skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heya, as a regular hacker news reader I stumbled upon this thread. In response to a lot of the comments here, I thought I’d mention that I just started a commercial makerspace in Brisbane, Australia about 9 months ago. You can read more about it here: https://brisbanemaker.space

I was part of another volunteer run hackerspace for nearly 5 years but decided to leave and start my own after experiencing several issues.

We’re focused on digital fabrication and may eventually expand to include a woodshop and/or metalshop. The most important things I’ve found is that you need to focus on what tools etc actually matter to people and keep them working well. Most non profit makerspaces seem to focus on acquiring as many “new toys” as possible rather than focusing on the important “core” stuff like keeping tools working well and the culture/ongoing member experience. This combined with a great on boarding and tool induction process is essential and where I feel so many spaces do poorly.

We’re not profitable yet, but on track to cover all operational costs in about 2-3 months. It was important for me to be fully independent so we don’t rely on any grant money or discounted rents etc. It’s hard work, but I feel like our current trajectory can be summarised as growing slowly but consistently. My gut feeling is our business model is sustainable and I may end up being able to quit my full time software engineering job in a couple years. So it’s not all doom and gloom everywhere. :)

P.S. I also maintain an open source membership portal with integrated billing, payments and RFID access system built by me specifically for makerspaces: https://github.com/membermatters/MemberMatters
IMO it's all for liability reasons. If you really want the full story you can file a FOIA request ;)
Famously used by SpaceX to weld (some parts of) their rockets together without having heat affecting the strength of the material.
Seen this app posted here a few times. It appears it’s still having issues (scanning). Also $45/yr seems steep.
Gaming time has no link with levels of wellbeing, study finds
Recommendation feed engines probably gives encouraging numbers in the beginning, until the users realize that they are fed BS clickbait instead of baby pictures and other gossip.

While I am quite sure some are hooked on the feed, the core of Facebook (friend gossip) is gone.
Hey, we actually do give interview feedback at OpsLevel:

https://www.opslevel.com/blog/why-opslevel-offers-interview-...

Feedback is a big part of our culture, so we extend that towards interview candidates.

It does take more time, but it's also good forcing function for us to ensure we're intellectually honest about why we're not moving forwards with a person.

There is legal risk, but it stems from the fact that it's illegal to discriminate in the US and Canada based on protected traits. To combat that, we strive to ensure that our feedback is situational and objective. This also helps prevent a lot of back-and-forth.
This. I've long advocated for and would be delighted to have an "Email" that was identical to current email except with cryptography built-in from the ground up, with public certs for any given domain based simply on DNS and coordinated through the server for that domain. Otherwise the same as email. It doesn't need to be "evolved" and "upgraded" beyond that, everyone is fine with and understands email already. At most I'd add "no remote resources", or a standard system around "so and so wants to talk to you" to make it easier to do whitelist/greylist, a standard API for 3rd party vouching services, all things to help transparently cut down on spam ahead of time.

But overall less is more here. There is certainly a place for real time messaging/chatting/rich collaboration services as well, but they aren't "electronic mail". The focus should be on making a standard and then model implementations that work very well.
> we opted for having one DB per tenant which also makes sharding, scaling, balancing, and handling data-residency challenges easier

I'm surprised this simplified balancing for you. When I worked somewhere with per-customer DBs, we had constant problems with rebalancing load. Some customers grew too big for where we put them, some nodes usually performed fine until the wrong subset of customers ran batch jobs simultaneously, etc.
I've been paying for readwise plugin. I am able sync highlights from orielly books, pocket, web, kindle. It has a whole host of other options too.

https://readwise.io/welcome/sync
Along with a lot of other public services.
I wrote about one which involved quitting tech and becoming a therapist: http://glench.com/WhyIQuitTechAndBecameATherapist/

The key moment was during an LSD journey, but I did a lot of work before that that set the stage for that experience to happen.
"No painting found for today"
Logseq, Athens and others uses outlines (Markdown unordered lists) at their core with files being more of the backing store. Obsidian uses plain markdown files. There are Obsidian plugins that provide similar support but it's still for the most part obvious that the notes were written on Logseq.
What Is Blockchain Escrow and How Does It Work?
You can capitalize on the fact that you don't need to use Obsidian to add notes. It's just Markdown (plain text) files on the FS.

You can create a little script to catch your thought and put it in a file somewhere in the Obsidian vault. You can use iOS Shortcuts or (maybe) Tasker for Android to do that.
Not just Greeks - the irritation is portable across all nationalities.
Does nobody remember Pidgin OTR? It has been around for decades.
>the latter tend to expect a higher salary due to their accumulated experience.

i was thinking people who are probably capable of retiring, but still want to work a job with more soft perks than pay. but yeah, maybe the work doesnt really suit anyone. Just a temporary type of work until you figure out what kind of specialization you want to do, or to build up experience for consulting maybe
This is just silly.

Coming up next, names for cold snaps, tide surges, landslides and solar flares.

Followed by name diversity arguments for them all.

I'm not dismissing the severity of these events, but this just reeks of headline clickbait marketing material.
Funny how the minorities who actually live in crappy neighborhoods want more policing, but plenty of uppity whites claim it’s racist while safely ensconced in their safe neighborhoods.
Pre-social media I didn't have any easy way too share pictures of food, and I generally mean high quality digital photography in a timely fashion.

I share food pics with family all the time these days because technology allows me too. Didn't work back in the 320px resolution days.
You were always qualified and they shouldn’t have rejected you the first time. This is an example of what not to do on the hiring managers part.
> Form is irrelevant because you can make tools to convert any form into any

No, form is not irrelevant.

People don't write bug-free code. The form has to work reasonable well even when there is a syntax error in the code.

C++ templates is a main example where this often goes hairwire.
Jacques Mattheij has got the first part covered (kind of): https://jacquesmattheij.com/sorting-two-metric-tons-of-lego/

https://jacquesmattheij.com/sorting-lego-many-questions-and-... for a follow up and more links.
Thanks, I couldn't get it through the link since it's behind a "text fragment" link which only works on Chrome[1], a bit ironic if you ask me when we are discussing a standard :)

[1] https://caniuse.com/url-scroll-to-text-fragment
It's not entirely unfounded since, by the virtue of openness, it's much easier to create new XMPP addressed than WhatsApp accounts.

However I doubt this is the reason why the most popular messengers do not comply with the XMPP standard today.
The Linux programming interface, by Michael Kerrisk, is an excellent modern update.
does FAANG employ generalists on a ladder? I feel like they would just hire a consulting group instead
In french it is called esperluette.

There are different theories. The most convincing one is it came from the occitan language where "es per lo et" would translate litteraly in english to "it is for the and". Sounds similar to the origin of ampersand.
There's karn: https://github.com/prydonius/karn which does a decent job of managing git identities based on folder location, configurable via yarn file
Chinese booster tumbles back to Earth: Non-zero chance of hitting populated area
> This APE format is not "write once run anywhere", because it targets a specific architectrure (64-bit x86) and won't run on other architectures.

> What we need instead is better support in Linux for legacy Linux and Windows applications (...) Today it is not so: for example, very old Firefox builds don't run or crash on modern Linux.

But that is the exact reason why "legacy Linux and Windows" doesn't work, and why APE works: you should target the "specific architectrure" directly instead of hopefully trusting that the entire underlying system is a completly static target.

That or using containers/shim layers, those of course bringing such entire underlying system with them.
You can tell it's neat because of the way it is.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen an ad from an established company on Facebook. It’s always fly by night junk or scams.

Occasionally I find myself having lunch someplace that has daytime tv on. That’s where I see the ads for pharmaceuticals and insurance.
> It would just about fit in the back of my Range Rover if I put the seats down.

I submit that a Range Rover is not a normal-sized vehicle, either.

> You can't even make them road-legal in the UK

You had better tell this company quickly, then -- they are already selling them.

https://tukshop.com/buy-a-tuk-tuk

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Really, it might not be harmful to their families, beyond harm that's already happened. Marriages are complicated. For example, some marriages are essentially financial arrangements, maintained by both parties despite romantic betrayal. Some marriages start as romatic arrangements, but morph into marriages of convenience, or are maintained "for the sake of the kids".

And sticking with a broken marriage "for the sake of the kids" isn't always the wrong thing to do. It depends.
The key thing I'm trying to get across here is that it isn't the hopping that brings this sort of increase, it is simply working at one of the very high paying companies in a high paying region. Zero hops, one hop, and seven hops can all get you there. Telling people to focus on the seven hops is misleading, IMO.
>> “official CSS version of this syntax is being strongly considered and we have a split in preference that we'd like to employ the help of the community to break the tie.”

Where? Is there reason Google moderating this? Are there options Google has not suggested?
Let's not forget that that "upward trajectory" included a near 70% year-over-year increase in revenue on a stock market where 4% is the long-term norm. And Google did that, not as a $100k Market cap stock but as a $1 trillion market cap stock (ok 1 trillion ... after the gain). If Google's revenue stood entirely still for 3 years, they would still have outperformed the S&P500 comfortably. Frankly a -20% YoY revenue (the minus sign is not a mistake) would have been an excellent result.

This is truly remarkable performance.
malevolent css targeting non-performant regex .. sounds utterly despicable.
4 homicides already this year and it's not even August? I read on HN that between 1990 and 2003 there had been just 10 homicides in the very same subway and it allegedly had been much more dangerous in that period of time [1]. Seeing that the population only grew by ~15% since 1990 it looks like a huge increase in murder rate. What's going on there?

1.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32223533
Then what would the generation in between be called? Groomers? Pushing their children to places with higher class expectations with minimal effort?
There’s a lot to talk about, so we’ve split it into two articles. In this first part, we give a brief introduction to web workers, outline our starting point and explain the goal we set for ourselves. In part two, we go into detail about the implementation, the results, the challenges we faced and our verdict on the question: “Was it worth it?”
Is there a benefit to naming weather events? I'm not able to read the entire article because of paywall, so I'm not sure if it discusses this.
The fact of it being a ligature also explains the other common drawing of it, with the backwards three with a line through it. You can see how it loosely has the same characters E and T.
> APE format doesn't solve the problem with shared libraries changing over time

APE doesn't use shared libraries at all and it's intended to be statically linked?

> APE (...) dosn't solve the problem that different plaforms provide different APIs

APE provides the most important POSIX APIs (or shims) for every platform it supports.
> the Chinese Communist Party certainly won't start taxing carbon..

https://cpc-people-com-cn.translate.goog/BIG5/n1/2022/0228/c...

How much are you willing to bet on that statement now?
Typical biology. Consider:

a) why would any creature with a nervous system _not_ feel pain?
b) does it not disturb that someone would conduct experiments to see if a creature feels pain?

Biology is not science. There are no first principles as there are in say math or physics. It is purely observation and collection eg. recently a new kind of jellyfish was observed and video-taped briefly ... before it was 'collected' (read killed for dissection). Mice experimented on and killed are referred to as 'models' not sentient creatures. If you have to hide things like that, you aren't a science.
Nope they haven't. The edge functions from the previous deploy keeps running. Pfft.
Just because someone draws parallels between A and B doesn’t mean they are claiming exact equivalence.
That would also remove the ability to easily transfer your existing social graph, which would kill adoption. You don't actually have any other choice if you target for mass adoption.
> that 12 year old was coming into me

Phrasing is wrong here in a bad way.
Blockchain City (SMBC Comic)
It's named .com because it's a flat executable format. If you map it into memory and start executing at the first byte (MZ which means JG +69) then it'll just work.
I think this makes a ton of sense and reflects a lot of how I try to live.

I think many people will never accept science as the guiding light by which they live their lives. Indeed, I don't - I think of it as a vey useful methodology for figuring out ways to reliably predict certain classes of behavior (a.k.a. "developing a consensus reality").

But, as JetAlone suggested, I see no way to scientifically conclude almost anything about correct personal values.

I may personally value truth, beauty, justice, empathy, and love, but it's clear to me that's not because they're scientifically validated as Good Things, nor because they've been scientifically shown to be pragmatically-optimal things to value.

If there's not an ironclad, undeniable path between the scientific method and optimal human values, then the only way to arrive at a culture where science is the shared value and ideology is coercion.

Hence my concerns above.
You are looking at the last 200 to 300 years and extrapolating. I think however that if you expand the horizon to several thousand years what you see is a very different cycle. A cycle where progress is made over a few hundred years and then is all lost. Every time progress is made everyone thinks, this time is different and then they are wrong.

There are substantive differences to this time around. We had a technological explosion for one which meant in terms of technology we jumped much farther forward than we had before. However the same cultural and civil failings are still there and still proceeding in much the same cycle.

I don't think Social Media is evil per-se. I do think that it is an extremely effective Mob amplifier. We used to have mobs form at a local level and their effects rarely managed to expand to a national level. Now we get global mobs via social media. Mob's have been around forever in human society.

They are rarely rational. Even when they are motivated by real problems they often tear down or destroy as much or more of the good as they do the bad. They tend to be indiscriminate and I don't think we are really prepared for the types of Mobs that Social Media enables. Maybe we'll be able to name this for what it is and find a counter to it. But I haven't seen any effective attempts to name the phenomena for what is. Instead I just see yet another Mob forming with a complaint about how companies are getting away with exploiting people. In this case I think it's less exploitation and more just amplification, intended or otherwise.

How do you limit the amplification without limiting free speech?
In many typefaces the "et" in "&" is still completely legible.

It's common to see "&c." in older texts instead of "etc."
If that `color:hover` issue is the problem, then we should have pseudo classes like that change their syntax by using a double colon:

color::hover { ... }

Or maybe class names can't be protected CSS properties. So `<div class="color">` would need to become invalid.

Protected names are commonplace in programming. And I'd argue it leads to better software development by causing less confusion.

If they make it too verbose I'll just stick with SCSS. Honestly, I love vanilla CSS, but nesting is a huge need; it's the only reason I use SCSS to begin with.
Did Grace Hopper invent the term 'bug' to describe software errors?
I've been using simply a private git repository to sync my raw notes and it's worked flawlessly. I do this on multiple machines and even my android phone. Would you be open to try that approach out?
How Florence Nightingale Changed Data Visualization Forever
Relevant plugs are always welcome on HN.
> It's common to see "&c." in older texts instead of "etc."

Guessing this was to save on ink or something?
The WHO gets hysterical about Monkeypox
That definitely seems closer to the intent of the header - User Agent is (kind of) who you are, Content Type is what you're sending, and Accept is what you'd like back. If you want plain text, you should be able to ask for it. It's super cool to see a plain text blog option show up, but I would have hoped it would be at the same route, not namespaced `/raw`, and using HTTP conventions. This sounds much more like a dig than it is - it's awesome to have a plain-text version of the author's content.
You can buy actual welding equipment and a angle grinder on eBay. There are YouTube videos to learn the basics.

The caveat is that you need a lot of protection to not harm/kill yourself:

- Eye-Protection so the welder doesn't burn out your eyes

- Long clothes so you don't get irradiated/sunburn from the welder

- Welding gloves so sparks don't burn into your skin

- Protective Glasses in case the disc of the angle grinder explodes

- Ear protection because the angle grinder is loud enough to permanently damage your ears

Aside from that, its an awesome toy and allows you to fix quite some things. And other people automatically assume you are doing serious work, even when you are just fucking around.

Its not suitable for kids in case you were looking for that.
I'm assuming then that you're talking about someone with a bachelor's degree in something other than CS, but then a master's degree in CS?
What about "ExxonMobil 1" as name ? I think it would be clearer and be more impactful.
$165/year for software isn’t nutty. Stuff is expensive to build. If it’s useful enough you pay. If it’s not you don’t.

I believe the tech stack is clojure, which makes a ton of sense given that the data store is basically a graph database.
Obsidian, for example, has a built-in renderer and a whole lot of plugins that can extent it.

For instance, dataview plugin can query other notes and render result in place. So for example, you have a few notes with a tag "book-review". And in them you use YAML preamble to track rating you gave the book. Dataview can render you a list of books you reviewed and their ratings (even in star form), individual rows linking to the specific notes.

Another example, built-in TeX rendering support, which makes it much easier to read math formulas. Likewise, built-in Mermaid for diagrams.
Shoot. I tested it on Firefox, Chrome and Safari without any issue.
I will check the logs
The entire pitch of meta and frankly most big tech hardware companies is a monopolistic control over software distribution. This won’t work with the Digital Markets Act in Europe. It just makes it a losing proposition. I yearn for the day when Facebook releases a high end VR system only to see all of its consumer base switch over to a third party platform. That would be super funny.
More accessible copy: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/zoe-becomes-the-w...
How Delta-8 THC Works, and Why Experts Are Worried About It
It's blindingly obvious that SCSS syntax for this should be used.
Couldn’t possibly disagree more; that’s akin to saying that feature identification is not useful, because if we really wanted to we could just deliver a list of identifiable features along with every photograph.

The point of this, obviously, is not to make it easier for machines to construct LEGO sets. It’s just a really clever problem space to do research into improving machine vision and image interpretation: it’s complicated enough to run into meaningful challenges, but constrained enough to make progress achievable. (The “Minecraft” dataset mentioned sounds like a simpler baby-steps version of the same, since there’s a much more limited set of possible shapes and connections to work with.)

Plus they get to be the fun lab with all the LEGOs in it
In German it's called the Kaufmanns-Und (roughly merchant's/salesman's And). I think it may be related to advertising, if you advertise a product name (or a producer name) with an "and" in it, the ampersand is much shorter and more visually appealing
So, buy a larger area than you need and rent out surrounding areas for other businesses as if you are an attraction? That actually makes a lot more sense. I noticed some new stadium deals actually work that way.
in HTML, `&amp;`
https://archive.ph/I7yRZ
> an "Email" that was identical to current email

Please don't. Current email is a mess. One person's email client will set the email background to dark gray and another person's email client will have a dark grey background and the result will be unreadable. One person's email client will put the quoted text at the bottom and another person's client will put the quoted text at the top and the thread will be unreadable. A sender's email client will use quotes in a way which a receiver's client doesn't understand and the receiver's client will show a thread view where each message in the thread also contains a copy of all previous messages in the thread. The sender's email client will use a symbol font which the receiver doesn't have so that symbols look like random letters to the receiver.

Email is terrible. It does need to be radically overhauled. The lack of cryptography is far, far from its only problem.

Plus there's the spam problem, which means you won't be able to send email reliably unless you're a major company. It's federated, but only multinationals are allowed to play.
It'd be nice if we could either have a better subset of html/CSS support, or find a simpler content type for email content that isn't 80-chars-wide-and-monospaced, but isn't full html.
more of an aesthetic choice I'd say, as with a lot of typography (after legibility)
Well, I get your point. But, still, what I'm reading is that when you buy a tesla you down really own it. Just like a game on Steam, or a ebook on Kindle.
Amiga E
How does it benefit the EU tax payer when projects that could be successfully done for 300k, are blown up to 3M with questionable added value? That's exactly the kind of problem that needs to be solved: You are just advocating to game the EU bureaucracy better.