skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, COM lives on as WinRT and the way Microsoft expose their own APIs, but not many apps are using those APIs and even fewer are exposing their own APIs that way. It's not really clear how many people are writing COM objects outside the Windows team nowadays.
Something similar can be found in the book “The Goal” but with a six sided die and matchsticks. The premise is explained here: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2149283/math-behind...
App to find similar football players based on statistical profile
Can anyone recommend any arXiv/paper links on the subject for someone with reasonable prerequisties (e.g. neural ODEs, physics informed neural networks and message passing)? The number of references in the article is a bit of an overload! Looks like fascinating field.
> Lincoln College is scheduled to close its doors Friday, becoming the first U.S. institution of higher learning to shut down in part due to a ransomware attack.

In the first paragraph it's saying in part.

The article also details other challenges they face. We'll never know if they would have found a way to address these challenges and survive long-term had this not happened.
If you're on LinkedIn you should follow VP of sales, Account Executives, SDRs, BDRs at people who work for sales software companies (SalesLoft, Outreach, Gong, Lavender). They post incredible advice.

You have to get past their writing style and tone which can be off putting for technical people but it's gold.

Things I've learned, tried and realize work:
1. Instead of the "hey checking in" followup emails, send a joke or a meme.
2. Researching 20 people who really fit what you're trying to do is worth 100x more than 100 people who aren't great fits.
3. Figure out what the person is trying to accomplish and fit your pitch to that goal. Remember you are there to help them.
>It's very hard on rail staff, because it means they, too have no schedule. They work a train in one direction, do a staff change, and then go to a hotel while waiting for a return trip. They get as little as 90-120 minutes of notice for the return trip. So it's a lot of time away from home, with very little ability to control one's schedule.

This is a major frustration in a nutshell but you have to know that in addition to the short notice that they are about to get out for the return trip back home all the time they spend off duty in the hotel room counts (to the railroad) as time off, in other words it counts as if it totally belongs to them to do with as they please going about all their normal business. In reality they are in a hotel many times with limited meal options, with no way to visit family or to help out around the house, to conduct any of the other normal household business. Their time in the hotels is not their time at all to the point where the actual time they spend on a run (a round trip) can be multiple days and only a part of that time is compensated.

A recent text I had from my relative currently with a railroad gives the railroad's perspective quite clearly during a Zoom meeting - "Y'all hired out to work 24/7/365, we are going to make good employees out of you all."

I am part of a fourth generation railroad family. Three of the last four generations, beginning in 1942, have worked on the railroad. It skipped me because I went a different direction.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that the ultimate goal of the railroads is to decrease train crew size to 1. Each of these trains will be driven by a one-man train "crew". A couple decades ago normal crew size was three - engineer, brakeman, conductor. Brakeman positions were eliminated leaving the engineer and conductors rolling the trains. The railroads were supposed to be using PTC, positive train control a long time ago but were able to dodge the upgrades to track and infrastructure in the typical American corporate way by delaying using a standard set of excuses. PTC would bring about a single man crew by automating almost everything. That would mean huge loss of jobs and a huge investment in infrastructure upgrades since many thousands of miles of tracks have speed limits that are in place due to trackage that can't handle higher speeds safely. There's a lot going on here and it's always deeper than one single argument.
One of the root causes of the dysfunction of water policy in the West is that expectations around water availability were set in the early 20th century which turned out to be historically anomalous. Long term water agreements between states and with Mexico were based on assumption that those water levels would continue. Now we are seeing reversion to the mean, but it takes a long time for water policy to be updated.

There is a saying that water policy in the West is 21st century needs on top of 20th century infrastructure and 19th century law.
This is my guess too.

Bonuses are paid quarterly, insurance premiums are negotiated yearly. PHB gets their cheddar before the bill comes due.

The long term fix is to properly reconnect incentives, so that PHBs making risky decisions also carry that risk.
'disruptive' direct solar-to-hydrogen commercially viable by 2030 – Repsol
You can also add Notes to your control center in settings. You can then long press the notes icon in control center and choose “Scan document”.
Check out the picture - it's not a product-specific screwdriver, it's just a screwdriver with standard Philips and flathead bits. Some of the products used outdoors have security bits, but even those are just Torx bits most of the time. I am delighted to not need additional tools, and feel no pressure to keep it since I have a good set of screwdrivers already. Plus, this makes a handy small one to keep in the kitchen for random uses.
11 New programming languages to make a coder's heart sing
And even then, the J&J complications are so rare that no feasible amount of clinical testing would have ever uncovered them.

The FDA is right to pull the plug on it, because safer and better vaccines are widely available. But that should not be taken to mean that the J&J vaccine poses any considerable risk to patients, especially compared to those posed by exposure to COVID without a vaccine.
I only started using Tmux when I installed CentOS 8 on my work PC in 2020 and discovered that GNU Screen was no longer the default terminal multiplexer. I figured it was about time that I “get with the programme”. Now, I’m starting to feel increasinglylike Abe Simpson: https://invidious.kavin.rocks/watch?v=5DlTexEXxLQ
Sadly, this constant push to measure and control all processes and tasks infects everything, not just development.

Enterprise software is appalling at imposing workflows on everything in sight, and they always have pretty graphs and reports for management.

I feel quite strongly that software should serve humans, rather than the other way around. These tools do not exist to help you get your job done, they make you its servant.

Imagine how much more productive we could be if we had tools designed to actually help us. Management could still get nice reports, but some manager might have to knock up a spreadsheet. I can dream...
Comic Sans might have a better reputation if its lower-case was just smaller upper-case, as Dave Gibbons does.
sorry I missed your reply, this behaviour is present because I wanted to give users a feel of paper notes in a notebook, there you cannot remove a note that you already created. Also allowing for removal leads to a question what to do with linked notes.
Like people who can oppose illegal immigration but not also hate those who are seeking to immigrate.
> how he proposes to limit people to less than a billion dollars (or $100m as he also suggests) without completely overhauling the financial system.

I mean, "there is a wealth tax that kicks in at $1,000,000,000 at 100%" is a one-line change. I don't see much issue. I mean, Bezos and Musk would have to sell some stock. And? That certainly is a possibility.
Sure, but it falls a bit short to be in the vision of "future of urban life". There are a sprinkling of commercial businesses in the gray areas of the map outside the city center. But not nearly enough to be considered urban by any means. And most of the areas where people live seem quite far away to be considered "walkable" from the commercial district.

I'm sure it's a nice place to live, but this is not the future of urban life.

https://imgur.com/a/xgbRE15

(I put a 1km marker on the map for reference)
Nickel is particularly interesting as they aim to be able to compile to Nix soon.

These sorts of lists are usually quite bad, but this one surprised me.
I had a funny discussion with Don Norman about pie menus and SimCity, in which I blamed the nuclear meltdown on the linear pull-down "Disaster" menu, and blamed round pie menus for putting out fires quickly but ultimately leading to urban sprawl:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GCPQxJttf0

Don Hopkins and Donald Norman at IBM Almaden's "New Paradigms for Using Computers" workshop

Talks by Don Hopkins and Donald Norman at IBM Almaden's "New Paradigms for Using Computers" workshop. Organized and introduced by Ted Selker. Talks and demonstrations by Don Hopkins and Don Norman.

Norman: "And then when we saw SimCity, we saw how the pop-up menu that they were doing used pie menus, made it very easy to quickly select the various tools we needed to add to the streets and bulldoze out fires, and change the voting laws, etc. Somehow I thought this was a brilliant solution to the wrong problems. Yes it was much easier to now to plug in little segments of city or put wires in or bulldoze out the fires. But why were fires there in the first place? Along the way, we had a nuclear meltdown. He said "Oops! Nuclear meltdown!" and went merrily on his way."

Hopkins: "Linear menus caused the meltdown. But the round menus put the fires out."

Norman: "What caused the meltdown?"

Hopkins: "It was the linear menus."

Norman: "The linear menus?"

Hopkins: "The traditional pull down menus caused the meltdown."

Norman: "Don't you think a major cause of the meltdown was having a nuclear power plant in the middle of the city?"

(laughter)

Hopkins: "The good thing about the pie menus is that they make it really easy to build a city really fast without thinking about it."

(laughter)

Hopkins: "Don't laugh! I've been living in Northern Virginia!"

Normal: "Ok. Isn't the whole point of SimCity how you think? The whole point of SimCity is that you learn the various complexities of controlling a city."
Nice! The last time I used Gnome/Ubuntu as my daily driver (2019?) that wasn’t the case — or maybe wasn’t consistently the case.
What else are savings for then?
He was probably reading scientific magazines. Cheap Truth, a zine from back in the days, had a review in #7 telling everyone how valuable they are for science fiction writers. Now sure that is not a fact about Gibson personally, but it's insight into the crew he hang with.

>> non-fiction magazines can help the SF writer and reader escape genre stereotypes and come to grips with the real social and technical issues of the human future. ~~ V.O.
"The real solution to the water crisis is to start by admitting that water is a scarce resource in the region that needs to be rationed somehow and then start working on an equitable plan for rationing."

A better plan would be to let the market allocate water. If people want golf courses, lawns, almond trees, microchip plants, etc. let them pay market prices for the necessary water.
You'll see a lot of charts on the water levels of Lake Powell, for example. It's easy to paint a picture of drought and/or climate change and that's what people do. But you can't just look at the net. You have to look at inflows vs outflows. Here's one such study on supply and demand [1]:

> Apportioned water in the Basin exceeds the in the Lower Basin despite recently
approximate 100-year record (1906 through experiencing the worst 11-year drought in the 2011) Basin-wide average long-term historical last century. However, there have been natural flow2 of about 16.4 million acre-feet periodic shortages throughout the Upper (maf).

Note the increasing consumption from Figure 2.

[1]: https://www.usbr.gov/watersmart/bsp/docs/finalreport/Colorad...
> So if you want someone to answer precisely how they'll extract hundreds of millions of dollars from an emerging market, I have to imagine this isn't the correct forum to expect such answers.

I don’t think the idea is to get a precise answer. I think the idea is to answer what their business model is. Like will they sell subscriptions? Or ads? Or patronage? Or enterprise support? Or conferences? Or what.

I don’t use huggingface, but am a little familiar with them and think they are a great group with great software. But since it’s OSS, I’m not sure how they would make such a huge amount as $100M. Not to mention that they probably need to make much more than that to have happy investors. So there’s probably a $1-2B plan for making money somewhere and knowing the general idea for their business model would be cool.

I’m a bit bitter over what happened with OpenAI, and many other great opensource projects that turned into crappy companies boxed into making way more than they naturally could make (eg, elastic).
Dell ‘making big bets’ on telco and edge
Fair enough -- terribly sorry to have conflated your argument as being tacitly in support of the idea of the article.

FWIW, I basically agree with voting out these present incumbents, except that I think the major parties are irredeemable, so what's the point? I'd love for an election to show everyone voting 3rd party and no one voting for the duopoly.
Ask HN: Why every new package on npmjs has more 30 downloads after a few hours?
Nowhere providing a link.

Are these some kind of bots?
Aerorozvidka:

https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-cheap-grenades-expensive-tan...
I never understood what problem smart thermostats were supposed to solve, now I do: ski home pre-heating. Cool, makes sense, but no use to me.
probably a patent issue... I love x265 for the video file size and a decent video quality
I'm also reading it. About done.

There's many good gems here and his philosophy hits close to home.

I don't think you need to be of his fame to apply it. Many of these tips are applicable. I find lots of his product & marketing advice to be very useful for new PMs to tech too.
Legally, it's not settled at this point.
They can sue you but web scraping is just gathering public information.
This may break website TOS but unlikely to be illegal.
Oh I'd be careful.

It's a humanity thing ... not a region.

History is full of "oh those people over there do that thing, how silly" and then it happens in their own backyard. We're all human.
> The problem is we're becoming sophisticated enough as a society that we are forced to rely on a few establishments to maintain that sophistication.

Come on, we have open webbrowsers, which are 100x more difficult to implement than a chain of trust. Surely, somebody could come up with a reliable alternative.
> Anyone can innovate. Provided with the correct competitive structure (large market rewards, big prizes, etc).

Please explain why winner-take-all competitive rewards are necessary for innovation.

I mean, they seem to work today in the US. But I don't see why that means they are the only possible way forward.
The remote functionality is nice, as is the auto-away part. Those alone make it worthwhile, but I agree that the "smart" functionality leaves much to be desired.

Ours, somehow, has gotten into a state where it thinks we like to bounce between 68 - 70 degrees all day, and doesn't "learn" when I try to adjust it back to the same temperature it was. The weekly schedule has over 70 different temperatures on it and there is no (obvious) way to reset it, so I haven't bothered to go clean it up. I think it could do better there.
I think that anyone will have a hard time competing with AWS and Azure in this space (although it will be a $1B+ business).
I watch a pretty broad variety of youtube, and also browse randomly. It's not really feasible to personally give money to each channel I happen across videos from. If your intake is limited to a narrow and consistent array of channels then maybe that's a different consideration.

And here's a pretty methodical breakdown of how much more a view counts with a Premium subscription (then called Youtube Red). Youtubers make in the ballpark of 2-5x as much per minute viewed with Premium than with ads. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Hr0H7TwAo
Except I'm in Texas where we don't have this issue. This is specifically a New York thing and is an issue with enforcement and not with the wording of the law
This comment seems to be more about your situation than it is about his.

We aren't crabs in a pot. Someone else doing a good thing does not make your life worse. You can simultaneously strive for making your own life better and celebrate someone else doing something healthy for themselves.
It was fun, wasn't it? I am thinking of driving down some time this summer. Hope to see you!
Another underrated feature: add Quartz Filters to a PDF file by Choosing File > Export, click the Quartz Filter pop-up menu, then choose a filter. You can create custom Quartz Filters in ColorSync Utility.app (Note: these are not the same as Quartz Composition Filters, which live in Automator workflows and Photo Booth.app).

For some inspiration: https://github.com/joshcarr/Apple-Quartz-Filters
Hugging Face is selling CPU cycles. They're also letting you upload your own datasets that aren't "limited" like others. I'm not quite sure where you think their approach of "open models" is wrong, they still sell the CPU cycles.

The idea that restricting access to the data is the only way to profit is such an archaic way of thinking. Hugging Face, if they keep making a good user interface and a good front end, will very much be able to fill the niche it is designed for: people who can't afford a $10-20k rig to run a model but who need to run it for their backend project.

Also, it may be due to using HN, but when I think of "where can I run a model" or "get a dataset" I think Hugging Face. They are leveraging the democratization of the data.
If they can't deliver ad-free, they should not try to sell me ad-free. They could sell me something that isn't a lie instead.
Your hand lettering is excellent by the way. Thanks for taking the time to do that. It's a lost art.

The only works of comparable quality I am aware of are classics like the Moosewood Cookbook[0] (famously completely hand typeset), Allen and Mikes Really Cool Backcountry Ski Book[1], and Anybody's Bike Book[2].

Hand illustrating technical content is so much better than sterile diagrams, and it lends a sense of personalization, especially if the illustrator is also the author, which is a rarity.

[0] https://www.baumanrarebooks.com/rare-books/katzen-mollie/moo...

[1] https://skimo.co/allen-mikes-backcountry-ski-book

[2] https://archive.org/details/anybodysbikebook00cuth
Are you asking what is 'so complex' about public policy, safety, and economics?

Even if this is only about maximum train length, which it isn't, the underlying dynamics, as they are perceived by and affect all the stakeholders, are complex.

This is what I mean by complex systems: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_system

Is this what you mean?
I hate to get all "That's just what they want you to believe maaaan!" but I'm going to wear my tinfoil hat on this matter while we both look up who may have funded that study.
I'm curious about your measuring/reasoning: so far the most efficient cultivation I know is the classic elderly vegetable garden. It can produce FAR more than large mono-cultures fields per hectare with far less resources.

For farming, surely we need space, poultry and rabbits are the least needing animals but still demand space to produce their own food, however again there is NOTHING more efficient than a classic country home with some animals around: it do not need third party fertilizers, the balance between animals manure and cultivated ground means manure suffice, the resulting pollution is very low, water usage sparse enough to be a non-issue in most cases. Surely it can nourish a limited number of humans PER FARM, but it's absolutely sustainable and effective.

Urbs are not, we never ever have a sustainable city, we have just some needs who justify them. But the rest you mention is needed only for mass distribution, not for nourishing humans but for nourishing business, in money, not in food, and we have enough proof that that's totally unsustainable. Surely we are too much for such classic approach, but we can handle that with a SLOW de-growth pushing toward de-urbanization as much as we can leaving just enough for certain kind of manufacturing and other specific needs.

The sparse small-scale industry is actually ECONOMICALLY inefficient but far more sustainable, self-sufficient on scale, at the human size. It's like a small countryside restaurant, it's economically far less efficient than a modern fast food, but suffice for their owner and satisfy their customers, only managers and the companies behind them are unhappy.
Apps written for Windows are definitely using them, even if using .NET Framework, unless their authors are targeting a Windows XP user experience.

And on Windows making a business out of selling components is still a thing.

Additionally any application that integrates into the OS for file viewers, userspace drivers, shell extensions, or any other OS extension point, needs to implement COM interfaces.
Interesting that Bitcoin seems to be correlated with the stock market. So I guess Bitcoin doesn't really give you diversification or a hedge against falling stock prices.
I hate MVC, or to be more specific Microsoft’s implementation of it. I know enough asp.net to build any site quickly, but when I move to mvc I have the feeling that I write a shit ton of unnecessary code just to get things in a state that might benefit me in the future. Well fuck that. I’d rather rewrite the whole thing in the future if it doesn’t suit my needs any longer, than spend 50% more time to write it in the first place.
The point about the splintering of atheism is well covered in: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/10/30/new-atheism-the-godles...

> Most movement atheists weren’t in it for the religion. They were in it for the hamartiology. Once they got the message that the culture-at-large had settled on a different, better hamartiology, there was no psychological impediment to switching over. We woke up one morning and the atheist bloggers had all quietly became social justice bloggers. Nothing else had changed because nothing else had to; the underlying itch being scratched was the same. They just had to CTRL+F and replace a couple of keywords.
I never got this kind of line of argument. It's also easy to write bash script which deletes everything, write infinite loop in any language, create oom, add sql injection, have exponential complexity etc. - so what? If people don't have time to organize code, introducing microservices won't magically solve those problems. They'll end up with poorly done microservice spaghetti with tons of extra complexity/consistency violations all over the place. Now the architecture doesn't fit into single screen anymore and it feels it's simpler because you have separate screens for each part - but simplicity will be just an illusion.
I mean, it is an experiment. Nothing more, nothing less. I'm sorry the BBC is dependent on clickbait titles, but Almere is really nothing too special as I have also mentioned in my original post referring to another users great post here. Some of these concepts have been in place in other cities around the Netherlands for a while, and (imo) work better there.

There is not much life going on in Almere, which might explain the lack of density of restaurants or whatever you see.

It's really just that Almere is artificial land reclaimed from the sea, so they have quite a lot of space there to experiment with their weird metal houses and green roofs. Almere is a little less dense than other cities nearby.
High quality dials with adaptive increments are amazing and much faster & easier to use than a touch pad.