skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a googler, I agree with this. Blaze itself is not that remarkable. What makes it good is that it is the only tool you need to use to build anything, in any language, in Google's monorepo, and that build failures are (usually) aggressively corrected. Plenty of build systems these days support varying levels of hermetic builds. The important thing to copy from Google here is the discipline and consistency around using one build tool and fixing build failures, not the specific tool itself.
> bought 40kg online

You are aware that roasted coffee is a perishable product? After roasting, it is at its best for just a few weeks. After just two months it has lost the best of its flavours, but for "bulk" coffee the taste is often considered acceptable for up to 18 months if sealed (at which point most cheap supermarket brands seem to have their "best by" dates.)

I am afraid you will find your 40kg of coffee degrade in quality over time.
More than that, the combined Mac userbase is smaller than PS3, and only slightly larger than Xbox360, and would require targeting multiple hardware platforms, including different CPU architectures and various GPUs, with non-standard graphics APIs.

As a game dev, I would struggle to target MacOS over even Linux with the Steam Deck now becoming available.
But then you don't have an end date.

Deadlines are useful. Yes it may need to be pushed back but saying it'll be ready when it's ready with no time frame is not, in most cases useful.
Aks HN: Can I use the idea brought up by my brain in a dream?
I often have ideas for a new project in my dreams,
but I don't know if they are my ideas, I check the web and there is no such service, so can I legally use the idea that my brain showed in the dream?

Because it is theoretically not my ideas but my brain.
But it's my brain, so, can I use them?

Even tonight I dreamt of a cool service that I can create in a few hours in React, but am I allowed?

I didn't come up with it myself just my brain in the dream, so I'm afraid of copyright.
This is extremely long, but the fact of the matter is that these long term plans don't matter anywhere. They're a way for a relatively work-free layer of managers to feel like they have a hand in real work. After the plans are made, they can be burned: Their use was purely emotional, solely for people that won't be executing the plans.
Brisbane does have amazing coffee. The 'Melbourne has the best coffee' thing is at least ten years out of date, it's mostly just 'Australia has the best coffee' now.
The Harvard/MIT or “HMMT” contest has teams and team rankings, much like the ARML.
I didn't mean 'everything'. Things that do require specialized knowledge are already used by a very specific subset of people.

Its about common everyday things. We have a washing machine which I totally can't use without going through the manual, reading which number and which light does what. You shouldn't need to carefully go through a manual to just wash your clothes.

There is another book "User Interface Design for Programmers" by Joel Spolsky from which my take away was that no one is going to read all your manuals and documents.

Both of these essentially boil down to making things obvious for your end users.
Plenty of snobbery and gatekeeping and oneupmanship too, just read this thread if you want some examples.
They start with the goal of halving the livestock. Then they look for reasons why it’s necessary. So suddenly reports appear that seem to show nitrous deposition is way too high and we need to halve the livestock to fix it.

But when other scientists point out the reports are flawed they are brushed aside. When it is clear the nitrous deposition is not always caused by livestock (for instance because it happens in places where there is no livestock) the arguments are brushed aside. When flaws in the models are pointed out, the arguments are brushed aside. When it’s pointed out that the deposition has been falling for the last decades, the arguments are brushed aside.

Just so they can cling to their manufactured problem proven using pseudoscience, so the goal can be forced. Halving the livestock is a political goal, haggled as a deal during the last government formation. The arguments are mostly smoke and mirrors.

And what they don’t understand is by using the supposedly impartial ‘science’ departments (RIVM) to support their political goals, just as the same institutions are done supporting the governments COVID response with extremely poor science, they are completely destroying trust in that kind of institution in just another large part of the population. Trust is at an all time low.

The end result? The governing parties are up to be wiped away in any near term election so they’ll go any length to cling to power for the remainder of their term. Including manufacturing irrational pseudoscience to further the agreed upon political goals.
Are they really dying or just getting a nice sun tan and eating ice cream? Is it climate change or summer?
Gaming is very tight market. Valve with Steam is in nigh unsurmountable position. Just look at how EGS has be doing and consider could Netflix do any better? And then if you were to publish games you would need to compete with Microsoft.

One way would be to buy someone with big enough catalog like THQ Nordic. They have been playing acquisition game for long time now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_THQ_No...
And when you're done with series 2, 3, and 4, keep the Christmas Carol special (which includes Robbie Coltrane as, well, a prototype Hagrid) in mind for, well, Christmas. The Back and Forth millennium special is fun to.
The solutions are well known. We can use shorter more local supply chains for some items, and build multiple redundancy on every step of unavoidably long ones. There’s nothing magical in that. All it takes is recognising the problem exists and having the political will to make supply chains less efficient (and less profitable) but more resilient to individual shocks.

Also, as the population increases and climate changes, we can expect larger and more frequent shocks. We can only address those as a civilisation.
To everyone replying with their coffee preferences, you may be missing the point. This post isn’t about coffee, it’s about people and experiences in life being more important than products. It’s about a product’s quality being defined not by its substance but by its reminder of things that can’t be purchased. It’s one of the most beautiful posts I’ve seen in a long time. Hope you look beyond the coffee.

Edit: Hope I didn't come across as too harsh to folks replying with their favourite coffee styles. I think I find myself in a near-constant state of, "but what about the things that matter" when spending time in VC/Startup/SV/AI/crypto/etc. culture. I know more unhappy-but-wildly-successful people here than I can shake a stick at, and I think we (as a community) are hugely complicit in pushing a consumerist culture where stuff>people. I was deeply moved to see a piece surface to HN which poetically argued for the opposite value set, and I had a moment of frustration when it wasn't clear that it was coming across to people in the comments. :)
Your awake ideas are your brains, so what's the difference if your sleeping brain comes up with it.
It is not as generic. k can only be the constants 1, 2, 4 or 8, which makes the "multiplication" a shift. And the offset is also a constant (8 or 32 bits).

But you could multiply by 2+1, 4+1 or 8+1 by having base and n be the same register.
Portland is the first and only place in the world where I was able to order a “lemonade coffee” and it was super unique and the flavors worked well together. They really get my respect for creativity alone, I like trying new things and changing my perception of what coffee is!
That's fifthly embarrassing for you, Pol Pot is considered the most repressive dictatorship in history and I didn't even see attempts at debunking.

"We've botched actual fighting but said we got what we wanted thanks to Pol Pot guerillas" is one of the most pathetic things I've ever read.

Also, I think that to the rest of the world outside China, Vietnam has demonstrated that it can hold on its own with some help from its USSR ally.
Thanks, such positive comments give me strength to continue! (I recognize though that I may have gone overboard with silly styles in some places ...)

The next chapter should be out next month - stay tuned! (Which reminds me, we should probably have a "subscribe for updates" button, without having to buy it first ...)
My vote is that pext and pdep are the highlight from BMI2.
Apple MacBook Air M2 (2022) review: a whole new Air-a
What exactly is "fake" about an account one creates with a disposable email address?
I don't think you can ever convert to a regular JPEG and the outcome will be lossless. Like Webp ,JPEG XL has a lossless setting but it has to remain there.
Well, but I didn't come up with that idea!
I was just dreaming, so is it my idea or my brain?

Honestly? I, myself, would never come up with such a cool idea as my brain in a dream.

Is it still my idea?
The most bizarre coffee I've ever had was from the Papua New Guinea Baroida Estate. STRONG tasting notes of tomato. I thoroughly enjoyed it, but I love weird flavours like that. Very interesting coffee.
Yeah, definitely sounds like a Moka pot. They're really popular and could even be said to be making a 'speciality resurgence'. Percolators on the other hand are pretty bad. The Moka pot can overheat things if not used well, but a percolator basically always overheats the coffee as part of the way it works!
How did you find out? Just by profiling or did you read some book/article about that topic?
.. and thus you understand the nature of the world we live in today.
The difference I appreciate the most is the filter of the aeropress that filters all the fine particles that easily make their way through/past a frech press filter.
> It can go both ways.

But the US importing more cars for some time wouldn’t cause it to collapse from emerging behaviours in hard to predict interdependent supply chains.
Fernwärme isn't gas for heating. Fernwärme in .de uses a variety of fuels, including gas. AFAIK none of the operators rely on a single furnace. Gas for heating is mostly furnaces in people's basements or bathrooms. Moving to electricity would require replacing a total of about thirteen million pieces of hardware. More if you count small and cheap things like gas stoves that can be replaced in hours of work rather than days.

It's like a car in some ways: Once you've bought a diesel car, you don't have a choice of fuel any more. You've chosen.
My fellow Europeans: Is mobile phone number spoofing like this possible over here, too?
Thank you! It is a nice article. When I saw it on the frontpage I went to my comments to check whether it was submitted by you or someone else.
Stumptown sold out to Peets fyi https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/07/business/dealbook/peets-b...

I can’t look at them the same ever since.
Spacy had actual runnable code examples throughout, directly in the browser
> Now imagine one with a slice of meat that’s rare and soggy

you mean a stack of thinly sliced bloody sheets of rare roast beef? I don't know what you're talking about, it makes an excellent sandwich.
There is no legal restriction preventing you from using an idea no one else has IP on. That includes your brain.
nothing special about code in a browser. there are regular reports from bug finders where they detail how they disassembled iOS or some native app etc and worked out how some exploit worked
OP here. It’s indeed quite alarming that it seems it already started. It’s, however, refreshing to think it may take a couple centuries to wind its way and that we can find ways to create a Foundation to keep our knowledge and shorten the time it takes for a new global economy to be built.
all of these look too coarse to me. I make coffee in a moka pot and at these sizes it just tastes like water
Yep, no one uses obfuscation for security (I hope!) and given the Electron's modus operandi, copying your entire codebase is trivial... unless you make it not trivial.
If the neighborhood store is run by a mafia, then yes, you should.
Thanks.

This thread gives some idea about the complexity, but still I'm none the wiser.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23206417
Most people miss the "real" meaning of "best before" and "use by", the article has a link to an official uk.gov page:

https://www.food.gov.uk/safety-hygiene/best-before-and-use-b...

but long before that, some "common sense" (increasingly less common IMHO) should be used, I know a lot of people that consider these dates (both "best before" and "use by") as if each piece of food had an inbuilt timer similar to the bombs you see in movies.
The terrifying truth: Britain’s a hothouse, but one day 40C will seem cool
This is beyond frightening
Curvature doesn’t affect line of sight between the sub and a satellite.
Male chess players refuse to resign for longer when their opponent is a woman
> Indeed - seems like the resilience strategies we use in distributed software apply?

OTOH, they may create unintended emerging behaviours that are hard to predict. We have seen more than one cascading failure caused by each service doing its best to not cause a cascading failure.
The book makes you question the sanity of a world that even gets the design of doors wrong.
This is definitely one of the books that has shaped my thinking the most.

The book argues very strongly for functional design and design that makes usage obvious. “The way you use a thing should be encoded in the way the thing is, not in a manual”. I’ve been told there’s a follow up that concedes some of this and argues for emotional design. Something a long the lines of “this thing doesn’t need this handle, but it makes the thing feel manageable and less intimidating”.

My biggest eye opener, though, was the idea of designing for display in the store versus usage at home.

An updated example for me is the iPhone. It has premium materials that are assembled with tiny tolerances and has a very nice feel in the hand. But once you’ve been impressed by these in the store and you buy it, you slap on a $5 cover and never enjoy the premium materials and physical design.

The reasonable thing would be to have the phone shell-less and with interchangeable covers, like an old Nokia phone, but that is not nice in the show room.
Lots of different ones, Perl, Python, C, C++ being the main ones. I think there is JavaScript but I don't work on those parts. Looks like node-react is available in Debian now.

https://packages.debian.org/sid/node-react
I think I need to talk to a lawyer about it.
But it was my brain that generated this idea, so I use this brain and it is mine idea or my brain?
Aeropress is a cool product, but the couple of times I tried it (I borrowed a friend's) I just found it too messy and quite fiddly. So I prefer pour-over now with a V60 now when I'm not making espresso because you can pick the whole filter up by the top (touching only paper) and drop it in the bin. Then the V60 usually only needs a rinse with boiling water if you do it immediately (and don't let it dry).
Deadlines feel like they are mainly useful to induce stress and urgency. The stress and urgency being useful (or important) is another matter.

In a perfect world (for me, from my point of view), there are no deadlines, but rather short plans and enough understanding of the plan to decide whether doing something specific is useful or a hindrance (and to what degree) for executing that plan.

But alas, deadlines are easier to decide on.
True. You can always take a step back and see collapse as an opportunity for the next model to emerge.

Too bad we are sentimentally attached to these ugly bags of mostly water that currently populate the Earth.
Ask HN: Fitness/Weight Tracking Website I Used to Use
Hello,

This is an odd request but back around 2016-2017 I frequently used a specific website for tracking my weight. This website was recommended by someone on HN, and I remember the following distinctive details about it:

- It was started by the technical cofounder of a company that has since become an entrenched BigCo during the Dotcom era.

- The site creator chose to go with a mostly basic HTML layout without the use of many dependencies.

- The site's primary colors were I believe white and a shade of purple.

- It contained a very helpful chart which plotted out your average weight given a rolling past ten days of data.

- I think the name of the website was something along the lines of "The Programmer's Exercise Guide" but I vaguely recall the domain being the creator's name or abbreviation of it.

The site was very helpful and I would love to remember what it is again (and to bookmark it this time!). I have combed through my entire password manager and bookmarks list, but have come up short with anything that would have matched what I'm looking for.

Anyone have a guess?
Half a trillion dollars wiped from once high-flying fintechs
I wonder if SPF / DKIM / DMARC have improved this.

Google domains doesnt make it quite as easy as other hosting providers, and to be honest if they were super serious about email abuse they should encourage every domain to use it.
> Why is Netflix 'fundamentally unsustainable'?

I was replying to parent who said that. Or at least that's how I read it.
From the article’s comments…

bronzeberger - 5 days ago - Sometimes a machine can give you a glimpse of the future. This is the watch a Tessier-Ashpool will wear in a William Gibson novel. …

JackForster - 4 days ago - +1 for the Tessier-Ashpool shoutout, if only our plutocrats were that interesting.

Spinakerr - 4 days ago - Maybe if we give them a few generations, like the T-As, to go truly barmy, the comparison would be closer.
> It was more that Nazis simply got into power

They got helped quite a bit by fighting communists at the time. They legit were the lesser evil to a lot of people.
I wonder how much of that is a user vs designer thing. On the few occasions when I wear suits, I’ve actually removed the cover, because it safely glides in and out of the suit pocket like it was almost designed for it.
I think it may be related to what attracts talented individuals. A talented individual who is customer oriented, who can read inquiries and understand precisely what the problem is, has the technical knowledge to identify the cause of the issue and appropriate responses, and can formulate an answer in a clear and concise language will very unlikely spend time on these forums.

I can easily guess four reasons for such an individual not to do that:

1) Those who post requests often demonstrate a despicable attitude on FAANG platforms. I think this is because they have an expectation of result once they are interacting on the editor's official support channels.

2) Because these channels are the "official" ones, I would speculate and guess that a FAANG company should hire the right people to be on these channels and help their customers. They don't hesitate bragging year after year that they earn billions, I guess billions give some latitude to hire adequate support personnel. Personally, I would rather answer a question on a stack* website than any FAANG board/support forum.

3) Proprietary platforms & non-neutral answers: on a FAANG tech support forum, you will see many, if not most, answers oriented to hide or minimize anything negative or insufficient about the products/services of the FAANG.

4) They attract condescending, and often incompetent, "specialists". When you spend a few hours looking for answers on Apple's or Microsoft's tech support forums, you clearly do not want to be part of this, of neither side.
it's a small point but "official" Neapolitan pizza (or should I say pizza Napoletano) is not available with meat on it
A geothermal plant running on full capacity may deplete its geothermal well in 50 years. It may take 1000 years before the geothermal system becomes a resource again [1]. Is that human timescale?

[1] https://www.savingiceland.org/2010/10/geothermal-energy-runn...
If she’s getting power at cost then she isn’t living under the capitalist system Texas claims to run under if there’s a single person or company willing to pay a penny more. That’s how that shit works.

Texas is breaking down because they, for political reasons, want to claim they are capitalist but also for political reasons can’t admit to the consequences of living under such a system
By the principle of only taking responsibility where you can do something about it: designer blames design; user blames user.
> Except... There can be a large part of the day when there is neither wind nor sun.

If people stopped wasting money on EV's and bought residential batteries instead...
Simple question, can I use an idea that I dream in my sleep and I can't find such an idea anywhere online?

It may seem like a simple question despite appearances, but it is not for me.
"We're sorry sir, but unless you give us an addres to swat, there's nothing we can do."
an Americano, in Italy and in the US, is an espresso with water added to dilute it to the strength of "a cup of coffee".
I'm typing this from a desktop Firefox on PostmarketOS in Poco F1 smartphone, I love it.

Especially since I have to rely upon the browser for most 3rd party services due to the lack of a proper Linux client.

But running Firefox on Linux mobile has largely been a community effort, I wish Mozilla realizes the need-gap and invests in official Linux smartphone version.

But I'm actively moving away from 3rd party extensions in FF as I found a recommended extension promoting anti-vaccine agenda[1], The only extensions I use now are ub & Multi-account containers. I would prefer if FF integrated them by default and thorough reviews for recommended extensions.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20210924045611/https://github.co...
Two third of the population was unemployed, and as orewell write here "the situation in Germany, with its seven million unemployed, was obviously favourable for demagogues".

Starving, economical depression and without any hope in sight. Then within a couple of years half or more of those previous unemployed got a job from the government and the government refused to do any more reparations and redirecting those fund back to the populace (farmed food was a common item in reparations).
Ah, it's great that this exists! Can you give us a quick explanation how that works?
This is illegal in the EU.
This is a great video, and a great outlook on free speech to hold, but it also seems elementary in a world where information travels as quickly as it now does. Should the law still do nothing in the face of literal automated machines pumping out false information to the masses that is impossible to distinguish from real, thinking, free speech having humans? It's a catch-22: without rampant misinformation campaigns we would gladly love to let everyone speak their mind freely, but without control on speech we get rampant misinformation campaigns.

The optimist in me says these are growing pains, one day humans will get used to the internet and we will live in a world where people understand how to think critically about new information. The pessimist in me says a sucker is born every day, we will always have unrest caused by confusion of propaganda, and we will inevitably see our society and internet destroyed.

I don't know what the solution is.
There's a knack but one of the things I love about the Aeropress is it's completely mess free: unscrew, plunge out into compost bin and tap, rinse under tap, done!
Programming language in the sky (2016)
A "Norman door" is a poorly designed door that confuses or fails to give you an idea whether to push, pull or slide. https://99percentinvisible.org/article/norman-doors-dont-kno...
but they also make distinctions in where someone is from within the US, and in the end they are still all considered white.
The word "Maxwell" appearing no less than 5 times in the article makes me suspect the blog post is a (clever) astroturfing campaign ; ) "...the existence of the PR industry, lurking like a huge, quiet submarine beneath the news..." and all that.