skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A highway rest stop may easily have 100 parking spots, and since most highways run through sparsely areas at many you could probably find space to increase that 10x if you wanted.

That said, if you are looking for a modern and efficient (but high upfront cost) alternative to 1-10 hour car trips between major cities, high speed rail may be a good choice
Great use-case for GraphQL, unironically.
While the whole rant is great[1], "Don't make the mistake of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison" is a particularly great quote.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=33m
Megalodon shark extinction may have been linked to great white competition
In my experience, good local development environments are relatively rare. We had them at a couple of small <10 person B2B, SaaS startups I was involved with. In larger companies, there were just too many pieces to run everything locally. Or in companies with software development, but not focused on software, local environments seemed more of an afterthought. With increased dependencies on cloud services, "serverless" environments, etc. it can also be painful to run stuff locally. Obviously you can build around this (and should...) but it requires thinking ahead a bit, not just uploading your lambdas to AWS and editing them there...
The npm ecosystem has been shown over and over again to be a dysfunctional tire fire.

I feel like at this point continuing to publish on npm is kind of a "that's what you get" situation.
It's definitely too far a stretch to place it at the center - but for those who have experienced it, it is definitely a part of musical performance /for them/, and a not-insignificant part.

There might also be some unexplored areas in this article, with regards to the role of eye contact in /improv/, especially jazz improv and the like. There's a lot more communication that occurs both through instruments and non-verbal cues in that setting.

When I've played keyboard in a group setting, I've noticed I'll use eye contact to let someone know that we're feeling out-of-sync - perhaps in tempo, for less experienced groups, or to mark a chord transition or harmonic opportunity they're missing, or to encourage them to push a bit more in a section where they're withdrawing too much.
Are you saying they should keep everything in house? I can tell you from personal experience that the external facing services from one of the major cloud providers handle spikes in traffic and has much better uptime than many internal systems.
Cost-per-unit
How does it compare to Redash (now Databricks SQL): https://github.com/getredash/redash?
> I've never understood the internet's hate for cursive. Are people who don't learn cursive not able to read the first line of a California license plate, or locate a Walgreen's pharmacy?

It's sort of an outdated mode of writing that survived due to inertia. Cursive is super, super useful when your writing tool can't withstand repeat impacts against the writing medium -- like a quill -- or if lifting will cause your writing tool to leak against the medium. Theoretically it's also faster to write than block characters, but the speed differences appear to be minimal for short-duration writing with the benefit of uniformity of block characters _outside_ of cultures that stress uniformity of cursive lettering. Worth pointing out that the examples you give here are not especially stylized letters and that Walgreens, outside of its red cursive letter logo, generally prefers a sans-serif block lettering. That said, I'm sure for someone not familiar with cursive lettering the 'r' and 's' look especially inscrutable, but most humans tolerate unreadable characters pretty well when scanning words we already know.

The slow death of cursive is indicative of the change in medium: most people write to one another by computer, or on mechanically printed paper. It's a similar process by which we started adding vowels, spaces and punctuation: the constraints of the medium or its tools improved with time.
FTC’s Antitrust Probe of Amazon Picks Up Speed Under New Boss
Isn’t CloudFlare’s whole schtick about keeping you online? Requiring you to deploy technical means to deal with your domain name being automatically thrown under a bus by their AI seems like the exact opposite of what I’m looking for.

Does this only affect free accounts? Do you at least get an account manager for escalation if you pay?

Honestly, this whole thing of scaling service abuse handling through AI is a dumpster fire.
SPACs are warning they may go bust
They even numbered them for you...
Bill Gates (and thus contemporary Microsoft) was obsessed with “pen computing”, so your perception was completely accurate.
This is extraordinary. Picking ARM for Newton basically enabled all of Apple's modern success: keeping the lights on, getting Steve Jobs back, NeXTSTEP evolving into Mac OS X and {i/iPad/TV/mac}OS, and of course ARM-based systems from the original iPod to the Mac Studio/M1 Ultra.
Oh for F's sake..

I had moved my domains from Google to CF sometime ago, assuming my emails etc. are protected, and now this.

Honest question: What is a good registrar? I used to use Namecheap in the past and have nothing against them.

Unfortunately, unlike other things I cannot self-host a registrar.

Thoughts? Suggestions?

Edit: TBH, I find this wording rather rude "The suspension is permanent and we will not be making changes on our end." especially for a paid product.
It’s interesting because for a long time electricity needs declined over time. Think things like light bulbs: just getting more efficient. Energy efficient everything has been a major trend.

Now suddenly it’s all electric everything! Heat pumps! EVs! Heat pump water heaters!
Tunnels (as mentioned below), sewage systems, foundations of large structures, detritus, glass and ceramics. Most modern concretes would decay quite rapidly on these scales, metals would disperse, plastics get eaten.

The patterns we have made on multi-kilometer scales will remain for very long timescales. We have altered floodplains, water tables, and ecosystems so much so quickly that we will recognise artificial desertification for a very long time indeed.

And we'll still be confused about whatever the fuck we were up to, other than enjoying the human condition :)
Do we need to go this far? Why not just require a DNS which is what all of web security is centered around anyway?

Most "serious" packages in Maven Central do have a dedicated DNS, for instance, even though there's the fallback of using io.github.username as the namespace. I feel like providing a namespace and starting to incentivize for it to correspond to a real DNS would be a good start.
I left academia after 8 years (4 PhD, 4 Postdoc) to go into a startup (non US). For me, I was disillusioned with what being in academia meant: Publish or Perish meant publishing whatever crap mid-work you had for the sake of putting something out. At the time I was also a blind-reviewer in a couple of publications, and the amount of trash papers that arrived due to the same issue was astounding (and no, I didn't get paid to do that).

I would love to do research and science, but I just hate the current status of that "industry".

And this is considering that I traded a "comfortable" life in Germany, with all the great social safeties in there (I didn't have a problem with the language) for a Mexican based startup with very high risk. And the pay was even not that different. After 10 years of my decision, I can say I took the best path, given that it took me to work in other startups that have been doing amazingly well and for which I've got some good amount of stocks.
Have you seen this thread? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30506581
It has been over 10 years since Dodd Frank made cash/debit card discounts explicitly legal.

http://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/new-rules-ele...

This is effectively the same as saying credit card surcharges are legal.
You still need to avoid double-spending issues.
Monitor Celery Tasks with Prometheus
I had found a good therapist that I was seeing though LyraHealth but she would ask me every time if I was in her state as she wasn't licensed to be in the same state.

I'll see if I can find something remote!
Unclonable Polymers and Their Cryptographic Applications
Hi mate! I'm super interested in this topic.

Why is having a long paddle with fairly low hands beneficial for sea kayaking?

Do you have any resources you think are good quality that I could find somewhere?

Thanks!
Ah, so that would place the eMate 300 during the Jony Ive era, making my edit unnecessary.

I'd still like to hear more about Thomas Meyerhoffer though.
I can't find it now, but in the olden days of the Internet I read an article about how an up-and-coming band had "hacked" RDS to switch radios to play their song when it was played out on the local station.

The local station had a UHF link from the studio to the TX site that was audio only, a very common setup in the mid-90s, and the RDS flag on the transmitter was switched "in band" by sending a burst of tones over the audio feed, right at the start of the traffic jingle. Slap the traffic announce jingle cart in, hit the button, tune starts with just three quick DTMF digits. Uh-huh, you're seeing where this is going, right?

So if you put those three DTMF digits at the start of your single... :-D
Resident 'Summer Design Associate' here - (might be time to take that one off my LinkedIn).

We've been placing 100K+ solar facilities with accredited investors for a few months now as we've gotten our private beta version off the ground. We've also been working with more experienced finance partners to structure future investments available on Legends Solar.

My wonderful cofounder hails from the art world, and has been helping to place our accredited product. She will be key in helping Legends create a resonant brand with cultural currency as we grow and evolve.

Before we raise seed or launch our retail product, we will bring some project finance experience in-house. Recruiting has been easy because people outside of climate love our brand and mission, and people inside of solar finance are often finance professionals who rarely have an outlet to share what they do for the world and the industry publicly. (You should see us as solar finance conferences, we're the bell of the ball - not kidding, we found many of our finance partners there).

I wanna push back on the idea that designers are no 'doers'... 'Doing' is an ethic, not a discipline, and there are plenty of examples of designers rising to be successful entrepreneurs (AirBnB, et al.).
Around 1998 I built an open source application on the Newton called Hemlock which loaded, parsed, and used Sherlock search templates to grab data from internet sites just like Sherlock did. Sherlock can either search from the internet or can search from files. The Newton didn't have a filesystem: it had a searchable database system. One of the things I was working on, and proposed on Usenet, was to search both the internet and the Newton database system in one shot, though I eventually didn't do it as the Newton already had a great search tool for the database system built in.

About 15 years later I walked into my lab and got served with a subpoena by Samsung's legal team for deposition. Everybody's lawyers suddenly wanted to talk to me. They dug through my postings, my software, old files on my laptop, even the old Newtons in my office. Between Apple, Samsung, and the very helpful SFLC legal team, the whole thing was like being dropped into a tank of very nice sharks.

One of the patents Apple was going after Samsung for was 8,086,604, the "604" patent. Hemlock, and my proposals on the Usenet for improving it, predated this patent by quite a bit and easily covered most of its claims. Eventually Samsung decided to argue that they didn't violate the patent, rather than argue that it was invalid. That turned out to be the right decision (they won). But had they gone the invalidation route, I'd likely have found myself on the stand in SF. That patent is still live, and my prior art is still ready to invalidate it.
They'll surely lose some subscribers in the short run, but it's not clear to me that it'll be a net loser in the long run. There are people who share accounts because they are very price-sensitive, and they'd be more likely to bail and find other ways to get content (competitors that aren't cracking down, or pirating). But there are also people who share accounts for historical reasons, like grown children and their parents. Those folks may have more than enough disposable income to have their own accounts, or pay a surcharge for having a joint account.

The question is: what percent of NFLX's multi-household subscribers will (1) quit, (2) pay a surcharge, or (3) get a separate account? My guess is there aren't a lot in (1), most are in (2), and there are very few in (3). I imagine they're trying to learn from their experience with this pilot program so they can figure out an appropriate surcharge.
Got it first try without undoing! Key was guessing the answer at like step 4 and reverse engineering it from the back.

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I would keep children away from doctors whose only solution is medication. Much better that they weather through mental issues and come out a normal adult. Medication when taken young, which is almost certainly what this would cause, can be very hard to get off of
https://nitter.net/giannis_daras/status/1531693093040230402
a few thousand cycles * a few days of use per cycle = a decade or two.
100k+ facilities is a bold claim. Do you mean panels?

How many panels does the average facility have?
> My Google cal emails me notifications

Until you get locked out/banned by Google.
You don’t have to fight Margit, he is completely optional and so is the entirety of Stormveil and the boss there.
The number of companies with cross-border operations is also falling.
I haven't used it but just from looking at the Github page. It looks like redash has more advanced dashboarding features today (I'd like to catch up here). In contrast redash doesn't really allow you to manipulate data very much if it doesn't come in a form you want or if you can't get it into the right form with SQL alone.

DataStation allows you to script results of database queries (or loaded Parquet, Excel, CSV, etc. files or HTTP API responses) in Python, Node, R, Julia, etc.

Also, DataStation is first-off a desktop app today so it's very easy to install and use -- especially in a corporate environment. Data never leaves your laptop. In the future I think more people will use the server version of DataStation so you can get server features like recurring exports and hosted dashboards but desktop will always be supported too.
I think the idea here is to prove that it could be done, not to show that you can do even more damage once you have RCE.
Unemployment is a b.s. number. What matters is working-age labor participation rate, and it's been declining since 1999.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300060
I've delivered custom backend business servers to a various businesses of healthy size. Almost all were deployed on rented multicore servers with gobbles of RAM from Hetzner / OVH / etc. Some running for many years already. Not a single one required to be "enterprise scaled".

Granted all servers are C++ and talking to a local DB. No problems in processing thousands requests per second without breaking much sweat.
Is Cloud [sigh] Haskell still alive?

For comparison, two old distributed lexical scope systems were Cardelli's Obliq and Kelsey's(?) Kali Scheme. From what I remember, not like remote forking, though.
> Something worked, per the influenza numbers. You admit that much, right?

I admit that it's possible that something worked, but I don't even think that's a given. We don't know how covid and influenza interact, and perhaps covid is outcompeting it. I'm not at all a virologist and have only a vague understanding that this hypothesis exists, but just throwing it out there to say I'm not 100% convinced that something we did worked.

> So, is it so weird to assume that the most obvious hypothesis (general social distancing and mask use) is correct?

This is just begging the question. Why is mask use the most obvious hypothesis? To me the most obvious hypothesis is that by closing nursing homes to outside visitors we shut off the main vector by which new influenza infections enter the facilities.

And again, this is just both of us guessing, because we don't have data.
I merely cited this as one example of a confusing UI, but this response makes my point even stronger. For most applications, the normal user flow is from general (what the app calls Repository Manager, I guess) to specific (a particular repository). Well-designed user interfaces anticipate the typical user flow and give the user a chance to "go back." For example, a user may accidentally click on the wrong repository. That user likely wants to return the app to its previous state so as to make the correct choice.

Neither of these steps really does that. The first opens a command palette which does not have anything resembling a "go back" command. It does list "Recent Repositories," but there is no reason for a user to assume that "Recent" is the same as All the repositories listed on the first screen. The command palette also omits the folder hierarchy present on the first screen, and that hierarchy may be key to finding the desired repo. Opening a new tab is not at all intuitive for a user that wants to go back. And the most obvious result of the command is a new blank screen.

There a lots of things about Fork that look to be very well-done, and it appears to have a great feature set. But if I'm going to use a GUI instead of the command line for git, then I expect the app to be intuitive and easy to use. For me, Fork is not that. I appreciate that other users may have different opinions, and I do wish the developers great success with the project.
Show HN: Chrome Extension that redirects pages instead of opening in new tab
I see not much has changed in terms of the web, web browsers, and web apps.
In the late 90s I attended a tour at Holland Signaal, a dutch defense company producing radar and anti-missile systems.

I remember vividly how they demonstrated an unbreakable process. They had a computer running a process and no matter what happened to that computer, the next one would flawlessly continue the process down to the cycle, with no change or corruption or skipping a beat.

It may very well be that this is actually not very difficult, but it seemed difficult and impressive.

Perhaps more shocking were ultra high resolution radar screens, some 3 generations ahead of anything I had seen in the consumer space, showing an incredible visualization of the air space, live. Showing exactly which plane is where, the model/type, age, fuel on board, hostile/friendly, all of it.

They even had a "situation room" with a holodeck chair in the middle, full of controls. The entire room was covered in wall-size screens basically showing the air space of the entire country, being live analyzed.

Sounds very 2022, not 1998.
It’s definitely partially academia that does this. When you are a grad student you are paid so poorly and worked so hard it is difficult to build a substantial identity outside of being an academic. Academia is good at marketing itself as a noble cause that imbues very high status if you can ever “make it” so quiting is giving up on that lofty dream. Where in industry it is definitely “not cool” if you build your identity around your job. That creates a helpful firewall that pushes people to develop something outside their work.
We are still structuring our first product - so it will depend, but we have options for all of these questions. From the securities side, we might consider Reg A+ or other crowdfunding regulation. I'd look into the structure Masterworks.io uses to learn more (I've in fact discussed this with their GC).

We've been building our beta with accredited investors under Reg D.
That’s not true at all. Papers come from industry all the time. I know of independent researchers who make up an LLC name and use that as their affiliation.

Most people who publish in journals are affiliated with academia simply because that’s where the vast majority of basic research happens.
im pretty sure amazon has a production environment... just their staging is problematic. It's incredibly expensive to run a copy of prod and keep it up. You essentially have to get paged for it doubling your burden.
The History lf Rome was my first podcast I've listen to. It is such a treat to listen. I've tried to continue with The History of Byzantium and it was just not the same. So now I've picked up Revolutions since I think it was really Mike Duncan style I appreciated (well that and the Romans)
wish it had hyperlinks so that clicking on them would open up the date events.

speaking of, cal is just a calendar. It doesn't have events anyway.
I miss: https://www.digitalgunfire.com/. :(
No, modern browsers aren’t crash prone. They are just memory hogging, battery killing monstrosities - except for Safari.
I should clarify, my account is a free cf account. Only thing I paid for was to extend my domain registration.
Yes, it's a cheap employee morale device. How much do the alternatives cost?

> for our several hundred employee company, running a Coke soda machine was basically the cost of 1 Tech Support headcount

It cost you $50-100K/yr to run a Coke machine? Maybe I'm misunderstanding something!
Perhaps rather than medication we could take a closer look at why children are so anxious in the first place.

I envy countries that focus on Gross National Happiness vs GDP.
I would be more concerned the risks associated with over diagnosis, or dredging up problems where there aren't any.
Show HN: Search and copy symbols to clipboard (Notion Hack)
What’s the excuse for US leaders to not pass appropriate taxes on gasoline? They’re afraid of the massive political backlash that would cause
How does Japan survive regular Tsunami with their tiny Kei cars?
I did the same thing. It wasn’t conscious, it was more that they lived in a completely different world from where I went. We couldn’t really relate as much anymore. Like we now had very different approaches to life. Academy moves so slow. When I check up on people I’m just shocked at how little has changed with them.
> Shouldn't this be expected to a certain extent?

In hindsight, sure. Given enough time someone might have predicted the phenomenon. But I don't think most of us did.

What's more fascinating to me is how often this has happened in this space in just the last few years.

1. Some phenomenon is discovered

2. I'm surprised

3. It makes sense in hindsight
I'm not sure if they are Comcast now. They seemed to be separate when I called them. They couldn't help me, though.
I see steel reinforced concrete with the steel exposed in overhead beams. This thing is gonna have to come down.

Good steel reinforced concrete starts deteriorating before a hundred years. It's no material for a cathedral.
Mysterious pulsar spins too slowly with 7 different pulse patterns
Local dev is great until production gets complex enough that you lose parity. That'll happen even earlier now that we run x86 on the server but ARM locally.

At my company we don't support local dev nor have any sort of staging environment. We have development linux servers connected to prod services and dbs. There are no pragmas or build flags to perform things differently in "dev". Things are gated with feature flags.

It scared me at first but now I think it makes sense: staging is always a pain and doing it this way we avoid parity problems between staging and prod. Local development would be impossible for a system at our scale but I think even a staging setup would result in more defects—not fewer.