you're in the top 1% in income - you should have an complementary lifestyle. Not just be grateful that you're not in complete financial misery like everyone else your age.
JPEG vs. BPG Image Comparison
HEIC is this plus a kitchen sink of features for digital camera rolls, which aren't useful on the web, all wrapped in a ton of legacy ISO BMFF complexity reaching as far as Classic Mac Quicktime. BPG structure is much more minimal and pragmatic.

However, BPG is unnecessary nowadays. Modern browsers support AVIF, which is HEIF+AV1, so basically HEIC with the painfully patented bit swapped for a freely licensed one.
As one of our VCs once wisely said to us: "The hardest thing is to get a consumer to install a new app. Deliver your solution any way other than its own app."
For some, its not about the kids its about showing themselves as a parent.

For others, its about sharing with people that you know that you and your kids had a good time while providing some privacy protection for your kids. Micro-managing who can see what picture is hard, the people that know your kids get the full mental image from the picture.
They implemented the features. People just need to use them.
Serious questions:

1) Is GitHub runing under Azure's technology stack?

2) Is GitHub under Azure's mamagement (in contrast to Visual Studio's team)?

I'm not sure about two but I'm pretty sure that GitHub doesn't run under Azure at all, considering that GitHub has fully separate networking from MSN's/Azure's (and GitHub's machines do pingback unlike most of Microsoft's machines which don't).
Is there a source for this? I have taken this at face value, because its quite clear from app designs that this is happening, but I have never found definitive proof of this happening. Has someone compiled a report on this?
This is pretty neat actually.

A little constructive input: Seeing more of the people who you can potentially book calls with might make people more willing to sign up. I'm interested, but with only 3 examples it leaves me in the "Ehh I'll save this and think about later" zone. Good work though.
Lending Protocols: How do they work?
Some edge cache providers will give you logs of all requests.
Yeah, definitely running the preprocessor as a separate process eases the memory pressure — I think Unix's pipeline structure was really key to getting so much functionality into a PDP-11, where each process was limited to 16 bits of address space.

Pointer-based trees seem like a natural way to handle compound types to me, but it's true that they can be bulky. Hash consing might keep that manageable. An alternative would be to represent types as some kind of stack bytecode: T_INT32 T_PTR T_PTR T_ARRAY 32 T_PTR T_INT32 T_FN or something for the type of int f(int *(*)[32]) or something (assuming int is int32_t). That would be only 11 bytes, assuming the array size is 4 bytes, but kind of a pain in the ass to compute with.

Interned strings — pointers to a symbol object or indexes into a symbol array — can be bigger than the underlying byte data. Slices of an mmap can be even bigger. This is of course silly when you have one of them in isolation — you need a pointer to it anyway — but it can start to add up when you have a bunch of them concatenated, like in a macro definition where you have a mixture of literal text and parameter references.
The level you're working at matters too for visa reasons. If you can qualify for an L-1 visa, it's one of the easiest ways to get from the UK to the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-1_visa
> The entire point of git is that it's decentralized, lol.

No-one here is criticizing git itself. That is not the point.

It is GitHub that is defeating the whole point of it all, once their hosted central server goes down.

The majority of these projects went all in on GitHub, including using GitHub actions, npm packages, hosting their whole website, etc hence as soon as it goes down, they can't push or update anything; especially if it was very urgent. It has become a giant single point of failure for nearly everything.

There is a reason why the Linux Kernel, Mozilla, Qt, Chromium, GNOME, ReactOS, etc self-host their own repositories and have fail-safes repositories if Github goes down and becomes unreliable.
> of course we have classic manure, but unfortunately if not enough

The Netherlands has an enormous oversupply of poop. It's been exporting it for years, to whoever will take it.

> the Green New Deal want to push a meat-less diet not because of pollution but because doing so means that food production is a big industrial business, not something little player can run and compete

I'm afraid you entirely lost me here. This (meat can be done profitably at a smaller scale than plant production) is quite simply a fabrication.
> If you truly believe that, I don't think you're going to have a productive discussion on this topic here.

Of course; many folks here are ideologically hyper-individualists, liberals, liberal anarchists, libertarians, etc. The idea that various collectivisms including "fascism" are okay is offensive to those ideologies.

However, the onus is not on me to pander to their ideological limitations.
My favorite way to find out what flags do is explainshell:

e.g. https://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=wget+-c
The marginal cost of copying software is zero, so it seems venal (to me) to charge people for making copies of that software.

Writing new software takes effort, and maintaining existing software takes effort, so it seems perfectly natural to charge people for that. (RMS himself charges people for writing and maintaining software, "Free" as in liberty not free beer, eh?)

- - - -

To me the whole point of software, of transistors!, is to change the nature of our economics to a post-drudgery post-scarcity world. "Let the robots do the work and we'll take their pay."

Giving away software should be seen as a way to accelerate that process (e.g. Bucky Fuller's "Design Science Revolution".) In that light, "Open" source (as contrasted with "Free" GPL'd source) is pointless because it omits the crucial aspect of not hoarding software improvements. In other words, Open Source gives away the cornucopia to people that don't share.

We have seen technological progress result in skyrocketing wealth yet most of it is captured and sequestered and we go on in relative poverty squandering our precious moments of life in pointless jobs.

Don't make software development into another pointless thankless job. Use computers and software to remake civilization into a nicer, more fun place to be.
Do you believe the person posting is guilty of "creating accounts routinely"? Or just one for this app and one 'main' account?

I don't see an issue with creating multiple accounts as long as they're not used for abuse, e.g. spam or trolling, or cause technical issues, e.g. creating millions of accounts. I mean if done right you'd never know or care.
>And so not finishing a promised series is taking from that trust commons.

This is the most important point - GRRM is hurting other authors with his failure to deliver on an implicit social contract. How many future authors will not get their first book in a series read enough to justify a second because readers will wait for a series to be finished before putting in the energy to read it?
mesons are composed of two quarks and can have neutral or non-neutral charge. baryons are composed of three quarks and can have neutral or non-neutral charge. both mesons and baryons are classified as hadrons

charge, baryon number, isospin and strangeness are all related by the Gell-Mann-Nishijima formula[1].

the overarching principle underlying this is that in quantum chromodynamics, the theory of the strong interaction, quarks are representations of an underlying SU(3) gauge group containing color charge (a quantum number) and electric charge quantized as -1/3e and +2/3e. QCD is a gauge theory (like all other theories of nature) and the gauge boson, the gluon, also pops out of demanding the theory be invariant under local SU(3) gauge transformations.

that said, no one has any clue why all of our physical theories are gauge theories :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann%E2%80%93Nishijima_fo...
A deliberate lie sounds worse than a mistake.
As someone with diagnosed PTSD, I never thought I'd psychologically level with an entire state ;)
at its core this thought is unsolvable from our current state within the universe

Our reality exists because existence was possible. there are no contradictory rules to the way the universe functions. maybe for all abstract possibilities of non-contradictory existence, it spontaneously happens. this is where the multiverse theories come from.

The fact that anything is tangible, or has a "where" or any property at all is just a subset of that existence so as far as "where did this all come from" goes.. it didnt. It exists to us only because we are in it, but is as consequential as a thought experiment. This spawned the "universe is a simulation" theories. the universe is large because we are small within it, it feels so full of time because we are shortlived within it.. but maybe the entire thing is a near instantaneous collapse of some wave function in some other system.

Maybe that system is looking to us to use our relatively fast existence to give it answers in its slow world.
No wonder the army doesn't want Hololens, microsoft became a very lazy and low quality software company

And it's not just Windows11, it is everything else:

https://www.neowin.net/news/leaked-memo-reveals-microsoft-is...
To expand on that for those that don't know, traditionally all font sizes had names, like Great Primer for 18 pt, Ruby for 5.5 pt, and many others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_point-size_names
UK/Australia/NZ tend to talk about Base salary (excludes bonus/health care/before tax).

Is that different elsewhere?

Edited to note this is "Base" not "Total" Salary
Now how about making this available for non-Enterprise customers?
In the end, this could well end up being a good thing. We tend to trust our modules too much, and it kinda works because usually they aren't doing anything. Increasing the failure rate, so to speak, could force us to address the question of how to vet module changes.

It also seems inevitable. Without celebration of this fact, the zeitgeist is clearly shifting away from openness. We may not see a lot more malware but I'd be completely unsurprised to see continued fracturing and more people tying software licenses to ideological stances, in retaliation for the other software tied to ideological stances. While the HN gestalt may tend to bemoan the end result, the HN gestalt is largely in favor of the forces driving this effect, and it's not going to be very easy to have one without the other.

It's gonna be a heck of a mess, though. At least current licenses can be largely categorized into groups around what they require. How is one going to classify licenses based on the effectively-infinite variety of ideological stances a library author could require? Open source license validation services are going to get pretty complicated.
Absolutely, especially in such a crowded mature space it makes total sense to discuss the full market. As others have said, I like to come to the comments to learn not just about the product at hand but of what else is out there, show hn isn’t some exclusive show room for the product in the title.
Thanks for the downvote and the no-content comment, I guess? I've worked with numerous large Terraform configurations, and the ones that use terraform-aws-modules are harder to maintan, have more churn due to updates of the modules, and are more divorced from the actual underlying cloud resources due to random decisions made by the module authors.

I really struggle to understand the reason for using the modules rather than the underlying resources, except that there are a lot of tutorials and blog posts written based on using the modules.

Maybe you can enlighten me rather than writing a three-letter comment?
Let me try to find them. I packed a lot of things in storage last year I'm afraid. I might have better luck searching online....

EDIT: Here you go (maybe just Vol 1): https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Rider/BASIC%20ELECTRON...

Also (all 5 volumes): https://archive.org/details/BasicElectronicsVolumes151955
No thanks Google, you're evil now. You're not spying on my users or my business.
I can assure you most Europeans don't have issues with de-Googled Huawei devices.

Regardless of the reason why Amazon Fire Tablets get sold, they are sold.
Seriously.

I don't know how people text edit without the vim keybindings. I'll never go back!
If you use React, Vue and others, that decision has been made for you.
AMD Teases FSR 2.0: Temporal Upscaling Tech for Games Coming in Q2
Most video I deal with is YUV (YCbCr) 422 at 30 bits per 2 pixels
I applaud you for fixing that. As you know, when I wrote my comment, it still said "Additional terms for …"
Does anything NOT beat the GARCH(1,1)? (2013)
It probably slowed down/stopped for the first quake before the 7.3 hit and derailed it?
45% tax
Cognac is usually what? 30-40% alcohol?

It needs to be 70%.

https://www.cdc.gov/infectioncontrol/guidelines/disinfection...
You explained nothing. I live in a country that democratically voted for socialism and actually tried to implement it, only to see it fail spectacularly and have foreign influences inserted into the state. This meme of "socialism has never been tried" needs to die already.
How high are the chances it uses a yt-dlp backend?
I would guess, as I said, that towns simply compete for the business by making them an attractive offer. For example even when selling the ground for the warehouse towns could give Amazon a cheaper price while hoping for more future income in taxes. Presumably that would apply to other companies as well.

The bit about "paying to destroy mainstreet" is of course nonsense. Amazon's business would exist either way.
BricsCAD? The company i work for uses the Windows version. It has a Linux version too.
"Your browser does not support JPEG XL"; I'm sure it's cool technology but whoever is behind it needs to hire developers and advocates to push code to Webkit / Blink to add support for it, else it won't get mainstream adoption.
AWS CloudSaga – Simulate security events in AWS
Reiterated here from another commenter: “Have you stop beating your wife?”
Helpful Accessibility Resources from the Web Accessibility Initiative (2021)
I would like to push against this because it results in some very terrible market behavior. You are effectively selecting for less trilogies released because of this, or only the people who publish trilogies are people with enough fan base (aka no debuts). What happens is actually the publisher drops the author! Rarely the author loses interest, more often the publisher sees the lack of sales and drops the author entirely, killing the series.
Thanks, this is great. I found it works a lot better if you leave the magnitude alone and only mess with the phase.

The image is still recognisable even at quite harsh compression of the phase file, but almost totally unrecognisable at even minor compression of the magnitude file.
I use nvim with nvim lsp. Deno works fantastic, especially since it has a built in lsp, no third party packages or scripts required.
It's an unfortunate fact that many people think terraform-aws-modules is the way to manage AWS resources with Terraform.
It really reminds me of that interview with Steve Jobs from the 90s where you can tell just how frustrated he is at Microsoft's success with what he describes as really "third-rate" software.
Yeah, I admit I find the tendency for MS products to autocorrect anything it can infuriating but I guess I'm just not their target audience which is why I stick to FOSS products and operating systems.

I tend to use org-mode's table feature and if I need to export stuff to common formats, pandoc.
Terminator for president !
Is there meaningful opposition? A separation of powers? Free and fair elections? A free press?

If his desires become actions without resistance then Putin == Russia

Maybe you mean Putin != All Russians
> No, despite your assertions to the contrary, we have addressed your arguments.

Who is we? Are you working with someone? Are you part of some goup?

> Please read the links provided.

I have. Even before you provided it. What about "Once I believed in the ughyur genocide propaganda" did't you understand?

And no. You haven't addressed anything. I asked you specific questions and instead of answering them, you are telling me to go find the answers. The only reason you'd do that is because I'm right and you can't answer my questions.

> To those reading along the thread: qiskit is engaging in a very common apologetics approach intended to sow doubt on obvious things.

Nice try. Do you realize you come off as someone reading a script rather than someone truly interested in facts or reason.

> It proceeds by asking insincere "simple questions", ignoring responses

Simple questions like "How does a population increase during a genocide" isn't insincere just because it makes a mockery of your false assertion.

> This has been used by Russia as of late in their media

Don't you mean the "CCP"?

When I wrote: "Oh there it is. "Whataboutism" and it's obvious what is going on here."

I called it.
Creator clearly wants the app for their own use case, but correctly identified another. It is neither.
A measurable fraction of people who break streaks simply stop playing. Missing that dopamine hit of your streak counter incrementing (and being higher than your friends) can be worse than having no streak feature at all.
nice, no exotic catalysts
What they are doing here isn't radically different or new. At the high level it looks very similar to Android's AIDL[1]. That said, I loved AIDL and had the same impression. I'd love for something like this become the new standard in IPC. It was such a pleasure to work with and I've missed it since I left Android OS work.

1. https://developer.android.com/guide/components/aidl
Most people also wouldn’t shoot up a school, yet here we are