skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, here's the thing, I would love to use something like this. This is an area I've been trying to address with various spreadsheets for years along with crudely drawn floorplans. The biggest issue for me, is that whatever solution I go with, MUST export to an editable spreadsheet format (export to XLSX preferred).

For me, this is the type of information I want to export to multiple storage places for backup, and keep a printed copy in my fire safe. Not just in a SaaS. I'm perfectly fine paying for a SaaS service (if reasonably priced, no more than $5/mo for an individual), but I need these export options or I'd never sign up. Holding my data hostage is a non-starter.
I’d be interested to see a built in OCR feature for book isbns, or games
Steps are more convenient if you own a smartwatch or health-monitoring watch.

Most people don't ("but I never see anyone without one!" yes, you live in a tech-hub bubble), so yeah, time would be easier.
In my experience, I found recruiters and screeners to be very condescending and, in some cases, downright nasty. In one case, it was all smiles, until they brought in the tech lead, and I was quickly given the bum's rush, after that.

Recruiters tended to "ghost" me, almost immediately upon finding out my age.

It was weird. I have a tremendous résumé, and they would contact me, gushing about it, then would suddenly have a "connection issue," after I told them my age.

I'd never hear from them again. I guess the industry is crawling with 30-year-olds, with 35 years of experience.

It's quite possible to get work. All of my employees got jobs again, but it took a couple of years, for a couple of them to find settled work. Most had to be contractor employees for a year or so. Our team was composed of very experienced C++ programmers. Absolutely top-shelf engineers.

They're doing fine, now, but it took a while. I just didn't feel like going through the agita.
the article is about an _electrical_ battery that is seasonally heated up for usage and cooled down for the long term storage of the charge contained in it...

i had only heard of molten salt batteries which need to stay hot long term, so they are heavily insulated

maybe this article is talking about a primary battery (i.e. electrically not rechargable), which would make more sense
The Great Lakes do occasionally freeze over significantly, though never completely. 2013-2014 was one such winter, when ice coverage reached 92% across all five lakes. That's quite unusual though.

And the city of Toronto uses lake water for cooling. Heat from a downtown cooling loop is dumped into the city's drinking water supply, bringing the temperature up to around 13° from 6° (if I remember correctly).
Syncing between websites is certainly a long term feature that isn't quite on the roadmap yet, but data exporting certainly is. Right now I'm committed to PDF reporting, and I can also provide you a sqlite copy of your data via a support request (Although I am working to make this option available to users 24/7). I've also had others mention the desire for a CSV format, so I'll also be sure to think that one over as well. Thank you for your feedback!
I used to run an e-mail service with ~2m user accounts '99-'01. Our storage was an IBM ESS "Shark" stocked with 1.5TB of drives and two RS/6000 servers as the storage controllers.

Add on web frontends and mail exchangers, and the entire system was slower and had less aggregate RAM and processing power, less (and slower) disk (well SSD in my laptop) than my current $1500 laptop.
Well, if you start from the position that rural living is a hellhole, I don't know what to tell you buddy. Plenty of people enjoy it just fine, just different costs and benefits
> I think Gibson really dislikes Cyberpunk 2077, for example. Gibson argued they are missing the point, staying shallow and forgetting the "message", which was PUNK: a rebellion and a rejection of the mainstream state of affairs. Gibson was a punk writer, and his writing was a critique of Reaganomics and the direction the world was going back then.

I'd argue that another game released in 2020 understood the "punk" part of cyberpunk much better than CP2077 -- Umurangi Generation. Instead of giving you a gun, the game gives you a camera, and tells you to go out and document how everyday people are reacting to the end of the world. The game was primarily inspired by the early 2020 brushfires in Australia, while its add-on DLC pack Macro was heavily influenced by the protests following the death of George Floyd, and both heavily criticize how the state misleads, reassures, and generally fails to respond to dire situations.

Errant Signal did an excellent deep-dive (and spoiler-filled) video essay on the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctkeq8IpdQA
This is super interesting! Do you have more information about this?

- How many developers are working on that codebase simultaneously?

- What is your workflow like? Do you have any sort of CI system? How does it work?

- How does your deployment works? Is it a single beefy machine or a fleet of smaller ones?

- What kind of network protocols do you use? Any code generation?

- How do you deal with errors -- are there equivalents of "coredumps" or "logs" in the Pharo world?
>A decent chunk of people in the previous thread were saying he’s doing it to kill the bot that tracks his plane’s movements

Those people are idiots though. The kid said he would turn off the bot for $50k. You think Elon bought 9% of Twitter to avoid paying $50k?
>Agreed, and it's important to note that the message "evil corporations are greedy and use tech in soulless and alienating ways" used to be a radical message but it's not anymore.

"The Nazis are evil" is also an overused trope and is hardly radical but by reusing it it helps protect us on a civilizational level from actual nazis.

Tropes can be sort of like cultural T cells. I'd rather see more "nazis are bad" and cyberpunk stories and less disney shit for this reason alone.

It'll start getting old for me when the risk of it coming true goes away.
Not much for WaPo perhaps, but for bezos that put him in the target sights of lot of people

Many of them state sponsored like Saudi government which targeted him after kashtogi.

He also got hacked and his dick pics were maybe compromised.

Those hacks could have accelerated his divorce too.
>I'm just tired of these conversations.

And yet here you are, engaging in one of them. I echo the parents request of a deep meditation on why you are feeling this way.
Jellyfin 10.8.0 Beta 1
How do you get this impression? Are you sure it's just not company policy?

A lot of places give their employees laptops.
If you weren’t offended enough, many of those G-cup Megan Thee Stallion fans are self-admitted minors crying “stop sexualizing me! I’m a kid!” while they gyrate. I deleted TikTok shortly after I installed it. (Not just because of that. The last thing I need is another attention-optimized vapid rabbit hole.)
Could have been a case of designing a platform around the hardware in the early 90s, then being desperate for parts to keep the platform going while designing the upgrade.
What goes around comes around. If Twitter wasn't so ideological to begin with then Musk may not have decided to meddle.

I personally would like companies to be less ideological in general.

EDIT: By less ideological I mean less interference on behalf of an ideology. Allowing all legally covered free speech would be the minimum interference possible by a company but not necessarily the maximally profitable position. Some interference may actually be a good thing - I think many companies have gone too far. My problem with companies being ideological is that they are signaling a willingness to interfere that invites substantial pressure from third parties to do so which can cut both ways.
Yes, it can be. It can also be funny and informative, though. Check out the archives, a lot of topics build on past articles and not everything is a joke, sometimes there are clear and simple explanations of financial terms: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthe...
Oh, come on. One should readily be able to understand that the author's goals are obviously technically aspirational despite being rhetorically lofty.
Elon is the wealthiest person ever. He will bend Twitter to help all his existing businesses increase his wealth, all while making more money doing so. How could you possibly think otherwise?
You too can achieve nuclear fusion!

https://makezine.com/projects/nuclear-fusor/

And just like everyone else, you'll suck up a lot more energy than you'll produce
The author of this blog post is lobbing some pretty serious accusations at Apple of being "neglect[ful]" and "deliberate," when in fact it's much more likely that the responsible teams are carefully trying to backport the security patches without causing regressions. Sometimes a little patience is in order.

But, of course, hysterics get you clicks.
Cynic here. It probably also depends on what you're developing. Many FAANG employees are ethically compromised, given who they elect to work for. They've demonstrated a willingness to trade high pay for: experimenting on people[0], harming workers[1], damaging mental health[2], addicting youth[3], distorting reality[4], facilitating harm[5].

So, If you're cool with the people that make that happen, then, yeah. Recruit away.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/02/facebook-....

[1] https://theintercept.com/2022/04/04/amazon-union-living-wage...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/sep/18/teenage-g...

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021/09/17/instagra...

[4] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/encountering-america...

[5] https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2018/11/23/should-...
Maybe I'm cynical but I think most of their success can be attributed to advertising/marketing. They've done a good job of that. In quality though, I don't consider them better than Huawei or Xiaomi.
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What problem is this solving that a shell script couldn't handle for you? I don't know anything about nix, genuinely curious.
The funny thing about life is that everyone places different levels of importance on things. You might think that innovation in EVs and space exploration far outweigh how someone treats other individuals, whereas others might place far greater importance in treating others with respect and equality over innovation in EVs and space exploration.

And you know what? That's OK. :)
Gibson admired the new (Japan) and the old (England). Perhaps the genre is xenophobic, but I don't think that's his bent:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/apr/01/sciencefiction...
Free Cloud Security Test
In my case, I am working on a project with a small NPO (Nonprofit 501c3). I'm the lone developer of a fairly ambitious iOS/iPadOS app that mixes a simple social graph with a geographic database.

It's coming along great. Been at it for about a year and a half (over two years, if you count the backend I wrote -over ten, if you count the geographic DB, which I also wrote).
One million cell made me though of https://lumino.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples/datagrid/in... that has a "trillion" cell demo :-) All the best.
And: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30916343
because of personal biases and feelings
You can make mistakes in IAC just like in the GUI. If the difference is having a plan stage (which, again, quite often you still don't know what the change is because it can't be known until apply), the GUI could offer a plan stage too.

One of the things Terraform should have had from day 1 was automatic import of all existing cloud resources and generation of hcl. That would allow creation of infra in a GUI and then locking it down into a version controlled declarative configuration. Terraformer (written by a Google team) does exactly this, though it's rudimentary and lacks a lot. I still use it to quickly capture the state of legacy accounts and make changes later.

Amazon should have had this for all its services by default, because it would prevent the need to manually craft code. GUIs exist to prevent people from having to slowly craft code by hand. I think people today still forget the entire purpose of GUIs because there's this cargo cult that says the only way to do anything good is to manually write lines of code.

Personally I'd be happy if I never wrote another line of code in my life, if the GUI would just version the configuration. And even better, if the state were immutable and versioned and didn't need to be constantly "fixed" by a configuration management tool (Terraform).
>1.4 million people were on the waitlist

This is not only cherry-picked, but fails to be sufficiently out of context to support the opposing opinion.

The key word is "were". Even if that word weren't there, the number is necessarily at a point in time.

Not to mention, what independent source verified the number?
I don't want to come across as disrespectful to my elders but in many ways I feel that certain kinds of nostalgia like this are holding open source back. One of my favorite pieces of software is GNU Make. Having read the codebase, I get the impression that its maintainer might possibly be a similar spirit to the OP. The kind of guy who was there, during the days when computers were a lot more diverse. The kind of guy who still boots up his old Amiga every once in a while, so he can make sure GNU Make still works on the thing, even though the rest of us literally would not be able to purchase one for ourselves even if we wanted it.

It's a pleasure I respect, but it's not something I'll ever be able to understand because they're longing for platforms that got pruned from the chain of direct causality that led to our current consensus (which I'd define more as EDVAC -> CTSS -> MULTICS/CPM -> SysV/DOS/x86 => Windows/Mac/Linux/BSD/Android/x86/ARM).

My point is that open source projects still maintain all these #ifdefs to support these unobtainable platforms. Because open source is driven by hobbyism and passion. And people are really passionate about the computers they're not allowed to use at their jobs anymore. But all those ifdefs scare and discourage the rest of us.

For example, here's a change I recently wrote to delete all the VAX/OS2/DOS/Amiga code from GNU Make and it ended up being 201,049 lines of deletions. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/commit/10a766ebd07b7340... A lot of what I do with Cosmopolitan Libc is because it breaks my heart how in every single program's codebase we see this same pattern, and I feel like it really ought to be abstracted by the C library, since the root problem is all these projects are depending on 12 different C libraries instead of 1.
it's a pretty cool project :D,
Thank you for making it !
I'll definitely try it in my next project.
I’ll write my comment to outweigh the negativity towards the game.

I’m still enjoying the game, still riding through Night City, finding new details every day: in the roads, tunnels, on the walls. A random pedestrian might have some link to a book or a movie - you just need to check their clothes and phrases. So exciting.

REDEngine is great - of course, performance is awful, but the idea of ray-traced lights is great and it looks amazing. Also, the details level and the skin rendering - are truly amazing.

Of course, the game needs more, much more work - to make it more entertaining, deeper. But still, it's an interesting world, and I’m pretty sure the price was fair.

One of the most interesting and entertaining parts for me: Cyber Engine Tweaks. Some days I spend more times for hacking than playing:)
Google Silently Dumps Schedule Explorer from Google Maps
Please note that pnpm is currently blocking all traffic from Russia and Belarus https://twitter.com/pnpmjs/status/1498306992577957890
I agree completely, and thanks for sharing your thoughts and links here.
Even if Musk were nothing but hype (and I think he deserves a bit more credit than that), that very hype appears to have been a decisive factor in solving the chicken-and-egg problem of electric car proliferation needing charger networks, and charger networks needing electric car proliferation.

So I would credit him with at least that accomplishment.
I'm definitely considering this, especially to enhance the in-app search for finding your items quickly. I like that you mentioned book ISBNs specifically as that's not something I had considered yet. Thank you for your feedback, I'll keep it in mind going forward!
Talk like that gets you World War 3.
I get that most people use streaming services these days, but I don't think I've used one in over a year and rely solely on local media. I understand _why_ Plex adds these features, but I'd much rather see them put time into the core product.

I don't need their movies and TV catalog forced upon me. I have no interest in Tidal integration or searching streaming services.

Once Jellyfin gets intro skipping I think I'll be switching.
pnpm is great. I love `pnpm store prune`. Also it's great for monorepos, check out https://github.com/panoply/mithril-demo for an example.
Can't argue that he puts his money where his mouth is. He's just not just a passive critic.
I've deployed JWT a number of times and you're right, it's absolutely fine. The nay-sayers have some of the worst arguments against it I've ever heard and most can be summed up as "if you implement it badly then you can shoot yourself in the foot"... no shit.

I use short-lived JWTs that can be refreshed with another token (revokable on the server and gives a nice way to present "here is where you are logged in" to a user in their profile where they can easily deauth a "Login Device"). By using JWTs everywhere (web and mobile) it means all my endpoints can easily verify the token, grab the user id, and perform the allowed actions for that user's given role (I use roles, but you could also use permissions/claims though that can ballon the JWT quickly depending on how you represent the permissions/claims).

As long as you use a good crypto algo, don't set your JWT's expiration for a long time, and reject JWTs that have an expiration longer than your default expiration, you are golden.
> Lots of celebrities are gigantic douchebags and no one cares.

Tons of people care, an entire industry of celebrity gossip lives off of it.

Elon has just as much of a cult following as he has haters, the fact that you can’t see how perfectly this mirrors wider celebrity culture suggests that you are either very out of touch with pop culture, or are a part of the Elon cult.
Something that you might want to check out: many DSLRs embed full size JPEGs in metadata headers that you can quickly extract with something like exiftool. I'd always taken RAW+JPG, but when I discovered this (when trying to find optimizations for generating preview images from raw files for PhotoStructure), I switched to just RAW.
I wrote my own one-program, more-streamlined workflow for this, Filmulator.
US Government launches Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy to enhance
No reason to sacrifice accessibility and styling in the name of performance: https://github.com/jpmorganchase/regular-table
My wife has one of their lower end old models (A32) and it sometimes lags out playing Netflix. Everything is going fine, and then the video just stutters to the point that it's unwatchable. For comparison, that has a Geekbench score of 500 single threaded and 1650 multithreaded[1].

This is on top of other issues like the wifi just not connecting after a bit, or the bloatware and constant struggle fighting against their incessant notifications. After this, I'm never getting her a Samsung phone again. Please Google, don't kill the Pixel line... you're our only hope.

[1] https://unite4buy.com/Samsung-Galaxy-A32-5G-geekbench/
He has been flouting them, SEC hasn't had a lot of teeth to do anything about it .
I'm seeing this pattern play out in a few places in the late spring. A mostly online event with a fairly small-scale, maybe invite-only, in-person component.
"When an article starts by saying that it has found the 'perfect way' to do something, the article is usually disappointing."

That sounds like a "you" problem?

Apologies if this sounds like an attack, but I see enough of it here that I think it's worth commenting on. It should be obvious that 'perfect way' means "way that the author really likes and is very confident in, and therefore wants to share it."

And not "scientifically proven" or some silliness.
Praise for Elon tends to diminish the closer you get to him. He’s kind of notorious for being a bad boss; impulsive, poor temperament, and petty. Even if you like his achievements, chances are you would very much not enjoy having him as a boss.
While more of a tech demo than a game, there was "The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience"[1] that came out in mid December. It's free on the latest gen consoles.

[1] https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/wakeup
Also see Greg Bear's Blood Music, which came out a year before Neuromancer.

There was also an early book about VR, which I can't remember the name of. It was about a reviewer of "apples" which gave the people who ate them something like a VR experience.

Finally, the grandaddy of all of these was The Machine Stops[1], by E. M. Forster. Written in 1909, it predicted virtual reality, something like the internet, internet addiction, chat rooms, and more.

[1] - https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/classes/188/materials/th...
> Yeah this isn't how contracts work. You don't get to say "what do I know, it was prepared by an attorney".

Yes, you do. Many crimes, like tax evasion, require “willful” violation, so blaming your tax attorney is a valid defense.
Don't forget "Yellow Card Man"!

Most of his stories in "Pump Six and Other Stories" are very good. Depressing, but good.
Some companies don't even give you a computer or place to sit!
I'm not sure that I understand the complaint here. Can't standing desks also work with desktop computers? And even if you're forced to sit down to work, can't you take a reasonable amount of breaks to walk around and stretch your legs?
It was thanks to SGI hosting of C++ STL documentation (pre-ISO/ANSI version) that I learned my way around it.

Being graphics geek, I also spent quite some time around the graphics documentation.

For me, one of the biggest mistakes was only making IrisGL available while keeping Inventor for themselves.

To the subject at hand, this is one difference I find with most modern computers, the lack of soul in a vertical integration experience blended between hardware and software.
It's hard to explain to younger folks how the 80s (especially early 80s) felt, culturally. The whole 'Japan, Inc.' thing was in full swing, and the general feeling was that Japan was eating the world. 'Tech' was this fresh, semi-mystical thing, still opaque to much of the public.

I'm just a little younger than you then, but I remember the 80's pretty much the same way. Japanese manufacturers (especially of cars and consumer electronics) were sort of "eating the world" and computers and high-tech were still seen as very mysterious and mesmerizing and had a real mystique about them.

Interestingly, for me, the mystique and mystery of high-tech largely persisted up until about 2010 or so. Maybe a little later, maybe 2015 even. It's only been in the last few years that it seems to be wearing off. Not sure if that's just a reflection of my becoming older and more cynical and harder to impress, or if its down to changes in society/culture at large, or what. But my recent re-reading of the Sprawl and Bridge trilogies was, in part, I think an attempt to recapture some of that. Not sure if it worked or not, but it was fun reading all that stuff.

Now in my 50s, it's still interesting but seems a bleak and not-terribly-human place that I don't want to live.

There are aspects of the "cyberpunk future" that still seem appealing in some regards, but it doesn't necessarily feel like the exact world I'd want to live in, that's for sure.
I would be surprised if it didn’t require an RTX to be useful.
With a virtual data model it doesn't really matter, here's our 2 trillion cell model https://bl.ocks.org/texodus/483a42e7b877043714e18bea6872b039