skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OpenWhisk functions are vendor agnostic and have a generic signature of JSON in and JSON out and no other dependencies. Functions on DigitalOcean may also run functions from Netlify and AWS Lambda (and vice versa). You can run the same functions on IBM Cloud Functions and Adobe I/O runtime. This article from 2020 runs the same code on multiple clouds included self hosted for the curious https://openwhisk.blog/post/advocate/openwhisk-portable-serv....
> Yes. My house, that was heated by oil 2 years ago, is heated by electricity today

Good, so you see how the argument that only 2% of natural gas in Germany are not used for energy applications is irrelevant for the issue of replacing residential and industrial heat sources. These are major energy applications alright -- ones that can't be readily switched to electricity without major infrastructure transitions -- which are already taking place but can't be sped up 100x on a whim.

> Because Germany has underinvested in electricity plants that cannot be shut down by Putin.

No, actually it's largely because Germany overinvested in electricity plants that cannot be shut down by Putin. Their renewable investments, just like the renewable investments in the neighboring Czech Republic, led -- rather than trailed -- the recent decreases of prices of renewable generation equipment around 2010. As a result of this, Germany has to spend much more money than they would have had to, had they waited just a few years. This made their electricity around six Euro cents per kWh more expensive. (Investments do have to be repaid, after all.)

> I agree you cannot transition in 2 months. I talked about starting in 2014.

Germany started with the transition seriously around 2005. It still takes time, and also isn't a thing that happens at a constant rate because the industrial landscape is evolving. As things such as PV panels, wind turbines, or heat pumps get more affordable, their rate of installation increases.

> If Germany had kept their nuclear plants electricity plants (and ideally built a number of new ones) electricity in Europe would be cheaper.

Debatable, judging from the recent events in the European nuclear industry (Hinkley Point-C, Olkiluoto-3, etc.). The mandated feed-in tariff for HP-C electricity is now more than double than what a wind power plant would deliver. It's inflation-adjusted, so for example around now the electricity straight from the HP-C plant should be worth around 14 Euro cents per kWh, whereas for example new German PV auctions take place at under 5 Euro cents per kWh. And European wind power as well has similar price levels to the latter nowadays.

> But I suppose in 2014, the psychological damage was already done. It appears like Germany had already decided to get rid of Nuclear after 2011 / Fukushima. This seems to be driven by fear, more than anything.

It does not "appear" that "Germany had already decided to get rid of nuclear after 2011/Fukushima". They had mandated the shutdown in binding law almost ten years before Fukushima, so Fukushima had nothing to do with this.

> Meanwhile, energy prices have gone up all over Europe, since Germany is only the biggest country to have underinvested in electricity production. Even countries that produce an excess of electricity, like Norway, have the same prices.

You know, that just might have something to do with energy trading across Europe. The fact that Norway's electricity rates are increasing is a sign of healthy market, because it shows that arbitrage works.
GDPR notices are obnoxious, but they are not the only source of popups, not even the most annoying (most of them are converging to standard patterns, so you can dismiss them quickly). These days many sites have a constant barrage of all kind of popups, browser notifications requests, registration nags, adverts and so on, often on a delayed trigger.
Your hosts love that
Does that mean you don't believe it's going to replace Android/AOSP? It's in some Nest devices right now.
When I first started learning Unix -- way before Linux (I'm that old) -- there was a program called 'learn' that came with the OS. 'learn' taught you how to use the shell in a series of distinct lessons, each of which was capped off by an exercise in which you were dropped into a fake shell environment and instructed to achieve some task. Only by successfully completing the task (the program checked the state of the fake file system against the desired state) could you proceed to the next lesson.

I'd been hoping for a program like 'learn' for modern environments. This looks like it comes close.
That's the system we have in Brazil and we don't have a less polarized political situation currently, neither a stronger democracy, I believe.
GDPR is just about one more annoying popup you need to click away on each site you visit, and that some U.S. website became inaccessible without VPN at all. Good job.
Opting-in should be a client feature, not a website feature... make browsers block cookies by default, and then add a button next to the title bar to accept cookies for this webpage (for them to remember the login).
The point is to have fair representation. If a 30% fanatical minority can get a 100% clean slate for its candidates by voting strategically, AV fails.

In a single winner election AV makes coordination among moderates somewhat easier, so it's an improvement, but still inferior to Ranked Choice/STV with multi-member districts.
Thank you, I will take a look at those.
Indeed, kind of like the graphic disease labels on cigarette packs. It doesn't directly stop people smoking, but it does raise awareness of what can happen.
That's a lot of money. And what a time to do it too.
Not Ultima but very much in the vein is Skald the prologue demo really invokes the feeling of earlier Ultimas.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1069160/SKALD_Against_the...
It doesn’t really do that though. All the electoral college does is make presidential campaigns hyper focus on swing states.

You don’t see many presidential candidates stopping over in Vermont.
"See liberals insisting that abortion be available even where large parts of the population have religious beliefs that are against them."

As well everyone, not just liberals, should insist.
Agreed, as soon as you need more than auto-growing AND alignment in 2 dimensions Flexbox becomes a world of pain whilst a grid JustWorks(TM).
As I mentioned in my post, why aren't third parties successful in places where first past the post isn't an issue (seats where one party doesn't contest it, seats where one party isn't legally allowed to hold them, places that implemented ranked choice voting)? When first past the post is removed we're still not seeing other parties succeed.

As to why we only see two parties, I think it's for a couple of reasons. One, the parties are pretty open and just about anyone can run in them, so there's little use for a third party. Two, the two parties have become culturally entrenched - many people see themselves as Democrats or Republicans, not just people who happen to vote for Democrats or Republicans. And three, prominent national third-parties have been run so poorly they've made people more likely to anyone (including independents) over third parties. Independent candidates have actually had much more success (even in places with first past the post) than third-party candidates.
Backup cameras are legally mandated on new us vehicles. The screens are not going anywhere so they're going to get used for other stuff too.
Small claims courts are not intended to force defendants to give up their right to be represented by legal counsel; therefore, once served defendants usually can file to automatically have the case moved out of small claims where they can be represented by legal counsel.
I've had this idea for a puzzler with 5 space dimensions and 2 time dimensions, but I just haven't had the time to implement it.

Also, it sounds cool, but I don't think it'd be fun, just a neat curiosity.
The paper talks a lot about this, and compares directly in the second and third experiments (code included). Overall we made SymForce largely to improve on autodiff workflows like in Ceres. The combination of symbolic code in Python, automatic computation of tangent space Jacobians, and code generation can simultaneously make it much faster to iterate, much faster at runtime (there is no runtime chain rule as with autodiff libraries), and less code to maintain. We've seen this very directly in production on our drones.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/700480/Microsoft_Allegian...

has been around since March 2000, and currently free to play
I doubt large corporations, with all their lobbying power, will submit to this.

On top of that, the agreement would introduce a prisoner's dilemma: it relies on every country respecting it, and any country outside of it would see large benefits from it due to corporations moving their profits there. This results in an unstable equilibrium.
> that a stack of paper had all the information you could possibly look on a given for in a concise, reliable manner

The World Book entry on enormous subjects of great importance was still maybe a few pages long. Today, a fair amount of primary source material in archives on different freaking continents is available online.

Printed documentation for hardware and software was frequently not exhaustive and there was no way of asking for help quickly. Maybe you had a help line. Maybe you knew hobbyists in a local meetup group. But that old DOS manual wasn't anywhere near as useful as what is available today.
This is the Way: Invisible Jenkins
We wanted to stop external network attacks on our internal development environment while allowing tools like Jenkins to connect to other internet based tools such as GitHub. We do not want to have any inbound ports or deal with VPNs, ACLs, bastions, complex firewall rules etc. We dogfooded our opensource technology, OpenZiti to achieve this. We would love to know your thoughts.
If it were actually valuable they wouldn't do that.
For software engineers, the numbers start at 59 (as in, a new grad hire is an L59 on their first day): https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Google,Amazon,Microsoft&trac...
Not meaningless if you merely search for something like 'graphical Fahrenheit and Celsius', print out one of the representations of the two scales that appeals and keep it where you can see it for a day or so. Choosing at random I'd say that https://learn.weatherstem.com/modules/learn/lessons/62/img/d... is quite neat.
Natural Selection 2 is sort of RTS FPS combo
> Cutler famously disparaged the UNIX kernel (his notable saying was "Get a byte, get a byte, get a byte byte byte" to the tune of the finale of Rossini's William Tell Overture).

I'm pretty sure that had to be in reference to STREAMS, because the original UNIX I/O model certainly is not byte-oriented. So basically, entirely irrelevant.
Isn't what's going on here in particular something to do with symbiotic bacteria capturing carbon into sugars?
> Will be this the situation for most tech companies or just start ups?

One start up, with specific reasons to chicken out, not the whole industry. You luckily avoided a dying employer, and you'll find someone else soon.
On the other hand you have European systems like the one in Italy where you have a lot of parties, all of which STILL not represent their voters and when they govern (together, mostly) they get nothing done because they don't agree on a single thing.
Kerbal Space Program 2 would be a nice start.

These days I'm more interested in story-heavy, all single-player, occasionally borderline pretentious games, whose story is sufficiently compelling to distract from what the outside world (US-based, for me) has become.
Finer grained IAM like permissions but without the AWS complexity is of great interest. I will see what else I can share.
As best as I can recall from the mid-90s, security updates were significantly less common. Many people didn't even have an internet connection.
The "gun nuts" and "tax maniacs" are in the same party ... see the recent GOP tax cut that transferred trillions of tax burden from the uber rich to the middle class.
Apollo lunar landing simulator, with optional VR glasses mode.

It would include the rocketry part, spacewalks, airlock operation, moon car, etc.
> ... would imply reboots_per_day < 1 is bad and reboots_per_day >= 1 is good;

I understood as that being exactly the point of the GP, rather than contrary. Because of the 'most' referring to the 24 hrs, not amount of reboots.

But I guess this is the point where my lack of English skill comes into play.
Really happy to see this back. I had noticed the repo is no longer archived.
A deep, open world RPG (akin to fallout, or the Witcher, say) set in a pirates of the Caribbean/monkey island type setting.
HTTPS Everywhere will sunset in January 2023
We have bigger targets than beating Oracle, say open source DB pioneers
America is a democracy and a republic. Ask any competent political scientist.
A cooperative story-based MMO. Everyone is a participant in a months-long story that evolves in real time on the server. This is not just a world-wide event in a regular MMO; the world is progressively and irreparably altered throughout the story. I envision that the server simply shuts down at the end of the story.

There are two hard parts to this: (1) how do you make the game balanced even as the number of players fluctuates by orders of magnitude, (2) how do you make the game fun even as the amount of time each player spends differs by orders of magnitude. You will probably want key plot twists to be announced in advance so that as few people miss them as possible ("we predict the enemy hoard will arrive at our base on Friday around 8:15 PM").
An open source Gary’s Mod style modular universe focused on modding tools and a strong plug-in system - but in Unreal Engine 5!
I hear you. These so-called "privacy activists" seem to have no clue how much European corporations are spending on data management, privacy controls, legal due diligence and finally serving the customers' GDPR requests. The last one is the publicly visible part, but it really is just the tip of an iceberg in investment on compliance.

This is made even more frustrating by that at least I find GDPR to be not very precise. There are lots of corner cases where it's not clear if some data is covered or not. The strictest interpretations would easily obsolete / criminalize vast majority of ALL software that people today absolutely depend on for their daily lives - like various financial backbone systems - and which largely predate the GDPR.

It's hard to not find the regulation a joke - sadly. While GDPR is not precise, I won't even go into the details about the ridiculous cookie law and the braindead portions of the new 2019 digital copyright directive (that French publishers lobbied in to hurt Google News). If GDPR left you in doubt, that idiocy really showed that these EU bureaucrats are completely out of touch with the reality in the field of technology they want to control.
Would you be able to describe what 5 dimensions looks like? And what are the 2 dimensions of time?
There are two games that come to mind that are/were like this:

1) Total War series — it's not FPS per se but there is the idea of managing the macro situation (resources, where armies are, developing cities, etc.) and then when you actually attack another army or lay seige, you have more of a tactical view where you direct the action.

2) The original Rainbow Six (and maybe some of its immediate sequels). You would plan out exactly what you want every one of your special ops guys to do (e.g., when I give the signal throw a flashbang into this room) and then you get to play as one of them. Not sure if anyone has replicated this yet!
> the two-party system

The problem is thresholds. It's not inherently a 2-p system.

The main thing to understand here is that the 2-p system works great for capitalists (= super rich). They can simply make contributions to and lobby both parties. Easy!

> biggest problems in US politics

What commoners see as a problem is a great feature for the capitalists.

Another problem is with democracy: if you have a lot of uneducated voters that have their whole identity married with certain parties, or --even more common it seems-- hating "the other party", you will merely reduce the problems even with more parties to choose from.

I'm not from the US, but after WMD-Bush, suveilance-drone-strike-Obama, pussy-grabber-Trump and demented-Biden I'd probably not be voting at all.
I hadn't heard about that proposal; do you have a link to discussion/source? It sounds like a Bad Idea and I'm curious for the arguments in favor.
A racing game based on Google Street View
I shared a few details above - with the implementation backed by a mature open source project, there are lots of details available already. Thanks for bringing this up though so we can focus on the parts of interest to the community as we roll out more technical documents on the product.
It's not that different, two rounds is approximately equivalent to ranked-choice with one round of preference distributions. With the added uncertainty of different voting attendance, and people changing their preference between rounds.
The amazing thing is you don’t first ask, “Is there going to be a recession?"
> they get nothing done

That's not a bug, it's a feature. :)
Right, but then you also subject yourself to the whims of the federal government once “people I don’t like” get in charge.

Democracy functions better on smaller, more homogeneous scales.
Restricting POC from voting is indeed racism and the U.S. has a long history of it.
> German scientists have also discovered a bacterium that feeds on the toxic plastic polyurethane, which is usually dumped in landfills."

Could that be used to strip polyurethane off of paintings, or would they attack the painting itself as well?
And, obviously, (3) how do you recoup a multi-year investment across the period of only some months? Making games is extremely expensive and MMOs are by far the most expensive type to make.
This is fundamentally wrong because states don’t break votes into urban, suburban, and country voters.

It’s winner takes all for the state.

There are a huge amount of people who’s vote for president does not matter at all due to the voting trends of their state. These people’s only option is to move to a swing state.

This is a nonsense solution to an obviously flawed system of voting that can be fixed incredibly easily
The home improvement stuff is huge. I just recently bought a home and talking to my parents about how they did home maintenance using printed materials was incredible. Compare even basic information like "learn to recaulk a shower" via a black and white book with grainy photos and 10,000 high definition videos of people doing it. Let alone a job of higher complexity.
My bet is that it is not going to matter because BEVs will price itself into obscurity.
> We can't count paper "yes/no" votes in a way that everyone is happy with.

That reminds me, for some reason the US doesn't have referendums. Why is that?
I think it's not only "low tech". The bigger issue I see, is that everything tries to be an Assistant.

For example, the Oculus Quest, there's a on / off button fine, easy to understand. Except, it magically turns itself on if it assumes, you may use it, and turns itself off if not used anymore. Unfortunately that is often not correct, so you start counter acting, holding it carefully so the sensor does not react and double checking if it turned off or just on again, when switching it off. Congratulation, they made a simple on / off switch unintuitive.

I see this pattern everywhere. It seems ux designers are trying to hard to be clever. Just give us a Tool, that does one thing and always acts the same. If it doesn't make sense, let the user learn from it's mistake.
Natural Selection 2 is still active. 2 non-symetric teams of 7-10 players each have a commander who plays RTS. The rest are marines building resource towers, upgrade buildings, scanners, ammo depots that commander places. Commander may direct people to speccific tasks, but usually people just know to for groups of 2/3 and be effective. Commander then places building plans, and can heal/drop ammo/scan (and more) for marines on the field. Aliens are a little more individualists, and geberally only 1/2 players help make building happen faster.

The map design is amazing, game runs and looks great. Highly reccomend
I'm looking at the Smalltalk-72 manual right now and I see e.g. the following:

> In Smalltalk, every entity is called an object; every object belongs to a class (which is also an object). Objects can remember things about themselves and can communicate with each other by sending and receiving messages. The class handles this communication for every object which belongs to it; it receives messages and possibly produces a reply, typically a message to send to another object.

So far as I can tell, this means that Smalltalk-72 was what-Kay-considers-object-oriented.

I'm not sure whether this refutes the claim you're actually making, because apparently you're saying that Kay lies about what he used to think, and maybe e.g. you're saying that what Kay now says about object orientation is not what he used to say, and that in the 1970s he wouldn't have considered Smalltalk object-oriented. Or maybe you're saying that the right way to think about object-orientation is something different from Kay's, and that Smalltalk-72 was not what-you-consider-object-oriented. Or something.

Could you maybe be more explicit?

Could you give some examples of things that Kay now says he used to think, and explain why you believe he didn't actually think them? Could you explain in what sense you reckon object-orientation was absent in Smalltalk-72 but bolted on later, and why you think that indicates intellectual dishonesty on Kay's part?
When I've read your first sentence this popped in mind: is there a cap to Elon cult/anti cult?

Like, is there a ceiling for the amount of people that will care about Elon, which is an individual, in a negative or positive way, that would limit Elon reach and the effect it will have on Tesla.

I'm not saying Tesla doesn't have it's own merit, of course it does, but Elon personality cult helped a lot marketing it, and popularizing Tesla stock. I'd even say that Elon is way more popular than Tesla as a brand.

But I wonder when they'll reach this cap... and Elon alone won't be enough, and you'll just see the big brands like VW, that have caught up in terms of tech, doing their own thing and taking larger and larger chunks of the EV market.

Because what Elon seems to forget is that a personal brand only goes so far. Like, Steve Jobs eventually learned this at Apple (not saying he promoted a personal cult, I don't think he did), and they started to build and invest in Apple as a brand.
You’re probably right, though for an OS that’s the kind of dependency people would prefer to have removed anyway.
Crazy talk time. I wonder if we could have a national water grid that used air currents to push water inland from the seas. Then capture it with stuff like this.

It says this type of capture system works when RH<30%. Places like LV routinely see RH<.5%, for reference.
Poverty does that to the brain, if you weren't aware.

I have the same hoarding mentality, despite being extremely wealthy by my parents standards.

My mum still keeps everything she gets her hands on, part of the reason is because reacquiring once discarded may not be possible. So better to be safe.

While you get pretty good at using things to fix other things, these days everything seems to be single-use molded plastic with clips; once broken it often has no chance of being fixed. :\
Stopping that will be harder than it would have been to stop covid from spreading.
I hope this redesign leads to their services becoming more mainstream, without alienating their existing user base.
Amazingly, no one is questioning whether there will be a recession or not.