skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes 100%, here is my lament from 4 years ago on that topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16741043

A big part of my pain, and the pain I've observed in 15 years of industry, is programming language silos. Too much time is spent on "How do I do X in language Y?" rather than just "How do I do X?"

For example, people want a web socket server, or a syntax highlighting library, in pure Python, or Go, or JavaScript, etc. It's repetitive and drastically increases the amount of code that has to be maintained, and reduces the overall quality of each solution (e.g. think e-mail parsers, video codecs, spam filters, information retrieval libraries, etc.).

There's this tendency of languages to want to be the be-all end-all, i.e. to pretend that they are at the center of the universe. Instead, they should focus on interoperating with other languages (as in the Unix philosophy).

One reason I left Google over 6 years ago was the constant code churn without user visible progress. Somebody wrote a Google+ rant about how Python services should be rewritten in Go so that IDEs would work better. I posted something like <troll> ... Meanwhile other companies are shipping features that users care about </troll>. Google+ itself is probably another example of that inward looking, out of touch view. (which was of course not universal at Google, but definitely there)

This is one reason I'm working on https://www.oilshell.org -- with a focus on INTEROPERABILITY and stable "narrow waists" (as discussed on the blog https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2022/02/diagrams.html )
> Two years old to teens
What to eat: seeds, tofu and semi-skimmed milk

I’m trying so hard not to read that as some emasculation conspiracy for the youth of boys.
They were “crushed” because they released shitty versions of their applications once GUIs took over
> wow! Phrasing! Are we still doing phrasing?

i read this in Archer's voice
Any of those, including RedwoodJS, will all give you plenty of performance!

I highly recommend you build it in a monolithic approach, because it will make it a lot easier and faster to build.

Since you are mobile app heavy, I would probably go with GraphQL using RedwoodJS+Prisma or Next.js+Prisma+Pathos [1]

[1] https://pothos-graphql.dev/
Gravitationally, nothing would change if the sun was replaced by a black hole of the same mass, at least for objects above the surface of the current sun. But being 1 kilometer above the event horizon of that black hole would be very different to being 1 km above the surface of the sun.

As the radius of a object shrinks (but with mass held constant), the _surface_ gravity increases.
Remember that the pull of gravity decreases with the square of the distance away from the object. With a smaller object, you can get a lot 'closer' to all that mass, so gravity is stronger at its surface.
While it was more of a tech retailer than a tech company, Blockbuster qualifies.
I guess it probably depends upon ones consumption but this strategy seems outdated because nowadays private trackers/groups eg discords seem to make up a much larger share of piracy etc but I guess that’s more hurting all of the people lower on the hierarchy of content creation than the big record labels.
About 14 hours to trigger those mechanisms. Look up intermittent fasting.
Ellen Pao is someone I’d consider a garbage human if it wasn’t for the fact I believe she is a mentally ill sociopath that has little control over her self-serving actions.
I use a combination of a TODO.md file shared on all my devices (two laptops, one phone, one VPS) with Syncthing, Google Calendar, and leaving emails/messages unread for external requests.

I've tried Notion, Trello, and Keep in the past: they felt over-engineered and too reliant on having an internet connection/browser window open, so in the end I always found myself going back to basics. Haven't had a single problem with my current setup so far.
Na it was similar to the OPs site but better looking… it had the word “hug” in it.
There’s some overlapping ideas with how groups on urbit operate. Though urbit goes further down the stack to replace the bits that make managing a Linux server hard (fixing the incentives that lead to everyone having to be on one centralized server in the first place).
And YouTube was about to get sued into oblivion. Even today, YouTube is barely profitable and would be a horrible stand-alone business.
Indeed, and pouring an arbitrary amount of water into a fully laden ship already has another technical name: Sinking.
I'm a huge fan of https://momentum.earth.

It's the best GTD system I've seen online, and the infinite sub-tasking/grouping, where each grouping can be set to be done either sequentially or in parallel, either surfacing the next task or all the tasks in the "Next" list automatically is amazing.

Throw in the review settings, and the big picture areas of responsibility? And end-to-end encryption?

It's amazing.
Is anyone interested in forming some kind of working group to log and hopefully fix accessibility issues that people keep running into in the open source desktop space? Open source is for everyone, and it's a shame that some people are excluded.

I'm not too familiar with the Linux desktop stack and I only have a couple of very minor contributions to desktop/graphical projects, but it's something I'd gladly donate a few hours a week to help improve.
But one day? That counts right? Bring him in boys.
Exactly. When I first did a web front end it felt exactly like customising MS Word with VBA. No matter what you put on top of it the roots poke their heads through and it feels like a mess.
> I don't understand why us humans must necessarily have such a wide and varied diet compared to other mammals.

Because we live long enough (medicine, food abundance, proper shelters, &c.) that optimizing food intake matters if you want to get the best out of your body.

You can probably eat bigmacs all your life and make it to 60+, but you'll be far from your potential.

The fact that we're mammals doesn't mean we have to live like chimpanzees, but no one is stopping from living like one ("do we really have" -> no we don't)
UK Initiative for Solar Power Plants in Space
> Reddit is full of armchair generals

So is the local pub. Sometimes what they say is based on some inside information, a unique perspective, or otherwise makes a lot of sense. There can be actual value in those comments, even if the commenter themself doesn't recognise this or simply isn't in a favourable position to exploit it. Dismissing all that's said off-hand is rather wasteful :)
Wordperfect at least was born before Ms/DOS.

It was a viable competitor of Microsoft word in the Ms/DOS era, but did not manage the transition to the windows era.
No doubt several factors/motivations were/are at play, but I think what Parker is talking about is that for companies/orgs (particularly big corporates and government bodies) who already had a Microsoft operating environment and who weren't already using Slack, they would be much more comfortable adopting Teams, for reasons of cost, interoperability and (perceived) security, than adopting Slack, even if Slack was superior as a standalone group chat app.
GroupHug!

https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=497057

Just found that searching it.
As the sibling poster said:

>squash any trace of "but than I won't be the authentic me" excuse.

This is super important. We, for lack of a better phrase, live in a society. And that means getting along with others in that society even though you might have to put on a false front from time to time. Other people will construct their own image of you that you will find to be inaccurate anyways, no matter how honest you may be.

The key I learned (for I used to be like you) was to just talk less. Not everything must be said. Preserves my honesty (I didn’t lie, I merely kept quiet). Preserves the peace. And so on.
Just a random person interjecting, but, you don't understand what CRUD is? Or how to execute? Why did you feel the need to build an entire fullstack application just to practice it? When there are plenty of materials available online, further, it's just not the kind of thing you need to wrap an entire app around to learn. It does sound kind of weird, to be honest.
Given governments use “think of the children” rhetoric against decent cryptography in private communications, combined with the research demonstrating the presence of illegal material inside the Bitcoin blockchain[0], the only reason I’m not surprised cryptocurrency hasn’t been banned already is that legislators aren’t technologists.

[0] https://fc18.ifca.ai/preproceedings/6.pdf
Postgres has been able to safely add a not-null column with a default since version 11 (2018).

https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-11-released...
I’d imagine you could keep feeding it an electric charge to counter any charge it loses.
Spectacle is not being actively maintained, Rectangle is the spiritual successor https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle
Eating out now is ridiculous. It's extremely easy to spend $100 for a family of four.
> - julia 0.6.3

That's an ancient version, the current version is v1.7.2.
Likely for the same reasons that many of the architects of social media UX design and recommendation algorithms don't let their kids use those apps.
Doing that for thousands of cars, at boarding and then at unboarding, looks like a huge logistics chalenge (even just thinking about changing every ship’s floor to allow for strapping) that has a pretty high cost that might exceed losing part of the cargo once in a blue moon.

Shipping cars in containers sized structures could be a more realistic approach perhaps.
After what the Canadian government managed to do with truckers crypto funds, I think it is more important than ever for people to understand what type of crypto to hold.
These type of sites were very popular in the late 90s/early 2000s. The most famous one was probably lowbrow.com, https://web.archive.org/web/19990428052738/http://www.lowbro...

I suppose with all the spillover from the web back into real life these days the view limit is needed. Lowbrow stored stories until lowbrow stopped existing.

There's another "anonymous message server" I've been using since the late 90s where you just get whatever the person before you to the site wrote. It is amazingly still going today but I think linking it on HN would kill it.
People look at Netscape through rose colored glasses. But it was never a good product. Back in the day, people use to judge the robustness of their operating system by how well it could handle a Netscape crash.
Banning is one thing, but what about full or actually partial shadow-banning, or deleting selected specific posts which is called moderation, and the overall balance of the biases in the moderation.
And even more tons of junk. Consume with care.
Hmm seems like either the randomisation function is very, very broken or the same confessions have been entered thousands of times, since I've seen the same two confessions about ten times so far.

Quality control seems questionable too, but hey, maybe I'd disagree if I saw a more varied set of answers.
You support folks were absolutely stellar. Great at working with customers but also adept at coding enough to resolve an incredible amount of customer problems.

If anyone is ever in a position to hire support staff and you see "Heroku" on the resume, definitely consider that a strong positive signal.
Aside from politics, there is a great deal of bloat and complacency in all government agencies. Just funneling more money to them does not make it better. If government agencies were run like a business, half of the staff would be laid off.
Yup. And people don’t realize that a lot of problem with YouTube like the content Id system come from that settlement.
Has there been a large earthquake yet in an EV dense area? That will be interesting.
Math notation is highly context dependent (is + addition or boolean or?) and yet authors rarely feel the need to provide context.

If they wrote in an array language instead of LaTeX, not only would it make writing papers easier (+/ is shorter than either \Sigma or \sum), but it would be trivially reproducible, due to being an executable notation.
Elon’s Twitter 2.0 prototype?
Not really if you hold them until maturity.

Respectfully, that is just not correct.

Imagine you own $1,000 of a 30 year bond that pays 2% interest.

Interest rates go up to 6%.

You could sell your 2% bond and buy a 6% bond. But everyone else could too. So your 2% bond is worth less.

And you’re going to hold it for 30 years, losing out on market interest. That is, you’re getting 2% when the rest of the market is getting 6%.

The loss is there whether you sell or hold to maturity.

Your only decision is do you want to take your loss now in one big sum or take it in small sums over the next 30 years.
> But what about all the people banned for “misinformation” regarding Covid lab leak, etc? That was not misinformation it turns out.

The lab leak hypothesis - or rather the various theories and conspiracies that get grouped under that banner - remain just that as far as I know. I'm willing to consider it misinformation given that the obvious purpose of much of it was to implicate that the Democratic Party/WHO/Fauci in some kind of bioweapons conspiracy or feed off of anti-Chinese xenophobia. But certainly, given that it remains unproven, I would consider claims to the contrary to be misinformation.

And... what about them? Were they lined up against a wall and shot or something? Were they sent to camps? Were their homes raided and their literature burned? As far as I can tell discourse in this area never even faltered anywhere online, it continued and continues unabated still.
Environmental activist: we must cut back on the use of fossil fuels, or climate change will be catastrophic

CEO of Shell Oil: What? Why? What is wrong with fossil fuel? Why are you attacking me? What evidence do you have that lets you use words like "catastrophic"? And, uh, what about the economy? The workers?

----------------------

Moral of the story: sometimes very high status people get defensive.
One that had a savvy to stay focused on the bottom line and the gut to say no to investors making vastly asymmetrical demands of risk, reward and personal security.

I do however wish the GP all the luck in the world.
> Ignore it -> Adjust existing systems -> Store it -> Use it for mining

That's just, like, your opinion, man.
This seems like a pretty good hypothesis. I believe the main source of exposure to PFAS for most people is food packaging (IIRC nonstick pans don't move the needle unless you heat way above the safe range, and you'll smell the coating melting). What is the main source of exposure to organohalogens? I'm seeing information about mattresses, flame retardants, and seafood.
Coffeezilla will hate this, but he is Tai Lopez of Scam-busting ;)
> They cannot just outright say what is common sense…

Is it common sense? Or just what we were indoctrinated to believe is common sense? I ask with all sincerity as a SAD¹ eater who hasn't escaped his raised-in-Iowa childhood eating habits.

¹https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21139124/
I'm sure I'm not the only one here who remembers trolls on slashdot back in the day. There was one consistent theme about "gay n-word". GNAA. That's what I'm suddenly reminded of.

In hindsight I think some of that old trolling was people's mental health problems on display.
MPesa, Paytm, Worldremit, etc.

All worldwide. No need for a blockchain. Ever.
You’d think the case is very rare, but then a war happened and it literally saved me as an instrument of storing value using stable coins. Not so rare after all. And this is only one example.

Is 99% of crypto scam? Yes

Are there hundreds of legit use cases? Yes.
Your examples are all tech vs. tech. Tech vs. brick-and-mortar has been an absolute bloodbath. Most local bookstores are gone. Sears, and many smaller retailers. Malls are dead. You kids probably don't remember cool independent computer shops (though there are a few hangers-on). Payless shoes comes to mind, apparently they're trying to bounce back. Local newspapers died at the hands of craigslist, which isn't even "big" tech.
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> Crypto has exactly one non-scam use-case: a way to transfer value

And even then, its usefulness in this regard is limited when its valuation is highly volatile. Probably not an issue when the full transaction life cycle can be fully completed (buyer acquires crypto, buyer and seller trade crypto, seller offloads the crypto) in a matter of hours. But this narrows the use case even further.
Why do you think cryptocurrency solves this problem? Is it because you hope cryptocurrency solves some problem? It's a public ledger. All a hostile government has to do is find who performed the transactions and imprison them. Is that not considerable interference?
That’s fair, I was more-so talking to the companies that have dropped Slack and moved to Teams (I have a number of friends who have experienced this first-hand).

At one point a company I used to work for tried to get us to move to Hangouts (or whatever Google was calling it that week) since we already paid for Google Workspace accounts for everyone. Thankfully there was enough pushback to kill that idea early.
There is a much longer story about why Blockbuster failed. When it was split off from Viacom, they saddled it with $1 billion in debt as some type of financial engineering.
Lol. So can my $2 VPS, then.
Why Using HTTP Client Has a Bug That You Must Avoid
That sounds dangerous?
Or install Klipper [0] and Mainsail [1]. Octoprint is a great addition where there's none but is very underperformant and the interface is janky. Klipper brings in many other improvements at the cost of tinkering.

[0] https://www.klipper3d.org/
[1] https://docs.mainsail.xyz/
You have some misconceptions.

1) For all that we have been able to measure it, the electron is a point particle. It does not have a radius. The concept of radius does not apply. Every time we try to measure it, we just end up setting a smaller upper bound for the radius than last time. This is true of all of the leptons ("lightweight particles"). The same sorts of probes of electrons suggest that there is no "stuff" in them. That's all you get, this point with some numbers associated with it (charge, mass, angular momentum, lepton number, etc).

2) Black holes -- and I am going to constrain myself to a "no-hair" situation for those of you in the know -- have only three variables that describe them: mass, charge, and angular momentum. Anything else describes its position and how it is moving at the time. They're really quite dull. (Exploration of where the information that fell into the black hole went is ... contentious, abandoned, frustrating, etc). Radius is a function of mass (and angular momentum, you can distort the event horizon if it had enough spin).

3) They don't "explode." The theorized-but-not-yet-observed Hawking radiation is about chucking out the occasional particle and "borrowing" it from the black hole. This is done under conservation of the above mass, charge, and angular momentum. The smaller they get, the more chance they throw something out, so it is really a runaway process that only looks like an explosion at the end.

4) Due to this conservation, if you somehow made a single electron into a black hole, that black hole could only ever spit out one thing in its lifetime: an electron.

5) The proton is quite different. It is not the opposite of an electron. It is known as what is called a baryon ("heavyweight particle") and it has a size. It is also composed of smaller things, unlike the electron, three quarks and some gluons (which serve to hold the whole thing together).

6) Atomic scales are fine. We can understand things about relativity at the atomic scale. For example, we use the surprisingly extended half-lives of certain incoming particles to verify time dilation. Or just look up how relativity affects the orbital radii of very heavy atoms, in particular gold. Subatomic scales are more interesting.
Everyone's doing the best with the knowledge they have at the time. Also, it's worth considering, not all babies in all locations and bloodlines have the same nutritional needs. Inuit and siberian babies would likely have different diets ideally than sri lankans or dominican babies.
Wouldn't that incentivize people to create crimes that they could then stop to collect their PoliceCoin? Or to stoke short-lived interstate conflict to mine some more WarCoin?

But that'll just mean more and more opportunity for PoliceCoin and WarCoin, so maybe it's actually sound monetary policy.
Every one of those cited companies crushed themselves first. Lotus followed the common pattern of burning out and losing their technical talent after they first shipped, also made too large a bet on OS/2. Ashton-Tate did a little better maybe but also lost its ability to write software that worked, which was much more difficult back in those days. Borland and WordPerfect found it much more difficult than they expected to transition their products to Windows 3.x.

The latter had too much pride in their collection of DOS printer drivers, but what really killed them was releasing something that passed the bar of not crashing, but would per a lawyer I worked with regularly drop all your tables and figures to the bottom of the document. Borland was slow to get their stuff working on Windows, was late to bundling an Office equivalent according to a marketing guy from there I once worked with, and had the bad portent of the edifice complex: http://www.krjda.com/Sites/BorlandInfo1.html

To this day, well it's after they started going beyond their start in computer languages, their 808x C compiler for example blew away the competition when it finally launched, we ding Microsoft for their quality problems, but especially in the days Gates ran it one of the "secrets" of their success was writing software that basically worked, didn't crash on you etc. This makes it easy to beat competitors who lose that ability, or aren't as good at it.
GTD (Getting Things Done) is definitely my answer. I use it for everything from planning my mom's birthday, to building features on an app, to managing a large team.

The key is that it's a methodology and not a tool. It works just as well on paper or a basic list manager (e.g. trello, iOS Reminders) as it does in more complex tools like OmniFocus or Nirvana (and I'd argue you should start simple). No tool can give you what a methodology will.

While I highly recommend the book itself, I have found this podcast episode to be a great overview: https://gettingthingsdone.com/2017/05/episode-29-david-allen...
Yeah; there should be a floor on settlements of statutory fines + 1.5x damages being paid out to each member of the class, with money set asside assuming 100% claim rate.

Excess money would go to a relevant non-profit of a judge's choosing.