skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a client simultaneously telling me he wanted a function, but that it couldn’t take that much time to develop it because it’s only useful 5% of the time. Sorry dude it’s all or nothing, it’s not like mechanics were there is a range of solutions going from sheet metal to forged titanium or from a piano hinge to magnetic bearings.

I’m a bit unfair, because some high tech stuff is cheap, we all use tree and hash structures whose development we don’t pay because they are in the standard library, but it’s a few strategic and standardized places. The same as using a ball bearing in mechanics: you get into a very high tolerance world for cheap, the mechanical interface is standard and some unicorn mounted helve make those bearing in a chocolate factory as far as I know they might develop maps and queues on their other half time.
> Does that partially address the "dead batteries",

Sort of, but they still have batteries (though less). And now you have a hydrogen fuel cell disposal problem, and it's not clear to me whether that is better or worse, and if it's better, whether it is worth the greater complexity and inherent inefficiency of H2 production, whether it is grey H2 or green H2

> if hydrogen filling stations become prevalent?

That's a big if considering that we already have an electric vehicle charging infrastructure and that can charge your vehicle in a zero carbon way in many places.
A lot of the complexity in this article isn't so much that the task is very complex, but that if you want to support every single language, culture, format, then it becomes a very long task.

I do wonder if we will end up just moving towards more unified formats and doing away with the need for all this complexity. I could be very wrong on this, but it seems like for the smaller to mid scale software projects, I18n is just not worth it. Throwing a bunch of YAML files over the wall to a translation company and then just dropping them in the app does not work and the end result is so bad that native speakers would rather just use the app in correct English than broken native language.

Now you don't have to care about how to wrap or hyphenate a word in an obscure language which doesn't support it, and you don't have to worry about vertical text. Your problem space just got a lot smaller. And if you are building a tool at Google scale then you should have the resources to just make the problem go away anyway.
Yup, at least Superfund is contained.

This is much worse and the scale the computer consumer market is huge.
Thanks. We are gradually phasing out past practice of “abusing” GitHub to host images by making use of CDNs.
The old website/app was very primitive. Only this year did multi device linking come out of beta.
Wasn't there going to be an original score and then Kubrick decided that he liked his mockups better?
They also seem to believe the speed of an exploit is relevant enough to put it in the headline and repeat it several times in th article.
It'll make housing even more expensive in 10 years as builders will be decimated like in 2008, we won't build housing for half a decade, and a new generation will look for housing while boomers sit on their 80% vacant 4bd houses they paid 1/5 of the current market price for.
Radically a) reduce AND b) organize these things. Take two weeks off (or similar), and stop EVERYTHING that comes in automatically from coming in automatically, but instead move feeds to bookmarks, so you can read these things IF YOU WANT. No newsletters (just bookmark the mainpages). Deactivate all notifications and alerts, unless your daily life depends on it.

Consume all open tabs, store important stuff in bookmarks and delete non-important things.

Take all your digital data and organize it properly, i'm using Apple Notes for all text infos (accounts, notes, ideas) and HDDs for storage (Movies, Music).

It's okay to have 5000 notes, if they are organized properly and OUT OF SIGHT. I have folder with subfolders just with recipes, places and cars I like, but it works fine. Use Folders!

Keep ONE "pinned" (Apple) Note on top, naming it TODO and just put everything that you REALLY have to do in there, work it down over the next weeks, no excuse. Get focus in your life. Spend your day doing this list, everything else is distraction.

Bonus: Remove everything from your smartphone that's not essential. Go berserk and delete the email app. No "incoming" stuff except real communication with real friends and family. No Slack, no email, no social media.

Bonus 2: Keep a clean computer: empty desktop, 1-2 tabs max, one task at a time, one monitor, one focus. Everything has it's place.

Bonus 3: Grab a friend or stranger and do this together, share your progress. This helps so much.

Be Marie Kondo, but with computers ;)
What’s the method for determining what counts as a “website” versus a “web app”? For instance, what makes AirBnB or Amazon a “website” but Google an “app”? Are blogs which use SPA frameworks or dynamic routing necessarily “applications” because of the tools they use or can they be classified as a website in spite of them?
> Our kids need something to save the world over in 40 years. This is the genesis of that.

I doubt it. I don't think electric vehicles will help as much as we think. I think true long term economic and ecologic solutions require less dependence on cars and their infrastructure.
Does this mean they can't contribute to open-source MIT-equivalent licensed code bases? As that's basically giving that code to the public domain, is it not?
I live in the bay, we have fabulous and abundant groceries. Maybe other parts of the state are different.
Fun fact: RSTS was originally named BTSS - Basic Time Sharing System. This was short lived since Honeywell had a product with the same name, so it was renamed to RTSS - Resource Time Sharing System. But due to a typing mistake that stuck it became RSTS - Resource Sharing Time-sharing System.

Source: http://www.silverware.co.uk/rsts_80th_birthday.htm
Unless you're targeting a very localized audience (eg employees in one company, kids in one school district), I don't think it's safe to assume that only English users will use your software.
You need to step away from the internet for a while. Go outside. Talk to people in person. Realize the real world is far more interesting than the digital one and just forget about all that digital nonsense.
The "Linear Algebra in Diagrams"[1] seems interesting, but I didn't understand how I can download. Do I need to register and "purchase" even though it's $0 cost?

[1] https://flibrary.info/store/prod_info?prod_id=e9fdcce3-937e-...
Why is the duration important? Or are they saying the hack was developed in 8 seconds?
Do you give annual gifts to your building or office cleaning staff? Or just people who have unaccountable authority over you.
I agree that a machine can enforce conventions, but it can’t decide them for you. The primary point of conventions (IMO) is to aid the reading of code. If one style is more readable than another, that should be chosen.

If you think opening braces should go at the end of the line and I (incorrectly ;) ) think they should go on a line by themselves, our team style guide should probably pick exactly one of those. That’s a human choice after human debate, followed by machine enforcement.
I understand why you think this isn't unreasonable -- I just don't think it's _possible_ for most things (that aren't overt poisons, i.e. smoking, lead, etc). If you get skin cancer, you'll always wish you'd done more. There's just too many variables, and the department of health will likely always be too conservative(see below) for some people's take, so then which "experts" do you listen to?

The reality of the advice for sun is probably similar to most things -- You need some sun, but not too much. And no one probably knows the answer, and it will probably change as a result of climate change and other factors. My wife is a high risk pregnancy because she’s over 35, but after probing the doctors what we realize is that for some women at some point between the ages of 30 and 45 the risks to your pregnancy may increase some variable amount but you know what is funny, that because these women are more closely monitored, high risk pregnancies may actually have better outcomes than low risk pregnancies! And so there’s this epically long laundry list of things that you’re not supposed to do, with very little specific guidance on the risks you might take on.

But if you really want experts. The Skin Cancer Foundation at Skincancer.org suggests a shotglass full of sunscreen over your entire body every day 30 minutes before you go out, even when it's cloudy. Also, that's not enough! For a full sun protection strategy seek the shade whenever possible, wear sun-safe clothing, a wide-brimmed hat and UV-blocking sunglasses:

https://www.skincancer.org/skin-cancer-prevention/sun-protec...
Supporting "every single language, culture, format" *is" the task in the article. You can decide whether you want to do it or not, but that's a different question.
alternative: go for 0. But have an unlimited archive with important things.
That's true, but I think the wisdom of tech-inclined people will eventually reach the general public. See the rise (and fall) of OnePlus, which was once praised for making a good stock android phone.
I found it amusing to read this, given that in the context of Ardour (0) we still have the long term stretch goal of replacing GTK with an expansion of our home-grown canvas-based widget system. There are 5 widgets missing, one of them is the text entry. The description in TFA regarding doing this in the context of an HTML canvas element is more less identical to the issues that exist for a native re-implementation, and there's consequently a similar high pressure rationale for giving up on the idea.

(0) https://ardour.org/
For people not familiar with it, Parasolid is the geometry engine that powers a bunch of prominent commercial CAD/CAD-adjacent tools. SolidWorks, Onshape, Ansys, Abaqus etc. It's kind of the benchmark to beat for open source competitors like SolveSpace, which I agree is a very exciting tool.
Vancouver left turns are wild. There’s almost never a turn lane or turn signal.

When I first moved there I didn’t realize that a yellow was treated as if left turners now owned the intersection. Had a few close calls when I would go straight on a yellow while left turners were trying to turn.
This is understandably voiced... and trying to anticipate change isn't bad,

but... devil is in the details, and to a certain degree this keeps things from getting too concrete to the point you can't solve the problem.

I think "prototype to determine it solves the immediate problem, but keep an eye on change as you do it" is far better advice, it keeps the horse in front of the cart.
Excellent comment! Same here, we are digital messies / hoarders. It's gets worse with OCD, as the feeling of having unread items gives me brain cancer.
> It's 32 bits only if you ignore microcontrollers and DSPs.

I know. But you're not likely to port any apps between microcontrollers, DSPs, and general purpose machines.

> Also, the size of 'long int' is definitely not constant if your code needs to be portable between Windows and something else.

It's also not portable between Linux and Mac OSX. This makes `long int` a completely useless type. Use `int` and `long long`.

> that did not have same sized _char_

I remember one person who responded to me about a DSP that had sizeof(char)==32, and how it was wonderful that the C Standard accommodated that so code could be portable.

I challenged him to port the C implementation of `diff` to it and see how far he gets with it. I predicted total failure :-)

The C and C++ standards would do the programming world a favor by standardizing on:

1. 2's complement

2. fixed sizes for char, short, int and long

3. dumping any character sets other than Unicode

Machines that don't support that will require a customized compiler anyway, and it's very unlikely any code will be portable to it without significant rewrite.
This reminds me of the policy of some of my CS professors:

If it's longer than 2 lines, it belongs in a function.

(Really guys?)

I can appreciate a few layers of indirection as being useful for maintenance later on - handling new corner cases by giving you some opportunities for making the most minimal possible change.

There's a diminishing return after a few layers, and then of course you start to make maintenance itself harder by making it harder to understand and navigate.
at least some of the people arguing for this do seem to talk as though there's an actual conspiracy.
Cars culture is not sustainable anyways. We need a massive shift towards public transportation.
More lanes, more wires, higher complexity, higher cost.

Not surprising at all given that the same vendor thought it was fine stratagem to market a midrange dedicated GPU with only 4x PCIe 4.0 lanes. They are banking heavily on the trend of turning PCIe into a serial bus of sorts.
>> Melanoma? True, the sun worshippers had a higher incidence of it—but they were eight times less likely to die from it.

Hm. So, having read the article I know how many times less likely are "sun worshippers" to die from melanoma but I don't know how higher is its incidence among them.

Why quantify one thing and not the other? That's one of the things that make this article read very fishy.
During the pandemic I took hour long walks in the afternoon pretty consistently six days a week or so, I got a tan for the first time in over a decade and ended up feeling much healthier in turn.

All my dry skin issues etc. went away…
Not assassination, more like revolution.

Look at america for example... a bunch of senile should-be-pensioners are leading the country on basically all levels. Look at EU, a bunch of unelected people in brussles want to break e2e encryption and intruduce private message monitoring.. "for the children". Look at shanghai and their lockdowns. Look at global realestate prices. Look at the profits vs wages ratio.

I mean... something will happen sooner or later, if we want it, call for it, or not.
If they’re my neighbor, they’re probably not in an HOA. (Though that would be an amusing experience to live in the first property outside the HOA wire.)
I feel like this would effectively be an alternative to Blitz.js or tRPC
Well, no. It clearly provides self-reported testament that it helps.

But if you believe that, then 9/10 women found shampoo/moisturiser to improve their shine/visibly fade wrinkles!

/that is to say, self-reported testaments and improvements have historically been the chosen method of snake-oil because placebo and self-dellusion are so powerful. There does not appear to be robust evidence that it works at all yet.
> so far

That says everything.
Show HN: JsJobbs – A website for finding JavaScript jobs
I am not sure it's clear that Knuth's work is appropriate for all or even any non-Roman alphabetic languages.
It's definitely not hyped any more. Time will tell whether it's a stable plateau or a decline. If you're looking for a language to boost your CV there are definitely better choices at the moment.

If you don't already know a dynamic/scripting language then it's definitely worth knowing one. But if you already know Python, Perl, or even TCL or JavaScript, I would prioritise learning something more radically different that's going to expand your skillbase more.
And there are county-level remedies for nuisances like that.
Traditional methods typically outperform DNNs on fixed numeric features. It’s very difficult to beat a GBDT in these scenarios, and the GBDT doesn’t have many hyper parameters and trains without specialized hardware.

If you add in ingratitudes data like text the situation changes.
Milton Friedman showed in "Monetary History of the United States" that the free banking era had more stability in its blind reaction to market forces than the Fed ever did with their deliberate "steady hand" on the throttle.
Does anyone invest in a DoW index fund?
Hey HN, I created a website with curated JavaScript jobs while looking for a new Frontend job myself. The jobs are curated from other job sites including HN "Who's hiring" thread and Twitter while a few companies post & feature jobs themselves.
Food Protectionism Is on the Rise
Immutable data comes to mind as something relatively simple. There is a world of complexity for working with it in a fault-tolerant and efficient way, but from a structural perspective an immutable bit of data is one thing rather than many things and it is only that thing and can only be that thing forever. This strikes at the very core of what simplicity is meant to be, not in the sense of ease, but in the sense of not being complexity.
> Etc, etc, for other reasons people give for zoning - regulate the thing the bothers people, not the type of business.

For a lot of people, more people around them is bothersome. This is problematic in cities that attract people when existing residents don't want any more.
Concept Artist Who Designed Iconic ‘Star Wars’ Spacecraft, Dies at 90
For someone who knows what a file is, it looks like you made an uninformed decision. It’s well known that iPhone doesn’t allow for much customization.

Do schools give out iPhones? Never heard of that. I’ve seen them give out iPads and that’s because android tablets are trash. ChromeOS is decent enough.

> There's reason iphone is no 1 in us an nowere else: it has to do will limited access to education, so simpler devices are "best".

Oh, so Americans are dumb?

>In the rest of the world is about social signalling: I can afford it. If you had access to good education and you don't care about social signalling

LOL. Who is signaling now?
Bank refuses to pay ransom to hackers, sends dick pics instead
You don’t really need if you instead apply stronger types.
If markets stop being efficient at price discovery, why wouldn't active managers and hedge funds exploit that inefficiency? In other words, why are active managers and their supporters arguing that they aren't good at their job?

(The answer is that they would exploit the inefficiency and the market would maintain efficient price discovery, but they'll get more business by fear-mongering around index funds.)
The global burden of skin cancer: 1990–2017
A medical physician, human or otherwise, following the Hippocratic oath would not be able to make the first incision required to perform surgery.
Global trends: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31473919
I'm surprised that they didn't mention that sunscreen blocks about 99% of vitamin D production. It doesn't seem wise for people who spend most of their time indoors to slather on sunscreen every time they go outside, even for 5 minutes, given their sun exposure is much lower than what is likely healthy. There was also a HN article a few years ago about a dev who said one thing they wish they had known about earlier in their career was was to get more sun exposure, because they were facing osteoporosis later in life.
> This is different with metals where you can "just" melt everything and separate the metals.

How would you separate the metals after melting them? My understanding is that you can extract some high valuable metals via different processes, but otherwise it's technologically and economically not feasible to separate molten metals.
To clarify Prop 13 is an initiative, a normal law passed by ballot box tyranny, not a constitutional amendment.

The same people who would shout down a politician for trying to reform Prop 13 would vote against any effort to reform it via initiative. Besides, as a result of Prop 13, tax "increases" require a ⅔ majority to pass. Try getting ⅔ of California to agree on anything.

Modifications to Prop 13 get to the ballot box periodically and the only ones that seem to pass expand its scope. Attempts to pare it back are met with fierce resistance from the anti-government folks. In general initiatives are a scourge and not a remedy to anything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13

https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781565843578
This isn't really true for PCIe 4 and beyond. For example, if you use a competently manufactured PCIe 3 riser in a PCIe 4 GPU configuration then VGA will fail to POST more times than it succeeds (on the order of successfully booting 1/10), if it POSTs at all. Given how expensive PCIe 4 risers are most people choose to downgrade to PCIe 3 in the firmware settings.
Keep doing them!

Most "business analytics" or "business intelligence" is bullshit work. They justify enormous expense and labor yet spend very little on the quality of the data that they rely on.

"Garbage in ==> Garbage out" is something that needs to be emphasized more when folks try to apply fancy-pants techniques to business "intelligence".
The person they borrowed it from also still owns the original share. The borrow creates a share, and the repayment destroys it.
Fractional reserve stockholding.
The battery pack in an EV is comparable: very heavy, large, dangerous voltages and chemical energy.
I remember there was a huge discussion on HN years ago on Prop 13, and someone mentioned that Prop 13 was proposed because the democratic party then double taxed people. Somehow I couldn't find the reference anymore. As for the Prop 13, it makes sense to me to keep it for the primary residence, as an ordinary person shouldn't be forced to give up their house just because the property appreciates. Prop 13 for non-primary and commercial property should be repealed. That said, I don't think Prop 13 will fundamentally solve California's problem before we fix our government. For instance, why would it cost more than 100K to house a homeless? How many people can earn that much, post tax, in the nation? Or why couldn't Bay Area schools afford even school bus or better school buildings or more teachers (CUSD teachers ask parents to grade students' homework)?
Use this in teams automation.

It’s just another priority format you need a full blown editor to build your UI in.

Difficult to debug with, but works fine as long as you hardly ever need to change your templates.
This reason swore me off this iPhone. Thanks. I have factored in my decision NOT to get one now.
Everyone* has standardized on CCS. The only hold outs using ChaDEmo (the Leaf) has given up.

It took to long but we’re there.

At this point I think China may be the only country with its own standard. US, EU, and I believe the rest of Asia are on the CCS train.

*The holdout, of course, is Tesla. They had good reason at the time (CCS didn’t exist), and their connector is better, but here we are.

They’ve gone CCS in Europe I believe due to regulations. If they did so here to it would all be solved. They have to add CCS anyway to Superchargers to open their network as Elon has promised.
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