skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's a great format. I like the way the possible roles/relationships are mapped out, and I do plan to implement part of it in my project.
Bongo Cat Typing
Whenever you type, you see at the top-right corner Bongo Cat Typing with you too!
> used to be

When?

While we've just hit an 8% inflation spike that may not persist, the past 20 or so years have been uniquely low inflation.

Please describe how loans are "subsidized", other than various countries' first-time-buyer schemes? Is your explanation US-specific?
For sorting algorithms many of the "algorithmic improvements" are caching / locality / access pattern improvements, as latency differences get more extreme and cache sizes grow. (At multiple levels, L1/L2 vs. RAM, RAM vs. disk, node vs. network.) So it's still very much tied to changes in hardware.

Whether you call that an "algorithmic improvement" or not is mostly semantics, it would not have been called such in the 80s but it would be today - what properties we consider part of "the algorithm" has also changed to meet hardware changes.

Even whether it's "parallelization" is somewhat semantics - if you change an algorithm to avoid a pipeline stall, is that designing it for parallelization? I guess not because it's single-threaded, but again someone in the 70s/80s might say yes because two things are happening at once.
A fire extinguisher per se is pretty normal aboard an airplane. A fire in the cabin is one of the scariest situations for a pilot.

However why conceal it? Most planes just have a place for them. That's suspicious. There were also loads of empty roads to land safely.

I agree this whole thing looks really staged. Jumping out with a selfie stick.. :X Such a waste of an airplane.
> Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS

The article more or less revises its own headline, since in reality
"legacy" is hardly a term that can be applied to BIOS regardless of
what anybody claims. The whole discussion is premature. There are
manufacturers out there still shipping traditional technology with no
current plans to add UEFI. According to the anecdotal data, 40 percent
of serviceable, running systems would become e-waste if dependent on
Fedora. That level of impact is reckless vandalism.

A few months ago in the pandemic I passed a huge pile of PCs in a skip
outside a company. They looked like very modern machines in great
condition but were apparently "unable to run Windows any longer".
This culture of "not supporting" needs examining. It's a public
interest technology issue that applies to many areas. If thousands of
companies had their hardware rendered inoperable by malicious hackers
there would be uproar. But if technology companies do it to service
their own "convenience" some people applaud that as "progress".
Shows you how persistent the style was :)). Do a google image search for "90s pop music magazine", for better decade dated covers.
It’s a fair point of view and I respect it.

From where I’m sitting, in a mix of quiet, honest people, dishonest liars with an agenda and confused people who repeat whatever sounds sensational, Truth loses out. And it’s worth protection, and it needs protection.

I don’t like censorship either, but I’m not sure what else can be done. Or rather, the correct solution is education, so people are resistant to propaganda, but that’s hardly an immediate angle to take.

This is not yet another surprising way to lose belly fat without trying, this is about an existential threat to millions of people.
> People simply get bored with how their apps and websites look after six to seven years. They need a change.

Is there any research that supports this claim? If I use an app for 6 years, why would I suddenly need a change?

I'm still ocassionally using a 10 y/o version of Photoshop. In fact, I'm very happy that it does not change. I wouldn't want to spend time on re-learning the UI. The same is true for many apps that I use.

Please don't overdo re-designs just for the sake of it.
I've discovered later than I should that for me, I need at least a two week break from time to time.

I need actual holiday where I don't answer emails or even do what I used to consider the minimum required. From an outside perspective, that's always been obvious to me and I've always understood that people need it, I just never applied it to myself.

Inadvertently holiday time is often when my best ideas come.
I don't think the examples in the article are very good, there seems to be more of a retro 70s vibe / comic book vibe to it because of the roundness of fonts and borders along with polish. Brutalism is raw, cold and uncaring characterized by monumental structures sharp edges etc. In the context of web the rawness is a return to html and css (use of tables, links, buttons etc.) instead of slick widgets, stark contrasting "ugly" css gradients etc.

example: https://www.art.yale.edu
I don't know much about design, but all the colorful examples that were shown look more like 80s Memphis Group to me.
pheo crisis would have BP and pulse through the roof as well (and probably lots of other things, flushing, HR, respiration, etc), and the first thing done in ER triage is vitals.

It can be potentially an allergy also, also can induce impending doom, and BP variation could be within the norm, and even sometimes hypertensive instead of hypotension.

endocrine-related IBS? how so?
There is a very strong movement for using a large framework within the PHP community, like Laravel, upside is that is has helped PHP community to revitalize the PHP stack. The downside is that large frameworks is now considered best practice.

I wonder if OOP as a technique will eventually always end up as Rube Goldberg machine.
Agreed. The "brutalism" in web design takes only the superficial look but forgets about the philosophy of nakedness and honesty.

How would that translate to the Web? IMO by blurring the distinction between the rendered page and the page source. Nothing to hide!

I went ahead and did just that on my own blog: https://dcz_self.gitlab.io/posts/brutalism/
An investor update template that (almost) writes itself
I think they suffer from the problem that the brain is very complex, and it's impossible to boil it down to simple - and testable - rules.

Rule-based, understandable, AI has mostly been replaced by deep learning, which is more difficult to understand.

It has useful properties, but we don't know why, they're emergent.
Nobody is debating the immediate outcome of the war. It was bad everywhere, even where it was not as bad as it could be.
I had home schooling myself. My parents took me out after the school wanted to put me in special ed due to my autism. (Of course, they tried Ritalin first.)

After being taken out of school, there weren’t any actual problems. My parents let me spend the day programming and biking, and deal with the standardized tests myself. It was one of their best parenting decisions.

I don’t have autism.

Lately I’m letting my daughter try home schooling, after they started doing six hours a day of Zoom meetings. It’s not going as well, but I think the main thing is she knows I’m on her side.
That is what I said, though perhaps in unclear language.

PKI (for identity and message verification) might be (it, IMO) its most distinguishing feature, but the initial descriptions don't make much of it.
Ask HN: Do You Use AWS CDK?
I would like to make a small survey for HN readers.

Do you use AWS CDK at all?
If so, do you use it only for infrastructure provisioning or for the entire codebase?
And finally, what is your opinion on it?
> why would I suddenly need a change?

Because your designers need a reason to still exist, and redesigning an entire application is what that reason becomes.
In the US, anyones company can be financially destroyed by wealthy competitors who abuse the corrupt legal system via bad faith lawsuits like this one. In this case, his $35 million business is being destroyed by Match because simply because the name contains the simple English word “match”—a common word associated with matchmaking-a common word associated with dating services for decades before match.com existed, and also because it briefly utilized a “swipe” left/right system for likes—a most basic UI interaction concept which should never have been allowed a copyright to begin with. I’ve heard many such stories of companies being destroyed by having to pay 6-7 figure sums defending themselves from frivolous lawsuits like this one. The courts here are so corrupt here that it saddens me and made me lose faith after hearing so many such stories.
PLEASE RESUME VIEWING.
Did I say it is bad for the US to help a dictator?
I still have my Spectrum+, and my ZX81!

The halcyon days of playing Chuckie Egg 2 lying on the floor in front of the CRT TV in my patents' living room while they tried to encourage me to go out and play still shine brightly in my memory.

POKE 23609,190 to make keypresses have a sound, ecen if it was just LOAD "" lol
That's an abomination. I love it.
Designers don't want their product to look dated. Once there's enough evidence that a new trend is taking over, they feel an urge to redesign. Like programmers feel a project need a an overhaul, even though the end user thinks everything is okay.
It would have been a more useful video for the subset of YouTube viewers that actually have/want private pilot licences, but "I crashed" as a headline is bound to generate more clicks than "I nearly crashed". Not least because people familiar with YouTube clickbait titling know the latter is quite likely to show a plane taxiing past another plane, or there being two planes within sight distance of each other in the air...
The diff view with all the features of the normal editor is actually amazing. I've always derided people using a GUI for version control but here I am.

EDIT: derided is a strong word :) just good to learn the command line version before moving to shortcuts
It is a privilege though; just based on:

- Having the money to afford the training for the pilots license

- Having the time to complete the training and stay current

- Having no health issues that may deny you a medical

It is pretty out of reach for most people with out the time / funds for it.
I consider swap very necessary unless Linux is used like platform for something like Kubernetes and then you need to obey its rules. I'm adding enough swap for all servers I manage and so far they rock stable. Good thing is that even if there's enough memory, some unused memory with time will migrate to swap and that'd free some RAM for disk buffers or consumption spikes. This behaviour seems somewhat broken on some modern distributions, so I prefer old distributions, I guess some defaults were changed which lead to less stable and performant systems in my observations.
Just like fashion... I wonder why we don't all wear the same style as 100 years ago, no? /s
Aren't most new technologies academic utopias until we find a way to make them affordable/monetize them?
It's more that it's just like programmers who feel technical debt forces them to overhaul entire projects.
Yes, some way of remembrance somewhere came to my mind. But ultimately it felt somewhat intrusive to me and not particularly fitting the new character of the site.
> The implementation needs to be coupled with meters where you can set a max price you'll accept.

Systems where your house goes dark and cold in the middle of a blizzard are never going to be popular no matter how "rational" they are.
Ask HN: Developing open source “resting” on the social security net possible?
Assuming one is a single, has no urge to build a family, can move to a part of the country where living costs are cheap and is motivated to work on an open source project which will not get a commercial sponsor, can one work on open source projects full time, not take any other jobs and exist on whatever social security your contry provides without compromising health or future finances if one decides to get a full time job again (no repayments, worse tax brackets, ... )?

If you have tried it, feel free to share your stories. I would appreciate it if the focus of the conversation does not become whether what i proposed is ethical. It should also not become hyper focused on the USoA where i assume this is not possible.
If you're interested in the performance state-of-the-art for optimization solvers, the reference is Hans Mittelmann's regularly updated benchmarks [1]. They sometimes get criticized by solver makers (because one could easily game the benchmarks), but:

1. At least they exist! They give a good rough idea of the relative performance of the various solvers. Also, I think it provides a sense of competition that is great for innovation. Some of the newcomers push press releases about having "won a prize" when they leapfrog the competition in one of the (sometimes weekly) benchmarks.

2. For the MIP benchmarks [2], a lot of thought has gone into doing them properly [3].

Don't be scared by the "End of a benchmarking era" banner. In 2018, Gurobi cherry-picked numbers that made them look good in some promotional material, while suggesting endorsement by Hans Mittelmann. There was a whole fuss about it and they had to publicly apologize [4]. This was a very dumb move since they were the fastest solver anyways, just not by as much as they claimed. CPLEX and Xpress took this as an excuse to take their toys and go home (they have since refused to participate in benchmarking). Gurobi was banned from the benchmarks for a while, but now they're back.

[1] http://plato.asu.edu/bench.html

[2] http://plato.asu.edu/ftp/milp.html

[3] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12532-020-00194-3

[4] https://web.archive.org/web/20181224083542/http://www.gurobi...
In regards to 3, I think that's exactly what canonical is doing. It feels like they want to insert their own IP into mainstream Linux just like Red Hat has (more successfully) done and benefit from this somehow.

The way that they don't open source the snap store (server side) so they're the only ones that can run it is another clue. They always seem to be up to something in this regard. Upstart, mir, unity. Now snap.
It's almost that legacy industries actually do know things disruptors don't, and sometimes these things can come back at the disruptors. Like the way episodes of TV series used to be aired, weekly with defined timeslots. We went from that to making whole seasons available at once, and now back to weekly airings without a fixed timeslot for blockbuster series like everything Star Wars or Picard. It's almost like broadcasters had reason to air episodes weekly.
97% of electricity, not energy. As a rule of thumb, electricity accounts for about a quarter of energy usage.
Is there an unofficial repo where you can install it from perhaps?
> subhuman caste

Politicians that can't lie are objectively better than ones that can. That makes them superhuman, in this case.
Especially with their Yuan reserves. They can simply get whatever they need from China assuming China can deliver it.
> So 20.04 will likely be my last ubuntu-flavored distro.

I'm hanging on with 22.04 using the mozillateam PPA to get a proper deb firefox and it's working fine for now. If they stop exposing that option I'll be off too.

I'm not religiously against snap but the experience of trying to use it has been pretty awful so far. First the process of switching firefox to a snap during release-upgrade hung and broke the upgrade. Then after clearing up the mess and uninstall/reinstalling, attempting to run Firefox silently did nothing.
Woman caught virus twice within record 20 days
Only in America could you see a drunk man waving a gun around, firing wildly into the air, and think "this is fine" :p
"Even an unstoppable force can move 1mph"
Topic always reminds me of this story:
http://compellingsciencefiction.com/stories/downandout.html
I agree he is describing a style that is close to "corporate Memphis"; but not to the true Memphis - that was (and still is) quite nonconformist.

"Corporate Memphis" is a style that take away anything courageous from Memphis, and leave just a grey expanse of colors.
Just wait a few days and it'll be on the news like the log4j2 vulnerability :) (Though it might not, because in practice BouncyCastle is used in a most big/old Java software - as far as I know.)
That is hilarious. What a good laugh after work today.
I considered pure debian too but it doesn't have as long support as Ubuntu LTS. And release upgrades are difficult in my experience. Ubuntu do-release-upgrade works pretty well. I'm also a bit stuck for the long term server distro thing which is the only thing I still use Ubuntu for.
Thanks for the reply, I like hearing about some of the more novel radio stuff being done. Modern consumer electronics really did spoil people for understanding a lot of this stuff, it's a shame. I'd like to one day build some of this stuff myself from scratch, but I think the level of my technical ability right now would be a spark gap transmitter and a foxhole receiver, lol. As an aside, the stories of radio and amateur radio seems like a folklore of its own. It's not all written down, but you hear some interesting stories by word of mouth every once in a while.
>the conflict is a proxy war of US with Russia over geopolitics

I don't think so. It's a conflict between Russia and pretty much every country on it's borders.

The Russian leadership believe Russia is already an occupied country. It's occupied by Georgians and Ukrainians living on Russian land. It's occupied by Latvians, Estonians and Lithuanians siting on territory rightly belonging to Russia.

If the Russian Federation was satisfied with it's current borders, and trading with other nations equally, there would be no conflict. The US and the rest of Europe have no aggressive intentions towards the Russian Federation as it currently exists. NATO poses no threat whatsoever to the borders or stability of the Russian Federation.

However the Russian Federation is not satisfied with those borders.The Russian leadership believes it's already in a war since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. They believe the territory 'they' lost back then is rightly 'theirs', and this is why they nibbled away at Georgia and Ukraine in the past.

The problem is the Georgians, Ukrainians, etc living on those lands don't agree those lands should be Russian. Hence war. If the US and NATO didn't exist or didn't care, Russia would still have invaded Ukraine, in fact it would probably have done it in 2014. The US is a foe of Russia because it blocks Russian expansionist ambitions. Aside from that the US doesn't give a crap about Russia. Why should they?
Yes! We are a consultancy company that uses solvers to solve supply chain strategy questions for companies (and bespoke vehicle routing problems).

Our go-to is LINDO, mainly because it is powerful and it can be integrated into an Excel model which will let us share models with clients.
Bug Free Software
Yes, Figma designers aren’t good at design. Thousands of people would disagree with you.
It was definitely used for at least Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, albeit tweaked. I don't doubt that they used it in other titles too.
> People simply get bored with how their apps and websites look after six to seven years. They need a change.

I would argue that the quote generalizes to all people, just as you are generalizing your sentiment to all people.

I have a lot of 15 year old clothes in my wardrobe, I know many friends who feel the urge of buying a new outfit every few months. I am not passing judgement we are just not similar in our desire for novelty.

I value function others value form. Form valuing people will likely enjoy app redesigns, function valuing people will likely value knowing where everything is in an app rather than re-training on new designs.

Most importantly I would speculate that form valuing people are way more likely to spend money on apps and services, so these services will likely do better in catering to form over function.
PuppetDB is probably one of the most deployed Clojure apps around the world
Responsible adults waste their time with respectable hobbies like mindlessly watching TV and going to sports games! /s
I have a master degree in chemistry and during my studies have grown quite a lot of crystals. As a lot of the other posters point out it is due to capillary effects; both formed by the new crystals and by microscopic channels and irregularities in the container.

If crystals didn't 'want' to grow we would often cool the solution down and scratch the bottom of the glass container with a metal spatula.
Todo list?
I don't know, the two hardware As in FAANG, Apple and Amazon, are doing quite well on the stock markets. But yes, RSUs and stock options shouldn't be treated as part of your salary. Instead it's best to treat them as a bonus you don't necessarily need.
THat is a bold claim. The share of people in the US identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender has risen from 3.5% in 2012 to 5.6% in 2020. Not very constant if you ask me.

Sauce: https://www.statista.com/statistics/719674/american-adults-w...
Isn't principal just a "beyond-senior" title that companies give to people who have been seniors for a long time? Since these people have a lot of experience, they're sometimes involved in decision-making for teams beyond their own - but in the time between such duties, they move tickets across the board like everybody else.
The French "gilets jaune" riots demanded, among other things, reductions in the prices of diesel. Plenty of countries subsidise fuel or electricity in order to maintain society. While the US tolerates small price fluctuations, I guarantee you that if people in the US woke up to $10/USgal gasoline there would be armed mobs heading to the statehouse.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/09/business/food-fuel-prices...
I guess this brings up another idea.

The nature of the business is, employer's rarely ever have to hire an employee who knows how to negotiate, knows when to walk away from a deal, and knows their market price.

Most employees you've ever worked with are not quite that clever.

Most employers vastly prefer employing this slightly dim type of employee, because they cost a lot less money and ask for a much simpler quid pro quo.

I find capitalism extremely exploitative like that. At least with unions you have a hustling union boss advocating for the union employee so employees don't get ripped off too much.

Now it seems like the vast majority of people I work with are tired parents in their 30s and 40s, who are working a job they don't love for not all that much money.

Because they don't have the resources, socioeconomic and otherwise, to bargain and argue their corner.
Hah, I hear you. I'm not a fan of keyboards that require a lot of thumb work. It's not very comfortable to use I find.

If you are ever looking for something split that doesn't require much thumb work the GergoPlex is great. It's tiny and the keys are super light. Which is why it has simple chords across the columns where pressing two keys at once is mapped to things.

The learning curve is really the big downside.
I’m not convinced that final conclusion is correct. The voice pitch is way too low at that speed and does not sound natural.
I asked "getting drunk and playing computer games at work"

One of the answers "YTA. You’re paid to work, not be a social butterfly and play games all day

I hope you get fired for this"

God, why am I triggered by an AI response
I needed to use a temporary URL. Laravel supports temporary URLs out of the box with S3 drivers. I was using a local disk, but Laravel does not support a temporary URL feature for the local disk.
I decided to add the temporary URL logic for my local disk. We'll accomplish this via Laravel signed URLs.
Oh my, this is what we did ~15years ago with PHP and jQuery, I was hoping no more. We really did a full circle.
Yeah, we went from illegal streaming to copyright owners providing easy legal access back to a clustered, region restricted system of legal streaming services. And region restricted, clustered environment was a large part (together with the absence of any legal services) why pirating content was a thing in the first place.