skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I was alluding to it in my post. I did successfully build a MOSFET driver (to drive a big MOSFET for a DC-DC converter) using two tiny MOSFETs (tiny as in sot23 package) in push-pull configuration. I found two MOSFETs that did barely overlap. It seems to work well. And the power dissipation was very reasonable at 42kHz. Note that I am merely a hobbyist.

Using non well matched MOSFETs resulted in a rapid uncontrolled atomization of the MOSFETs.
The bidet would like to have a talk with you.
You're going to need a shovel and a beach.
Some ambitious targets there, but I support your general attitude.

> sell a mixer with a plastic gear, easy to speculate that will break
after few year, ok, you are allowed to do so, but you get a
progressive tax

A poor quality tax, like a sugar tax, seems interesting. Don't sell
crap. Measurement and enforcement isn't so easy. Quality of design
isn't trivial to assess. Maybe simple MTBF of finished product. Punish
excessive returns.

> Another fraud is "spare parts available ONLY to 'certified
technicians'"

I see that in the US outfits like Tesla and John Deere hide behind
"safety" as a shield. "Right to repair" needs to kerb-stomp that whole
conceit. Prove that only a highly skilled technician could possibly
perform the repair and that otherwise the consequences are extremely
likely to be lethal.

> must be made of standard parts

Mechanical interoperability and "class" part tolerances aren't so
unreasonable. The entire electronics industry is built on standard
component pitches and package layouts with equivalent component
classes published in most cases. Take the 741 op-amp package and
you'll find hundreds of pin-compatible devices in any catalogue. We
totally can do that for electro-mechanical assemblies.

> all spare parts on sale from the company website, at a reasonable price

No. I don't like the idea of compelled sales. I don't like compelled
anything. How about a law that says if you refuse to manufacture and
sell parts at a reasonable price you simply lose your patent/trademark
and cannot stop any other business making the part for which there is
demand?

> ALL software MUST BE open sourced

Gets my vote! :)

> anyone who can prove planned obsolescence

Not sure. Planned obsolescence isn't always a bad thing. It can be a
good design trade-off. Comes back to the quality expectations thing.
But remote kill switches and "updates of death" should be punished
mercilessly.
X-Plane is a flight simulator. Its purpose first and foremost seems to be to create a real sensation of flying.

When flying a plane in real life, you don’t do it with a keyboard. It seems odd to build a simulator prioritizing that unrealistic use-case.

A quality HOTAS setup can be had for under $400 which gets you much closer to the real-world experience that X-Plane is trying to create.
I feel like they have a better business plan than NPM did at least. They'll probably get acquired by one of the big cloud players.
That's because those qualified candidates already saw enough proxy signals from you that they knew it wasn't worth the time to apply. Selection bias.
But how do you use the toilet brush at the same time? Even if you use the toilet brush before flushing, you have to clean the brush somehow...
But why?! Train tickets and housing consume easily 50% of tech salary in UK.
https://github.com/liquidaty/zsv/blob/main/app/external/sqli... modifies the sqlite3 virtual table engine to use the faster zsv parser. have not quantified the difference, but in all tests I have run, `zsv sql` runs faster (sometimes much faster) than other sqlite3-on-CSV solutions mentioned in this entire discussion (unless you include those that cache their indexes and then measure against a post-cached query). Disclaimer: I'm the main zsv author
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I have seen an error message once, instead of content. I did not remember it but the wording was amazingly perfect.
And there is one minor issue when "reply" button to a specific comment had not been loaded by the time the comment has rendered.
OR-7
Yes! Perhaps AAR: Artistically Augmented Reality.
> It's a lot easier to have sex with someone if you live with them.

I promise you it’s just as easy if you live near each other and much of Europe isn’t get married in their early 20s but are still having sex.
> There might be easier mechanical ways to accomplish the same.

You could probably rig a chain that connected from the front of the lid to inside the tank that disabled flushing if it wasn't fully extended -- given the handle itself is connected to a chain.
Aren't new investors the required check for an investment scam like a ponzi scheme? Genuine question
I wonder how well that expression was taken in the context of COVID.
Yeah, he's a treasure.
Copyright doesn't punish incidentally matching content. It's specifically right to copy or transform content. To make a case for copyright violation, you have to make the case that it was actually copied.

If you want to make a point about things that incidentally match making people who independently reinvent the same thing, you're criticizing the function of software patents, not copyright.
I didn't really mind that copilot is using everyone's code without attribution, but maybe not if they charge for it.
Vacuum toilet like on planes? An extractor fan? I want an extractor fan anyway (well, my family does).

Edit: retrofit by sucking air through toilet cistern overflow pipe e.g. https://www.panfan.co.nz/ (great name) but heaps of similar (loofloo, odourvac, airaway, toiletfriend, expella, clo-vent, etcetera) but probably want a Japanese toilet with it inbuilt so designed to suck air from all around the rim, not just the downpipe? Disclaimer: first time I’ve heard of any of those products.
But what’s the harm in closing it?
Electrocuted birds are sparking wildfires
I've worked for Mindgeek in the past (left 2 years ago) and still had friends working there. Many dozens of employees were locked out of their accounts this morning, none of them knowing what the hell was going on. A personal friend of mind had to wait until 2pm to get a call from HR finally telling him the news, even though it had been so long that the media were already aware of the fact.

I still remember when Feras was on stage at a town hall meeting 2ish years ago telling us that the company wasn't going to do any RRSP matches to the employees because we were "too young to think about retirement", all the while driving around his bright yellow Porsche Cayenne and getting his 19 million dollar mansion built.

Considering they were still reeling from Visa and MC cutting off their service and having to rely on cryptocurrency for payment, it's no surprise to me that now that crypto is failing hard, the value of those payments is vastly reduced and so is, probably, existing cash that was still in the crypto space.
The description I subscribe to is that the crypto community is doing a completionist speedrun of 19th/20th century banking.
White backgrounds have always hurt my eyes, been using dark mode for a long time as a result.
It's not a matter of efficiency but a matter of scalability: hydrogen generated by hydrolysis demand so much energy that we can't produce it on the needed scale, no matter how much it can cost.

Methane extraction is absurdly costly, transport and storage are no less absurd BUT we can do it on a needed scale. That's the sole thing that matter. Similar if for hydro: mountain hydro is fantastic, we MUST develop it as much as possible, but it demand mountains and water. For some part of the world it's ok, they are there both in needed quantity essentially all the year, for some other they are not. You can power Norway on hydro with little nuclear backup, you can't power Mongolia even if Mongolia have very little needs compared.

Similarly we can imaging electric commercial trains that only run on p.v. surplus, for all non-perishable goods that might be ok if well designed on scale. We probably can design that on scale in many, many areas of the world. We can't to the same for ships, for plane, for cars. We can't do that for perishable goods of passengers transits.
When I was skimming your homepage I was thinking “I really wish this was built on Hotwire” and then I saw that it was. That architecture choice makes me think your bold claims might actually pan out, :).

The fact that the ways to customize/escape are “vanilla rails” and avo is deployed within my app as an engine, make this very very interesting.

As compared to:

* something like retool which is deployed (ie hosted) as an additional layer which calls an api my app exposes. Great for huge organizations, but overkill for a small team (similar to SPA vs Hotwire tradeoff)

* activeadmin where escaping the standard path is extremely hard. Not to mention it’s built on gems which are no longer in favor (inherited resources, etc)

* administrate which I really enjoyed, but felt like the support/roadmap was more of a side project vs an “open core/commercial offering”
Is that the real title? What about the woman?
That seems to be fairly standard. When some government institution started a term-limited security-related program for a project to which I contribute, the consulting company that ran the program took out a fixed fee out of the pool each month, too. I suspect this is done so that the project is encouraged to promote the program while it lasts.

Actually, I found the terminology much more problematic than the way the program administrator was compensated: while “bounty” can mean (among other things) “subsidy”, that is not the meaning that is predominant in popular culture today. Maybe some use it as a convenient industry shorthand, but others are definitely aware of the fraught history (particularly when it comes to persecution of Native Americans), and allude to it in conversations. And that a 21st century government sees this as a model to be emulated for maintaining public safety is quite disturbing.
I use VMs mainly as development machines, back in the days in a server locally, nowadays mostly in Azure/AWS mainly to separate clients / software.
Could it perhaps be you not coding for a living (and being lower in skill as you say) that make you think it's worth it?

For me the bottleneck is seldom typing. And while Copilot can sometimes dish out some more advanced stuff, I still have to verify it and understand it. Since I can basically solve every problem I encounter day-to-day, Copilot's contribution is not that useful.
Hard to do if they just know the destination url!
Anyone know where I can find the source code for the extension itself? Thanks
or for the cost of the SJ extension you could build the geary subway
Not even really the latest, the high speed flight of the SR-71 was generally detectable enough that they could coordinate a fleet of MiG-25 interceptors basically on a timer to be in the vincinity of its flight path long enough for a radar lock. The resources expended to coordinate and fly such an intercept weren't really worth it for anything more than posturing, but it worked well enough to dissuade the US from doing any actual attempts to breach their airspace
Completely tangential and anecdotal observation: modern commercial toilets with their "strong" pressurized flush and often no covering lid tend to launch water droplets everywhere when flushed. If you're flushing a visibly clean toilet this is maybe not such a relevant problem (although perhaps the journal of hospital infection is claiming otherwise here) but if you're prepping to use a soiled toilet this is pretty unsanitary and frustrating.
Yeah, I mean, I think the "flight models are too accurate to be fun" thing is true in some cases, but it's a different issue than I'm complaining about. For me, I'd rather have super accurate flight models and really great controls via keyboard and mouse, with graphics that look like Battlezone (1980s arcade game for the youngsters) than incredibly detailed landscapes and cockpits that might be almost photorealistic but give almost no thought to what it's like to use on a normal computer without a full dedicated setup.
OK, can anyone explain succinctly what "Wikimedia Enteprise" actually is, as a product? It is described as a product. What does it do?

The press release isn't helping me much.
I found GitHub copilot an interesting heuristic on how expressive the programming language / framework you are using is.

It is very useful for things that I would call boilerplate, e.g. you have almost duplicated code (say in a view and a controller) and need to copy from one to the other.

It is annoyingly bad for autocompleting an api as it tends to be slightly (and plausibly) wrong.

I haven't found it very useful for anything else.

Working on a project where I have to do lots of the first makes me sad, so I tend to try to avoid those projects - but if I was forced to for some reason it would be worth $10 a month. However, if enough of the programming I did could be helped by github copilot for it to be worth that much I would start to get worried I was working on the wrong sort of problems and try to move into something different.
> a factor of 2

So, half? Is there some benefit to blasting literal shit into the air I am missing?
It takes 2 seconds. Why spend 2 seconds doing something useless?
I wish there something similar but than for good codereviews of PRs :)
Disrupt is creating chaos short term, I don't imagine it to last more than 1 hour, but that's enough to call it disrupt.
What percentage of x-plane users do you think ACTUALLY use it for learning to fly an airplane (in the sense that they do or will go fly that actual plane IRL)? I'd bet a lot of money that it's less than 5%. They are optimizing for an aspirational but tiny use case.
I have to disagree here.

Any fix should produce at least a test to guard against regressions of the bug it's trying to fix and encode the correct business logic.

The test name would then explain the why. The test variables present the story of the what. And finally, the API calls tell the story of how how.
Salaries are still considerably higher in the UK and cost of life relatively low.

For seniors:
100k are not unheard of in tons of companies, especially after inflation.
Contractor rates are even better and you can get more than 1k per day.

That said, nowadays remote working with UK company (or even US) is a viable alternative.

I personally left the UK after 7 years, moved to a sunny EU country and had enough money for a house.
I've written up an at-scale production backend in Node.js and can very much stand by the decision to use Node over Elixir or Go (which I was considering at the time). I think fundamentally, the power of a JS-based backend is its pragmatism--it's not the best at most things, but it comes very close to it in so many categories that it's a safe option for a lot of use cases.

> It seems like people jumped to node based on some performance promises that didn't really pay off (IMO). And since then, we have newer options like Rust, Go, and Elixir as performant back-end options, and even older choices like Ruby and Python have continued to improve.

I'd agree that Node.js performance is generally not the best reason to be writing a backend in it since a static language will often yield better performance, but for the amount of dynamic power you get, it's extremely performant by default[1]. The next most performant dynamic language for I/O is, like you said, probably Erlang/Elixir, but V8 is generally understood to have better CPU-bound performance than BEAM.

[1]: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

> Seems like the standard arguments would be that developers already know JS, and that you can share code with the browser. I don't find these highly compelling.

I've found that developers already knowing JS is a very practical reason, if not ideological. I'm in a team with a lot of generalists who like to work full-stack, and being able to use the same mental models and syntax is a lot of cognitive load lifted off our shoulders. It also doubles the hiring pool of people who can hit the ground running on the backend, because now anyone who has experience with JS on the frontend can jump over to the backend with relatively little training.

The other key reason for a backend in JS is that the community is extremely large, which means that a lot of the troubleshooting I'd have to do in languages with smaller communities is done for me by someone who was kind enough to post a workaround online. This saves me a lot of time and energy, as does the plethora of packages.
> make it so that out-of-warranty repairs/repaired items sold are VAT-free

Customer goes to appliance store. Breaks a $5 part. Store repairs it, and now the customer gets to buy the appliance without VAT plus $5 for the repair?

If the goal is to reduce people’s consumption and incentivize them reuse, then simply increase taxes on newly manufactured goods. It will also incentivize people to buy more repairable goods, and hence incentivize manufacturers to make and sell them.
I think they are doing 100M+ per year to run the servers, manage PR / legal / HR issues.
That is much less of a problem than the reverse scenario.

Being sceptical of something doesn't necessitate a strong understanding, being an advocate does, or at least should.

Remember the existing systems work and thus far crypto isn't offering anything new, just alternatives with different trade-offs. That places an awfully high burden of proof on any crypto advocate and such a bar is far from being reached.
Competition is great - sure, but I want to know what Deno gives me over its competitors.
I see programming as coding, testing, and documenting. I'm not looking for an AI to do it for me.

But I would be interested in me picking 2 of those 3 for me to do, and the AI can do the third for me. So if I love coding and test writing but don't like documentation, then the AI can do the third leg for me.

I think that the quality of results from the AI would be much better than what Copilot is capable of. Even if I focussed on test writing and documentation, I think that the AI should be able to write decent code based on those two inputs.
GPT-3 and AI-enhanced code completion has had a ton of hype going on, up to and including claims that software development as a job is at existential risk. Using Copilot non-stop to investigate and understand why there's so much hype and coming away with the opinion that it's not worthy of $10/mo is not contradictory. Would you rather someone who hasn't used a product extensively make value claims?
Lol. Haven't worked with Pascal, but writing James Gosling crossed my mind once or twice ;-)
People will react completely irrationally as they tend to do.
Yeah, but you could use `undici`-package for older Node version as it is being used to provide this experimental Fetch in Node 17+
Great example of why "planned obsolescence" isn't always bad. In this
case the weak gear acts alike a kind of mechanical fuse. So long as
it's within a context of easy replacement.
Grey hydrogen is hydrogen derived from hydrocarbons which throws the carbons into the atmosphere.

Blue hydrogen is grey hydrogen but the carbons are captured and stored. So nominally it's carbon-neutral but in practice the capture is never perfect.
ITT: Critics ;)

I think it's disingenuous to call crypto an investment. It would be nice to see some legislation tame the absolutely insane relationship between crypto and fiat.

I like the idea of bitcoin, but until such time as it stops repeating avoidable mistakes tradfi has solved, I'm out.

Distributed, trustless consensus is a wild idea and I hope it finds root in something practical. Dunno if this is a thought about goal or not though. Seems to me that the current interest is building the next big crypto thing.

Also, isn't the idea of making money off of fiat/crypto exchanges kinda anti-thetical to what the cipherpunks were going for? Bitcoin's relationship to the USD is fairly toxic imo
Guys you're getting a lot of bad comments for one simple reason. You failed your delivery.

1) You should have managed the expectations of the users in a better way. Tell them it will become a paid feature from the begining, so nobody gets surprised
2) The way everyone unsderstood this today was too aggresive. An infinite warning in visual studio saying "hey, i've stop working, please sign up and pay or uninstall me". Too violent.

A "Hey, we are happy you're using Copilot. We want to inform you that in 2 weeks we will close the beta and we will need you to sign up. But don't worry, it will be free for 60 days"

I'm sure 99% of people here would just be happy to pay those 10usd/month
He's been a master of manipulating the news cycle almost to a Trump level so most liberal Tesla-drivers don't really know much about him. People who follow reporting about a variety of topics have seen his name come up again and again for a while and knew he was corrupt, racist and likely supports right-wing fascism.
Uh, I never put the toilet brush into "used" water. Yes, rinse it with a flush. That's a lot different than flushing dirty toilet water with the lid up.
My dad was a dentist and thought it would be unseemly for patients to become aware of any emanations from his private bathroom. He had exhaust fans rigged up that he claimed could changeover the whole room in 2 minute. They were unnervingly loud but did the trick.
>Such an art doesn't exist of course...

... what? Art absolutely can be apolitical. A piece of music can exist without political meaning; a beautiful oil painting of a garden likely doesn't have politics attached to it. I could go on and on. Some art has something to say while other art exists simply for the sake of existing.
There is no shared definition. There are many different groups, each working towards their goals and definition.
I don't have anything in Open Source for this, but ran an internal test on a large bundle a while back (7Mb of minified JavaScript with a fairly complex execution pattern) and after the test setup idles, I was seeing 67Mb with V8, 94Mb with Chakra and 109Mb with QuickJS on used memory (also, QuickJs needed a stack increase because it's passing large arguments as values). This was on x64 Windows, it's possible results differ on other platforms.
The title suggests that it's the bomb-hunters that are unexploded. The title should refer to unexploded-bomb hunters; that is, the unexploded refers to bombs, not hunters.
Yes. I remember they found the bacteria did spread to toothbrushes in the room.
> Ethereum is already much better at it's core

What you and many others seem to overlook is first mover advantage, network effects and most important: trust. Bitcoin is not Yahoo or Facebook, it is not a company product which has to improve and break things all the time.

In the long run Bitcoin is a store of value. That requires trust, which takes time. To gain trust over time it has to move slow and steady because there can be no mistakes.

When it comes to money and trust it is almost impossible to get a second chance (see Terra UST). Just one mistake could result in everyone distrusting Bitcoin.
Aha, thanks for the clarification and link. I'll be following that issue.