skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the update, although it should be pointed out that that was apparently very recent, as in May 2022. It's not like it's been there and makes my comment that people have been waiting on it inaccurate. I wasn't aware of stable macOS and Linux support, so thanks for pointing it out. As far as I know, Windows was the first to get stable desktop support from Flutter, and that was just at the very beginning of this year. Even now, the official Flutter Desktop webpage links back to that release as "new": https://flutter.dev/multi-platform/desktop

Flutter still cannot manage multiple windows on desktop, which makes it a no-go for my use cases, and it doesn't look like it's coming anytime soon: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/30701. The original issue has been sitting around for four years.
"Lasers require a lot of power."

This statement is meaningless as written. You can emit as much or as little with a laser as you like. You could say "a lot of power is required for a reliable inter-satellite optical link", to which I would say "citation needed".

Iridium has been doing inter-satellite links since the late 90s and moving from RF to optical doesn't change the game that much.
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> You can still choose whatever you want, by removing systemd from your system and replacing it with something else.

Oh, you can do it, but the experience of Devuan shows that it is not easy and takes expert work and a lot of time.
Hey, at least you're not in econ/finance ;)

Absolutely everyone can (and does) have an opinion on how to run the entire economy. At least you guys can say a bunch of stuff specific stuff and 99% of everyone will have to take you at your word and pretty much shuts up, lol.

I totally get it though, has to be frustrating. I was really shocked at the price but when its put into perspective _if_ it works it's clearly going to be a significant improvement.
We had to cancel an entire program we'd built around Oculus for VR content creation, and I filed an FTC complaint after the Facebook account requirement.

After recent news I decided to give them another chance with a Quest 2, and because my Oculus dev account and the FB profile I closed in 2006 that I tried to merge it with didn't have matching info, I've been locked out. I'm hanging tight until this Meta thing goes into effect to switch, but if it's a hassle, I'll gladly spend up to $800 on a Deckard not to deal with Meta again.
Realistically shit is going to hit the climate fan in the next 50 years so bad that even Americans will be driving tiny EVs. And they will count themselves lucky.
Are there then no limits at all?

What are the limits, if any?

When are they met, presuming constant-rate (that is to say, exponential) growth?

How much is that time extended if you expand the limit by a factor of 10? 100? 1,000?

Do you honestly think that the Earth can support 80 billion, or 800 billion souls, or 8 trillion, at present G-7 nation levels of affluence?

A 4% annual growth rate corresponds to a doubling time of about 17.5 years.

2^3.3 ~= 10

2^6.6 ~= 100

2^9.9 ~= 1000

Keep in mind that your binding constraint isn't your most abundant resource / capable sink, it's the least.
I believe that there is a U-shaped fertility curve: poor folks and rich have more kids, while the middle classes do not.
Right: coverage will increase to places that would add the shitload of high-ticket subscribers they will need to be able to continue operating at all, once the first tranche of birds drops out.
Absolutely.

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/buckraking-did-a-medical-...

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/drugshortages/default...
Video Investigation: Russia Is Using a Secret Network to Steal Ukraine Grain
iPhone Lockdown Mode could benefit those of us who will never use it
> We can use the EV credit as a tool for improving efficiency. Instead of subsidizing per kWh of battery, we subsidize per mile of range. The first 50 miles of range (ie to be a plug in hybrid, but need at least 6.6kW charging speed) are incentivized at $100/mile of range. The next 200 miles of range $25/mile (under the condition of 100kW fast charging capability).

> That way car companies are incentivized (even more) to maximize miles per kWh.

As long as battery charging times are so slow, IMO car companies already have a ton of incentive to make their EVs efficient, as range is a big differentiator and batteries are such a large cost component. I suspect there isn't a lot more efficiency that would be gotten out of a change to incentive structure.

> Also, a Hummer EV is displacing other large vehicles. And if everybody drove subcompacts or other hyper efficient gasoline cars then we’d have less of a problem anyway. But not everyone is doing that. And a lot of people don’t want to.

This is a big source of waste and inefficiency though. People just needing to commute by themselves from A to B and buying pickup trucks or large sedans with poor efficiency, then whining whenever energy costs shoot up.

As a taxpayer, I would much rather if my taxes subsidized programs that encouraged people to be more frugal with their vehicle type choices.
Actually I have ADHD and I suspect I mentally ad block even more than most people. They are given 0 attention and focus because they are a dumb boring thing
So stupid question but I guess it isn't worth it to somehow push them up with small corrections/booster-like things? At least to save it for a few more years? What happens when they fall? Do they more or less burn up?

Really fascinating stuff.
As I am now an authority on the authoring of security policies I can reliably inform you: you are criticizing an information security policy for not being a data classification policy. The data classification policy spells out exactly what kinds of information are suitable for exactly which modes of transmission and storage.

SOC2 demands both an information security policy and a data classification policy. And a retention policy. And an access review policy. And an incident response policy. And a BC/DR policy. And a change management policy. And a vulnerability management policy. And a vendor management policy. These are different policies. Some of them have broad audiences, like the data classification policy, which is incorporated by reference in the information security policy. Some of them have narrower audiences, like the vulnerability management policy.

Hopefully that resolves your blitheness concern.
Thanks for the recommendation. It does look like a well made tool, and might work a lot better with typical non-arctic snow.
.. and we did so in a “decentralized” manner. Because we’re the Decentral Bank, of course, and everything is possible if you believe in it, including arbitrarily modifying and fixing bugs in “immutable” constructs in a centralized manner. Thank god we didn’t have to halt and roll back the blockchain again, that always forces Joe to put in decentralized overtime.

These people are slowly but surely building a shitty carbon copy of the regular financial system and don’t even realize it.
“ separation agreement to get a severance payment of one week's salary.”

One week… dang that’s cheap.
At first I thought this was going to be fantasy or some kind of conceptual piece and the front page photo was faked with Photoshop or something like DALL-E 2 with a prompt like sad minotaur girl lies in street in Italy while tourists watch, photorealistic. Looks like it's actually from some kind of (very well-done) street performance art piece.

Starting to feel what it's like to be living in the era where thinking a photo is real isn't a pretty safe default assumption.
> defending someone who championed something synonymous with Nazis

It’s probably a good time to note on here that the professor in his byline characterizes himself as an “unabashed Zionist”. Which I read to mean is likely Jewish and therefore likely quite familiar with the Nazis and able to determine dangerous ideas that may have been attributed to that regime. Also statistically at 62 years old probably knows direct victims of the Nazis, likely some from his own family. He also conveyed what he perceives to be anti-Semitic behavior on campus being a factor in his retirement.

So speaking for myself only on here, I am going to hold off on creating associations with this professor and give him the benefit of the doubt on this topic.
It's fair to say the overall outlook is bleak right?

People who are in positions to know more than you or i about the future of the economy are setting up to survive a long economic winter. Even currently profitable companies like Facebook are cutting hiring, costs and setting up the defences for the coming storm.

I see a lot of talk along the lines of "we're at the bottom now" from lay people. Yet if you can read through the actions of businesses leaders who are in a better position it's pretty clear that this is going to be much longer term.
> This should raise serious questions about DHS. Who are they employing?

Most US civil servants are hired through a competitive process. Given positions, these people all had security clearances.

There are exceptions that are hired as political appointees though. Normally these are the politically shrewd players, but regularly phd brainiacs, albiet politically inclined.

Most US civil servants are good people, and well credentialed and are hard working folks.

> How are they trained?

Federal Law enforcement are trained at the FLETC locations [1]. Federal law enforcement training is generally considered vastly superior to local law enforcement.

> How are they preventing abuse of power?

Pretty much every federal system has strong auditing and logging capabilities, and internal affairs/Inspector General. It doesn't always mean you can catch a perpetrator misusing a system, but you do have the data to get them after the fact.

> What is the culture there?

This is really an organization by organization thing.

US Secret Service historically had the best mission culture.

DHS, allegedly, is more of a dog-eat-dog organization. Many former DHS folks told me it was not a good place to work. Personally, all the DHS people I met were qualified. They have some immense challenges in DHS and that stress is probably part of the problem.

> Under the prior administration, DHS acted brutally, in many cases. What happened to correct that culture?

Civil servants, like the military, take their marching orders from civilian management. When an administration takes over the federal government in a transition, they assign political appointees to the highest positions that may receive senate confirmation, if they pass it. Given President Biden, the Biden administration installed the current leadership.

When you swap the leadership, you do significantly impact the culture. However, if civil servants are not following orders of the SES management, they can get in big trouble, to include, losing their positions.

[1] https://www.fletc.gov/
Coastguard?
Haha. Nopes.
I think it is much more aimed at commercial vessels.

Tankers, cruise ships, etc.
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Assuming it's okay to post about our mutual aid crypto project, which went through Techstars and Boost, rather than YC:

Seeds (seedsgives.com) is a social good blockchain tool working to build abundance for all through giving.

Anyone can redeem a SEED, our ERC-20, to ask for monetary help. "Redeeming a SEED" constitutes sending it to a designated wallet address and completing a simple web form. All who give toward the need receive SEEDS in thanks.

For example, say someone redeems a SEED to ask for $1000 to cover rent. If you gave $25 to that need, you'd receive $25 in SEEDS in thanks, at market price (per Uniswap) at the time of your gift.

If and when the $1000 is sourced, it is transferred to the requester in SEEDS at requisite market price. Recurring giving options for larger SEEDS rewards are available as well.

The idea is that we want the giving people to be the ones who build wealth when crypto goes up, because then they'll have more resourcing to keep improving this world.

We're seeking a super smart, creative, kind full-stack engineer, ideally with experience using React, Node and Solidity.

Full job post here: https://bit.ly/3tnLI0F
Facebook's excellent targeting changed the game for digital direct response ads. Before targeting was so bad only lowest common denominator ads (teeth whitening, weightloss, ringtones) could make money, now you can even advertise a niche b2b SaaS company effectively.
the next logical move is not to put a search bar, but to increase the code view by moving tabs to the top bar, just like it happened with browsers
Hi I'm happy to provide some context: When it comes to support on Chromium it works well but there a few things that still make them less than ideal such as the toolbar that includes the extensions icon and doesn't use the system styling (at least in the case of Linux with Gnome).

Something else I feel would make PWAs much more interesting to most people is if the browser _prompts_ the person to use the PWA, if I'm not forgotten Chrome does this on mobile but not on desktop. You also don't really have much option when it comes to customizing the PWA if the provided manifest gives a bad icon or something like that.

But overall the Chrome browser is the best for PWAs right now on both desktop and mobile. Firefox however has dropped support _completely_ for PWAs which is why I personally don't even consider it an option anymore. Some discussion here: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/bring-back-pwa-progress...

AFAIK Apple doesn't really support them too (although theoretically Steve Jobs really liked them when the iPhone first launched) because it undermines their business model of the App Store. I wish companies would use them more because they truly are the best way to develop cross-platform right now (and the PWA size is just the size of the page load for the SPA!)
Bots unintentionally triggering other bots is why IRC bots are supposed to talk using NOTICE instead of PRIVMSG. I think every new bot author ends up rediscovering this the hard way. I certainly did :)
What do you mean? The PM is a function of what the governing party wants, and in 10 years we've mostly only had a single party in Federal government. But either way, this isn't really true of state governments which have differed quite a lot over the past few years.
I don't have an opinion about Okta. We don't use Okta. I trust Google's security engineering more than I trust my own; in fact: the entire industry implicitly does.

Teleport isn't a hosted solution, or, at least, if it is, we're not using it. We're using an open-source codebase that gives us mandatory, phishing-proof MFA authentication for SSH sessions, access control tied to our source of truth about roles and access, and transcript-level audit logs.

I'd use something like Teleport even if SOC2 didn't exist. SOC2 does exist, so believe that I'm going to apply Teleport features that we already use for security-engineering reasons to every DRL item I can.
Yeah, definitely. I meant the position that it would be sufficient or decreased the probability much more than it could have (and did.) I'm actually of the opinion that it was the right thing to do and really we didn't do enough connecting the economies, bridging the cultures and elites and that's why we ended up in this situation. On the other hand, we probably shouldn't have gone that far in on gas without having done the rest of that and seeing actual results. If the long-term costs were accounted for, I think green was actually cheaper all along.
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Buckket/twtxt: Decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers
Ask HN: How do you design data models for applications?
I'm an application architect for a brand new application. The application uses tons of data from multiple external systems. New data tables needed to be created for the application too. The person that designed the application is not technical at all. They only designed the front-end and I designed the data model based off it.

I did the best I could with the information I had and we are slowly starting to see a working prototype, but there are still a lot of unanswered questions that I'm trying to figure out. The project is behind. I want to take responsibility for it being behind. But at the same time the project seems understaffed and it appears too much is being asked considering the size of the team.

What could I have done differently?
And being a kid 25 years ago was nothing like it was 50 years ago.
> this is like saying “i tried the web, and it’s extremely slow”

Uuuuuh ok...? WhatsApp isn't slow.
Healthcare is the most heavily regulated industry in the US. Many of those regulations were written specifically to minimize or eliminate the influence of market forces. You can't reasonably say the market has failed when it has been so tightly constrained by regulation.
I work somewhere going through a similar process for much the same reason.

And to be frank, I'm wondering if how it ends is in me looking for a new job.

I know there's good reasons for the business to go through this process, and maybe it is really important for the business future but as an individual it sucks, my main motivator of achieving good outcomes for users, has been derailed by a large amount of procedure instigated under the belief that some auditor I've never met will be impressed.

Now with all this new procedure piled on, all of which is very new and thus immature and untried, I feel my energy to innovate, build new things and just generally drive change sapping away.

So the cost of your company isn't just the direct hours and the auditors fees! There's also a harder to quantify cost, as everything and everyone bends to change every team to work in the way some external entity thinks it should. This loss of autonomy and the loss of spirit is I think potentially far far more expensive than the direct costs.

Of course, maybe we're just going about the whole process poorly. I like to think if you were to do it well maybe it's not so bad. But, to do that I think you'd need abnormally talented staff involved, who are well versed in the topic, enthusiastic and empathetic. Most people involved in these sorts of processes in my experience aren't like that, and I can't say I blame them.
It is an ironic image, to think that the development of the idea of a slippery slope fallacy could be itself a slippery slope.
Don't expect it to get better. Asking for lower latency will become an upsell opportunity.
Xorg resulted in a stagnant monoculture in the display server itself, but allowed arbitrary stuff to build on top. If wayland results in a monoculture of desktop environments, that will be a regression. On the other hand, yes; if wayland results in a healthy ecosystem of compositors that are actually as functional as Xorg was (because by all accounts that should be a low bar, right?) then we will come out far ahead.
Yeah, everything in Canada is cheaper than the US…oh wait
Knives and Spoons Are Ancient. Not Forks
did they include a third control of not vaccinated and not covid positive? i.e. baseline incidence? 50% of cases are idiopathic pre-covid.
Your experience is commendable, and I'm glad you've been able to break out of lower income. But this does not match what I've seen with some of my peers.
My wild guess would be that they used chat rooms as a sort of access control.

If you are in the room with the bot, you can issue commands.

They could have forgotten that you can also just add the bot to another room. Major face palm, but plausible.
I've been to Venice, and I've driven from Miami to Key West.

Both are doomed, but the catastrophes will have markedly different vibes.
This is really a big move from Meta, and very right one.

Consider how many countries can't directly use Facebook, they had to use a VPN to first login Facebook, then the headsets, its ridiculous. Many novice users have even no idea what is a VPN, so they have to put away the headsets just bought from the online.

I heard many stories of this, now finally changed.

Good job Meta!
Big prior convo from 2 days ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31993429
You get that the norm in hosting providers is hosting applications themselves on Google and Amazon, right?
Yep. I'm all for people choosing their transit... but even if I'm not driving, 3x-ing the commute just isn't something I could do.
Recently on the topic of FPGA, there are comments questioning the value for the acquisitions of Altera and Xilinx by Intel and AMD, respectively [1].

Apparently these acquisitions are inevitable and the writings are already on the wall due to some strategic reasons. One of the main reasons is that there's significant shortage of talents in the electronics industry.

[1]FPGAs in Client Compute Hardware:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=teleforce#31975094
If you squint hard enough, you can imagine a scenario where CIA actually wants to hire people with anxiety and other mood/psychological disorders to that they can be more easily controlled. It's Machiavellian but, well, this is CIA we're talking about.
Sometimes I feel like this is the endgame where the US overall kind of declines but California starts managing itself better and operates almost like an independent country.

Probably wishful thinking but would be great.
I suspect they're not actually as good as the newer insulins.

"I am an endocrinologist working in the biopharmaceutical industry, and it surprises me that we still need to scapegoat drugs like insulin for high drug prices (“Injecting Some Insulin Reality,” Review & Outlook, April 6). Absent from the discussion is the dramatic improvements in marketed insulins over the past 25 years.

When we talk about modern insulin therapy, we aren’t talking about the old insulins. These agents required patients to carefully plan what they ate well before they did—they should rightly be cheap. Modern insulins allow patients better control of blood sugar and more flexibility. It takes large investments to develop medications. How much is it worth to not have to determine what you will put in your mouth 30 minutes prior to doing so? It is good those days are over."

— Coleman Gross, M.D. Letter to the Wall Street Journal, published there 14 April 2022.
It would be easy to adjust the language. I'd just have to give up on people reading any of it.
How is healthcare in the countries with very little health care regulations?
I once worked at a company where technical support teams occasionally failed to follow a procedure listed in the CRM application.

They were human, it happens.

But that was beyond the ability of one manager to understand.

His response was to put in a request to have the procedure… blink with a blink tag…(he knew some html).

The procedures were sometimes multiple pages, and he wanted them to blink…

The guy who managed the CRM told him the blink tag was deprecated and would “crash the CRM”.

He later told me that of course a little JavaScript could do it but “I couldn’t do that to other humans.”
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Haha, thanks! Going from nothing to some of the deeper ideas of SICP and friends was definitely a goal, glad to hear it landed that way for some people. Hope it's helpful for your students... if it is, let me know! :)
Activating debug output in the 1997 game “Carmageddon” [reverse engineering]
Love the 3 window merge approach to merge conflicts. The old approach wasn't the best as it could be a bit confusing, but this is fantastic!
my cross platform desktop plan has been a http-server-in-golang(or other languages) with a browser as the front end, for many browser is the only desktop application they need these days so no learning curve on the UI.

even Adobe is moving towards browser-based solution, unless you have a very special niche market that must be addressed by Qt/etc, I feel browser-UI is fine as a decent desktop UI app at least for my taste.

browser, like it or not, is the new cross-platform UI now.