skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While absolutely genius, it would be more awesome if we could shift this to the left. And have dpkg or apt, or something new, only fetch and place those binaries that are needed.
Just speaking hypothetically why wouldn't you have that option (I mean unless you were quadraplegic or just mentally completely out of it)? I have my own plan for that but hopefully that is decades and decades in the future. Also make sure to do a living will.
Show HN: I made a calculator to figure out Stripe fees
> "ele não é assim, ele está assim"

"He is not like that, he is only acting like that" or "He is not like that, he is only currently like that."
Pre 9-11 public?
As linked in the piece, Kevin Roose has been pushing extremely hard for journalists covering crypto to be allowed to be crypto holders:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220219172535/https://twitter.c...

Note that non-clownshoes financial outlets, e.g. Financial Times or Bloomberg, expressly forbid journalists from writing about an asset they hold, except under appropriate editorial supervision.

Roose's present article is best viewed as his appeal to his bosses to be allowed to become a hodler.
For somebody who doesn’t “care a single bit about money” he certainly has gathered a significant amount of material wealth for himself, his mistresses, etc.

But then again, since you’re taking his ridiculous casus belli scribblings at a face value, there’s little I can do to convince you.
I don't intend to run more than one X server. Most of my GUI applications don't use X.
What has how animals are treated got to do with selective breeding? Even your granddad probably used selective breeding.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30804984
Buying SaaS is not trivial either.
> Pre-WWII Germans were very unhappy about Danzig.

Good point but I think 'unhappy' is understatement. Germany did ultimatum to Poland that they want to have a land corridor to Danzig. Poland said no and Germany invaded Poland later on. So there is a lot of similarity in current situation in a way that current Russia == old Germany
A postgres server is just a computer with 5432 open instead of 22.

> If you keep it simple, it stays simple.

Things that work well for one person in isolation don't work at scale or for teams. How do you handle authentication for your git server? What about backups? Manage disk space? Updates? That's before you get to the point of dealing with workflows and integrations, or "it's slow when 10 people clone at the same time"
> Russia has planned to become as independent as possible, to become the first major nation state to issue a digital currency,

I would say one of the first since China [0] already has issued their digital yuan CBDC. [0] But it seems that Russia has prepared for this years ahead and where ready to be hit with the sanctions.

> I think that the sanctions against Russia will perhaps have the inverse effect people predicted

Perhaps so.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/11/china-digital-yuan-pboc-to-e...
Hi everyone!

I’ve been finding Stripe fees more and more difficult to calculate in my head, so I made a calculator to quickly see the fees for different scenarios.

It supports 40 countries and the additional features Stripe provides an extra fee.

Stack: Rails without a database, Turbo, and Stimulus. Hosted for free on Fly.io in their Texas, Amsterdam, and Singapore regions. Using Cloudflare’s for the DNS + CDN.

Questions and feedback welcome.

Hope you find it useful!
"live their actual life" is a subjective view. For lots of people what they do at work is part of their core identity and an integral part of their "actual life".
Given that this movie is available to the public on AppleTV Plus, in high definition no less, I can see why you wouldn’t spend money preventing leakage of a standard definition DVD.
I'm... Not sure insulting other languages is a path to victory.

Npm, as much as it annoys me, is light-years ahead of anything in python. Quicklisp is rather pleasant, now. Ruby has had gems for a long time.

I grant that it is a hard problem. I am not griping that it is not solved. More that the option community has largely failed to even pick a direction. The most used dependency methods are, in the modern spirit of python, deprecated already.
> If you're moving to Fedora then Gnome really is the path of least resistance

Which is really the largest drawback by far that I've found. GNOME 4 is user-hostile garbage made by people who really really wish they were designing for tablets. It's practically useless without third-party extensions, which are of course unsupported. It doesn't even have a system tray FFS.

If Fedora Kinoite worked as well as Fedora Silverblue, I think I could be reasonably content. Immutable base system with Flatpak and Toolboxes is pretty close to how I actually want a system to work.
I was wrong sorry. I was thinking of a different medical experience with lots of tubes I had, and donating blood. I guess I havent done just a tube & glass thingy
Um, actually... You're in for a bad time mate: ($1.00 = $7.31) https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1970?amount=1

Even at a 100 year range it comes out to: ($1.00 = $16.89) https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1922?amount=1

BUT, these numbers may not yet be taking into full account some of the most recent upticks in inflation. SO, there may be some room for error yet. But $24... sorry pal, but nope. Not quite there yet.

And for the Canadians out there: It's pretty much the same deal. I think last I checked, it was at $15.65 for 1$ @ 100 years range.
> You want to beat Python? Build a type system that can capture dimensional analysis. Warning: it won't be easy.

Curious about your thoughts on pint and Unitful.jl — pint doesn’t really go all the way to a full type system, and Unitful.jl doesn’t work with everything (autograd is a problem still I think). But Unitful.jl is super cool.

https://pint.readthedocs.io/en/stable/wrapping.html#checking...

https://painterqubits.github.io/Unitful.jl/stable/
Well, some couples aren’t planning on a kid, but they also aren’t planning not to.

I’d be curious to survey asking those two questions - did you want this child? Did you intend to have this child?
QML comes with gigantically more memory usage and it's very inefficient at rendering text. If you want to render something that looks like a wikipedia page, prepare to pay a heavy price.

GPU were designed for graphics, not UIs, we can certainly make them work within constraints, but it's not always a huge andvantage, and has drawbacks. 99% of what you use a UI for doesn't really get that much advantage from the GPU.

That said, I think there is advantage there, we just have to learn how to use it well.
Of course this looks like the fruits of your leadership (“not to brag”) from your perspective. On the other hand it can look different from the other side when you see your peers jump at the opportunity to please the boss.

As long as one is the person with the authority in a relationship one cannot really know which option it is.
This is so true.

Once the world recognizes that you have made it, it kind of turns on you. But hey, what does not kill you only makes you stronger.
Seems like 20v might be a better choice. Then you have 20v available for USB-C monitor ports.

You could give every device its own modular swappable mini PSU that takes 20v and gives whatever the card requests, so if the onboad converters go bad on a GPU you can swap them.

At least it seems like negative voltages are mostly on the way out!
It would also make it less desirable to move.

Besides the biggest hindrance of the emigraes is probably the bank account USD limit, but that is all Russias doing.
> Yes, I think few people seem to realize X Windows can be operated over a network as well.

Because in practice it generally can't; I'm not aware of any Linux distribution not shipping their X server with `-nolisten tcp` by default.
Colorado has a bunch of these, albeit on a smaller scale. Colorado Parks & Wildlife released a study on the effectiveness of these.

https://cpw.state.co.us/hwy9

> The research documented 112,678 mule deer successful passages through or over the seven crossing structures. Combined with an overall success rate of 96% of mule deer utilizing the structures, these results indicate that the project has been highly effective in accommodating mule deer movement.
Antarctic Press would probably have significant objections to that.
+1 worth reading about Bhopal:
https://www.google.com/search?q=bhopal+disaster

(this was a huge deal and shocked people worldwide)
There's a difference between mistakes and being maliciously tricked into making those mistakes
Rice and maize yields boosted up to 10 per cent by CRISPR gene editing
not sure. there are many factors that contributed to python's success.

i discovered the language in 98 or 99. it came with some obscure linux distribution and the tkinter module stood out for me. it showed pretty scientific graphs and charts. but the language has to reinvent its community many times since then.

my intuition is that it was popular in europe in the scientific community. not sure i can say the same for ruby.
They don't have to do business in the EU then.

Their government decided what is allowed in their country.

If the companies don't like it, then they should have won the election, or they should leave and go do business elsewhere
Men can get vasectomies.

But the basic point is that, it’s only even considered a possible option for men if there are no side effects.

Yet all forms of birth control for women have side effects.
I think a lot of this has to do with just how bad/incomplete the docs are, how unnecessarily janky the shell integration is, and how the Anaconda launcher itself makes a huge mess and actively works against best practices.

The docs for building your own packages are even worse, to the point where you basically are left copying snippets from Conda Forge to build anything nontrivial.

Basically Conda is a tremendous engineering achievement, but it's very much still a "first draft" in a lot of ways, and Continuum/Anaconda made some weird decisions that work against its user-friendliness. Imagine for example if third-party repos on anaconda.org could have a description box, link to a homepage, etc...
I'm skeptical. A lot of the land that looks like good land in north America has a poor climate, poor soil, or both. Further, to make soil productive, you have to do a lot of work building irrigation and drainage.

People look at a state like Montana and think that the vast stretches of land are undeveloped, but in reality, unless you went in with a lot of investment and care, the soil would just lift off and you'd end up with another dust bowl.

If Canadian farmers are like farmers in most of the western world, they're great at filling forms, exploiting bureacracy, getting paid to not grow sugar beet or whatever the latest scheme is, then yakking about how it breaks their cowboy hearts that the state can't just let them be free.
Edited it, I wrote incorrectly. I know other countries have created digital currencies, I am trying to say they are trying to become the first massive nation dependent on their own.
One word: Recruit!
I think some of that is a lot harder to when remotely, though. You can't do team dinners, and the alternatives feel forced to me. It's also a lot harder to socialise with people that you only interact with a few times a day (if you're asynchronous) because they don't feel like a part of your life like in-personal colleagues would. So it ends up being a very I'm impersonal relationship.
A primary caveat is that it is a massive platform designed to do many things, in it's own flavour of C++.

As far as UI programming goes, it's very slow moving. Once you get the right flavour chosen, it's not so bad.

If you are making an app for a Kiosk, like a ticket console, that's not going to change every day, Qt is a good choice, it's well supported.

For other things it's a tougher decision.
I'm not insulting other languages - I'm pointing out they have the same situation! Where in that post is there an insult???

I have had many dep fights with Ruby and Node too, and I would disagree that their solutions are in any way better than pip and virtualenv.
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But why is it such a big problem in Python compared to other stacks? Why does all python projects end up depending on you having those exact tools of things installed locally and the planets aligned a certain way, when other stacks do not?
Map based on that data: https://www.mapcontrib.xyz/t/e5c83c-OpenPianosMap (via https://github.com/brunetton/OpenPianosMap)
Yeah, absolutely. The radioactive signature is highly traceable. IIRC, they were able to pinpoint the source of the polonium that Russia used to murder Alexander Litvinenko in the UK.
They have: Nix and Guix for example can handle Python dependencies as well as native dependencies, and can build them reproducibly. They just haven’t caught on yet.
Counter-intuitive? I picked it because it was the closest scripting language to C (see the select and socket APIs for good examples). And it had numeric array support early-on (making it an attractive replacement for matlab).
> Honest question: how do you communicate between two Lisp processes on two different machines? I know Clojure has EDN (which is sort of like JSON : JavaScript), but I haven't heard of the solutions for other Lisps.

Probably TCP or UDP based protocols like essentially every cross-network communication in every language today.

EDIT: Also, it should be noted that JSON does not, itself, allow you to communicate across a network. It's just a serialization format. You still have to select some protocol for actually doing the communication. If your answer to the question "How do you communicate between two JavaScript processes on two different machines?" is "JSON", you've failed at actually answering the question.
> Personally, I'm happy that we had an imperative, statically typed mainstream language without generics for a long time. It really showed how much you can achieve without it in practical terms.

Didn't C already teach us this decades ago?
There is the Mamba project, which is developing a drop-in Conda replacement, along with a bunch of other related tooling.
It is also really annoying for those of us who like the fact that canceling is easy, and that I can count on it being easy. At least make it so that the choice of merchant should be the user, not the app developer.
> Where is it being celebrated?

Would you consider brandishing the colors of the OUN celebrating them? You could see the red and black flag along side the the flags of Ukraine and EU even during the Euromaidan protests. Too informal? How about granting them pensions and veteran status?

> In January 2011, the award was officially annulled.

On technical grounds because Bandera wasn't a citizen. My point was more about how the Overton window shifted.

Based on your response, I feel I should clarify. I am in no way justifying the Russian invasion or Putin's Denazification bullshit. I am only pointing out that Nobody hates neo-Nazis like we do line is inaccurate.
The way I read GP's post, it's more about plausible deniability.

As in the "ham-fisted Covid response" was going to have a bunch of ill-effects. But now that there's a war, which is going to increase those effects, and would have created them anyway, said governments have a scapegoat: "It's not our measures that have created these problems, it's the war. We can't be blamed!".
Canonical used to be The Chosen One, the prophesied savior that would decend from the heavens and bring us a reasonable chance at actually having a Year of the Linux Desktop. Then something happened, and they turned to the darkside, started adopting the worst behaviors of Microsoft, and here we are. Sadly they are still promoted as the recommended "generic" distro for the masses.
For anyone wondering, this appears to be the app: https://steprimo.com/android/us/app/io.linga/Linga-Read-book... (it's been instantly deleted from the google play store, which is just hilarious Google "minimum viable everything" behavior).
Sure. I was of course referring to the fact that they have to work in order to survive.

And once you have to do that it might be prudent to let it become a part of your identity. It is after all something that you have to do for half of your waking time outside of weekends and vacations.
Today one Lisp Machine CPU emulator written in assembler is 80 times faster than the original Lisp hardware. This could be made faster by a JIT compiler. Native code Lisp compilers for x86-64 or Apple's M1 are roughly 800 times faster than the original Lisp hardware (the third generation Ivory processor).
Do you think it wasn't acknowledged specifically because it was suicide, or was it an overall culture of not addressing the cause of death in general? Because the second one sounds fine to me.
author of said book here. Nothing in the quoted statement has changed in the past five years. You don't appear to be disputing the claim, but casting about for a spurious reason to play "gotcha." Are you in fact disputing the claim?
have you heard of docker?
My partner's partner is a scientist too. ;-)

In addition to not having budgets for programmers, we also don't know how to manage them, for instance how to communicate our needs, decide if their implementation plans make sense, or gauge their progress. Nearly half a century after The Mythical Man Month, managing software development is still generally acknowledged to be an unsolved problem.

The other two obstacles are that most programmers hate the scientific work environment, with its ever-changing requirements and frequent dead ends. And, the programmers who can work on math related stuff are in the highest demand.
> We don't "need" Lisp machines. We "need" Lisp software. What made a Lisp machines extraordinary wasn't the hardware, it was the software. Nothing today is impeding one from writing such software, except time, energy, willpower, and/or money.

Discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30800520 The main issue is that Lisp, for all its inherent "power", has very limited tools for enforcing modularity boundaries in code and "programming in the large". So everything ends up being a bespoke solo-programmer project, there is no real shared development. You can see the modern GC-based/"managed" languages, perhaps most notably with Java, as Lisps that avoided this significant pitfall. This might explain much of their ongoing success.
I get 'No Results' when I type 'DVD Player' in spotlight.
The formatting is redundant and should be able externalized. The argparse also deals with the output formatting, hence redundant. Only file spec selection is core to LS.
"Ferengi workers don't want to stop the exploitation, we want to find a way to become the exploiters."

--Rom, DS9
Good point. They have already shown good sportsmanship by signing up under real identities, so it's quite possible they'll even extend that to providing useful feedback.
> This is probably more than most people are willing to accept

You say that, but this a majority opinion amongst people I know both in my own age group (late twenties) and my parents age group (late fifties). My circles probably skew liberal, but even so I think that most people now have first-hand experience of elderly loved ones with dementia and the effects of that on both the person themselves and those who have to care for them. I can't see many people wanting that either for themselves of their descendants.

> I don't think we can sustain a society where people work for 40 years and then are retired for another 40. Quality of life will need to drop substantially, or we'll need massive birth rates.

And massive birth rates aren't sustainable either. That only pushes the problem back a few decades. This is why I'd ultimately prefer to my life to be cut short. The only alternative on a societal level is to work much harder while I am alive. I'd rather enjoy my time here and then go and let others have their turn.
This is pretty common in prelude to and during wars. Abraham Lincoln infamously shut down newspapers and arrested journalists and the newspaper's staff.

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-ar...
Clojure is like that. I love it.
but do you grow your own food or do you buy food that is trucked in and industrially produced?
BTW, do you know, Russians are raised as Nazis?

- They just don't accept thoughts, that other nations have right to make their choice.

To be honest, they divide all nations to great and not great. Rule is simple - Russians had wars with near every nation in Europe, and after WW2 in other parts of world, and who had before in well know history kicked them in the teeth, considered great nation, all others are not great, victims.
Most people don't realize that many waterproofing coatings in jackets, boots and even waterproof makeup have PFAS's.

Same goes for lubricants, from bicycle gears to door hinges to any manufactured good with moving parts.

Just about anything in modern industry will have, by now, already contaminated you with PFAS.
I'm just grumbling because even I as a professional dev can sometimes spend days getting some python project up and running correctly. Then I feel sorry for non-devs for which all this is only a tool.
I'm increasingly convinced that the majority of so-called "data science" is pure sciencism with little to no actual science for exactly this reason. It's reading correlations from digital tea leaves.
MS Word Lacks a Settings.json
They’re being transparent, I think that’s really respectful.
Started doing this after reading an article on the same topic by Aaron Swartz[0]. I write the mistakes in Obsidian and link them with other things in my life.

0. http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/geremiah
I think all that is a waste of startup founder’s time. Focus on your product, make sure your customers love it, and more new customers get to know about it. If you do that, competition does not matter; if you don’t do that, you lose regardless of competition.
The main point of the paper is that now the third experimental excess in data appeared at more or less the same mass, 95 GeV. Obviously one 3 sigma excess should not excite you too much. But three excesses (two at ~3 sigma, one at ~2 sigma) looks more interesting.
Congress should pass a law abridging this behavior…/s
FF has been driving me crazy lately.

Every other day it blows away all my open tabs and whatever I had going on in them.

I have a bunch of random tabs open, some with essentially "unsaved work", like shopping carts which may be the result of an hour of research, editing files in web interfaces like github or fluidd (web interface to a 3d printer) ... and randomly once every day or 3, I'll go to touch anything, any button in any of those tabs, like edit that config file some more, or try to save it... and kablooey, "firefox needs to restart" and I lose everything I had going.

This is a new thing that didn't used to happen.

Apparently the snap teams response to this story would be "Don't use FF like that."
The global investing app boom
More often than not we have a reason for it. I can say I try really hard not to be HR: We tend to look the other way on any activity that isn't a security risk. Though sometimes one can turn into another:

I once ignored someone's attempt to run a game on a PC of ours. Turns out it was a hacked version of a game which had malware injected, and when it got blocked, they tried installing VPNs and Wireshark to try to get around our security methods...

If you have any questions about presumed oppressive IT policies, I'd be happy to give you my take on them. Some folks do indeed go nuts with it, but often I think the reasons why just aren't obvious at first glance.
Sure, but space is big, and satellites are small. I bet all the Starlink satellites in orbit fit comfortably inside the area of an American football field.

Satellite visualizations always make space appear more crowded than it really is.