skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do have 16GB in my MBA(s), but unless you are running huge DBs or editing big videos, or have hundreds of browser tabs open, or like running huge (Java) virtual machines, etc, then you may never notice the difference between 8GB and 16GB.
This is such an uninteresting take. It's in the same category as "all programming languages are the same". I wonder where this comes from. Are all operating systems the same? Are all file systems the same? Are all databases the same?

New tech generally tries to solve some problem. Maybe your project doesn't need that solution. Maybe you have been waiting for something to come along to solve that problem.
Android? We should have libraries for voice command (probably around android.speech ). I checked once because I would like to be able to voice control a GPS and mapping system while driving. If you wanted to voice control the application, that would be surely much more challenging, yet possibly interesting and exportable to other future needs.

This given, for the specific needs as you presented them I would have taken an old tablet, coded the feats you needed (timer, converter etc) in a single interface, fixed it in some most appropriate part of the kitchen for that use, and covered it with some plastic wrap film (I think standard PVC should be capacitive display friendly) in order to keep electronics and mess separate.

Of course, if you are more comfortable with the assistant, that is anyone's prerogative. Just reasoning.
> I wish Guix had the momentum and size of Nixpkgs. I'd much prefer a Lisp than the language contraption of Nix

This is exactly my feeling as well. The fact that Guix uses Guile (which is basically Scheme, a Lisp) throughout the entire process (even from the preboot environment!) is kind of a big deal. Plus the commandline UI is just better (at least if you prefer your package manager to look like "brew install <packagename>" instead of "pacman -Ssyyu <package>"). I know the "nix" command is making headway there but it's apparently also being rewritten at the same time and is basically still a buggy clusterfuck plus I hear there's an added complication of friction between the older nix devs and the newer committers working on the newer stuff.

I almost wish there was a "declarative Bash" variant on a fork of Nix that would allow people to lean on Bash knowledge but would only permit declarative style operations, so you could get the underlying Nix goodness but would have a more familiar (to most) declarative command language on top of it... or even better, something like https://wryun.github.io/es-shell/

... but you'd still lose the nix momentum
Exact same pattern here - 2 pre-k kids, wave after wave of illness since January, still yet to see a positive covid test.

I guess it’s good that their immune systems are getting a workout, but all this illness and accompanying missed school has been a major slog.
Nope, it's at $5.9, giving them a market cap of $1.175 billion.
Yes but the recent Senate Committee votes for this bill have yet to be published on the site.
In the blogpost they give an example of exactly that

$ ssh-add -L
sk-ssh-ed25519@openssh.com AAAAGnNrLXNzaC1lZDI1NTE5QG9wZW5zc2guY29tAAAAIKgGePSwpBuHUhrFCRLch9Usqi7L0fKtgTRnh6F/R+ruAAAABHNzaDo= cadey@shachi

Seems like the key is exposed as ssh agent.
> This again...

Yes, this again, because it is the single most important and common error developers make today.

> The problems with boring technology are twofold. One, it's about rejecting newer tech on a bet you don't need their features.

No, it's about rejecting newer, complex tech when you demonstrably don't need it, and the real reason it was chosen is that developers like shiny new toys that are cool because other developers are all talking about them.
Yup. Like I don’t even get the conversion argument at all. “1 cup of flour weighs 125g”. Except when the recipe was using something other than all purpose flour. I’ve had Alexa incorrectly hear the specifics necessary to answer those type questions too many times to ever trust it, let alone to take the preposterous stance that Alexa is the only way to solve the problem.
Three stories of Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war
> "Choose boring technology" is important not because it's universally right. It's important because it combats a problematic bias in the tech industry.

Instead of combating a dumb bias with a dumb catch phrase, why don't we say the right thing?

Choose the technology that fits your requirements. If you don't know your requirements, learn them, or remain flexible.
Take it through the airport.
> made it myself with an ESP8266

Do you have a recommendation on how to start an ESP8266 project? Which board/power supply/??? Did you buy to do this for example
> - The average Californian lawn is ~500 sqm [0]

> - Grass sequesters ~ 85g of carbon per sqm per year, or 42 tonnes per year [1]

500 * 85g/m2 = 42500 g/m2 - that's 42.5 kg, not 42.5 tonnes.

I haven't checked your original sources, but based on the numbers you provided you're off by 3 orders of magnitude. Intuitively this makes sense, I mean 42 tonnes is a huge amount of carbon to sequester in a lawn. Where would all that mass go? It would mean that the average lawn produces >> 42 tonnes of grass per year.
Even at the height of the pandemic, it was quite frustrating to see so little public places taking easy measures like keeping the doors/windows open, but focusing so much energy on arrows on the floor or non-sense like that.

Increased ventilation even helps with concentrating in school, as high CO2 is not good for schooling. I used to fall asleep all the time while I was in school, elementary, secondary, university, even staring at a computer. Now that I work from home, I never fall asleep that way. I was clearly just so tired from high CO2.
Don't try this in San Francisco or Oakland (or anywhere in the Bay Area really). That is if you still have a bike to lock and don't get robbed of it at gunpoint.
SPAs are a problem literally _everywhere_: When all you have is a sledgehammer, everything is a rusty nail just waiting to be pounded sideways and abandoned for someone else to fix.
I actually think the bias can go either way. Sometimes, technologists are suspicious of new practices and assume the motive is neophilia

You can see this in McKindley's talk. Developers who want productivity improvements are just after "shiny things". Because they're stupid, like kids or animals, get it?
> make it scale

Yeah, there’s a bit of complexity there.

https://youtu.be/nUcO7n4hek4
What is the definition of 'canonical' then?

I've often found the label 'canonical' to be rather arbitrary.
That comes with a massive disclaimer:

"This is my first Rust and GTK project and I am learning as I go along. Expect some bugs and crashes. Also: The file format is still unstable. It might change and break compatibility between versions."
To quote this article, "extended periods of low exposure to a particular pathogen."

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4...

As I understand it, just being out and about in the world gives an immune system (whether a baby or its family members indirectly) some practice.
Register as a one-man team and play. Just don't expect that you may qualify for the finals (unless you are geohot). Remember to read all challenges and feel free to skip a challenge if you get stuck.

Though the news got posted a week later (this year's quals ended a week ago) and you have to wait one year if you want to play this specific event.
It is important to show that the warming and anomalies are uneven, because in the north (specially over the northern polar circle) a few positive feedback loops happen, like permafrost thawing that emits CO2 and methane that were frozen there for very long time.

I'm not sure that that reinforcement of the trends were taken into account in old models, or how much it can accelerate things over old predictions that may still be used to dictate policies.
EmojiC – the worst language of all time
It is more of a local feel, honestly. Many on twitter and around the schools I do go to seem convinced that if the rest of the nation had just been as good at masking as we were, they would have not had it as bad. And that if we are diligent in the future, we wouldn't have as severe of outbreaks.

I can't even really say they are wrong. I don't know. My weight would be more on our 90%ish percent vaccination rate, but I could see both having impact.

Edit: I'm actually somewhat skeptical that ventilation will work as well as folks hope. Living in a place that largely does rely on outside air, we had just as large of outbreaks as anyone else. (That is, it is common to have open windows here. The kid's schools are even made to take advantage of that, if I understand it correctly.) Again, I am /not/ saying it is wrong. I just doubt it weighs as heavily as portrayed.
>A sufficiently powerful bomb will win every time. It seems a bit strange to want to hold software to a higher standard here.

A brick fortification built in the 1800s will always offer some defense from small arms fire. You can't cause that fort to attack all other nearby forts. The side effects of the fort are locally limited.

A computer that allows unauthorized infiltration of command (not just denial of service) can be used as an offensive weapon by anyone (or any bot) anywhere. [Edit]It's like building your fort out of crates of explosives, instead of bricks.[/Edit] The side effects of a computer are not locally limited.

I think it is only rational to require a standard appropriate with such a radically different set of side-effects.
Yep

Here's some stats

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/specialsections/these-...
I think it's that it's easier to detect a lack of data dependencies in C than it is to write an efficient Haskell compiler. Well, that and the fact that there is at least an order of magnitude more people working on the former than the latter
Is there a way to make this work in an agile framework ? It is more than just the Engineers this would effect.
There's also a bit of herd immunity for the new kids. Kids that have lots of prior exposure to a virus are less likely to bring it to daycare if they're exposed outside daycare. Also less likely to be a link in the infection chain for intra daycare spread.
I could complain about software endlessly and I came here to do it, but the comments discussing the analogy breakdown between software and bridge engineering made me wonder - is bridge engineering really so staid and rote? I've seen some beautiful bridges built in the last few decades and it makes me wonder if they get to play around with design as well.
More transmission seems like a great option, especially since the lifetime of wires is measured in decades instead of years like storage. Another point in favor of transmission is the potential to apply high temperature superconductors, which are dropping in price similar to renewables and storage and might let us increase throughput in existing rights-of-way.

Doing the analysis to figure out the value of transmission is something beyond my abilities as an armchair resource planner, since it relies on calculating network power flows over many years of forecasted demand and renewable production. Not to mention that transmission project costs are all over the place and, at least in the US, they tend to get delayed for decades. There’s some appetite to address transmission here in the Macrogrid initiative, but it’s a huge (ahem continent scale) problem.
It looks like this dishwasher uses only 3 litres of water for a full cycle. That's probably significantly less than you're filling your sink up.
As reported, installation of such device is mandatory (first link), but it does not need to be active. This is why some car manufacturers disable it upon request (see the third link). I mean, BMW and Porche disable that if requested.

Devices that allow tracking when no accident occurred, violate the current regulation. This is stressed multiple times.
"not connected to the mobile phone networks until a serious accident happens"
-- https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/redirection/document/5963

"it is not permanently connected to mobile networks"
-- https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/fr/MEMO_1...

"not connected to the mobile phone networks until a serious accident happens"
-- https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/redirection/document/5963

There is even a technical test to check if the device is compliant with the privacy regulations: "Procedure for verifying the lack of traceability of an eCall in-vehicle system", where the "Failure to establish the connection can be attributed to the 112-based eCall in-vehicle system not being registered on the network"
-- https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:32...

Registering the SIM on the network before an accident occurred could be considered a violation indeed.
Half of my office is/was out with COVID. My youngest has told me that the teachers, and students, are frequently absent in the middle school because of COVID infections.

I don't think that it's impacting daycare too much but it's definitely racing through offices and schools here. (Eastern Pennsylvania)
Ask HN: Why are checking/savings interest rates so low?
Why are banks in US not increasing interest rates for checking or savings account for their retail customers when inflation is 8%+ and prime rate 4%+?

Is this pure greed or by govt regulation or something else. Would like to get a banker/financier’s perspective.
i still like wordle and similar type games (quordle, waffle). i do not like video games though.
Then you're trading a water shortage for a food shortage.

Rock. Hard place.

There's a long list of fruits and vegetables where California growing is the source of nearly 100% of the nation's consumption.

Celery, Garlic, Walnuts...Spinach is up near 80%...Lemons 50%.
Yeah, but otter is friggin awesome. Could it have more commands in it? Like “email those items to me” or “make a to do list”
I have recently gone through mine when I finally changed to zsh after using Bash for the last 16 years (starting on Ubuntu and removed so many random commands I used. Now I barely need anything, as the tooling is really good and is going through a renaissance.

Ripgrep (coming from silversearcher a few years ago) is one of my favourite tools I use constantly.
A lot of these articles (seeing many in the same vein) seem to be implying that viruses are all making some vengeful comeback after the caution (some of us) exercised during the pandemic, but I'm not sure what scientific basis they are built on?

Some of the patterns we're seeing are surely just a statistical anomaly - the general dip in these infections when people weren't as exposed to each other's germs over the last couple years is now mirrored by a modest increase.

And naturally the news organizations want to pump every possible scenario that might lead to more doom-scrolling and eyeballs on ads.
> because of the years of focus on safety improvements.

dont be too hasty to jump from correlation to causation. the numbers were declining before politicians did anything about road safety.
That’s part of the problem. There’s a large overlap between the circle of people who deny climate change and the circle of people who haven’t got the slightest clue where to get useful data or how to interpret it.
You've asked for enough features here that make a low-code solution straight up impossible.

Also, if you've ever spent time on any freelancing site, requests like yours come in basically every other project. "I just want a social media app like Reddit/Twitter, here's $50 bucks and two weeks, let me know when you're done."

Honestly, it's a meme at this point, non-technical people asking technical people to build them a Facebook clone and completely failing to understand the immense complexity that goes into building anything for users beyond yourself.

Like I said, I'm surprised nobody here had given you a response like mine yet, given how common this conversation is.
> So it's literally only at a tax rate of 100% that the Laffer concept would make the tax take go to zero.

Yeah, that's the point of the curve. I don't think you've made a convincing argument against continuity.

And the quote seems to misunderstand the curve (I didn't read the article). The curve itself is reasonable, the main debate is where the current tax regime puts you - to the right or left of the peak. The other mistake is that many people using the curve to argue for lower taxes are not really honest debaters. They want lower taxes and use any argument available. They state that we're on the right even though ask evidence suggests the opposite.
If you think of a software system as a manufacturing plant, you can make some pretty straight analogs to other engineering functions. I know plenty of engineers who work at auto plants, power plants, or the like whose jobs are much more traditionally engineering and look a lot like what a modern software job on a distributed system look like. The core business is modeled and run through the software. Things break and will need modification over time, so the engineers are always present. It's not that software is outgrowing engineering. It's that software is growing to look more like other professional engineering disciplines.

The businesses we support are predominantly the professional services you list, so maybe a mental model of a professional services factory is where we're headed? You're certainly not wrong that software engineers need to be comfortable in those environments, but I suspect there's a bit of motivated reasoning among those who see our career becoming more like doctors, lawyers, and accountants, though I would love that to be the case. If anything, those professional jobs are looking more like engineering jobs over time as their own moats have been eroded. Aren't the software engineers coming along to make those professional careers look less special? I'm watching all the local dentist and optometrist offices get purchased up by chains instead of a new generation of small business owners. I'm not aware of another profession which has risen to those ranks, so I suspect their current place is merely a historical relic which is passing.
Pretty sure this submission follows from this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31558748 (in comment to the 2nd top entry on the front-page at the moment). So maybe it should be read in that context. Eg: which dryer to buy as a consumer, not which API framework a startup should invest into (even though there are overlap, of course).
Absolutely true that, but it can also be a way to make your maintenance needs require exotic skills you didn't need before, such that your already-scarce hiring tokens are stretched even thinner once that new person builds their thing and moves on.

Which doesn't mean your point isn't valid, just that there is a flip side to it that it should be balanced against, and it is possible to err in either direction.
Always bet on kids to help pass any kind of otherwise eggregious abuse of rights
I'm well past the elementary school (and younger) age, but this wasn't uncommon when my kids were that age.
> Because the things he says are contradictory, often very vague, and often extremely naive, either intentionally or unintentionally, regarding how hard it is to moderate content. As numerous industry leaders have pointed out, people on the Left think the Left is getting overly censored, people on the Right think the right is getting overly censored, in actuality it's an extremely complex system and the site admins just want people to stop threatening each other.

This is a claim that stinks of hypocrisy. If Twitter as it is removes Tweets under the vague and arbitrary notion of pursuing peace (i.e. heckler's veto), how is that any better than what people are accusing Musk of, even when he is not yet at the helm? Keep in mind that people like Yishan admitted to wanting to piss off Moral Majority conservatives during the Bush era. Twitter was ,according to Dorsey, the free speech wing of the free speech party. Why these people seek to compel a false peace now by appeasing today's equivalent is beyond me.

>Musk, however, has made it very clear that he feels the Right is being censored, and he will fix that, which doesn't bode well for people on the Left.
I'm hoping that if Musk actually does end up buying twitter, it leads to larger uptick for Mastodon.

He's made it clear that people shouldn't be removed from Twitter or have their Tweets deleted for statements that would be protected by the First Amendment. This is the opposite of censorship. The main argument I've seen from figures associated with the left is that they don't want another 4chan, as though somehow 4chan is an aberration of the Web, and not the closest representation to its natural state.

While I'm glad that Mastodon allows people to build their personal Twitters, I wouldn't depend on Mastodon to be censor-free either.

https://blog.alexgleason.me/gab-block/

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/11129
At least as of the time of this reply, it's $1.38. Last time it was $5.90 was back in February.
You could probably train yourself pretty easily. Give some of these a go. https://overthewire.org/wargames/
I started in 2009. :-)
I think you need the bitterness and pessimism of 30 years experience to have good judgement.

A lot of new tech is developed or managed by 20 somethings who just don't have that.
It sounds like you do know!
Create two tables: Account and Transaction.
In the `Account` table you store information of the account and the latest balance. In the `Transaction` table you store all the transactions.
Was that before or after the "I am rich" app? It cost something like 10000 USD I recall.
How does the supply and demand work if you cant buy any alternative anymore. Its like trying to buy non LED light bulbs.
Until they start coming with cell modems, or they broker deals with ISPs to be able to access any router leased by them, or they connect to any open SSID the second it sees it, or they broker deals with other device manufacturers to hotspot off them
Cyclone DDS is an open-source implementation of the OMG DDS specification
At HN?!

HN is a diverse bunch. There are lots of non-technical people here. But even ignoring that, there's a hell of a difference between 'knowing to how to code' and 'knowing how to write an Android app'. I've been writing code for 25 years, and I know for certain it'd take me several evenings to be able to make a working Android app, and a lot more to make one I was actually happy with to the point I'd use it.
Sure but "choose boring technology" is the right default for an organization. I think any new technology brought into an organization comes with a cost and that cost needs to be justified.
> The Earth has been around for 4 billion years.

And maybe when you've been around on this Earth for 200 million years you'll understand how pissed off most lifeforms are that we are quickly eradicating the places where they live.
The right to never be known, in the sense in which I think you must mean it here, is fairly simple to obtain. Stay off the internet and stay off cell networks.

Oh, you mean you want to be able to have your devices send requests to other people's devices and have them respond, but at the same time, you want there to be no record that your device ever did this? Good luck with that.
No doubt a lot of it is reverting to the mean actions in place. But, that generally portrays as a rebound on low values, so I can see why it is seen as a "vengeance."

The article does a decent coverage of the different mechanisms that could be at play, as well.
> I lost the argument and that org chose Knockout.js with JSPs instead. You can guess how expensive that "pragmatic" decision turned out.

would have thought React was the boring or pragmatic option in this scenario...
Thats not a TV. But I agree its a good alternative.