skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
they all have to use the central auth server, which does the banning
you can turn off using the central auth server but it comes with downsides (no skins, no way to protect people from using your username without a separate auth plugin)
Already pipelines running from those areas :-) maybe in the future can transport solar jet fuel instead?
That video you shared was really interesting btw, this is far from common knowledge.

Maybe I don't follow China closely enough but it's interesting both Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao are still alive and kicking.

Looking at the list of paramount leaders, having one extend beyond 8yrs isn't necessarily unprecedented... but Xi doing it clearly was to some people.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Paramount_leader#/List_of_paramo...
You would also need to make electricity generation 100% carbon free. Which we should do, but all irons in the fire is a good thing. Making the old things green “green retrofit?”’ by making the “fossil fuel” carbon neutral would be amazing.
Tech Ingredients is another one.
One could, with as much justification, claim that someone who spends much time writing code in their free time is likely a junior or otherwise immature developer who still likes code for code's sake and can't be trusted to make good, efficient, solution-focused decisions that senior-level and higher developers must make, since the correct call may often be "do not write new software".

I don't think that, but it's just as reasonable a position with about as much grounding in reality.
It's not surprising that high density optimized magnetic device wins for emission per capacity. Carbon emission per IOPS or throughput also should be calculated.
I dislike this scene for personal (?) / historical (?) reasons.

The French are singing this nice liberation / freedom song against the germans. This is nice and all, but they are in freaking occupied Morocco, not France! They continued to occupy it even after the war.

The people that made the movie didn't care about this irony because they didn't consider moroccans to be equal to the french. I get that. What I'm surprised is that people nowadays don't find this scene ridiculous (or at least very ironic). Coming from a colonized country (and being one of those people that weren't considered worthy of having their own country back then), I can't like that scene.
They give you the new app for free if you paid for the old one now. Not sure if that's something they added later on but it's a thing now.
Generic Map, Filter and Reduce in Go
Implementing higher-order functions in Go using generics
I thought "quantum hard drives" and Quantum Astronomy will replace the need for UTC/leap seconds soon.
> To be called “science” it should be like physics in terms of providing truth value, not psychology.

It's possible to form a truth about human behavior, for example, I did X because Y. If someone points my behavior out to me, then in the future I may do Z in response to Y. Human behavior can change upon observation [1]. That doesn't make the study of human behavior "not science" in my opinion.

> Aristotle didn’t do “science.” He was a philosopher. His ideas were precursors to science, but weren’t science.

In that case, I suppose you will acknowledge that Galileo did science, despite not having a lot of data points. I think Aristotle did too, because I draw the line at hypothesis, observation and conclusion, which may or may not result in some ultimate truth that remains constant.

I suppose you would also say that the double slit test is science. Yet that result changes, and there is no truth value that we can explain, except by noting that the result changes when the experiment is observed.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32233420
“kerosene aka aviation gas” - I thought these were different fuels. Aviation gas is a gasoline with TEL (that is now forbidden in regular motor gas) and is used in the internal combustion plane engines. Kerosene is used as a fuel for jet engines.
For some reason, if you submit the full link here it gets truncated.
I don't think the performance is all that important. It is a stock industry part. The things to watch are how the rest of GCP supports it.

Unless we are talking about M2, an Arm part isn't going to take the performance crown. Arm instances are a way to legitimize the discounts customers should be seeing anyway. Dollar-cost to run a workload.
Ask HN: How to monitor periodic short-lived processes?
Hi HN,

We are two founders starting up a business. We need to run multiple programs everyday (around 25) that will be run periodically. They are not always alive though and will often be done in 10 minutes to an hour.

Unfortunately as a two person company, keeping track of all the programs' statuses is hard.

Is there a way to keep track (and if possible, also spawn them on schedule) of the processes and give regular updates? Like a dashboard of sorts, that can show which programs have been running successfully and which have failed to finish or didn't start?
>> I do see it as important in K-12 education

> Academic freedom of teachers teaching a 2nd or 3rd grader how to read? Or of teachers of 6th graders learning geography.

I share your concerns, but I'll take the difficult position here.

Before CRT bogeyman there was the Common Core bogeyman. Tucker Carlson has Strong Opinions on how to teach math. I shit you not.

Every time I flew through MCI I had someone in the terminal or on the lane strike up conversation (midwest is like that) and learn that I'm in a math-heavy field. They would then say some inane shit about math education. I would ask the last math course they took. The highest answer I ever got was Calc or Linear Algebra, and 90% of the answers were "I don't remember" or "algebra in high school".

So, yeah. Third grade teachers need cover. Because even http://www.corestandards.org/Math was politicized by cable news talking heads. Go read it, not knowing what it is, and explain to me why someone who hasn't thought about math in 20 years would reasonably have any sort of opinion that's not motivated by a cable news talking head telling you that the reason you don't understand fifth grade probability theory is not that you were woefully failed by the American education system and your kid is already outstripping you, but because Obama Socialist Math makes no sense.
Maybe, I think they are still rooms in a much larger house (Reddit) vs being an exclusive house in itself. Also, I don't know much about subreddit membership, are some private and invite only?
Some people prefer to hire elite engineers.

Seriously, though, for a reasonably senior position, they'll already have been employed for long enough at a high enough salary to be afforded hobby time. And if they really enjoy coding, they'll probably code something up just to scratch some itch. Or just to play with things not work-mandated.

That's not elitist. It's selecting for successful engineers who actually enjoy coding.
Yeah this Molten Salt reactor is really cool. They are aiming to burn other nuclear waste as well: https://erik-engheim.medium.com/yes-clean-nuclear-power-exis...
Maybe more complicated than you think it is. High paid ICs in a corporate lead world are the exception not the rule. The rule is low level workers get enough to survive.
They vote among the choices that exist and are legal to build.

I have my doubts about the CA change. Zoning is one of many tools that local governments use to restrict housing. Water rights, parking minimums, setbacks, impact fees, environmental review, permitting, historic preservation, architectural review, etc, etc, etc.

And in California, Prop 13 means its structurally unprofitable to allow construction of housing because over time the taxes on a home won't cover the cost to the school district for any children that live there. So its fiscally irresponsible for local govs to allow housing, regardless of any preferences the residents have.
One cool thing about leap seconds is that it is bidirectional, so a time proxy could introduce time traveling into any supported system aside from vector clock issues.
You needed to change what they wrote in order to take it that way.
A counterpoint: reading older versions strengthens your ability to read across different eras. If you rely on reading versions converted to modern usage your scope narrows drastically.

In any case, older translations aren't insurmountable. Here's a translation of plato's _Republic_ by Benjamin Jowett, which was started c.1856.

To my eye it looks comfortably readable.

I went down yesterday to the Piraeus with Glaucon the son of Ariston, that I might offer up my prayers to the goddess; and also because I wanted to see in what manner they would celebrate the festival, which was a new thing. I was delighted with the procession of the inhabitants; but that of the Thracians was equally, if not more, beautiful. When we had finished our prayers and viewed the spectacle, we turned in the direction of the city; and at that instant Polemarchus the son of Cephalus chanced to catch sight of us from a distance as we were starting on our way home, and told his servant to run and bid us wait for him. The servant took hold of me by the cloak behind, and said: Polemarchus desires you to wait.
are you constructing a floating tower to mount microwave panels for HFT?
You might find this interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDp949PTYSk
European here: I can't wait to use my gdpr superpowers to cause an expectation violation there.
Because... they do...?

Some things are legitimately much easier to restrict client side e.g. for FPS: you can send other-user data all (or much) of the time and not have to worry about if they're looking in that direction, or if there's line-of-sight through the hole they just shot in a wall. That kind of thing takes a lot of server-side compute, and unless it's perfect it's still a competitive advantage.

But when it's not competitive? And they're basically just blocking abusive clients? Heck no, they do server side restrictions. And they often pay the price badly when they do not.
There’s a story about someone watching Woz entering hex into the computer directly to write a program, and every now and then he’d pause for a little. They asked him why and he said he was calculating the offset for a forward branch, which would mean he’d have to think of all the code up until the branch destination and count the bytes. Then he could carry on and enter those bytes.
VRChat doesn't reflect human nature overall, just those who fail adapt to the mainstream and hide out online 24/7. High overlap with Second Life, 4channers, and heavy Discord users, less of an overlap with people who play competitive games or contribute to society.
Dupe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32224472

(Currently on second page)
Take a look at "How To Do Things" -- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58319866 -- for an effective pomodoro workflow
I’m amazed hot reload works consistently enough for you to be able to use it.
Thanks for the extended suggestion. This motivates. I was thinking about this but wanted to show a better solution with no bugs in the UI. But on the other hand, developers can modify their interface from a computer. There is also a documentation issue, although this can be resolved in chat.
There are not so many people with iPad here, I think more people will be here https://forums.macrumors.com do you know how to get an invite there? My old account was lost a few years ago after a website redesign. I wrote to them but no response.
Congrats on the launch! Just so you know, the awstrack me URL used to verify accounts is blocked by my NextDNS tracking protection and my Firefox tracking protection. It’s not a special setting, just ended up on their block lists.

Something to be aware of though. You might want to switch that to use your own domain.
also papering over the need to invent cost competitive green hydrogen production and massively scale it really fast.

also hydrogen is a leaky greenhouse gas https://energypost.eu/hydrogen-is-also-a-greenhouse-gas-so-l...

wish them luck, not trying to be negative, we need solutions asap, situation is dire.
Show HN: Plan Harmony – Collaborative Trip Planning Tool
A few months ago I took the nerdiest approach to planning a trip to Italy. I built a web app to plan with friends and now it's in a beta release. All with the goal of making planning travel with friends easier.

You can create itineraries through an intuitive calendar interface. Saving all the important information about each destination/event in you trip you can access while planning and while on the trip.

Trips cost money, unfortunately, but you can track and maintain your trip budget. Track who's paid and who hasn't. Make settling the tab super easy.

One of the hardest parts of trip planning is figuring out what to do or where to stay. Not everyone is always up for the same thing. Use the vote/like button on events to help make group decisions about the trip.

And so much more to come!

Thanks for checking out Plan Harmony. I'm really excited to hear what you think!
> I’m much more interested in my actual work than personal project

Why are you interviewing?
I can watch Stranger Things and Casablanca on the same night. ST is a fun, well produced drama with lots of American 1980s callbacks. It doesn't make it garbage - not everything needs to be arthouse.
Thank you for asking. I regret posting this without looking for a transcript first, especially since my capacity for consuming video/audio content has declined as rapidly as a lot of topics I’d be interested in have embraced video. I may well contribute to transcribing it if I find some free cycles.
My neighbor with about 35 acres has a golf cart she drives around. Probably wouldn't need this as she also has a tractor and a pickup but can easily imagine something like this for a large property.

Another neighbor has an ATV he uses for snow plowing his long driveway. You need to keep on top of things relative to plowing with a pickup but he seems to manage.

But yeah. If you're going to have farm vehicles are probably better and more standard options.
I really like the Logitech Slim Folio case with a separate small bluetooth mouse for when I need it. 98% of the time the trackpad would just be taking up space that I'd rather fill with keyboard. The times I do need a mouse, I probably want a proper mouse rather than a trackpad.

The different remote desktop apps (VNC, Nomachine, etc) have ways to translate touch events into mouse pointer movements/clicks. Not what you'd want to use for a serious CAD session, but fine for little things here and there to save pulling out the mouse.
I am far from an engineer so I have questions. First, is the 3700ft terminus the only way for water to flow? Are tunnels not an option? $150B one time cost is acceptable, the interstate highway cost trillions.

My recurring idea to build next and in parallel or under major interstate highways a water way,sewage route and a high speed railway. The availabiliy of water wherever there is a an interstate highway and railway would solve so many problems including housing and it will be an economic boom. Much more land would be habitable and towns would explode. The economic activity generated will offset the costs in a few decades and this can be all powered by a combination of nuclear (water source), hydro (transmission/route/boosting) and wind+solar (anywhere?).

Actually, my idea was to use nuclear power by the pacific coast, desalinate it, deposit the brine in the desert and send the water to reservoir lakes from which my proposed interstate transportation and utility route will be fed. This will then unsher a new era of the megapolis!

Of course I will need become your leader then, naturally! (Jk).

Can someone more sane tell me how crazy this idea is and why it would cost more than the IHS? You can bond out most of the financing because the profit from rail travel, excess power and water would pay of long term bond interests, you wouldn't need to print new money or anything.
I dunno. As a web dev, I find these "latest feature from vendor X" (typically Cloudflare or Vercel) posts quite helpful.

They let me know what the current big companies are doing to improve developer experience and/or devops. Their teams are often bigger than my entire company, so learning from them is a great way to see what we might be able to implement (whether by buying their service or doing a small scale version of it in-house).

Secondarily, they sometimes also show end-user experience improvements that I never thought would be possible at a certain scale/cost. Cloudflare hosting Doom and IRC on serverless is one such example, or Vercel doing multiplayer live editing (Figma style) out of the box with Next.js is another.

For this case of this particular post, the idea of having an external metadata analytics system for Mysql, stored in a separate store and dashboard, is something I've only vaguely seen in DigitalOcean. Seeing it as fully featured as in Planetscale makes me both wonder if we should consider using them instead of a some generic cloud DB, and also whether we can implement something similar on a standard LEMP container. It's one of the more interesting pieces I read on HN today, actually.

For those of us who don't live and breathe infrastructure, big(ger) tech company blog posts is a great way to learn, and I value them!
This article was titled "How to hire actually good engineers." Maybe he'll post again on how to hire the bad ones.
You are much more likely to pay with your life when you’re riding two wheels. I quit riding because smartphones have made the roads much more dangerous. For sure, you do you, but there is a cost that you are not recognizing.
> - "Leetcode is unfair"
- "Whiteboarding is too stressful"
- "Personal projects are biased in favor of people with too much free time..."

It’s not usually the same people saying all those things. People have different preferences.

No matter what hiring method you use you’ll find some group of people criticizing it.
Money Alone Won’t Buy U.S. Tech Superiority
Yes some companies just need basic tech, not advanced tech that top talents can create.
I bought fan subbed Dragonball Z movies off of eBay when I was a kid in the early 2000s. I still had dialup, downloading wasn't an option.
Nausicaa is an amazing movie, certainly one of my favourites.
Are you trying to solve for offline graphql calling or are you trying to find a graph database that can be put into a native app?

https://bit.ly/3vjhfBR
it isn’t clear to me how you could have expected anything but this…

there are far too many hacks, too little moderation, and too little community pushback on bad actors. this will _always_ happen if the communities themselves don’t figure out a way to chase the trash out.

it doesn’t matter if it’s a social network, it doesn’t matter if it’s a game, it doesn’t matter if it’s a forum. if it relies on money, then either the community will make trash unwelcome or the company will, and of course the company will do what’s the most convenient for them.

we talk a lot about we want companies to keep things open for communities to run, then when companies try a hands off approach the communities sit by and do nothing while malicious actors take over lol.

then, strangely, the communities who did nothing to address actual real problems act all shocked.
I'm sorry you are in a shitty situation, but you have to understand that most taxes are being paid by people like you (middle-class job with wife/kid and mortgage, can't risk it and move or avoid taxes). You are correct about the 71% tax pressure (and it might be even higher). You are also correct about the weather (north Europe's weather is shit, depressing and lacks vitamin D).

But all of this doesn't matter. Remember, you are a man with a wife and a kid; and you are kind of limited because of that. (governments know that too, and that's why you are paying most of the taxes of society).

My opinion: Your problem is hardly moving to a different place. Any place is going to treat you the same because of your situation (exceptions happening). What you need to do, is figure your way out of the system and then branch remotely into a different system. You can then live in a country where you do not generate your stream of income; and not be too worried about their rules.

Say the following: You can land a remote job with $200k/year salary. Your wife is not quite interested in pursuing her career (ie: okay with any reasonable job). The UAE could be a place for you (the weather is hot though). You could afford a villa, vacations, good healthcare, private education for your kid, save money, and trade without consequences.

Of course the UAE could be not the place for you. But there are many other places to pick from, especially with a German passport.

Also: If you are leaving because of taxes, do not settle for any place that has a tax higher than 0%.
>never seen that work in practice.

Linden Labs did just that -- and almost every other better-practices VR thing -- and it worked just fine.

Linden Labs and their teething problems should be the bible for anyone starting a 'VR-experiences' style platform, but for some reason their past struggles have been widely ignored by the newer players in the field.
So this jet fuel produced from solar power will not emit CO2 when burned in existing jet engines?
The point isn't that no news is timely. Some obviously is such as the spread of a highly transmissable disease.

But a lot of news is not timely. In fact a lot of news is misreported precisely because it is reported faster than a sober analysis can be applied. Worse are the bevy of stories which are reported before it can be realized they aren't even stories at all.

Despite this the news media has increasingly invested in the "breaking news" format for everything.
I’m reminded of the most excellent write-up on qntm.org about abolishing time zones. If you haven’t read it, and you’re one of those kinds of folks (I was!) this will quickly sober you up :-)

https://qntm.org/abolish

Also, Chesterton’s Fence.
I do wonder whether zeppelin's have any future as a practical mode of transport, either of goods or people. Intuitively, seems like it could trade speed for efficiency.
> These kinds of issues should be solved on the backend. Rate limiting, pattern matching, etc.

This is a crazy hard problem that is plaguing the majority of our mainstream social platforms. Looking at Twitter/Facebook/Reddit etc. moderation+harassment is mostly solved by brute force community management, and is extremely costly, with a human component that is hard to ignore (Facebook moderators are plain miserable and prone to stay mentally hurt even after leaving the job)

This is where Nintendo decided to bail out of the problem altogether by blocking personal interaction by default on their online platforms. If they don't have the resources to do it properly, limiting the attack surface feels like a sensible strategy.
If you want to really fuck with them, travel, and have some money: briefly relocate to an European country with mandatory residence registration (Germany) for a month. Register as a resident. Apply GDPR. Leave.
I always get so discouraged when looking for bullet journal resources because everyone has those pretty photogenic journals while I forget where I put my pens. Where do I find more "ugly" journals?
Toronto Airport Is World’s Worst for Delays Amid Current Travel Chaos
This is one of the more interesting reads I have done lately. The idea isn't really all that earth shattering or novel, but I liked how Nadia articulated the whole idea. While Trump isn't mentioned I cannot help but think of him.

He also seems to get away with one crime after the other by doing them brazenly in the open. It is almost as if the voters or his followers don't think it can be that bad because after all he is admitting it openly on camera.